CD Project Red is facing a second class-action lawsuit over Cyberpunk 2077

A second lawsuit excarberates the ongoing legal issues for the company.

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What you need to know

What you need to know

Cyberpunk 2077has faced numerous issues from its launch in December 2020 and more continue to arise. As spotted byGamesIndustry.biz, CD Projekt Red is now facing a second class-action lawsuit over the quality of the game at release and purports that investors were misled.

The lawsuit is filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California while CD Projekt Red notes that it will “undertake vigourous action to defend itself against any such claims.” CD Projekt Red is also beinginvestigatedby Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwinski recently issued anapologyvideo for the state of the game at launch, giving reasons as to why the team believes the game performed especially poorly on lower-end consoles. CD Projekt Red has also give a roadmap for the game’s future, with two major patches and numerous smaller hotfixes coming in the next couple of months, free DLC updates arriving later in 2021 and next-generation console support coming in the second half of the year.

These dedicated patches are meant to provide special support for theXbox Series X,Xbox Series SandPS5, which currently play the game in a kind of enhanced backward compatibility mode. The massive requests for Cyberpunk 2077 refunds caused Sony Interactive Entertainment topull the gamefrom the PlayStation Store and as of the moment this is being written, has not yet been added back.

Cyberpunk 2077 hassold over 13 million copieswhen accounting for refunds.

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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.