Xbox offers full refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 until further notice, game still available in Store
If you’re unhappy with Cyberpunk 2077, you can get a refund.
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What you need to know
Cyberpunk 2077and their creator, CD Projekt RED, is having a bit of a rough launch week. After generally positive reviews that praised the massive and ambitious game on PC (like in ourCyberpunk 2077 review), the game launched and was discovered to be anabsolute mess on older consoles like the Xbox One and PS4. While there are ways you canimprove the console visuals for Cyberpunk 2077, it’s still a subpar experience for a lot of people, leading to public outcry and complaints.
Yesterday,Sony pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from the Playstation Store and started offering full refunds to everyone, an unprecedented move that saw one of the biggest games of the year taken away from one of the biggest gaming platforms. Today, Xbox has announced that they are extending their refund policy for Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk 2077: To ensure that every player can get the experience they expect on Xbox, we will be expanding our existing refund policy to offer full refunds to anyone who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally from the Microsoft Store, until further notice.https://t.co/04TcniwVzyCyberpunk 2077: To ensure that every player can get the experience they expect on Xbox, we will be expanding our existing refund policy to offer full refunds to anyone who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally from the Microsoft Store, until further notice.https://t.co/04TcniwVzy— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport)December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
Xbox was already being generous with their refunds, and reportedly approved nearly all of the refund requests for Cyberpunk 2077, but now they are extending the typical refund time frame until further notice. Now, anyone who has purchased Cyberpunk 2077 should be able to request and be approved for a refund. However, Cyberpunk 2077 will remain for purchase in the Microsoft Store, and there areno talks currently to remove Cyberpunk 2077, according to CDPR.
While Cyberpunk 2077 can be an amazing game, there’s no getting around the numerous issues that it has, especially on older hardware. CDPR is reportedly working ontwo large patch updates for next yearto fix most of these issues, but that doesn’t help how the game launched today.
If you’re not sure how to go about doing this, check out our guide forhow to request a refund for Cyberpunk 2077 from Xbox. Even with Cyberpunk 2077’s struggles on older hardware, it still looks and plays great on PC and next-gen consoles like theXbox Series XandXbox Series S, and millions of players are still having a blast in Night City. Check out our list ofBest Cyberpunk 2077 Merchif you’re in the market for collectibles or gifts for friends.
The standard for next-gen.
Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest project from CD Projekt Red, the developers behind the Witcher 3. To follow up the game that defined a generation of gaming, Cyberpunk 2077 needed to be huge, ambitious, and captivating. Every indication says that CD Projekt Red is poised to repeat history with their sci-fi, open-world RPG adventure.
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