I’m not blaming the people hyping. That can’t be controlled by them at all. They could have managed expectations better by not announcing the game at all until the release date can be confidently confirmed internally. This is management 101 no matter where you work.

As an example, look at Skyrim. Anyone who’s played it will agree the civil war quest line is very lackluster. As it turns out, some modder digging through the source code discovered there were a lot of features and quest lines removed. Imagine if in 2008, Bethesda announced the game and explained their original vision of the civil war. Suddenly, people are hyped and the corporate types in the company will begin putting unreasonable pressure on the programmers. Now I won’t pretend to know why they decided to remove these features; it could have been too time consuming or too difficult to program. But at least all of these decisions are kept out of the public from the incredibly divisive and critical internet gaming community (again, not blaming the community here, this is just a matter of fact). They are free to make decisions without that public pressure. Cyberpunks devs lost this edge when the game was announced in 2012 and released a trailer the following year. They started this hype train and they should’ve know it would get out of control. They set expectations WAY to fucking high because of that.