Recently, a player made a comparison video between "Starry Sky" and "Cyberpunk 2077" that attracted a lot of attention. It showed the water surface special effects and gun raising/firing actions in the two works (in "Cyberpunk 2077" NPCs will run away in all directions, and passers-by in "Starry Sky" have no reaction), etc., aiming to criticize the shortcomings of details in "Starry Sky".
However, CDPR developer Patrick K. Mills, who has participated in "The Witcher 3", "Cyberpunk 2077" and other games, is quite disgusted with this comparison. He reposted the video on social media with the text: "The times are really What has changed! This kind of "unobjective comparison" is really disgusting.
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Patrick K. Mills believes that apart from out-of-context editing, there is no meaningful comparison in the video. The comparator ignored the fact that the developers spent a lot of time focusing on optimizing the design, and chose not to watch it at all and only focused on a few shortcomings. Don’t let go.
In fact, many developers are quite disgusted with this kind of thing. "Baldur's Gate 3" director Swen Vincke also talked about similar topics in a previous interview with foreign media PCGamer. He also didn't like to be compared, and said that he was okay. Games should be the standard for the industry, not a weapon to condemn others.