CD Projekt Red's hotly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 has consistently been topping the news charts in the last several months, sadly for all the wrong reasons. One of the most hyped up games of the last decade, Cyberpunk 2077 failed to live up to a bunch of its promises, which has caused huge controversy.
The community has been eagerly waiting out on updates to finally fix the game, while the company publisher itself is dealing with a Cyberpunk 2077 class action lawsuit. CD Projekt Red seems to be working really hard to earn its redemption, and Cyberpunk 2077 should definitively end 2021 on a drastically different note.
Beneath Cyberpunk 2077's Problems
There's no doubt that Cyberpunk 2077 has had a troubled launch. Many gamers were misled into buying the game for platforms the game wasn't fit to run on, at least at launch. Topping that off with a plethora of bugs and glitches on all versions of the game, alongside a healthy dose of toxic hype culture gave fans enough reason to bash the game. The launch debacle carried huge consequences, such as Sony outright removing the game from the PlayStation Store due to its horrible technical performance, a move almost unheard of, especially for a game of such stature.
However, fans privileged enough to play Cyberpunk 2077 on either a high-end PC or a next-gen machine would agree that it is certainly a capable western RPG. The game's beautiful open-world is brimming with great content, offering meaningful choices and houses some of the best RPG characters that are sure to stay with fans long after the credits roll. While it may have failed to deliver on many of its promises, there's enough good to keep most fans content. There's little to no reason that Cyberpunk 2077 should go down in history as a cautionary tale of greed, but rather a tale of turning fates, provided that CD Projekt Red puts in the efforts to fix the game.
CD Projekt Red's Future
The Cyberpunk 2077 launch debacle undoubtedly hurt the company, with CD Projekt's crashing stock prices and a slew of controversies one after the other. There's little doubt that a lot of this could have been avoided if management had given the developers enough time to deliver the game. Cyberpunk 2077 may not be the most technically sound game at the time of writing, but the passion of the team involved in the project does warrant some appreciation.
Many employees have confessed their disdain towards the company's management for releasing Cyberpunk 2077 the way it did. Others succumbed to the pressure and outright left the company, with the most prominent departure being senior designer Andrzej Zawadzki. Should Cyberpunk 2077 go down as a failure, many more employees would be incentivized to leave the company in search of better pastures. Thus, it's important that Cyberpunk 2077 implement reparations in 2021, which should do wonders in making Cyberpunk 2077 the game it should have been in the first place.
Cyberpunk 2077 is out now for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Stadia.
