{"id":88669,"date":"2026-09-01T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88669"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:44:59","slug":"releasing-cyberpunk-2077-in-its-poor-state-was-for-sure-wrong-cd-projekt-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88669","title":{"rendered":"Releasing Cyberpunk 2077 In Its Poor State \u201cWas For Sure Wrong,\u201d CD Projekt Admits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CD Projekt Red&#8217;s RPG Cyberpunk 2077 infamously launched in December 2020 in such a poor technical state that Sony took the rare move to remove it from the PlayStation Store. Thousands of people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/cyberpunk-2077-sold-13-7-million-copies-in-21-days-30000-people-got-refunds\/1100-6490486\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/cyberpunk-2077-sold-13-7-million-copies-in-21-days-30000-people-got-refunds\/1100-6490486\/\">refunded the game<\/a>. CD Projekt joint-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski\u00a0has now reflected on this, saying it &#8220;was for sure wrong&#8221; to launch the game in that state, but he pushed back against the theory that the studio did so to appease investors who wanted to see financial returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/cd-projekt-red-if-you-want-a-cost\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/cd-projekt-red-if-you-want-a-cost\">The Game Business<\/a>, Nowakowski said COVID &#8220;was a factor&#8221; in the game&#8217;s rough state at launch, because &#8220;the team was getting exhausted in a different way.&#8221; He admitted there were &#8220;people outside telling us we should launch,&#8221; and fans lobbied for this as well. The developers themselves also &#8220;wanted to push it out the door&#8221; because the ongoing development was &#8220;really tiring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking back on it, now with the benefit of hindsight, Nowakowski said, &#8220;The decision to launch was for sure wrong, period. There is no denying it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That being said, Nowakowski said, &#8220;There were no magical investors telling us, &#8216;You have to get this out.'&#8221; Instead, he said, &#8220;It was much more complicated and psychological.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &lt;figure data-wp-interactive=&quot;core\/image&quot; class=&quot;wp-block-image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red&#8217;s RPG Cyberpunk 2077 infamously launched in December 2020 in such a poor technical state that Sony took the rare move to remove it from the PlayStation Store. Thousands of people refunded the game. CD Projekt joint-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski\u00a0has now reflected on this, saying it &#8220;was for sure wrong&#8221; to launch the game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88672,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88669\/revisions\/88672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}