That's a wild to me that you'd defend blatant greed, but to each their own I guess.

Nobody here has done that, and that's such a piss-poor attempt at a straw man that you frankly should be ashamed of even trying it.

Spicy take: I hope they dump 2077's engine and go Unreal.

I recently followed this guide to try and set up "optimized" path tracing (no raster lighting, with everything raytraced) in 2077, and on my lowly RTX 3090 it runs like cold molasses. Not a chance. Raster + RT reflections is all I can manage, and it looks... good.

Meanwhile, I've also been playing Satisfactory (an Unreal Engine game from a comparatively microscopic studio), and holy moly. Unreal Engine's dynamic lighting looks scary good. Like, I get light bounces and reflections and everything, and it runs at like quadruple the FPS in hilariously complex areas, again, with a fraction of the dev effort.

Cryengine in KCD2 is rather sick as well, though probably less tuned for urban landscapes.

...So why don't they save a few years and many millions, and just go with one of those instead of poorly reinventing the wheel?

I have good news for you. The first information released on the sequel was that it's being built in unreal.

That's what I get for not clicking through!

Good! I can see a ton of gamers complaining about this endlessly, but switching to anything but in-house is a great move IMO.

In your article it talks about how performance was bad on old consoles systems. This is where the refunds were mostly provided. ON PC, many users did not have this issue.

As you stated everyones PC is different. There's no gaslighting. You are just conflating statements.

From your article:

“Despite good reviews on PC, the console version of Cyberpunk 2077 did not meet the quality standard we wanted it to meet,”

Your statement directly conflict with the article you shared.

You literally are....? I'm shitting on CDPR for their greed and you're saying it's your choice to support them.

Just a note, saying “literally” does not, in fact, make something true. Nor am I responsible for your inability to comprehend what you read.

This is you LITERALLY saying I'll defend it...

That is me literally saying I’ll defend the game. It’s your words that defending the game is defending “greed”, which is a bullshit, weak ass argument.

You don't need PL to get the latest patches and updates.

"From what I hear from everyone I know"

My brother in Christ, have you even played the game?

I never said that I said the game doesn't feel complete without it