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CD Projekt investors may sue over Cyberpunk 2077's "misleading information"

"CD Projekt may have issued materially misleading information to their shareholders and investing public," alleges one complaint.

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Rachel_Alucard1258d ago

The ironic part is if CDPR can prove they were pressured by the investors to release early, then their whole case gets thrown out.

bouzebbal1258d ago

Unrealistic expectations.. This studio has become so arrogant, they just lost everything.

RPGer1257d ago

Well this studio is just shallow shell of what they used to be 4 years ago.

The team behind The Witcher 3 been replaced or resigned. I remember somewhere saying it is like only 35 developers out of 150 or 200 are still in the studio. The developers of Cyberpunk are over 400 or even over 450. So, TW3 developers were the minority and have no control on the development and decisions.

Exactly the case of Dragon Age.

lucian2291257d ago

^Rpger

they were never good; witcher 1 and 2 sucked, and 3 had bad combat but was a passable game with a good story after all the detective garbage

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esherwood1257d ago

Lol really that’s it? Release a game with a couple of bugs and all those good thing u did in the past mean nothing? I swear gamers are just miserable people that’s why they’re so quick to beat people down

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GamerRN1257d ago

It'll be hard to prove the mislead. "runs surprisingly well on last gen base consoles" can literally mean anything

Eonjay1257d ago

This is where you employ common sense. No one would mistake surprising well to mean it care runs. And given that the CEO said this in lieu of actually showing anything is telling as well. It is well know that guidance for sales within the company, known to investors was 30 million. This is unrealistic for an obviously broken product.

GamerRN1257d ago

In a court of law, it's not YOUR interpretation, it's the English language meaning and definition. Good luck!

CS71257d ago

The lack of knowledge of people discussing this game is astounding.

Here is a list of items they blatantly LIED about during the marketing of the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cy...

Apart from which, they directly HID console footage before reviews to ensure that they keep millions of dollars.

To all their defenders, take CDPR’s dildo out your a**.

GamerRN1257d ago

So I read your list of things they supposedly didn't include. Almost everything listed is the one way or the other. You can argue all you want but the language they used can be taken in many ways. When it comes to a lawsuit, it has to be far more obvious than that, and then offering refunds almost eliminates any damages. Don't forget, you have to prove damages

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lodossrage1257d ago

I don't see how anyone could give Rachel_Alucard a disagree here.

What's the common them with each of these issues with Bioware, Blizzard, Bethesda, and now CDPR. Every one of them are constantly getting pushed by management, who in turn they themselves are pushed by investors.

Atom6661257d ago (Edited 1257d ago )

Because that's not how the law works?

All publically traded businesses are "pushed" by investors. Pressure for success is not a defense to misleading investors with false statements.

BattleCat1257d ago

They had many years time. They had a very big mouth and fake promises.
And i need to go back to ps1/ps2 times, to find this great physics and ai, which cyberpunk offers .)

esherwood1257d ago

Hearing u losers be so hyper critical of other people is hilarious. I bet everyone of you sucks at your job

Michiel19891257d ago

@rachel why? its totally legal to pressure something you invested in, its cdpr's fault for bowing down to it.

lodossrage1257d ago

@Michiel1989

If you don't do a job that your boss pays you to do, what happens to you?

Michiel19891257d ago

@lodos except investors arent bosses, the management at cdpr are the bosses......also this was eluding to how well the argument of: "investors pressured us so we released a total unplayable game after 8 years of development" would hold up in court, not about if investors are bosses or not.

Rachel_Alucard1257d ago (Edited 1257d ago )

If you read the CEO's own words he's already screwed himself because he stated "They felt no internal or external pressure to release early" so in other words, they can no longer use that as a defense nor did they bow down to anything. Even if he was lying about that, it's too late now for him to go back on it. I feel most of the comments made about the current gen versions running surprisingly well were nothing but puff pieces similar to other statements made, like the "as polished as RDR2" comment from a dev. If they try to claim things like that in court that may hurt the case. Regardless, I'd like to see some accountability done for once in the industry. Tired of letting greed overtake everything.

annoyedgamer1257d ago (Edited 1257d ago )

Most likely

Atom6661257d ago

"Investors" meaning shareholders? No, that's not a defense.

cell9891257d ago

Or if the investor was duped out of large amounts of money for an unfinished product after 8 years

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Muzikguy1258d ago

What's crazy is if the misleading led to huge sales it wouldn't be an issue

lodossrage1258d ago

THAT is a very good point you made.

These investors are really just blame pushing. They were more than likely in the camp of pushing these developers to be done within a certain time frame, even if it meant bugs and issues. But now that it blew up in their face and that money is on the line, they want to look like their on the right side by suing the company they themselves pushed into this situation.

Jon_Targaryen1257d ago

No one is suing anyone...... yet. Calm your tits.

Vanfernal1257d ago

Ironically, it did lead to huge sales... Then to massive refunds.

Nitrowolf21257d ago

the issue isn't that it didn't lead to huge sales, because it did.
The issue these investors are having is because it did lead to huge sales, but because of all the outrage it lead to stock tanks, the opposite of what should have happened cause sales were so high

zsquaresoff1257d ago

CDPR has taken wrong decisions that is why they see themselves in hot water right now, the real question is, the game was in development for 8 long years, how come it has issues? I think the blames goes to the dev's as well.

Rocosaurus1257d ago

It has not been in development for 8 years, 4 at the most.

RememberThe3571257d ago

People keep saying this, but development started in like 2018. They announced the game before they even started making it.

Pandamobile1256d ago

Here's a rough timeline for CP77's development

Conception to initial trailer release (2012-2013)
Pre-production prototypes, small team with the rest of the studio working on TW3 (2013-2015)
Main production phase, most people ramping off TW3 and TW3 DLC (2016-2019)
Post-production likely impacted by choppy development cycles, several delays happen at this phase (2019-2020)

CrimsonWing691257d ago

In a way it’s good because hopefully this will scare publishers/devs from releasing shoddy games, but on the other side of it I don’t think the game is this bad that it deserves a company to be sued.

RememberThe3571257d ago

If they get sued it's not because of the game being bad, it's because they mislead their investors which lead to massive losses for them. Besides, in what world is being sued for lying bad? I wouldn't mind if more people were sued for being full of shit and misleading other people.

Aussiesummer1257d ago

Mislead their investors to believe it was good....

RememberThe3571257d ago

Mislead their investors by saying it worked.

CrimsonWing691257d ago

The game works. Like, even on base PS4 and Xbox One. Go look up a YouTube stream.

Aussiesummer1257d ago

You clearly have low standards if you're willing to pay for this crap.

annoyedgamer1257d ago (Edited 1257d ago )

Im shocked at how Ubisoft never got sued for Watch Dogs. EA for Battlefield 4, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, etc but CDPR gets sued for 1 unfinished game. Clearly there is a clique here.

Nitrowolf21257d ago

Because stocks didn't tank so investors didn't care. Plain and simple, this isn't about suing because they mislead people its about suing because the stock isn't where they wanted it to be.

annoyedgamer1257d ago

Which raises the next question: Why did EA/Ubisoft stocks crash after repeated botched releases?

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Cyberpunk 2077 Support Concludes As CDPR Turns Focus Towards Next Witcher Title & Other Projects

CD Projekt has concluded support work on Cyberpunk 2077, as the studio has turned focus towards the next Witcher and several other projects.

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DustMan2d ago

Such a great game. Recently started another playthrough.

Aussiesummer2d ago

I really have to get back into it, didn’t even get half way through, have the dlc and everything too.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Director On 95% Positive Steam Rating: "Never Thought I'd See It"

Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way from being one of the worst games on the planet to being one of the best ones.

DustMan16d ago

I shelved it after a few hours in game at launch, glad I didn't refund it. One of the few games I've actually completed in the last year, and after finishing the campaigns I wanted to just jump back in from the start. They pulled a No Mans Sky and finished one of the best FPS in the last few years.

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Games That Were Bad on Release, But Are Now Great

BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.

Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."

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Terry_B28d ago

Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

darthv7228d ago

Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.

I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.

Kaii28d ago

They consider FO 76 & ME Andromeda to be great now 🤭

anast28d ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

INMATEofARKHAM28d ago

It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.

gunnerforlife27d ago

Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.

S2Killinit27d ago

That game was just plain good game. It didnt improve, it was just good.

gunnerforlife27d ago

I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!

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