CD Projekt sued by investor

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Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to be an insane, revolutionising game – at least it was seen like that by multiple fans. First announcement of the game was in early 2013, what gave plenty of time for people to over-hype it, what led to serious disappointments when the game was released, as some people imagined the game had insane elements in it and that literally everything would be possible to be done in that game. Reality was disappointing for them, although fans themselves were responsible for that as they were the people who hyped the game too much and had unreal expectations about it.

Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam

But the main factor what led to game having terribly bad reviews (especially on PS4 and XBOX platorms) was the performance and optimalisation of the game. The storyline of the game is praised, but it can not help if the game runs terribly on your console. There were plenty of situations where bugs in the game prevented you from completing it, for example some enemies were invincible. Most of these bugs are not present anymore, as they were patched out in a few patches provided by game developer, and most of the bugs you can encounter now are minor and visual only. But the performance issue was not resolved, and overall not everyone is happy, and value of CD Projekt on the stock market dropped drastically. That is why on 24th of December a lawsuit was filed by an investor named Andrew Trampe, who “is looking to include other investors in the suit to turn it into a class action.”

“CD Projekt failed to disclose that Cyberpunk 2077 was “virtually unplayable on the current-generation Xbox or Playstation systems due to an enormous number of bugs,” according to the complaint.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-24/cyberpunk-maker-cd-projekt-sued-by-investor-over-botched-launch
Cyberpunk 2077 najładniejszą grą według Digital Foundry

Although the game sold incredibly well, has an insane storyline and looks perfect on high-end PCs, beacuse of the overall performance GameStop and PS4 started accepting refunds, with the latter even removing it from online store. This had a huge impact on the stock prices and led to another price drop. Andrew Trampe, the person behind the lawsuit seeks to represent other investors who purchased CD Projekt stocks and lost their money, as in his opinion the comapny lied about the state of the game.

“…as a result, defendants’ statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.”

A fragment of Rosen Law Firm’s press release. https://www.pcgamer.com/class-action-suit-filed-for-cd-projekt-investors-over-cyberpunk-2077/

If the lawsuit proceeds, it may have terrible consequences for CD Projekt. The company made a mistake, and even after a few month long crunch failed to deliver a full game. They should have released PC version only now, as it has only minor visual bugs and on a good computer it runs insanely good and looks stunning. The console version needs improvement, but developers promised to do it as soon as possible. On the other hand, CD Projekt is not fully responsible for this situation, as their game was overhyped by people with impossible expectations, especially after the success of their other game, The Witcher 3. In my opinion CD Projekt is a victim of it’s own success, and I hope that they will improve Cyberpunk’s performance and deliver many other great games in the future

Sources:

Lawsuit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.805901/gov.uscourts.cacd.805901.1.0.pdf

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/25/22199768/cdprojekt-cyberpunk-2077-lawsuit-launch

https://www.pcgamer.com/class-action-suit-filed-for-cd-projekt-investors-over-cyberpunk-2077/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-24/cyberpunk-maker-cd-projekt-sued-by-investor-over-botched-launch

One thought on “CD Projekt sued by investor

  1. Laskowski Maksymilian says:

    They released the game a few months testing on consoles too early. But after the hotfixes, the PC version is perfectly playable.

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