gerey
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Said success came about by cashing in all the goodwill and positive PR they had cultivated over the years, likely spending massive amounts of money on the hype machine and leveraging all the connections they had in the industry.I guess there are other metrics for success other than cash money, but they don't really matter, do they? Such is the age of decline we live in.
2077 burned a lot of bridges for them, chiefly MS and Sony that likely didn't appreciate getting played for fools after they trusted CDPR at their word. Also, every time someone tires to hype up Witcher 4 there's going to be a bunch of people in the comments saying "Remember Cyberpunk 2077 tho?".
If you want a perfect example of where this kind of behavior eventually gets you, look at BioWare.
Maybe Witcher 4 is successful and makes them money, but it will certainly make less money than Cyberpunk 2077, will enrage more fans, disappoint more consumers and leave partners in the industry cold. The game after that will then result in even more diminish returns, and so on and so forth until they shit out their version of Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem. As a point of comparison, Cyberpunk 2077 was CDPR's Mass Effect 3, the last hurrah before the inevitable decline.