Game developer CD Projekt RED has reportedly lost billions in value since the launch of the much-hyped dystopian-set “Cyberpunk 2077” worldwide says The Jakarta Post.
The company lost over 30% of its stock value between Friday, December 4th and Monday, December 14th though has stabilised at the lower level since Monday. A lot has to do with the backlash from gamers who’ve complained about the title being riddled with bugs and performing poorly on last-gen consoles like PS4 and Xbox One.
The company issued an apology on Monday saying patches would come and offered refunds to gamers who are not willing to wait. Sony, Microsoft and Steam have all begun offering refunds while some brick-and-mortar retailers are also allowing full refunds.
Now Kotaku has issued a report detailing what happened during an emergency conference call which CD Projekt Red held with investors the other day. The company seems to be walking back the refund policy a bit the other day with joint CEO Marcin Iwinski saying: “We are not encouraging gamers to return the game; we hope they’ll give us a chance to improve it on old-gen consoles.”
They also clarified that refunds will be subject to existing retailer policies. The company’s SVP Business Development Michał Nowakowski adds that they “definitely did not spend enough time looking at” the performance on last-gen consoles – responding to a question asking if the game is simply too demanding and “no amount of fixing is going to generate an acceptable experience.”
The company is also adjusting the number of visible sex toys in the game – namely Night City’s rather overabundant supply of discarded dildos which are scattered around like rats in New York City. Part of the reason for that is they reportedly could spawn as random loot and so now the dildo density will be adjusted.
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