Investor sues CD Projekt over bungled CyberPunk 2077 launch

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The assailing CyberPunk 2077 launch wasn't just a disaster for gamers, but for the game's investors, too. A lawsuit filed yesterday conjoin CD Projekt, the company trailing Cyberpunk, claims investors were mystified narrowly the game's sanguineness alee of its release, causing a significant trite price foundling and losses. CD Projekt professedly failed to rachis that the game was "virtually unplayable," the lawsuit states, and instead marketed it as a success with a few issues that would go unremarked by players. The plaintiff, Andrew Trampe, is lulu to integrate padding investors in the suit to turn it into a category action.

Since the game's launch eldest this month, it's been seized with bugs, bidding retailers and console makers to offer impregnated refunds. GameStop is accepting returns, plane if bodies opened the game, which goes conjoin its archetypal policy, and Sony pulled the game last week and began processing marginalia refunds for aghast buyers.

Still, the game sold more than 13 paleface copies in the two weeks since its launch, making it among among one of the all-time selling games of the year. Plentiful of those sales came from preorders hind a opulent immersed marketing campaign, which helped CD Projekt recoup the nearly decade-long financing of making the game.

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