"We want 90." The developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 said they expected much worse player feedback due to bugs, but they want it to go even higher

«I expected much less success than we got from the audience. We were afraid of that… we know that the game came out in a state where we wanted to make it better. And when you release a game, there are always some bugs. We know maybe half of them. We know we wish we had more time, but that’s our limit. It is impossible to do more than what we did», — Hryhorovych told IGN.

According to him, the developers see many more problems in the game than what players usually find. In his opinion, many players did not encounter 99% of the bugs present in STALKER 2.

«We thought, 'What if players run into this problem, and we haven’t fixed it yet?' And because we saw so much more, we were much more concerned. There was no way to tell how many people would experience this difficulty, or how many people would experience issues that we haven’t encountered yet and don’t know about. This is a very stressful moment,» explained the head of GSC Game World.

He added that he feared that STALKER 2 would receive a worse reception than it could have. However, the game has already been postponed several times, and the developers already «did not have the strength to endure another marathon».

Let us remind you that despite the words of the founder of the GSC Game World studio, Serhii Hryhorovych, that the game «has so few bugs that it is no longer a shame to release it», the technical side of STALKER 2 remains the project’s weakest point, which many reviewers and players complain about.

Despite the bugs, Yevhen Hryhorovych says that he is proud of STALKER 2. The creative director of the project, Maria Hryhorovych, is also satisfied with the foundation that GSC has created. «You hope people feel that the game is… It’s not as perfect as we wanted it to be, but it’s a game with soul», — she says.

STALKER 2 sold a million copies in less than two days. STALKER 2 received a «mediocre» score of 73 on the review aggregator metacritic and another 74 on OpenCritic. On Steam, which is based on player feedback, the game has a 78% approval rating, but after several patches with fixes, it rose to 84% with 66,856

But Yevhen Hryhorovych wants this estimate to increase even more. «For a creative person, I want to get the achievement that we made a game that 90% of people liked, not 85, not 83, not 86. We want 90. „But 89 is also good!“ No! 89 starts at eight, and you want to start at nine. I spent six years [on development]. It’s probably a childish wish, but you want to achieve it», — admitted the CEO of GSC Game World.

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