It getting removed by the PSN store, and all the statements made by CDPR, it's all in response to the massive outrage. The outrage happened because, well, it's 2020. How many stupid outrages have we seen at this point?

I still see commercials for it, too. Game stores still have it plastered everywhere. It's going to be a massive success for them.

And from what I've seen of the base console versions, it's completely playable. I think 99% of the outrage here is just Internet outrage culture at its finest. Look at that list someone posted last page of all the stuff "cut" from the game. Fucking yikes.

I do agree about the way the reviews were handled, but that's just one more reason no one should give a flying fuck about metascores or reviews in general. Every big game like this has all these rules and NDA's and shit, there's really no point in even reading the reviews.

I'm only 13 hours in the game, work and holidays have been cutting into my playing time, but the only bad thing I have had happen is still the hard frame drops to zero that happened three or four times in my first few hours and have not happened since. Other than that I have zero complaints about bugs. It's no worse than many other games available to play, Sony just took it off so that they wouldn't have to give out as many refunds.

The game isn't in a perfect state, certainly not on consoles. It needs fixing, and it'll get fixing. It's common for open-world games, maybe not this common, but I've seen it before with games that were very warmly received (Skyrim or basically anything else Bethesda pulled out).

It getting removed by the PSN store, and all the statements made by CDPR, it's all in response to the massive outrage. The outrage happened because, well, it's 2020. How many stupid outrages have we seen at this point? It's just everyday on the internet nowadays. And unfortunately, what we have been seeing for a long time too, is that these outrages usually do have an effect. Companies are just too afraid of the bad PR that's so easy to spread nowadays.

I particularly hate how it's removal from the store is seen as a win by so many people. What, so taking away an option from the consumer is a good thing? There's gonna be loads of people who were gonna buy the game for christmas and now they can't. Maybe you can see that as a good thing in terms of punishing the game's developer, as it's a very financial punishment (they only care about finances anyway). But it's just not good for the consumer. Many people don't care about the bugs or performance issues on PS4 and just wanted to play it, now they can't.

I personally have a lot less empathy for the "average consumer" who buys a shitty product because they didn't know any better. Like, zero empathy. If you're putting your money on something, you better know about what you're buying.

And seems like shareholders are looking to sue CDPR for the losses over the lies and problems.

They should because losses happen, sometimes you do everything right and the game just dont sell. But in this case people were buying shares of the company based on the information they were releasing, and you can see in shareholders meetings that they clearly sent the message the game was running well and the game would be released when ready. Once you decide to go public the stakes are much higher.

Yep. I don't know if they truly will and sure no one can ensure they will win. But yes when you give public information to investors/shareholders you are responsible for it, as you said you may make a very good plan and it may fail an all be in good faith, that loss can't be recovered by suing. But when the public information was false and it make you incur in loss then you have a course of action imho.

https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-12-22-%0A---shareholders-can-sue-%22cyberpunk%22-creators%0A--.B1ZHimzJpD.html#:~:text=The%20storm%20surrounding%20the%20big,sued%2C%20several%20media%20outlets%20report.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76859/law-firms-are-ready-to-sue-cyberpunk-2077-dev-on-grounds-of-deception/index.html

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-12-20-cd-projekt-investors-may-sue-over-cyberpunk-2077s-materially-misleading-information

And luckily CDPR and platform holders were fast on the refunds, because a class action from customers was also very likely.

Which court system oversees an international class action lawsuit? They are in Poland but have investors all over the world.

100+hrs in, haven't put it down since launch. Yeah it sucks for base system owners but the game runs pretty much fine on my system (Xbox Series S) and I've had zero quest breaking/game breaking bugs outside of phone calls sometimes taken forever to trigger. Outside of missing some basic open would stuff (ability to change character appearance after character creation), some terrible AI and some significant poor balancing that's required me to turn it up to very hard the game is one of the best I've played this year.