Cyberpunk 2077 Faces Plague Of Bugs, Fraud, Crunch, Refunds and Lawsuits

Cyberpunk, one of sci-fi’s most rebellious subgenres, is all about holding power to account. Although people focus on the glitz of advanced cybernetics, scientific advancements, and overall attitude of cool, it’s the satirical underbelly of megacorporations and superstates versus low-life space cowboys where the genre holds its love. These fictional worlds are no utopia, of course, but their daring rebels dream of one established on truth, liberty and actually living in the moment. To quote cyberpunk author O. Lemniscate: “Truth is never in the middle. Truth is where it is! In Freedom!”

It’s with these foundational values in mind that we turn to the ironically titled Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most highly anticipated video game products of the last decade, which was launched to the public under false pretenses by its publisher CD Projekt Red. In what can only be called a sick perversion of these cyberpunk themes, the game studio is mired in corporate-led controversies involving lying to customers, distributors, and investors, manipulating reviewers through deceptive practices, and abusing their developers through predatory overtime. The whole thing has culminated in a broken video game, where the central message condemns the very same greed-over-gut mentality their highest overlords adopted; if there is a sick satire to…