A new article from theNew York Timesfeatures not only an intricate deep dive intoCyberpunk 2077’s entire pre and post-launch saga, but quite the damning final paragraph. According to the piece, CD Projekt Red could be facing a major class action lawsuit:
The immediate future looks dark forCyberpunk’s makers – perhaps even darker than the future they built in Night City. Refund requests are pouring in by the thousands. Lawyers and investors in Warsaw are circling the situation, contemplating a class-action lawsuit against the company for potential criminal “misrepresentation to receive financial benefits,” according to a regulatory filing. Many gamers are swearing off playingCyberpunkentirely until the company fixes all of the problems.
And this is the statement fromsaid regulatory filing(translated with Google translate):
In connection with the recent events – and in particular the suspension of the sale of theCyberpunk 2077product, we are currently analyzing, together with the law firm’s team, the grounds for bringing a class action together with the notification of the possibility of committing a crime under Art. 286 of the Penal Code. – misrepresentation in order to obtain financial benefits.
The launch ofCyberpunk 2077has been riddled withcontroversy and bugs, with the first update being introduced last week and fixed some issues. Now CD Projekt Red has pushed out the latest update,Update 1.05, for PlayStation and Xbox systems. PC players will be getting the update sometime soon. However, one of those issues seems to be something that not even the company can completely fix. ApparentlyCyberpunk 2077save files will corruptand become unrecoverable if they reach 8MB in size, which comes fromthe GOG.com Support Centeritself.
Alongside the bugs that plagued its launch, Liana Ruppert from GameInformer suffered a major seizurewhile playing the game. This was due to light patterns similar to those used by neurologists to help induce seizures in patients. It was also later noted that the game didn’t have a clear epilepsy warning at the start of gameplay, something which has now been remedied.
This same RPG has seen its share of other controversies even before launch withreportsoftransphobia, andcrunch culture, as well as the studio also refusing to share information about the game’s accessibility. Read up on why we think CD Projekt Redshould have confirmedCyberpunk 2077′s accessibility options sooner.
According to a new report from theBloomberg, executives at CD Projekt took responsibility for the buggy release ofCyberpunk 2077and told staff thatthey will receive their full bonusesno matter how the game is reviewed. Previously, the developers were told they would receive extra pay based on the game’s aggregated critical performance represented by Metacritic.
AlthoughCyberpunk 2077has more thanmade up its costsalready, it seems that the founders of developer CD Projekt Red are still managing to lose money. Areport released by Bloombergyesterday found that the game’s glitches and rocky launch have cost the founders of CD Projekt Redover $1 billion. Over the course of the past week, the company’s stock has plummeted, although not to record lows.
Cyberpunk 2077is currently available for PC, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. As for PS4, retail copies are still around butSony has removed the gamefrom the PSN Store. Meanwhile the official Microsoft storefeatures a statement warning playersof performance issues until the Xbox One version is updated. The game is also playable on theXbox Series X|SandPS5thanks to backward compatibility. You can read our review of the gamehere: “Cyberpunk 2077is a deeply conflicting game, one that you’ll end up loving but will also hate and feel profoundly disappointed by.”
