CD Projekt RED Still Waiting on Sony Approval to Return Cyberpunk 2077 to PS Store - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2021 / 3,286 Views
Sony removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store in December 2020 for being buggy and nearly unplayable on the PlayStation 4. It is now over five months later and the game yet to be relisted on the PlayStation Store.
CD Projekt RED president and co-CEO Adam Kicinski in a meeting with shareholders was asked on an update on the game being relisted on the PlayStation Store. He said they are in discussions with Sony and the decision is on Sony.
"Unfortunately, I have no new information in this regard," said Kiciński through a translator. "We are still in discussions and with every patch the game gets better and there is a visible progress.
"But as we said the decision is an exclusive decision of Sony, so we are waiting for the information about the fact that they took the decision to bring back this game. Until then I am not able to tell you anything more."
Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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i'm just quietly waiting for my ps5 and ps5 edition of cyberpunk to release.
Performance on ps4 is still terrible, I couldn't make it past the club in the beginning of the game.
The game is in as good a state as it realistically can be in. There are many worse performing games than Cyberpunk on console.
In my view: Have a no-qualms 3 hours refund policy. List the game.
Well then make the game playable. Probably will be released around the time of the PS5 version.
The final decision may be from Sony, but the way he replied he doesn`t seem to strongly believe it is ready to be accepted back,
Agree with everyone that the game seems to be in a state ready for store listing again. Sony are in the position of power but they shouldn't push it too hard. Not only might it come back to bite them but its also unfair on all the devs who have been busting their asses to get it running acceptably. Meanwhile there are games like Ark on PS4 which sony have no issue with.
Unfair why if the company already got major profits even when the game was still broken? Unfair is panderizing to them because they are working on fixing what shouldn`t be broken in the first place.
Man, this thing was hyped to hell and to see the state of it now is almost unreal. I mean, sure it still sold well but not under the best circumstances/truths.
Best is people thinking that if it had a 6 month delay it would launch without being broke. It would need at least 1 year considering the game have been out for almost 6 months and isn`t really working fine at all, much less polished... and that was the game that would steal GOTY from TLOU2 kkkkk
didnt get day1... so havnt even played it yet. After its launch, I feel like I dodged a bullet so... meh.
My impression was that the game has been improved to a playable state now?
Sony’s making a big mistake, here. Sony’s my fave, but this has some stink of hubris on it IMO. I am now expecting CDPR to partner with MSFT for their next project and give either full or timed exclusivity. Hope I’m wrong, but I think CDPR must be upset about this, exp bc MSFT never acted this way.
The game is much much better even on ps4. Of course its not locked 30fps but so was so many rockstar games on ps3. Still has bugs but again, so many games have bugs. I see no reason for sony to not allow the game except for "teaching a lesson". On xbox one though is pretty bad and probably will never be acceptable.
It improved a lot. But even on Pro and after the 2nd or 3rd major patch I had like 4 total crashes (not any other game got so many), several hiccups and freezes, those ugly models still there, etc.
Considering how much it sold on PS and money it brought before being deslisted I doubt CDPR would jump PS due to being pissed since well the faults falls all on themselves.
And when it does, the price will be hilarious!
I think their point is that they have fixed it and they are waiting on Sony to approve it. I personally think Sony is pissed about the whole refund fiasco they caused. Sony hates issuing digital refunds. I have no idea why but they hate it and I think they are pissed that this company put them in that position.
The problem isn't the difficulty. The problem is the fact thay Sony has had a long-standing, very rigid, no refunds policy. CDPR basically put Sony in a position where they had no choice but to issue refunds, which in turn sets a bad precedent (from Sony's perspective) for future situations.
Yeah, now every time they want to brandish their "No Refunds" policy, they will have to deal with this precedent. Which is honestly the best thing that came out of this mess, digital storefronts need much, much better refund policies, especially if they have standards low enough to allow games to release in this state.
As an Australian I am 100% entitled to a refund. It's the law.
It's actually illegal for any company to state "no refunds" here.
I even took EA to consumer affairs years ago, which in turn they received a fine and we eventually got refunds here. - Started down the same path with Valve as well, but they offered refunds before that concluded. So win win.
Considering we are entering a fully digital distributed video game world, refunds needs to be an expectation from all platform holders.
Problem is that they haven`t really fixed... it improved, but it is still very much broken.
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