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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_Alucard1239d 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.

bouzebbal1239d ago

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

RPGer1239d 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.

lucian2291239d 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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esherwood1238d 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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GamerRN1239d ago

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

Eonjay1239d 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.

GamerRN1239d ago

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

CS71239d 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**.

GamerRN1238d 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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lodossrage1239d 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.

Atom6661239d ago (Edited 1239d 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.

BattleCat1239d 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 .)

esherwood1238d ago

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

Michiel19891239d ago

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

lodossrage1239d ago

@Michiel1989

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

Michiel19891239d 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_Alucard1238d ago (Edited 1238d 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.

annoyedgamer1239d ago (Edited 1239d ago )

Most likely

Atom6661239d ago

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

cell9891239d ago

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

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Muzikguy1239d ago

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

lodossrage1239d 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_Targaryen1238d ago

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

Vanfernal1239d ago

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

Nitrowolf21239d 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

zsquaresoff1239d 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.

Rocosaurus1239d ago

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

RememberThe3571239d ago

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

Pandamobile1238d 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)

CrimsonWing691239d 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.

RememberThe3571239d 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.

Aussiesummer1238d ago

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

RememberThe3571238d ago

Mislead their investors by saying it worked.

CrimsonWing691238d ago

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

Aussiesummer1238d ago

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

annoyedgamer1239d ago (Edited 1239d 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.

Nitrowolf21239d 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.

annoyedgamer1239d ago

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

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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_B9d ago

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

Vits9d ago (Edited 9d 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.

darthv729d 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.

Kaii9d ago

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

anast9d ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

INMATEofARKHAM9d 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.

gunnerforlife9d 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.

S2Killinit9d ago

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

gunnerforlife8d 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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Source Code For The Witcher 3 & Cyberpunk 2077 Has Allegedly Been Compromised

Source code for CD Projekt's action role-playing games The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 have allegedly been compromised.

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just_looken22d ago

Well they are using unreal engine now thanks to there work culture and horrific job on making cyberpunk so for the future no impact.

But it will be interesting to see what mods will be made

https://rebel-wolves.com/

just_looken21d ago

7 disagrees shows how many look at one dlc that had a rip off fight from ghost in the shell and goes wow what a goat team i love cdpr while ignoring that they only made 2 games that were good witcher 2/3 in 20yrs.

But its a new world we want a criminal that support's legal murder as president/support shoplifting love toxic work environments and have a mass casualty event every other day.

GhostMirror21d ago

I’ll admit I didn’t play it at launch, but Cyberpunk 2077 is a really good game now.

And who the hell knows what you’re even going on about in your second paragraph here.

EazyC22d ago

Wait a min...I swear to god CP2077's source code got leaked before. CDPR needs to stop using "password123" for all their accounts 😅

just_looken21d ago

Na its hundreds ex employees no doubt just getting there revenge.

Profchaos21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

This is the same leak the threat actors have been trying to sell the source code after cd project didn't pay the ransom.

They didn't manage to sell the source code to any company largely because it would be unethical for say EA to buy it so the threat actors failed to find a buyer.

After they failed to make any money they went through with their threat of simply giving it away.

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Cyberpunk 2077's Sequel Should Bite the Bullet on an Industry Trend

Cyberpunk 2077's launch resulted in a loss of goodwill with gamers, but there is a way to earn it back with the upcoming sequel.

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anast22d ago

They will need to add everything they promised in the first one and not over promise on the second one.

just_looken21d ago

They also need to drop esg then hire employees that have knowledge not hire them because they have a set of tits.

Official video they hired people to fill the esg clipboard

Hofstaderman22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

As somebody who has been playing the tabletop games since the 90s and was let down on launch by my PS4 version, you can bet I'm not going the preorder any sequel.

nmbr1esq21d ago

3rd person option, and everything else that was originally promised. Next don't force agenda driven naratives. Finally, release a finished product without need for day one patches.