@MrL said in CDPR gets Cyberpulled:
* which is also, apparently, a huge problem of Kingdom Come. A historically accurate game taking place in middle ages Moravia. There is >gasp< zero black people in this game.
Funny that you mention it, because I wanted to write about it. CDPR could learn a thing or two about damage control: KCD was released in absolutely terrible state, with multiple game-breaking bugs, yet what people remember is that "the reviewers wanted to ban it because there were no blacks in it". And I am not actually citing you - this is something that many people recall.
It's, of course, absolute bullshit. When KCD went out, I have actually made point of reading lots of "journalist" articles (something I don't do since early 2000s, when user evaluation started to be a thing) and they were overwhelmingly positive, with the main negative being the buggy state (sometimes using harsh words, like "Bethesda-like"). Sometimes it mentioned that "Warhorse studios' founder engaged in social media controversy". One article actually did have socio-political issues, namely that "contemporary issues like witch-burning, church corruption and oppressive feudal system are not addressed at all, maybe except one cutscene". Which is a little unfair, the church corruption is mentioned several times - but the "middle ages are great, without Hungarians everything would be just perfect" attitude is something I have found a little jarring too (especially in the first half, before the story kinda explained why Henry is not beaten every time he talks back to his betters).
In the end, I had waited with KCD purchase for several months, assuming that most bugs were then fixed (I still had to use debug console to progress, but only once). I intend to do that with Cyberpunk too.
Btw that "social media controversy" was just a typical stupid example of Twitter bullshit, With Vávra making passive-aggresive statements carefully formulated to be just short of actually racist (but could be interpreted such, with prejudice). At the time (2014? CBA to check) I though that he should take some lesson in PR - it was much later that I realized he could actually give a lesson or two.
Also, the game takes place in Bohemia (although Moravia is mentioned few times, usually as a place where outlaws could try to escape to).