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When Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR) and its parent company CD Projekt went out with an “offer” to dissatisfied Cyberpunk customers – telling them they could get refunds from Microsoft and Sony, one could be forgiven for assuming that the multi-billion dollar international game giant had at least notified its business partners.
But as we found out later, that was not the case.
Now, PlayStation platform manufacturer Sony gives us our most dramatic turn in the story yet, responding to the repeated refund requests (and CD Projekt’s belated notification), by removing the game from its storefront entirely. One week before Christmas.
Will they be the only ones? How did CD Projekt truly dig its own grave here? And what does it mean for the financial prospects of the company?
There is so very, very much to discuss here. So let’s dive in.
Sony Says: Play most definitely has *some* limits…in Virtual Legality.
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Discussed in this episode:
“Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds”
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/
“Dear Gamers…”
Tweet – December 14, 2020 – Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame)
https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1338390123373801472
CDPR Cyberpunk Launch Teleconference Transcript
December 14/15, 2020
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/call-transcript_en.pdf
“How to request a refund on a PlayStation Store purchase”
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/store/ps-store-refund-request/
“CDPR’s Cyberpunk Damage Control Call: Corpos Searching for Answers (VL371)”
YouTube Video – December 15, 2020 – Hoeg Law
https://youtu.be/n7uzzQ7SV-0
“Earlier today…”
Tweet – December 16, 2020 – GOG
https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1339227388438306817
CD Projekt Board Statement
Subject: Temporary suspension of the availability of Cyberpunk 2077 on PlayStation Store
https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/CD-PROJEKT-SA-Czasowe-wstrzymanie-dostepnosci-gry-Cyberpunk-2077-w-PlayStation-Store-8023177.html
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Sony Says: Play most definitely has some limits…in Virtual Legality.
Glad I decided to wait for the ps5 version. I rarely buy digital anyways. Definitely never at full price.
Why the fuck would CDPR do this to themselves. They had a huge fan base gained by not fucking everybody over. This was the most anticipated game in a long time. If they waited till February they still would have made a shitload of money and had a good game. But noooooo they had to pull an EA and release a broken, unplayable game to fix later to get that holiday money. If this doesn’t end them It definitely means people will be more careful and less likely to buy a game from them without a wealth of proof. They fucked up.
What about people who brought a physical copy ?
I can imagine a class action lawsuit being prepared against CD Project Red.
Another beloved game company has tarnished their reputation. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if even Devolver ruined themselves.
That's what you get for being a console nerd
CDPR: passes baton to Sony
Sony: snaps finger
I would have loved to hear that call between cdpr and sony
Sony is just as guilty how many versions of the ps4 did they make? How many blue screen errors does any ps4 suffer from? Too many to count. Ps5 sucks ps4 overrated. Sony and Microsoft are both a joke.
Stadia works better than these half ass consoles. And stadia is dirt cheap my friends. How many bricked next generation consoles we got now?
If the current results of the U.S. elections can be f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶u̶p̶o̶n̶ sold to the public without much of a hitch, then a faulty game disc isn't much of a problem, despite a hardware manufacturer pulling support…
I'm not gonna say that CDPR didn't have a lot of goodwill, but there was some robust criticism about crunch culture at the company and also some transphobic elements in Cyberpunk (both the game and in marketing for about a year or so beforehand)
I cannot believe a multibillion business would make a move as amateurish as this. How can this go live without actually talking to a single business partner? Well, I feel like heads are going to roll for this blunder. Just think about it – a move like this from Sony happened only once before with Batman Arkham Knight. That is the company Cyberpunk now shares. What a shitshow.
It also shows that the leadership in CDPR is truly terrible. Firstly mismanaged project with multiple delays that gets released in an awful state despite all those delays. Secondly terrible overblown and at best misleading marketing in multiple videos and trailers. Thirdly terrible "apology" statement and now a mind-blowingly disastrous business decision. This is beyond anything I thought possible for a business of that size (meaning CDPR).
so will we ever hit a point where game companies might face legal repercussions for releasing incomplete games that need day 1 patches, or arent even fixed for weeks after launch?
What about Gilson B Pontes games? What about when no man sky released or Fallout 76. So when it's $ony's money it's another story. Two weights, two measures?
Like I said in a previous video, the whole point to gaming on a console instead of a PC is that you don't have to worry about specs and requirements, you just insert the game and play; consoles are plug-and-play, point-and-shoot, set-it-and-forget-it. If they make a game that can't run correctly on a console, then they have messed up and it is indeed defective. – Incidentally, someone just recently released a demo of a SNES game that does ray-tracing (albeit with a custom cartridge chip).
I wonder if this debacle is going to have Sony and Xbox looking at their certification processes more closely.
I bet sony is going to sue cd projekt red lmao
CDPR and Sony both pushed to release an unfinished product. And to make matters worse, they both pushed to release it on deprecated systems.
About The Witcher 3, people have always had beer googles on when it came to that game. Don't get me wrong, its epic. But its technical quality was always subpar, so what we see in cyberpunk now really isn't that big of a surprise to me.
Despite all of the game's issues, it's still a 10/10! Anyone agree? ❤️❤️❤️
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Time for CD Project Red to sue the Playstation store for having an illegal monopoly /S
They will be fine, the PC players will carry them and I have seen no shortage of people commenting how "despite the crashes and bugs on the PS4, they love the game". The people who are bound and determined to "enjoy the game" I'm sure vastly out number the amount of people who are angry at it and will actually pursue a refund.
Poland can't do anything right.
Finnally Xbox has a console exclusive! Lol