Cyberpunk 2077 Launch Issues Reportedly Cost Founders $1 Billion In Wealth

Don't care. If they wanted to keep their investment in their company, they should have produced a better product. That's what investing is - whether you are a shareholder, stakeholder, or owner. You have to create a product that people want, and a product that works. They got the part 1, but miffed badly on the part 2.

hey genius, there ARE no PS5 or Xbox Series X versions yet... people are playing THIS gen's versions (or last gen, whatever...) on the new consoles...

Cyberpunk runs great on Xbox One X and Series X, PS4 Pro and PS5. I don't get why people are so surprised to find out it doesn't run well on the base xbox or PS4, which are extremely old and were both underpowered even at launch. They're very old and very weak consoles. I think CDPR's only real mistake is launching the game on such old hardware at all.

I would hate to see this company get completely shut down by this but thet At least deserve a good ass kicking. They knew exactly what they were doing,I dont understand how they didnt see this coming, whos bright idea was it to do this? They thought people would just becool with being flat out lied to and robbed? I requested my refundfrom Sony this morning,I refuse to trust theyll make itright andifthey do Ill buy the game at a huge discount when they do in 6 months.

I don't want to see the company suffer too much because of this but they do have a lot of explaining to do to their client base, they offered the earth yet only deliver, lets say Canada [no dig at Canada intended] A lot of what they showed has been cut from the game and the buggy/glitchy nature of the game is horrendous, it makes Fallout 76 look positively gleaming [i really hate F76].

What i can't understand is the apologists who are defending such a shoddy game/release, people spend their hard earned money to play the game once they get it, not 1 or 2 months down the line and anyone who thinks that is acceptable is someone i can not or will ever, understand.

This is not a big deal, rich people hardly ever go homeless. Now fix the damn bugs in Cyberpunk 2077! LOL

Good! Hope it costs them, so sick of devs lying thier butts off trying to rinse our wallets dry! Really keen on this title for a long time, after the issues surrounding its release, I'll never give CDPR a penny.

Well then don’t rush release trash that isn’t finished then. hope they learn their lesson . I doubt it though these greedy people never learn like blizzard

Hope they lose everything. CDPR clearly lied about the course of the development of this game for the past seven years and have told more half baked lies since its release. The claim they spent too much time on the next generation version? That's absolutely hilarious. Dev kits for the Series X and PS5 didn't exist until mid to late 2018.

I must be missing something. Why are people so unforgiving of a game company making a mistake? This is the company that brought us The Witcher, correct? I've never had them pegged as someone who only cares about profit, and not about their consumers. The bugs in the game can surely be patched eventually anyway, right? Just play something else in the meantime. I hate asshole game companies like EA as much as the next one, but I've never gotten the impression CD Project Red is anything like them.

I will say this - CDPR really earned this slap with the way they managed the whole thing.

That being said, I'm playing it on PC and loving it - it's not particularly buggy at all for me, yet, it runs ok (RTX 2070 Super), and is absolutely gorgeous (never seen an open world quite like this visually or structurally). It's a real looker with all RT on Ultra.

Most importantly - it's fun. Really fun. Good characters and just about everything I wanted in terms of flexibility. Already fantasizing about a second playthrough and how I'll do things differently and spec out a different character build.

So - all that being said: I'm with y'all in that CDPR betrayed gamers' trusts and is really getting what they deserve, BUT I also definitely encourage anyone with a capable machine who was really interested in this game to give it a go - the major issues are really a base last-gen console problem, and it's pretty much exactly what it was promised to be, on PC (I do have plenty of things they could improve, but that's for a different essay). So if you thought it was going to be your jam - you're probably right.

Hope they lose a lot more. They sold a game worth .10 in plastic for 80 dollars that has no use but to be recycled. Playstation will never get another dollar of my money. And I will go out of my way to avoid this garbage company as well.

I remember when everyone hate No Man's Sky as much as they hate this game now (CP2077 maybe less) and now it's popular and highly regarded. CDPR screwed up. No one can deny that fact, but they screwed up a good game. The world building is amazing. I fully expect them to recover. Certainly people will be cautious. And I'd like to think that CDPR will have learned their lesson. I consider myself lucky, I suppose, since I actually get to enjoy CP. I want to see CDPR recover from this because they make quality games and I'd like to see them continue to do so.

Good. They deserve to take a hit. CD Projekt Red is dead to me. They knowingly released a completely broken game. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game with so many game-breaking bugs, and just all around annoying little issues like the GPS freaking out, or the mini map not loading. This game seems to develop new glitches as it goes on, too. This is more buggy than an Elder Scrolls game, which is crazy to say. I can’t even list all of the things that have gone wrong for me, so far. This game will be $30 in less than a month.

Also, for those saying they don’t understand why people are happy the company is losing money, it’s because the company completely misled everyone by admitting they only showed game footage from the PC build. This was a case of false advertising. The key market for this, as with every multi-platform game, is consoles. Yet, they focused almost entirely on making the PC version work, while not giving a crap about the console version. That is why people justifiably are happy that CD Projekt Red is taking a deserved hit.

They're lucky to get away with that.

If this was a Japanese developer, there'd be public shamings.

Owners have $3 billion. Make consumers shell out for a buggy unfinished game. Just another day in the corporate world.

They should have just released PC and Stadia only, would have been less of an issue if they pushed back the console versions.

This article makes me chuckle at the irony. Both the bean counters and the developers rushed this game out for financial benefit but it backfired and CDPR has taken a huge hit to its valuation.

But they will make it back in a matter of months. It's how the markets work, peaks and valleys all the time.

Why are people happy about this company losing money, and taking a big hit? We're all game lovers here, and we want the industry to flourish. I don't get all the happiness towards failure.

I hope they can turn this around, release some solid patches and keep releasing awesome games for us to play. (Buying it is optional remember)

This poor PS4/Xbox game play should serve as a reminder to NOT PRE-ORDER games. There's very little incentive to pre-order games - maybe you get a PS skin, or an avatar? Who cares.

I'm glad I waited, and will pick it up when it's looking in better condition.

@Steve Watts

It's CD Projekt Group, who is listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange, not CD Projekt RED. Developer is just a subsidiary just like GOG.com.

You know they knew it was buggy. Must have been a calculated risk to release in a rough state. They must have projected the stock would be hit harder by another delay vs a rough release.