{"id":122280,"date":"2020-12-18T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/375407"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:43:00","slug":"cd-projekt-hasnt-discussed-removing-cyberpunk-from-xbox-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/18\/cd-projekt-hasnt-discussed-removing-cyberpunk-from-xbox-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt hasn’t discussed removing Cyberpunk from Xbox platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

CD Projekt chief executive Adam Kicinski has suggested Cyberpunk 2077 <\/em>won’t be pulled from the Microsoft Store. <\/p>\n

The long-awaited RPG launched on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in pretty rough shape, with a huge number of players encountering bugs and crashes on last-gen consoles. <\/p>\n

As a result, Sony chose to remove it from the PlayStation Store last night<\/a>, while also making good on CD Projekt’s promise to refund players who aren’t satisfied with the state of the game. <\/p>\n

The decision has left many wondering whether Cyberpunk <\/em>would meet a similar fate on Xbox platforms, but in a statement handed to Reuters, Kicinski said the company isn’t in “such discussions with Microsoft at the moment” — suggesting the title has been granted at least temporary amnesty on Xbox platforms. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, CD Projekt management took responsibility for Cyberpunk’s <\/em>rocky launch <\/a>— which finally arrived after multiple delays and instances of mandatory crunch<\/a> — by admitting they “underestimated the scale and complexity of the issues” affecting the console versions of the game. <\/p>\n

“We ignored the signals about the need for additional time to refine the game on the base last-gen consoles,” said Kicinski during a conference call. “It was the wrong approach and against our business philosophy. On top of that, during the campaign, we showed the game mostly on PCs.<\/p>\n

“This caused the loss of gamers’ trust and the reputation that we\u2019ve been building through a big part of our lives. That\u2019s why our first steps are solely focused on regaining those two things. We are concentrated on fixing Cyberpunk<\/em> on last-gen consoles.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CD Projekt chief executive Adam Kicinski has suggested Cyberpunk 2077 won’t be pulled from the Microsoft Store.  The long-awaited RPG launched on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in pretty rough shape, with a huge number of players encountering bugs and crashes on last-gen consoles.  As a result, Sony chose to remove it from the PlayStation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}