Several events related to Cyberpunk 2077 took place over the weekend. At first, CD PROJEKT management stated that it was quite a general state of the game. After that, it became known that sales of the title increased by 374%. But then it turned out that his audience on the PC continued to plummet.

Sony has officially returned Cyberpunk 2077 to the PlayStation Store. The game was absent from the platform for six months, and now it is sold at a reduced price. Despite the return of the CD Projekt project to the store, users are warned about the remaining performance problems.On June 21, the opportunity to buy the game again appeared on the Cyberpunk 2077 page in the PS Store.

China has very strict certification rules, as the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 were well aware of. It turned out that the developers of the game marked with the tag “Winnie the Pooh” all the controversial content that should be removed before the release in China. The problem is that this character has been banned in the country since 2017.

The Polish CD PROJEKT Group of companies summed up the results of the first quarter (ended March 31, 2021). It didn’t go well. Despite the increase in sales revenue, net profit immediately fell by 64.7%.

After the scandalous release of Cyberpunk 2077, several law firms filed class-action lawsuits against CD Projekt on behalf of disgruntled investors. Now four of them have been combined into one. Its amount is still unknown.CD Projekt announced the court’s decision in a new report on its official website.

CD Projekt shared information about reserves that relate to possible losses from Cyberpunk 2077 refunds. In total, the company has pledged more than $50 million for this expense item, based on current data and sales estimates.The Ars Technica portal drew attention to the data.

Before the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the game was predicted to have some of the best initial sales in history. After a series of scandals, analysts’ expectations have fallen sharply. But it turned out that the title could not justify even the worst of them. And it’s not about large-scale returns.

Today, on April 22, CD Projekt Group released its financial report for 2020. According to the document, its revenue grew by 310% last year, and net profit by 558% compared to 2019. It was also announced how much the group spent on the creation of Cyberpunk 2077.

About a week remains until the publication of CD Projekt‘s annual report on the results of 2020, but the Polish holding is already impatient to share a couple of preliminary figures. The creators of Cyberpunk 2077 said that last year the company’s earnings increased more than two and a half times compared to the record 2015. Recall that it was then that they released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Valheim dominated the list of the best-selling Steam games for two months. However, now the first line was taken by the Polish action Outriders, showing excellent online at the start. Also in the top ten is Cyberpunk 2077, for which a major patch has recently been released.According to the results of the week that ended on April 4, Valheim dropped immediately to fourth place.

Yesterday’s announcement of the new strategy had a negative impact on CD Projekt shares. Analysts believe that it lacks specifics. Serkan Toto, CEO of the consulting firm Kantan Games, was one of the first to draw attention to the fall.

In its latest report, the Polish firm DM BOŚ estimated the value of CD Projekt shares at only 231 Polish zloty ($58.7) apiece. Analysts called the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 the “most hated” studio in the world and lowered the forecast for sales of the company’s games. However, they believe that developers have a chance to return to previous heights.Update: In the DM BOŚ estimate, we are talking about the stock price per share.

Cyberpunk 2077 sold well at the start, but now digital sales of the title are falling rapidly. According to analysts of M Science, in the first quarter of this year (will end on March 31) CD Projekt RED will be able to sell only 500 thousand copies of the game in “digital”.

In January, spending on video games in the United States amounted to $4.71 billion, according to the analytical company NPD Group. As for individual games, Cyberpunk 2077 dropped 16 positions in the chart at once, but the last Call of Duty managed to enter the top 20 best-selling titles in history.General data

This weekend, five resonant events related to Cyberpunk 2077 happened at once — from the next excuses of the CD Projekt RED management to the recommendations of analysts to sell the studio. We have prepared a digest in which we talked about everything in detail.

Marcin Iwiński, co-founder of CD Projekt RED, explained why the release of Cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be so problematic, and outlined the game’s development plan.

The Polish Office for the Protection of Competition and Consumer Rights (UOKiK) will check the situation around the release of Cyberpunk 2077. As a result, CD Projekt may face a fine of 10% of annual revenue.UOKiK suspects CD Projekt of deceiving customers.

The GitHyp website, which collects game statistics, noticed that Cyberpunk 2077 lost 79% of Steam players a month after its release. The CD Projekt game still shows excellent online, but its previous hit The Witcher 3 at one time managed to keep users many times longer.On the release day, December 10, the peak online Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam exceeded 1 million people.

CD Projekt is preparing for trial with disgruntled investors. The studio said that it has faced at least one lawsuit and is now going to take the most “decisive” actions to protect itself.