I don't think they would have had the reception they did if they didn't release it for older gen hardware.

You're probably right. I'm sure that factored in. Who knows how much dev time went to old console hardware that was never going to run the game well.

I had a similar experience playing on PC with what was a nearly brand new PC build. I ran into a few bugs but nothing broke the game. It was a lot of fun.

I think many people took issue with the launch features CDPR promised that weren't delivered until much later. I haven't kept track but maybe some weren't delivered at all.

It didn't deserve the hate it recieved. I don't think they would have had the reception they did if they didn't release it for older gen hardware.

And yet, they did. They took people's money happily knowing how it ran on last gen software. It was so goddamn bad that Sony removed it from their store after launch. I don't recall that happening ever before or since, let alone to a high profile, highly anticipated game like Cyberpunk.

I played it a few weeks after launch on a high end pc and it was so unacceptably buggy I had to stop playing after ten hours or so. I think you might have gotten lucky.

That said, the game as it currently stands is one of my favorites of all time. I felt a noticeable lack when it was over. I’d buy their next game even if the reviews were awful.

It wasn’t the bugs that I was disappointed by it was the years of teasers for a largely different game than we got. It’s still a very good game but not the one I was anticipating.

I had enough bugs to render it unplayable on launch, but I was also using much older hardware and running Linux. Returned it on launch, bought it on sale a year or two later after a big hardware upgrade, and I've played through it twice now and loved it.

Remember the hype about the game tho? It was lauded as the next coming of Gaben

They overhyped the open world. I was expecting a living world, but everything was pretty dead. NPCs dont really react to anything or do anything.

I was (wrongly) expecting a living, breathing world like RDR2

Similar experience.

I had 2 bugs that I noticed explicitly, one being a T pose on a character and the other being props just existing behind invisible walls or floors (like money that you can’t pick up on the floor)

The rest of it, performance was spotty at times when it was spawning mobs but mostly without issue, I also ran it from a HDD so that might’ve had something to do with it.

It also crashed every so often, sometimes an hour in, sometimes 4, but I think that’s an issue with the nvidia drivers more than anything because even gothic 1 remake does that to me.

I did hear that people experienced more issues if they ran the game on medium or low settings, so while I had mine cranked up to max, I think I was averaging 50-55 fps, but at the same time, nothing that prevented me from finishing the game

Most people with early problems were on console.

Well, the people with the most problems were on console, anyway.

Bugs are sometimes very individual. I played many games considered broken, and experienced few issues. I tried playing Cyberpunk multiple times, and the game was completely busted every time.

As someone who has worked in the video game industry for a few years, including in QA - I don't have an explanation for you.

It didn't deserve the hate it recieved.

The game? Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. CDPR as a company, however, absolutely deserved all the hate and more. They have an extensive history of blatant lies in marketing, then gaslighting players who notice it. It wasn't just Cyberpunk, but it was the worst. So far, at least.

The company is awful and deserves to go bankrupt.

I had pretty much the same experience. Great game, it just felt a bit empty to me for some reason. And the cops sucked in the beginning. They just teleported to you.

Same. I saw a civilian car bug out with some weird physics and some texture pop-in issues and that was pretty much it.

It felt like it needed some more polish/balance in the combat system/mob AI system (esp the cops). I thought I became powerful too quickly, playing Netrunner I could just pull up in a car outside and use the cameras to kill everything in the area before walking in and collecting the loot.

It was fun, it just didn't feel too challenging. The balance pass that came with the expansion is much better.

My friend was playing on a Playstation and his experience mirrors the social media complaints.