CDPR Group Strategy Update

I'd advocating for fewer assumption, not different assumptions.

We don't have any facts indicating there has been a total change in direction, we only know that a planned multiplayer component was canceled, according to the wording of Jason Schreier's article.  Non-multiplayer live service elements may still be present for all we know.

Because you jumping from a cancelled MP element to a total restructuration inside Bioware happening without any proof. It doesn't matter how much mental gymnastics you try to apply, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Source for that information.

The Jason Schreier article referred to multiplayer only, not live services generally.

A system of updating activities and challenges over time for example would be a live service regardless if it involved multiplayer or not. All a live service really involves is an updating service intended to extend engagement in the game.

If BioWare knows what’s good for it, they wouldn’t dare emulate the Ubisoft approach to singleplayer in Dragon Age. Ubisoft gets away with it for fuck knows why, but BioWare’s already kind of in the doghouse, and they’ll just get dragged over the coals. 

Yeah, Activision did that with the Crash Team Racing remake. Monkey see, Monkey do, I guess.  Crash Team Racing launched with a loot box store, but conveniently there was no option to purchase with actual money until after the review period had pretty much ended. And they still got a pass from most, even though the store was literally already in the game, just needed to be fully enabled.

Sanunes already provided some more concrete examples.  In short, something like weekly or daily quests that exist in some more recent Ubisoft games would qualify.

That seems unnatural, I would not want such things in Dragon Age personally.

Ass Creed has all the visions and the backdrop of being some dude in a chair playing a dude disguised as another dude, so that may work for them there I dunno stopped playing after 2 I think but did enjoy those games.

www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-director-has-left-cd-projekt-red-after-workplace-bullying-investigation/

Is their update including a complete reorganization of their development leadership?

Because that's what has happened in the last few weeks.

Not sure what to make of this. Konrad has been there since TW1 and was the director of TW3, so he's obviously a major talent. But it's also true there's serious internal issues at the company and if that means some people have to go, so be it. 

Well given Bioware's roaring "success" the past several titles I don't see what the difference is, honestly. 

I mean...I think Bioware has a very serious content problem. Driving around planets for hours and hours just scanning random shit to keep the player busy is not fun, engaging content to participate in. Anthem might have had good combat mechanics, but the missions themselves were awful. The same exact thing every mission. 3 randomly selected busywork style tasks pulled from a limited pool of possible combinations. From my perspective, the only thing I recognize from the Bioware of the past, is the logo on the box, and reused familiar art assets. Bioware management has no clue what it is doing, that is painfully apparent. So while you claimed it was the opposite for CD I would definitely disagree personally. Here is the difference, Both studios tried to make games too ambitious for them to handle. 1 Studio wasted 90% of it's development cycle trying to make No Man's Sky, rather than admitting to themselves sooner that it wasn't possible and move on to their more traditional format, which they no longer had enough time to do properly. The other studio noticed they don't have enough time, cut every mechanic and feature that wasn't almost done, and focused on finishing the aspects they cared about the most, knowing the bugs could be fixed later with patches. There is a noticeable difference in approach there imo. Yes they both screwed up, but I personally don't care too much about bugs in video games anymore. They always get patched eventually. Once they do your left with the core content and ideas of the game, and for me, that's not even close, and Cyberpunk has vastly more enjoyable content and game design ideas than Andromeda.  

Now personally, as someone who is currently replaying Witcher 3 right now, and having just finished my 2nd Cyberpunk character, I can fairly confidently say I think Cyberpunk overall is the more enjoyable experience thus far. Witcher 3's combat is tedious and lacks variety, where in Cyberpunk I can approach a Gig in various different ways and don't even have to kill anyone to do it. I would also say that the writing quality is about the same, Witcher 3 simply has more, because the game is longer. Now don't get me wrong, if the game simply won't run on your system, I can see how you might not understand or have had the chance to judge what exactly I'm talking about. But 1.2 personally solved every issue I was having, and the game runs flawlessly for me now so I can actually just focus on the game and not keep getting annoyed by problems. 

What does this even mean my guy? The only mandatory content in Cyberpunk is the main story quests. You can literally skip everything else. Maybe you don't realize this because you barely played the game, but just like Andromeda, you can ignore most of the games content. Focusing only on the stuff you enjoy. However the objective truth remains, Cyberpunk grants a far greater variety than Andromeda, more ways to accomplish a mission. You can play the game for hours without a single person dying. That is freedom that Andromeda could never hope to have, or any Bioware game in general really. What is it in Cyberpunk you don't see?  Bioware content? well you obviously aren't going to see that. Witcher 3 content? Well this might surprise you, but the game is basically Witcher 3 with wholly different presentation, and more player freedom. The NCPD missions are the stupid Points of Interest. Gigs are Witcher Contracts. Character quests are the same high level of polish and presentation as Witcher 3 and the main quest is the main quest, it's just shorter because they wanted more people to actually finish it. So frankly I don't know what the heck your talking about, and it sounds like you just don't like because it's not literally The Witcher.