What Cyberpunk 2077's Resurgence Means For CD Projekt Red's Future
It's hard to find a more notorious example of a recent release that severely failed to live up to its own hype than CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077. The ambitious sci-fi FPS was many years in the making, and fans were primed for an expansive, adrenaline-pumping experience when Cyberpunk 2077 finally launched in 2020. But what they got instead was a game littered with bugs and missing several expected features, which quickly soured players on the otherwise decent title as Cyberpunk 2077 saw a rapid drop in sales, review bombings, and other seemingly long-lasting impacts on its success.
Games only get one chance at a first impression, and many that bomb that spectacularly find it hard to move out from under the shadow of their failures, but it seems like Cyberpunk 2077 may be the exception. After years of work from the development team to provide patches, improve features, and work towards releasing hefty DLCs, Cyberpunk 2077 was starting to turn its reputation around. Now, mostly thanks to the brand-new anime series Edgerunners that landed on Netflix this month, Cyberpunk 2077 is experiencing a resurgence that could have a major impact on CD Projekt Red's future.
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Cyberpunk 2077 didn't have the most promising of starts, with its negative reception tanking CD Projekt Red's stock price almost overnight and forcing the developer to course correct as a result. Work shifted immediately to bug fixes and repairing damage, rather than looking ahead to any exciting new content that Cyberpunk 2077's team might have had planned. Now, almost two years after the game was first launched, Cyberpunk 2077 is seeing a massive spike in its player base as gamers flock back to Night City.
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