CDPR has built trust with the consumer base.  As such, consumers will give them as much time and patience as they need to accomplish their goals.  This isn't easy to do.  It takes YEARS, and it means holding yourself to a very high standard of excellence.  Most software publishers take the standard Silicon Valley approach- come up with an idea, half-ass it, blitz market it until you get your money back, then sell out to a bigger publisher ASAP to get the most payout possible.  But that doesn't build trust, and the model is rapidly decaying.  Trust is an old-fashioned way of doing things, but after all the burns we've gotten from the industry, maybe some old-fashioned is what we need.