Cyberpunk 2077 is a terrible game and does not deserve a sequel – Reader’s Feature

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A reader is angry that the launch problems of Cyberpunk 2077 are being forgotten and feels that CD Projekt should not be forgiven for their mistakes.

A lot of people have been upset at Sony and others not announcing new games this summer, but it seems as if CD Projekt are doing their bit to try and make up for it. On Wednesday they announced six new games, four of which they’re making themselves. They’ll all take a while to come out, but they want to make three The Witcher games in six years which seems like barely enough time to make one in normal circumstances.

This is, of course, not long after they said they weren’t going to make any more The Witcher games at all, a tune that quickly changed as soon as Cyberpunk 2077 suffered its needlessly terrible launch. Before its release I would say that CD Projekt were one of the most trusted, and well liked developers around, thanks to the high quality of The Witcher 3 and the general attitude of the company – especially with things like free DLC.

Then it became clear that it was all an illusion. I’m sure the lower level developers are all very good and passionate, but the people in charge knew exactly what they were doing when they let Cyberpunk 2077 be released on consoles and they were convinced that people would just roll over and accept it. And they weren’t really wrong.

It’s pretty clear that CD Projekt nearly went under thanks to Cyberpunk 2077 – they were getting sued by their own investors at one point! – but somehow they talked themselves out of it, no doubt by teasing these new games that they’ve now announced publicly, including a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077.

There’s two issues here and while one is subjective I don’t believe the other is. In my opinion Cyberpunk 2077 is a