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Sony is issuing refunds to some people who bought Cyberpunk 2077, their policy only allows this if the game is "faulty"
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Good, it's beyond clear at this point that at the very least the console versions should have been delayed.
It kinda blows my mind this game launched in this state. Such a terrible mismanage of scope and direction, this game is just flat out too ambitious for the base consoles and most PCs out there.
What's crazy about this is that the "next-gen" version isn't even the version that's available right now.
this is supposed to be a current/last gen release. Xbox did an entire Cyberpunk-themes Xbox One X.
this is supposed to be a current/last gen release. Xbox did an entire Cyberpunk-themes Xbox One X.
I'll never understand how this game made it past Sony and MS certification. What a fucking joke. I've seen titles denied release for much less than this.
It's pretty apparent the game got a pass most games do not due to both the Pandemic and coming in so hot for the holidays.
People have done this with other games too, I remember No Man's Sky being a major one. It isn't an admission by Sony that the game is faulty.
I got a refund on No Man's Sky because it gave me motion sickness. The "we'll only give you a refund if there's a fault in the product" is just a line they give.
It depends more on the agent you chat with. Get a nice one? They'll refund you. Get one that's having a bad day? Ain't happening.
Of course they won't refund you if you have a history of begging for refunds, but if you're chill about it and have a valid reason, it's not that difficult get a refund.
It depends more on the agent you chat with. Get a nice one? They'll refund you. Get one that's having a bad day? Ain't happening.
Of course they won't refund you if you have a history of begging for refunds, but if you're chill about it and have a valid reason, it's not that difficult get a refund.
There are 15 10/10 reviews in Metacritic lol. It's ridiculous how a faulty product is reviewed this well at launch. Haven't seen this happen with service games.
*removes PS5 from shelf to see if there's a number 5 behind it*
damn it :(
Not sure how true this tweet is, but I suspect Sony/Microsoft aren't happy with the situation regardless.
The fact CDPR has kept silent on these issues and hasn't put out a statement is pretty telling.
Ubisoft apologised for the Unity situation and made the DLC free whilst WB pulled Arkham Knight from Steam after that games poor performance on PC. Let's see if CDPR do anything.
The fact CDPR has kept silent on these issues and hasn't put out a statement is pretty telling.
Ubisoft apologised for the Unity situation and made the DLC free whilst WB pulled Arkham Knight from Steam after that games poor performance on PC. Let's see if CDPR do anything.
PS5 version runs at a playable framerate compared to the PS4, but it's still broken from a polish standpoint. Lots of bugs and crashes.
They should have just waited until The next gen versions were ready and axed the current gen ports
Worth noting people were only allowed to review the PC version before launch.
Definitely should be the case. The console release is straight-up broken and in an unacceptable state. It should not have passed certification.
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I'd be quite certain that sitting on the phone for an hour is because of the waiting times to speak to somebody in Sony's support line, not actually talking to somebody for an hour.
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I wouldn't be surprised, however unless there's a source with some substance to it I wouldn't take that tweet to have any value as this is part of how misinformation spreads so easily.
The next-gen consoles basically "brute-forces" the performance issues due to the better hardware.
I guess waiting for proper next gen versions is the best bet then. Such a shame.
And lose out on millions off sales never gonna happen but I'm glad there's some backlash at least
You saw how a review brought forward to wrath of gamers.
Imagine being the company that blocked it from them.
Sales wise is why they wouldn't do that.
I have CP2077 on the Series X and it's running great imo, no bugs or anything that I have witnessed.
I did however see the PS4/One and yeah, I would be disappointed to if I player those versions.
People didn't get the faulty version until a day before release. PS4's version metascore is currently at 35/100(one review lol, but I don't expect it to end up much higher).
Everyone talks about this but I remember when Skyrim was released on PS3 and literally became unplayable whatsoever for tons of people. It won GOTY at the same time my wife's copy was sitting dead in the water. "Well, they gave the GOTY to the PC version" I heard online at the time.
Without the next-gen consoles this would've been even more of a shitshow than it already is. And CDPR didn't put any effort into the next-gen consoles at all.
I guess this is what happens when you make the PC your primary platform for development. In that case they should've just delayed the console versions.
I still don't understand how there must have been people who didn't expect this to be a technical mess on base last gen consoles.
I agree with the bolded, but I think that speaks to the quality of CDPR as the business that they'd rather mislead people and shovel out a broken product for profit rather than doing the right thing and accepting it can't run on the consoles they targeted.
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Generally when a company releases a game and has a clear target of what consoles it's releasing on, people expect a base level of quality (i.e. this will not crash my console three times in two hours). I agree all signs were there that it would perform poorly, but given that they went ahead with the release I don't think anybody should have expected it to release in the state it's in.
Meanwhile a bunch of other open world, and ambitious games got released on base hardware with minor issues.
The game is buggy on all platforms. That's something pretty much any of the reviews point out.
I mean, the game had like 10 million pre-orders right? That's ~3 million for each platform before launch. Not allowing the game to release would have meant a huge shitstorm for them and a huge amount of lost sales. Most of them probably shifted to other platforms.
Both, Sony and Microsoft probably thought it's safer to let it release and just refund those who are unhappy.
Most criticism is directed at CD Projekt anyway.
Though, it would have been better if all platforms rejected that mess of a game. But both platform holders aren't legally allowed to coordinate such a block for the game.
They would have to trust the other party to deny certification after making public that they did. And obviously both didn't trust the other to follow that up.
Cyberpunk 2077 was announced before the PS4 was publicly announced.
Something to remember, apparently the main reason for the last delay was that the last gen console versions were so bad that it wouldn't get certified unless certain issues had been fixed.
Luckily I'm on ps5 and have only had 2 crashes and some minor glitches but it's clear the game has a lot of problems that need to have been fixed before release.
Luckily I'm on ps5 and have only had 2 crashes and some minor glitches but it's clear the game has a lot of problems that need to have been fixed before release.
You're framing this as though it was targeting current gen and the last gen release is compromised. At the moment it doesn't even have a native current gen release.
