CD Projekt RED Faces A Second Lawsuit

<p>To say CD Projekt RED has been in hot water recently is an understatement&period; Cyberpunk 2077 ended up being clearly rushed to market because of corporate greed&period; And we went into <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-cyberpunk-2077-launch-disaster&sol;">a lot of the problems surrounding the release earlier<&sol;a>&period; But it seems since release&comma; the fallout has gotten immense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game ended up being removed from Sony&&num;8217&semi;s PSN store&comma; and investors naturally got angry as CDPR&&num;8217&semi;s stocks dropped drastically as a result&period; We went into more detail about the broken promises and lies about the game recently&period; So <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-deceit-lies-exploitation-of-cd-projekt-red&sol;">read that<&sol;a> if you want to know more about what went on behind the scenes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite the game being quite good on PC&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-pc-review-a-diamond-in-the-rough&sol;">enough to get an 8&sol;10 from us<&sol;a>&comma; on consoles the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;an-open-letter-to-cd-projekt-red&sol;">story was entirely different<&sol;a>&period; The game suffered from crashes&comma; performance issues&comma; extreme pop-in&comma; and even more bugs than on PC&period; And even on PC the game feels largely unfinished&comma; with missing or half-baked mechanics&period; A lot of what was promised for the game simply isn&&num;8217&semi;t there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"O3V4UBZmC9o" title&equals;"Cyberpunk 2077 — Our Commitment to Quality"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;O3V4UBZmC9o"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;O3V4UBZmC9o&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Cyberpunk 2077 — Our Commitment to Quality"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Second Lawsuit<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>After receiving a lawsuit&comma; and a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cd-projekt-red-faces-further-penalties&sol;">threat from the Polish government to take 10&percnt; of their revenue<&sol;a> of the game if they failed to fix it&comma; CD Projekt RED released the above statement in a video&period; The video unfortunately contains a lot of bullshit&comma; as you can see&period; The studio completely fails to acknowledge the game&&num;8217&semi;s broken state on launch&comma; and instead says &&num;8220&semi;they found no such issues during testing&&num;8221&semi;&period; Which is hard to believe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It would seem investors agree as a second lawsuit just hit CD Projekt RED&period; The second lawsuit was confirmed in a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cdprojekt&period;com&sol;en&sol;investors&sol;regulatory-announcements&sol;current-report-no-4-2021&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">regulatory announcement<&sol;a> done by the studio&period; This lawsuit is identical to the first one&period; In other words&comma; claiming the studio lied and deceived customers about the game&&num;8217&semi;s state&period; According to the announcement&comma; CDPR will &&num;8220&semi;take vigorous action to defend itself against any such claims&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One can of course ask what defense CDPR could possibly have at this point&period; They seem committed to fixing the problem&comma; but it is a problem they themselves have created&period; And with statements from Adam Badowski and Marcin Iwinski both reflecting their reluctance to see the flaws in their product&comma; it remains doubtful they will take the situation seriously&comma; despite promises to do so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The future for the studio&comma; and Cyberpunk 2077&comma; looks shaky at this point&period; We can only hope for the best&period; The studio has promised further fixes and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-will-have-free-dlc&sol;">free DLC down the road<&sol;a>&period; So let&&num;8217&semi;s see if they can redeem themselves&comma; or at least bring the game to the state it was promised to be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;