A CD Projekt még egy utolsó laza véget ér a Cyberpunk 2077 katasztrofális indulásától: a csoportos per

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We said in October that Cyberpunk 2077’s a megváltás teljes, but I think that may have been a little premature because now it’s really complete: CD Projekt has finally settled the class action lawsuit filed against it in 2020 by investors who weren’t happy with the state of the game at launch.

It’s easy to forget now because it all happened three years ago (in Covid years, more like six), and the PC version was actually elég rendes, de a Cyberpunk 2077 teljesen tönkrement az induláskor. Elég rossz volt, hogy a Sony felrúgta az egészet a PlayStation áruházból több mint hat hónapig. Valójában ez állt a játékkal kapcsolatban a CD Projekt ellen indított perek legalább egyikének középpontjában: a stúdió hamis vagy félrevezető kijelentéseket tett arról, hogy a Cyberpunk 2077 megfelelően játszható volt az akkori PS4-en, és Xbox Egy konzol.

Sajtóközleményben (a Wayback Machine), Rosen Law Firm said CD Projekt failed to disclose that “Cyberpunk 2077 was virtually unplayable on the current-generation Xbox or Playstation systems due to an enormous number of bugs,” and that as a result, “CD Projekt would suffer reputational and pecuniary harm” that would in term cause financial damage to investors.

In 2021, four separate lawsuits against the studio were rolled into one “mega per,” but at the end of that year proceedings were suspended because an out-of-court settlement was being worked on. That eventually resulted in a 1.85 millió dolláros üzlet hogy az egész elmúljon, bár az egészet a bíróságoknak jóvá kellett hagyniuk.

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but initial approval was given in January 2023, and now, finally, it’s a done deal: CD Projekt said in a szabályozási közlemény november 28-án (via GamesIndustry.biz) that “the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California had issued an order regarding final approval of the corresponding settlement,” which “ends the legal proceedings related to the US class action lawsuit filed against the Company and other defendants.”

I said it when the terms of the settlement were first reached, and I’ll say it again now: $1.85 million is a remarkably small price to pay relative to the money CD Projekt earned on sales of Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt reported net profits of zł203 million ($51 million) in its most recent pénzügyi negyedévben alone, and said Cyberpunk 2077 sales have now surpassed 25 million units; the value of the settlement isn’t related to Cyberpunk sales because the lawsuit was based on harm to the company’s value in 2020 but even so, that’s basically the equivalent of flipping a quarter to an annoying child and telling him to go to the movies.

So it’s good news for CD Projekt, and there’s good news for Cyberpunk 2077 players coming soon too: The studio recently announced a surprise 2.1 update to the game that will add a number of new gameplay elements, including a teljesen működőképes metrórendszer amely stílusosan viszi majd körbe a játékosokat Night Cityben.