CD Projekt Red’s co-founder Marcin Iwinski has officially apologized for Cyberpunk 2077’s many bugs and game-ruining glitches.
According to Iwinski the reason for the many issues gamers faced with the launch of the game revolved around the relationship between PC and consoles (especially, last-gen consoles). The developer revealed that it had to scale down the game to meet hardware restrictions, which led to the many bugs and errors.
“We made it even more difficult for ourselves by first wanting to make the game look epic on PCs and then adjusting it to consoles—especially old-gens…That was our core assumption. And things did not look super difficult at first, while we knew the hardware gap, ultimately, time has proven that we’ve underestimated the task.”
CD Project Red’s timeline says the first major patch (beyond the quick fix patches it has been releasing nearly every week since launch) is set to arrive within the next ten days. An even larger patch will follow.
After that, there will be a free set of DLC sometime later this year – which hopefully will make amends. Regardless, some gamers simply aren’t having it; the Sony PlayStation Store removed Cyberpunk 2077 from its online platform after thousands of gamers requested refunds.
It’s unclear when – or if – the title will be available again.
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