After refunds, Cyberpunk has still sold 13 million copies and rising

They estimated 16M though, so it still undersold by millions on their projection which is why their stock has dropped 26% since pre-launch. Went from $120/s to $73.

I mean the game is pretty damn fun on PC as long as your rig can handle it. Reminds me a lot of Deus Ex and that’s one of my favorite series on PC.

I just bought it.

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I think the damage to their reputation is the biggest hit

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Agreed. They were actually one of the few studios with a very strong positive reputation amongst gamers. People would have been more forgiving of a bungled launch had it come about more honestly but it seems 100% obvious they were intentionally lying and actively deceiving everyone about the state of the game, particularly on consoles. That sorta scumbaggery would be shocking even for EA. Nobody is gonna trust a thing they say for awhile. Stupid thing is they 100% knew it would blow up in their faces and still went ahead. Whoever the executives who made that decision are need replacing.

They've already improved things a lot, at least in terms of performance and stability, and I'm sure will continue to do so but even still the reputation grind will be a long slog.

I'll eventually get mine after all the smoke clears

Animal Crossing did 13 million in 6 weeks on 1 platform.


WEAK.

Yea but it's Animal Crossing.

I refunded and will buy when they fix keybinding, they started the game on hardware 8 years ago, decided to release on a next generation console release. They treated their people like shite, and released a crappy game on consoles. As a result of trying to make it console ready they messed up the pc version.

They make great games, but run a shitty business model.

General people don't influence the market like that. If investors started to pull out, sure. Then the common people pull out and it spirals.

But for a stock to drop significantly, the common stock holder can't influence that enough for a huge drop.

Be nice if it were that easy to manipulate the market though.

It looks like some investors have filed a lawsuit over Cyberpunk, stating CD Projekt Red misled them about the game. They're seeking other investors to join the suit. They detailed the claims in a press release:

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(1) Cyberpunk 2077 was virtually unplayable on the current-generation Xbox or Playstation systems due to an enormous number of bugs; (2) as a result, Sony would remove Cyberpunk 2077 from the Playstation store, and Sony, Microsoft and CD Projekt would be forced to offer full refunds for the game; (3) consequently, CD Projekt would suffer reputational and pecuniary harm; and (4) 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.

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