It appears that the polish game developer CDPR might be in for some big trouble. Back in December 2020, Rosen Law Firm filed a class action lawsuit against CD Projekt. The lawsuit was aimed to recover damages for CD Projekt investors under the federal securities laws.
According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements to investors. Right now CD Projekt seems to be under hot water, because a total of five separate U.S.-based law firms have already filed class-action lawsuits against the company for possibly misleading investors.
CD Projekt is currently being sued by five U.S. law firms, as outlined: RM Law, Schall Law, Rosen Law, Bragar Eagel & Squire, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz. But this doesn’t stop here, because if all that didn’t cause enough damage to CD Projekt’s reputation, Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection has now opened a formal investigation into CD Projekt S.A. for Cyberpunk 2077’s performance.
This news comes via the Polish newspaper Dziennik.pl, and according to their report, the Urz?d Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, Poland’s consumer protection agency, is investigating CD Projekt Red.
The UOKiK has been watching how CD Projekt Red is fixing the broken versions of the game and addressing customer complaints. Cyberpunk 2077’s poor PS4 and Xbox One performance has caused massive controversy, and shares have also dropped by 33% since the game’s release.
The current technical state on PS4 and Xbox One ended up getting the game pulled from the PlayStation Store, with many major stores also offering refunds to disgruntled customers. CD Projekt has also been taken to court over allegedly misleading investors about the state of the game on last-gen consoles.
This current investigation and if the UOKiK finds CD Projekt Red liable, then they might even fine the company/developer up to 10% of its annual yearly income. That’s a lot of money; even with Cyberpunk 2077 selling as well as it did despite refunds. My guess is that, such refunds are one of the key aspect areas where the UOKiK agency may find some serious loophole or a fault.
The UOKiK branch’s PR spokesperson Ma?gorzata Cieloch told the newspaper, via translation:
“We are asking the company for explanation regarding problems with the game and actions taken by them. We will check how the developer is working on patches or solving issues preventing playing on various consoles, but also what steps [the company] is planning to take regarding people [who requested refunds] and are not happy with their purchase because they can’t play the game on owned hardware, despite assurances by the producer.”
Dominik J?drzejko, an attorney from law firm Kaszubiak J?drzejko Adwokaci, was also quoted by the paper. J?drzejko claimed that CD Projekt Red’s efforts to fix the game’s performance issues may not protect it from being accused of “unfair market practice.”
The developer recently denied a slate of rumoured development details, but there have been reports of internal conflict between developers and CDPR leadership. The game has, among all of this, remained commercially successful, selling over 13 million copies across all formats, even accounting for refunds.
As John has previously mentioned, in short, things are about to get ugly. CD Projekt has basically shot itself in the foot by preventing reviewers from covering the old-gen console versions. We can guarantee you that this is exactly why this whole thing is happening.
It’s all about the fact that CD Projekt has misled people. And no, this isn’t about the game’s actual performance. I mean, we’ve seen games running worse in PS3 and Xbox 360. Hell, GTA5 ran similar or worse than Cyberpunk 2077. So yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t unplayable on PS4 or Xbox One. Not only that, but Bethesda’s games had the same number of bugs as CP2077 has.
As the Steam player count of Cyberpunk 2077 continues to drop, it is clear the fallout of the game’s hype and release are not over yet. Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 hasn’t been able to maintain its player base on Steam. And when comparing the new IP to CDPR’s previous biggest project, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the dev/publisher could be in even more trouble.
Within a short period of time, Cyberpunk 2077 has lost 79% of its initial concurrent player count. The Witcher 3 took three months to lose that share of its initial players. Cyberpunk 2077‘s player counts are sure to spike again as more bugs are squashed, hopefully.
We’ve already seen it happen numerous times in the past with Witcher games. But with the developer now having to focus on trying to fix the last-gen console versions, we’re probably going to have to wait even longer for new content and multiplayer to help revive the PC player base.
Cyberpunk 2077 is now available on the PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, and is in development for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S as well. It will be interesting to see how CD Projekt will respond to this.
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The investigation is not going to go anywhere, of course; though it should, considering what a terrible product Cyberpunk 2077 is as of now.
Ahhhhhhh snap!!! Here we go with the comments!!!!
snap’d !!
All I said was CP2077 was disappointing but not irredeemable. You are a grade A ret*rd with aspergers.
I’m further right than your slave owning grand daddy. I’d sooner bend you over than go to resetera fagg*t.
LOL
CD Projekt REKT
You sound like a literal ret*rd and I agree with you. Its foaming at the mouth idiots like you that make the non-technical criticisms of this game dismissible.
Cant take the heat snowflake?
The thing is that CDPR had to have known they were releasing a broken game. I saw a comment from one console gamer saying that every time there was a loading screen there was a 50% chance that the game would crash.
How could CDPR not have been aware of this before release? Publishers releasing buggy some times broken games has gotten ridiculous.
Yes, they will probably fix most of the problems in patches but it will be long after most have played the game and moved on to something else.
Couldn’t agree more. The main concern is they should never release such a half a***d and broken game. Sure, the devs might Patch some of the issues, but I doubt that is going to make any Huge performance and VISUAL difference though.
These awful bugs should have been TESTED and fixed before releasing the game. Did they even Beta test the game ? I highly doubt it.
The most awful part is the current technical state of the game on PS4 and Xbox One. PC is at least slightly better.
“Did they even Beta test the game ?”
CDPR has other priorities nowadays…
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lol…What a unity in diversity ! One gay N**igga is missing tho.
lol…What a unity in diversity ! But it happens to be the quite the opposite, since there is only diversity, zero unity.
One black gay is missing from this list though, imo.
where’s the straight oriental and white male at? discrimination against whites, and kung fu users!
So, basically, “the white race is inferior to other races”?
I mean, if diversity means more strength and knowledge, then an all-white would mean it’s more stupid and weaker, huh?
Isn’t it kinda ultra-racist?
Don’t be stupid! (Hard, I know)
Imagine knowing only one culture and compare that to someone who knows 35.
It’s easy to see which person would have more experience, but you only see what pleases your agenda.
Of course people use this to talk about geh as well, but cultural diversity is indeed better than just one culture, in terms of knowledge.
But life wasn’t bad at all when my town was 95% white.
Now it’s like 60% white, and we don’t even dare to go out anymore.
There were no murders back in my days, now it’s every day.
Yay for diversity.
(Note : I’m not saying non-white = crime. In fact, I think it’s more related to the fact that my country, has a 10% unemployment rate, and it’s rising fast, and we still accept around 400 000 immigrants/year. Poverty is exploding, minorities in particular get crazy, and violence is spreading everywhere. But anyway, this is a different topic. I only wanted to make that point clear.)
And we can expand our knowledge of other cultures and not necessarily reject them and be racist, while still preserving ourselves.
In fact, in real life, “diversity” seems to only mean racial mixing, but not really expanding our knowledge and making the society better.
In fact, I don’t even see in what way European countries or USA look better now than they were 50 years ago, at least in that aspect.
On a personal level, did “diversity” improve my life in any way since 40 years? Not in the slightest.
On the other hand, did I improve my “knowledge”, as you say? In fact, yes, but because I went to live abroad for some years. lol
Cultural diversity is in my head, I don’t need it in my country.
what do you expect when the u.k, and germany keep accepting all these goatfukers into there country. they keep raping the German, and U.K women, and the police can’t do crap cause there cowardly politicians are afraid of being hated by crazy liberals.
my region was kinda *nothing hapends ever* now i don’t say that
kinda idiocit to say something like that human race..i mean colored races are on end of war
did these bugs keep you from 100% the game? I did no problem.
Finishing the race doesnt make you a winner…
The thing is even after bugfixing the game would still miss some core gameplay features that were demonstrated or touted in the 2018 demo – like your choices having consequences. In the finished game 98% of your choices don’t matter because the outcome is on rails.
And I’m not even talking about wallrunning, functional monorail (which you can access i nthe game but it’s all not finished on the inside), missing animations or game world not recting to whether you finished a mission lethally or non-lethally, using stealth or guns blazing – it’s all the same.
the only bugs i saw where, t poses inside cars , if i had low space on my hd …the exact thing that came on consoles would happen on my pc ,the ps4 and xbone one they specs are basically way to hold and extremely limited for such a game , but investors wanted it at any cost on those obsolete idioctic *consoles*
that’s the risk you take playing on sh**ty console.
how was it broken I beat it no problem.
blame investors that pressured for the game to come out , stop blaming the devs
They can just blame covid. some more.
it wasn’t broken on pc…all these dumb console peasants should of got it on pc.
“Not only that, but Bethesda’s games had the same number of bugs as CP2077 has.”
True. The number being infinity. But then again Bethesda games do have AI with path-finding capabilities, some NPCs can even use vehicles and ride animals (rough equivalent to AI for a motorcyclist) and as much as you can destroy the balance with glitches like smithing-enchanting loop the typical experience of a player will be somewhat balanced whereas in Cyberpunk just selecting some parts of the skill tree will make you absurdly overpowered and turn the game into a joke. With Bethesda we’re talking about craftsmen who mean well but leave a lot to be desired. With CDPR we’re talking about chucking a barely pre-alpha prototype of a game on the market as the finished product. That’s not hyperbole. Alpha means feature complete. Cyberpunk launched with critical features simply missing entirely (police and general driving AI). Cyberpunk launched in pre-alpha state as measured by comparison to every other open world game since the early 2000s and presumably the missing features will never be added.
bah the game was fine for what it was. you want hard games go back to the nes snes generation era.
I only feel sorry for those developers they didn’t deserve this but cdpr deserve even worse than that even ea Activision ubisoft didn’t do such thing
You’re memory is either clouded or very short. But that tends to happen when the biased hate kicks in apparently.
KlKEPUNK 2077 The most KlKED game to come out in the last 5 years. Not to mention a technical PIECE OF SHlT too.
how was it jewy though?
Like an SJW that says whites are to blame for everything, he blames the Jews. Maybe that individual goes by Xer or Xir, at this point…
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Good one. 5 law suits, and one consumer court investigation. Keep them coming since CDPR deserves this.
They are responsible for releasing such a broken POS game in the first place. Screw those SJWs as well. This TRASH game should never have been released in such a state.
Get REKT CD C*** RED.
i’m not a fan of the sjw trash this game turned into. that’s what they get for trying to appease a phantom audience.
everyday i thought will play some more today around 3hrs of gameplay, but when i start to play & do some missiions the gunplay feels so simple clunky doesn’t feel that badass while shooting always got bored , so everyday i just quit after 15-18 mins playing, game is so kinda boring with lame physics, ai movement etc etc
This is a new low…when the State has you under investigation you are in deep sh*t.
How CDPRones can defend this game is beyond me.
lol. or maybe the Disqus software caught your previous comment as spam imo.
i’m sorry what was the spam in the picture? was it in the front, or the background picture?
People who boast about replacing white with “diversity” because they’re “superior” should just commit suicide.
“Let’s put all the geh community on the development, I’ve heard they’re the best”
Now go and get what you fvcking deserve, CDPR!
I like the game, though.
At this point it feels like a hostile take over by the “usual suspects”, i mean is Poland based and i don’t recall such level of reaction to any of the BrokenThesda games, not even 76.
People expect this level of broken game from Bethesda, not from CDPR.
I get that hence why i consider all the flag the game is getting totally justified. When i said i don’t recall such reaction i should have pointed out from non gaming entities.
76 did get a lot of flag from gamers/consumers, even a law suit due to their refund policy, that was it though, game was still broken at the time and they started refunding so lawsuit resolved.
In this case it seems there is some interest in ripping apart the company, not just some little smack like it happen with 76.
I admit i would like to see that just so the precedent is set.
“GTA5 ran similar or worse than Cyberpunk 2077 on ps3/xbox 360”
No the framerate never dropped under 20fps and the game was a technical marvel on those consoles.
20 fps back in the x360/ps3 was the norm for most console gamers…they started to care about framerate when consoles turned into dedicated gaming PC boxes with the next gen (which at that time..they were amazed by playing at cinematic 30fps with checkerboarding…on 2016).
Of course the best experience for this game is on PC (but that’s almost universal for most games)…is still not a good experience due to bugs and performance issues that not amount of raw power will solve in the short time.
there are good females coders, but they are a rare breed. game devs gotta start hiring based on merit not on who sucks your d*ck best.
EXACTLY!
I’ve come across wayy too many bad female coders, but a few decent ones too! Majority of em suck! But these effin SJW’s will hire em just coz they a woman, it’s a cancerous practice IMHO in the tech industry!
thye make recycled games like valhala filled with idiocity propaganda
LOL
f*king old consoles , and idiot console bastards
console peasants should sell their console and buy a brain.. it’s garbage now..