CD Projekt RED

How the fuck, after releasing one AAA game, they are worth almost as much as Capcom and Square Enix combined?

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I don't play boring open world shit with retarded combat

witcher 3 was solid 7 nowhere near 8 or 10s

they are based in a country with shady tax laws,

They make GOOD games and garner GOOD will from consumers without any of the BS of triple AAA companies.

Owning GOG probably has something to do with it. Part of the valuation is probably an estimation on the actual value of the Witcher IP itself as well,

>How the fuck, after releasing one AAA game, they are worth almost as much as Capcom and Square Enix combined?

Japanes developers are notoriously incompetent.

For example, a simplistic menu-based jrpg with virtually no interactivity or world simulation had a bigger team size and a longer development time than a sprawling open-world rpg made in the west.

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It probably has to do with being by far the best and most talented developer of all time. Just saying.

But you play real life.

>Owning GOG probably has something to do with it.
Wrong:

tweaktown.com/news/65367/gog-com-barely-making-profit/index.html

>Today CDPR announced its annual report for 2018, confirming some alarming financial trends for its DRM-free games store. Due to higher promotional costs for its new game Thronebreaker and increased operational spending, GOG only made around 30,000 PLN of profit in 2018, or about $7,800 in current USD conversion rates. This development underlines GOG's recent layoffs due to underwhelming earnings.

GOG is worth nothing
all their income is thanks to witcher 3

if you have nothing to do watch this youtube.com/watch?v=NdBhUN3SZ8g pretty interesting stuff

This is good bait, have a (You)

They have put way too more money and effort into Gwent. It should have been just a cherry on top not an entire branch of their development division.

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>Awful game has less people than amazing game
Your point?

they make good games

>otaku simulator with simplistic menu-based gameplay
>amazing game
Regardless, even if you like it's, it's literally less ambitious than indie rpgs made by one person. The fact that it cost so much and so long to develop is baffling.

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I would take these numbers with a pinch of salt, to be honest. Could be basic tax evasion. And CDPR is like Poland's image project, doubt their officials would dig into them too deep.

The Witcher 2 was their first AAA game. And there was The Witcher before that.

because westacucks don't play action games because they suck at video games lol

because that one game they did was well made, approachable, and had high production values. It also filled the open world wrpg gap left by bethesda being enormous, incomprehensible retards who hate money and not releasing a successor to skyrim for 10 years

>ITT: user has been a failure for so long that they dont know what success is

You forgot the part where the writing of those WRPGs are laughable and they still play like shit

>cherrypicks DOS2, the one tactical turned based crpg in a sea of open world one-button spam garbage

most wrpgs are real-time with pause and they suck donkey balls because of it

A 7 is near an 8.

>DOS2

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if witcher 3 is a solid 7, then most games are below 7, including bloodborne lmao

>And CDPR is like Poland's image project, doubt their officials would dig into them too deep.
lol you have a strange image of poland the current goverment would like nothing more than strangle the company.

>this is what normies actually believe

I think the base game is a solid 7-8 while the DLC are a 9 to almost 10

How many units did W3 sold? It has been on sale since forever so I dont know if they are really making that much money from it

bloodborne is just a shittier dark souls 3 with worse graphics

>cherrypicks DOS2, the one tactical turned based crpg in a sea of open world one-button spam garbage
Who said anything about DOS2?

DOS2 isn't even the most tactical turn-based crpg in its own series.

im just stating facts sweetie

>worse graphics
DS3 literally uses the same engine and assets.

>You forgot the part where the writing of those WRPGs are laughable
Yeah, WRPGs should definitely take pointers from jrpgs when it comes to writing.

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People thinking just hosting a store is like printing free money for some reason.

whatever. you get the point. everything but the divinity series is open world GIGA-casual bull (shitwitcher, skyrim), and soulless d&d infinity engine clones (pillar of eternity etc.)

yet the faggot who made this image cherrypicks divinity to get the (false) point across that modern crpgs are somehow exactly like 80s-90s ones despite probably being some millenial fagnut who doesn't know what SSI and Gold Box even mean

three things
>Good game sales
>Gov't subsidies
>Big stakeholders
It ain't rocket science. Also CP2077 being the most anticipated game is no small feat.

Meanwhile Japan has never produced anything with good writing since they stolen the letters from the chinks. Thankfully for them autistic westerners confuse excessive exposition with complex storytelling.

Mandy reasons:
>Witcher 3 wild gangbusters
>Cyberpunk2077 most hyped Game next year
>Have their own Distribution Platform
>Are know well know aß the good guys of the industry

Fuck off Gladium nobody likes you

>since they stolen the letters from the chinks
lmfao based

>yet the faggot who made this image cherrypicks divinity to get the (false) point across

>What is Shadowrun series (multiple games)
>What is Blackguards series (multiple games)
>What is Expeditions series (multiple games)

The vast majority of western rpgs from the past few years use a tactical turn-based combat system. Even the last Pillars games, the last bastion of real-time with pause, has a turn-based systems.

Maybe actually play games in the genre instead of making nonsense up about it?

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>not knowing the difference between profit and value
Tesla regularly posts a negative earnings report but it's still worth around 20billion
Lrn2economics

>expecting Yea Forums niggers to know basic economics
Your mistake friend.

It's what happens when people only buy games during sales.

On the other hand I'm curious how's the situation on EA Origin, Uplay and the EGS. I'd wager they make much more because of games with microtransactions but if we were to count only games sold I wonder if the situation would be any different.

This is what happens when you read reddit posts to get ideas on balance/development. Gwent is a total disaster. Did they even make any money off of it? You could get everything for free much easier than any other dcg on the market.

Good goy post, the best of today

This though I'd say it's more it's almost a 9 with the dlc, and a 8 otherwise

It doesn't count The Witcher sales.
GOG exist solely for CDPR to take as much money from physical copies as they could, they don't have to give a cut to Valve.
This means all the 3rd party publishers basically fund entire platform and let CDPR maximise profits from their own games.

Are you one of those fags who considers automata good writing? Because I'll tell you something all vidya has shitty writing, the "good" writing is mediocre or still sucks, just when compared to it's competition people treat it like it's great.

because they're the one, and seems to be about the only, company that produces quality single player games anymore. that and they literally give two shits about the SJW community

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>one
>mfw there are actual niggers who never heard of cdprojekt before witcher 3
it is all so tiresome

^normies love bloodborne and dark souls you retarded, go back

Around 20 million copies.

I shouldve learned my lesson after taking a look at /biz/

nice blog

Except they just recently self-censored because SJWs complained.

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RIP cd projekt

>Gwent
literally who

is that whoreson junior?

They've honestly been tumbling down since W3. Even that game had some iffy parts like the crossdressing elf out of nowhere.
Thronebreaker is alright but it really does feel like a feminist power fantasy.

We pretending games studios have developed doesn't exist whenever they bomb now?

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>Thronebreaker
>feminist power fantasy
are you fucking kidding? it has one of the best written female character out there

they left the fucking knee in? Is that real?

except thronebreaker is a good example of well written female, now fuck off

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Quality over quantity, depth over virtue. v 0v

"Ughhhhhhhhh....." as Meve would say.
She's similarly written to Dany, take that as you will.

i played it i dont have to "take as you will" from you

>simplistic
The amount of work it takes to create a JRPG is not the same as making a large map and filling it with copy pasted assests.

>posts comparison that uses a WRPG style that no top end dev makes anymore

fpbp

And you didn't think all the other northern rulers being portrayed as useless and spineless lechers while Meve is charging in front and center yet miraculously surviving and saving the North from the cartoonishly villainous Nilfgaardians was a bit too excessive?
She's fighting on par with witchers despite being just a queen.
Come the fuck on.

no, sapkowski made her like that, she had the scar even in the books

Bloodborne?
More like BloodBored!!

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Jealous Swede detected

They're Polish. I'd be shocked if they weren't doing something illegal.

capcom and squeenix are bloated hulks of businesses making worse and worse shit

cdpr are still on the way up

They're government subsidized, also gog

it's apparently because the gwent game is rated Teen and not Mature

still kinda lame

What's the source on this? Where's their valuation coming from?

They should.

I wouldn't call either TW1/TW2 triple A games
W2 had total budget of $10m which is nothing compared to most AAA games like W3's $81m

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Cringe, how many times can you play the same "friendship is magic" plotline before you lose your mind?

This. They're probably the only big name developers that actually have integrity and respect for their audience.

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I know this shit may seem weird to those who don't work in business but the profitability of an enterprise often has very little to do with it's value.

You can play tales of abyss for all your friends are assholes and hate you.

they literally fired one of their few good community managers just because trannies got mad at a joke

TW1 was literally made by 5 dudes

lmao what the fuck

i saw the documentary where it showed how they made it, its very interesting and witcher 2 they made it in the last 2 or 3 months basically

Based

So did Nintendo.

you got a link to both of these documentaries?

huh? when?

>nobody mentions bloodborne
>witcher shill sperges out about it when people don't suck CDPR dick
Lmao

Not him but I imagine he's talking about them reducing the size of Samus ass, removing some game and watch move because it might offend injuns or some shit and covering up that xenoblade characters tit window.

cope

LMAO Cope Fromdrone.

youtube.com/watch?v=g18GgD-SNzM
and the noclip ones

>AAA Jews declare single player games and b2p + xpack monetization dead so they can pivot to a more exploitable model
>Company steps in with a quality product to fill the void and makes bank
Wow weird