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[elektrokats]

Depending on severity, they very well can be.

Why are you so butthurt about this? Does Sony not have the right to sell or not sell whatever they please?

I don't trust Sony to utilize this power for good. Censorship and control are big topics these days. Many here seem to think this is a good thing but all you're doing is allowing Sony to have even more control and power than they had before over consumers.

Eventually something like this could lead to them pulling games for whatever reason they feel like. This is the whole Twitter argument all over again.

 

[Mercenary09]

And some folks were saying that The Last of Us 2 wouldn't be a GOTY if Cybrerpunk came out earlier.

Lol Cyberpunk was never going to come close to the quality of TLOU2. What dumb people

 

[xacto]

`This should have happened to a lot of games and not just Cybershit

Well, this is the voice of the players demanding what's owed to them for the money they paid. I just hope we can do this over and over again, until this lesson gets learned.

I also hope Sony will continue this trend, there were so many other games that deserved this kind of treatment.

 

[GoodFriend]

Sony has so many woke retarded people working for them

They didn't remove ark or no man sky from psn

hurrr durrr woke Sony removing broken game from store

 

[MrA]

funny that if cyberpunk was trash it wouldn't be removed, lichdom battlemage had equally terrible if not worse framerate, but the game was trash so no one cared,

 

[Iced Arcade]

Yeah this is good on Sony. Amazing they launched the game in this state

Your move Microsoft.

What move are you expecting?

 

[oldergamer]

That's one way to get an xbox exclusive.

However if they remove it how are people that want to keep playing going to get updates?

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Bugs are not an excuse to pull the game. You can fix bugs and it's not like they have refused to fix the game.

This is just overreacting.

If the product is broken, then it shouldn't be available for purchase

Simple as that

 

[Termite]

I feel like this is the final word on the uselessness of game reviews.

This game - so broken that it had to be removed from the stores and every copy refunded - got a 90 on metacritic on its day of release.

A nine out of ten. Which later dropped to 87. For a game so unprecedentedly broken it was removed from the store.

That's astonishing to me.

(I understand reviewers played the PC version, but that's part of the problem - putting said reviews up on the PS4 and Xbox One pages as if they're representative without actually, you know, reviewing them.)

 

[Ivory Samoan]

This is fucking mind blowingly big.

I'm kind of in shock...

One part of me thinks "well...that's what you get for releasing unfinished stuff", but then part of me thinks "fuck...please don't tank the company, I really want to play this in a finished state, and The Witcher 4 thanks".

 

[Warnen]

What a fuck up, I look forward to the fix relaunch next year on next gen consoles. CDPR deserves all shit they are getting for releasing the most alpha of a game as full priced release.

 

[IDappa]

Sony doesn't like to give refunds and this is the easiest way to stop more people jumping in and then demanding one.

I wonder how this would go if Sony bagged the marketing for this instead of MS.

 

[ArtHands]

so that means the game is XBox/PC exclusive now? Asking for a friend.

 

[Karunamon]

Eventually something like this could lead to them pulling games for whatever reason they feel like. This is the whole Twitter argument all over again.

What do you mean "allowing"? Their store, their rules. Don't like it? Don't buy from them. And it's not like they deleted anything anyone already bought dude, they just stopped selling new copies.

And Sony has already misused this power. They're the ones that have been requiring Japanese VNs to be censored before selling them.

The fact that they started doing unconditional refunds is extremely noteworthy. That implies that there is some serious backend fuckery happening, probably in relation to CDPR throwing them under the bus. I seriously have to question what kind of fucking fanboy you are when you shit on a company for not selling a thing and letting you refund it no matter how much time you spent on it. Like how tf do you spin that as a negative?

Like what do you even want? A company to be forced to sell something they don't want to sell that opens them up to liability?

 

[bxrz]

If the product is broken, then it shouldn't be available for purchase

Simple as that

Did you play Fallout76 at launch? Or Skyrim?

 

[M1chl]

`This should have happened to a lot of games and not just Cybershit

*Cyberjunk

 

[RoboFu]

But I thought it wasn’t bad on ps5?why take it totally off?

 

[Thomish]

I don't trust Sony to utilize this power for good. Censorship and control are big topics these days. Many here seem to think this is a good thing but all you're doing is allowing Sony to have even more control and power than they had before over consumers.

Eventually something like this could lead to them pulling games for whatever reason they feel like. This is the whole Twitter argument all over again.

As mentioned before - isn't it CDPR who opened up the rabbit hole for refunds to begin with? Sony had to respond?

 

[Keihart]

I hope Elders Scrolls/Fallout and whatever buggy over-hyped shit Ubisoft made were received with similar criticism, there needs to be some quality bottom in how the games run in consoles, if not, what is the whole fucking point in playing in one.

 

[ANDS]

My mod, this is exactly what a few youtubers have touched up on. Reviewers should be ashamed to give this pile of trash game such high scores.
No doubt there is good in the concept but taken as a whole, this game is nowhere near a 9/10.

A 9/10 game is Red Dead 2 and that game absolutely mops the floor with Cyberpunk in all areas.

They gave the PC version of the game appropriate reviews. When they got the console version, that was scores appropriately as well (or have you not seen the cratering of the games score on OPENCRITIC).

 

[nush]

Remember guys, Sony are not the heroes here.

They certified it for release, they wanted those bucks too.

 

[mansoor1980]

so wat r they gonna do now? the ps4 specs cant change , are they going to patch it further then release it?

 

[BluRayHiDef]

Wow, this is major and sets a precedent that will incentivize other game developers to release games without major bugs.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Did you play Fallout76 at launch? Or Skyrim?

No to the first yes to the second. Skyrim should have recieved the same treatment as this on the PS3.

It's cute you guys just deflect to some other game that had issues

 

[ComputerBlue]

Is this shit really that bad? I have the physical version and plan on starting to play it on PS5 in a week or two, should I just not bother?

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Remember when people made a lot of posts and a lot of threads about whether Sony or Microsoft were anti consumer?

 

[Danjin44]

I hope the money for putting a high profile celebrity was worth it.

 

[godhandiscen]

XBOX Exclusiveeeeeeee

It counts!
lol

 

[Topfuel]

Hopefully Sony will do this with all games like XIII.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Is this shit really that bad? I have the physical version and plan on starting to play it on PS5 in a week or two, should I just not bother?

If you can deal with frequent crashing and annoying bugs go for it

 

[elektrokats]

If the product is broken, then it shouldn't be available for purchase

Simple as that

You talk like "Broken" is a Black & White statement. Broken is a spectrum. How broken? Plus there have been tons of "broken" games. Ark Survival Evolved anyone?

What do you mean "allowing"? Their store, their rules. Don't like it? Don't buy from them. And it's not like they deleted anything anyone already bought dude, they just stopped selling new copies.

And Sony has already misused this power. They're the ones that have been requiring Japanese VNs to be censored before selling them.

The fact that they started doing unconditional refunds is extremely noteworthy. That implies that there is some serious backend fuckery happening, probably in relation to CDPR throwing them under the bus. I seriously have to question what kind of fucking fanboy you are when you shit on a company for not selling a thing and letting you refund it no matter how much time you spent on it.

You are literally referencing the Twitter argument. Twitter owns their platform and can do whatever they want with it, including censoring people and removing people for whatever reason. But Twitter is also a massive platform with so many people using it that the question becomes whether it's a human right to voice your opinion on Twitter or not. If Donald Trump can post a bunch of BS on Twitter all day but Alex Jones cannot, How is that fair?

These companies are so big and bloated now. They really shouldn't be deciding what I can and cannot buy. They can voice their opinions but outright restricting it feels like they are crossing into dangerous territory.

Nothing to do with me being a fanboy. I just don't want to live in some dystopian world where big companies like this control our lives and media.

 

[xacto]

No to the first yes to the second. Skyrim should have recieved the same treatment as this on the PS3.

It's cute you guys just deflect to some other game that had issues

Apparently no one likes to address the elephant in the room. Wait...

Enter Sony.

 

[MrFunSocks]

Shame others games like Fallout, Anthem, Crysis Remastered, Skyrim and AC: Unity don't got the same treatment before.

Anw, big win for consumers. This shit should not even get passed.

I really really hope Sony put a permanent refund system.

Not really a big win for those people with a PS4 Pro or PS5 though.

 

[Woggleman]

I have no plans to play it for Playstation so how do I get the refund?

 

[Mister Wolf]

They mad about that quality mode.

 

[Karunamon]

They really shouldn't be deciding what I can and cannot buy.

Knock your bad self out.

You also didn't answer my question.

Like what do you even want? A company to be forced to sell something they don't want to sell that opens them up to liability?

 

[nush]

so that means the game is XBox/PC exclusive now? Asking for a friend.

Microsoft will pull it when Sony have taken any potential shit for pulling it first and have read all the comments so they can make a better "we're pulling this game"press release.

 

[bxrz]

No to the first yes to the second. Skyrim should have recieved the same treatment as this on the PS3.

It's cute you guys just deflect to some other game that had issues

Deflect? Lol, ive seen games released in much worse states. That was the point

 

[Arthimura]

Not really a big win for those people with a PS4 Pro or PS5 though.

They can buy physical copies.

 

[Fake]

Not really a big win for those people with a PS4 Pro or PS5 though.

At least is a progress. Not a full win I agree, maybe half taking into consideration Sony have a bad reputation over refund.

 

[xacto]

Let's see how this will age...

 

[M1chl]

They knew

 

[Punished Miku]

so that means the game is XBox/PC exclusive now? Asking for a friend.

It's available at dozens of stores, just not the Playstation Store.

 

[Neo Blaster]

Sony has so many woke retarded people working for them

They didn't remove ark or no man sky from psn

Not nearly as broken as this case.

 

[MrFunSocks]

They can buy physical copies.

Yuck.

 

[Thomish]

By the way, surely disc versions are available still?

 

[SlimySnake]

Holy shit.

Fuck CD PR for even trying to do this. I used to joke about Cyberpunk getting downgraded but I never imagined anything like this.

Good on Sony. Golgo 13 now you can play this game on your pc in all its next gen glory. ;p

 

[OverHeat]

Wow...CDPR going pc and Xbox only...Dick move from Sony

 

[vpance]

Sony to CDPR: “Go home samurai, you’re drunk.”

 

[Guilty_AI]

No to the first yes to the second. Skyrim should have recieved the same treatment as this on the PS3.

It's cute you guys just deflect to some other game that had issues

How about we address the sorry state Sony launched HZD on PC?
Wish their strive "to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction" was worth a damn that time.