Sony announced this Friday that it is withdrawing the video game Ciberpunk 2077 from their online platform PlayStation Store around the world, to preserve the “customer satisfaction“, in the midst of the flood of criticism for the amount of anomalies.
“SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) strives to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction and therefore we will start offering refunds“To the players, writes the video game division of Sony on its American and Australian websites, among others.
The game, made by the Pole CD Project RED and launched worldwide on December 10, it will be too removed from the store on line “until further notice“, added the statement.
Ciberpunk 2077, a dystopian video game long awaited, takes very far the limits of the technically possible today, according to the specialized media. Has been “universally acclaimed“by critics, according to the website metacritic.com.
But everyone blames him technical failures and some even suggest to consumers that postpone several months the purchase of the game, waiting for errors to be corrected.
He game launch was delayed twice this year, and developers were forced to add warnings when one of the critics stopped suffering one epileptic seizure.
The study CD Project RED apologized on Monday and promised “resolve anomalies“through corrections announced for February and February”improve the experience“of game and proposed to reimburse players who do not want to wait.
Its president, Adam Kicinski, previously reported more than eight million pre-orders for the game, which he described as “phenomenal result“that works” very well in the most configurations“.
Follow the estimates of the Polish bank BOS, the budget of Ciberpunk 2077, based on a role play imagined by the American Mike Pondsmith, is estimated at 1.2 billion zlotys (270 million euros, 331 million of dollars), which will become a Ciberpunk 2077 in one of the most expensive video games in history.
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