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Finis-XII posted...

At best that's like half true. Some people went with the assumption that he would die early (which to be fair, did happen to be correct), but many others speculated you could either save him or that was just a "bad ending" from choices during an edgerunner job gone wrong. Spin the narrative however you want, just like with everything else they made him out to be more than he actually was in the game.

Eh, Jackie surviving was more of a wishful thinking kind of thing. This was my comment on reddit, pre-release:

"I'm hoping that Jackie dying is just a possible outcome of that quest, rather than it being one of those unavoidable character deaths. I have noticed though, that he's not shown in any gameplay after V has the chip in their head."

But the issue is not really about Jackie himself. The main story of the game is a rushed, badly paced, and criminally short mess that the devs clearly weren't given enough time to flesh out. All because of CDPR's "muhhh 2020, this is the year it has to happen" shit. The Jackie montage is just the prime example that makes the issue obvious.

The only part of the game that felt rushed was the beginning. Not because it felt like Jackie should have been around longer. But because CDPR made it sound like the life paths would be long, in depth intros. But they ended up being 1 mission, plus the same montage afterwards.

The game overall was a decent length though. It took me about 50 hours to complete my first playthrough.