Valve founder Gabe Newell believes the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 do not deserve the kind of criticism they received. Newell said this in an interview with New Zealand’s 1 News.
The head of Valve admitted that he passed Cyberpunk 2077 on PC and believes that there is nothing extraordinary in the performance problems faced by console users. “I am very worried about the situation in which every game developer finds himself,” said the entrepreneur, explaining that no studio is immune from bugs and glitches in the game. “All I know is there are tons of happy Cyberpunk 2077 players on PC,” Newell concluded.
The head of the studio that created the Half-Life series stood up for the CD Project RED team, explaining that the game shows that a tremendous amount of work has been put into it. “It’s unfair to throw rocks at a developer just because he came up with something complex and ambitious,” Newell said, adding that people get angry because they care.
Gabe Newell also admitted that he sometimes receives offensive emails related to a particular Valve game. According to the entrepreneur, there is no point in publicly paying attention to them and responding – only to learn a lesson from them. “I believe they can make their customers happy over time,” Newell described the future of CD Project RED developers.
Previously, anonymous employees of CD Project RED explained that the failure of Cyberpunk 2077 was caused by uncontrollable management ambitions, poor planning and technical flaws. According to them, many locations and new items were lost due to the fact that the developers simply did not have time to complete the game.