Cyberpunk 2077’s first major update coming in the next 10 days

After the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Project Red says it will release the first update within the next 10 days with “a larger and more significant update in the weeks following.” In a video released today, co-founder Marcin Iwinski issued a mea culpa to the players, adding that he and the board members are “the final decision makers” for the game’s flawed release. “Please, do not blame any of our team for what happened,” Iwinski said.

Cyberpunk 2077 launched December 10, 2020 with immediate problems. While the game̵

7;s PC release was mostly praised by critics, console players – especially those who played on the older generations – ran into widespread errors, frame rate issues and more. One week after the release of the game, Sony pulled Cyberpunk from PlayStation Store and started offering refunds. An investor is suing CD Projekt Red for the catastrophic launch. Today you can buy the PC version of the game for almost half.

In the five-minute video released today, Iwinksi said that “despite good reviews on PC, the console version of Cyberpunk 2077 did not meet the quality standard we wanted it to meet. I and the entire management team are deeply saddened by this. “Iwinksi went on to point out the massive scope of the game and the developer’s serious underestimation of how much work it would take to match vision to reality as well as the difficulty of working from home because of Covid. “We really thought we would deliver in the last few days,” he said.

On its website, CD Project Red outlined concerns in a FAQ. In response to the quality gap between the PC version of the game and older generation consoles, the developer said it made the work “more difficult for ourselves by first wanting to make the game look epic on PCs and then adapting it to consoles “Especially old geniuses. That was our basic assumption. And things did not seem super difficult at first, while we knew the hardware gap, in the end time has proven that we have underestimated the task.”

Going forward, CD Project Red says it is “committed to fixing bugs and crashes and will continue to work and improve the game through future updates to ensure you enjoy the game regardless of platform.” This work will apparently also affect the game’s free DLC, which is also scheduled for release this year. “We have decided that our priority is to work on the most important corrections and updates. We will release free DLC afterwards – we have more to say about it in the coming months. The developer added that it intends to do so without “mandatory” overtime, despite the months of crunch that led to the release of the game. “Avoiding crunch on all of our future projects is one of our top priorities.”

As for the game’s return to digital storefront, the developer says it “is working on fixes and updates and is working with Sony to bring Cyberpunk 2077 back to PlayStation Store as soon as possible. ”