Cyberpunk 2077 is finally worth it

At least, it looks like serious steps have been taken for Cyberpunk 2077 and the reviews are finally getting a bit more positive.

It would be the game of 2020: Cyberpunk 2077. A game that has been in development for more than 10 years and the graphics alone would be worth a price. Since the game was announced in 2018, people couldn’t get more excited for its April 2020 release. What made it later the year due to COVID, we’ll forgive them for that. It finally became December 2020 and the release didn’t exactly go smoothly. What was that again?

Cyberpunk release

It was a choice the devil could have given you: are you going to announce one more postponement so that everyone you’ve trusted with money before will think “well never mind”, or whatever CD Projekt Red, the developer of Cyberpunk 2077, did. Just release on December 10, 2020 and hope it’s not too bad. It didn’t go well. First, there was a large group that couldn’t even play the game, because the old PS4 and Xbox One hardware struggled too much. If you could play the game, then it was full of bugs, missing features and the game just didn’t feel finished for many. That’s just how it was. Heavy criticism followed, there was even an attack on the servers and the PlayStation Store refused to release Cyberpunk 2077 at one point.

And now?

Meanwhile, it’s been almost a year since the release of Cyberpunk 2077 and CD Projekt Red has done their best to make the most of it. There have been several patches that should solve the biggest problems. According to players, that has succeeded in itself. Currently, for example, there is a Black Friday / year-end sale on Steam with which the game can be obtained for only 29.99 euros. That attracted new players and they see a much better game than a year ago. You can see that: the reviews are now at 76 percent generally positive and with recent reviews 84 percent say they are positive.

So if your copy of Cyberpunk 2077 is still gathering dust on your shelf or in your PC/Xbox/PlayStation game lineup, maybe the game is now what you hope it was a year ago. For CD Projekt Red, the damage is quite large: according to Nu.nl the company saw a 30 percent drop in net profit. For a noble reason: the developers have worked hard to make the game function better, without incurring extra costs for users. It has worked, so maybe the extra publicity will help the company bounce back.