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For a while, CD Project RED has become a favorite development studio in the video game world and even one of the last honest gamers, at least in the eyes of fans, due to the high quality of the trilogy of The Witcher and the fair development of the game, as well as even fairer communication. was quickly lost in the last six months due to Cyberpunk’s 2077 series of slips and then, now we can say, catastrophic releases. And this disaster caused a huge loss of over $ 1 billion (!) For the publisher of CD Project and the founders of RED Studio.
Bloomberg reports that Adam Kiciński, president and CEO, Marcin Iwiński, co-founder, Michał Kiciński, co-founder, and Piotr Nielubowicz, chief financial officer, have lost more than a billion dollars together in the last week in the Cyberpunk 2077 scandal. This, of course , is the result of a drastic drop in publisher-developer values. The four founders were or still are among the richest Poles, but this loss remains enormous. True, according to reports, on Tuesday, that is, yesterday, the stock stopped falling and there was a 2.5% increase.
Tomasz Rodak, an analyst at BOS Bank SA, wrote to Bloomberg in an email that he sees a huge wound on the body of the CD Project that will not be easy to heal, as he believes it is a very drastic change that CD Project RED is one of the The ones from the most popular development studio to the most hated right now. It is not impossible to change that, but it is a fact that correcting mistakes and a series of apologies are not enough for that. Other analysts (Bloomberg mentions 9 but did not name them specifically) say that Cyberpunk will meet 2077 below expectations, which means that it will not sell 30 million copies in 1 year, it will only sell up to 25.6 million of them. According to Morgan Stanley and Barclays Plc, the development of multiplayer, which is not expected until 2022, is likely to take longer.
Cyberpunk launched for PC and consoles on December 10, 2077, you can read our test here. Gamers are not happy with the PS4 and Xbox One versions, which according to the IGN prevgen US console test are really unplayable, so they don’t have a thankfully positive PC version despite the bugs . So many people get their money back, and CD Project RED supports it, but not all stores are open for refunds.
