Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Will Receive Their Bonuses Regardless of Review Scores

According to a new study from the Bloomberg, executives at CD Projekt took responsibility for the buggy release of Cyberpunk 2077 and told staff that they will receive their full bonuses no matter how the game is reviewed. Previously, the developers were told they would receive extra pay based on the game'southward aggregated disquisitional performance represented by Metacritic.

Adam Badowski, studio head and creative manager, wrote the following in an e-mail obtained by Bloomerg to the staff: "Nosotros initially had a bonus system that was focused on the game's ratings and the release date, merely after consideration, nosotros believe that measure is only non off-white under the circumstances. We underestimated the lengths and complexity involved to make this a reality, and still you did everything you could to deliver an ambitious, special game."

While the title currently sits at a 90 out of 100 on Metacritic (which still disappointed shareholders), if it dips below that threshold the game would most probable not run across the original criteria for the bonus pay.

Alongside the bugs that plagued its launch, Liana Ruppert from GameInformer suffered a major seizure while playing the game. This was due to light patterns similar to those used by neurologists to help induce seizures in patients. It was also later noted that the game didn't have a articulate epilepsy alert at the start of gameplay, something which has at present been remedied.

This same RPG has seen its share of other controversies with reports of transphobia, and crunch culture, as well as the studio also refusing to share data about the game's accessibility. Read up on why we remember CD Projekt Red should have confirmed Cyberpunk 2077's accessibility options sooner.

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Nov 19th was the original date that Cyberpunk 2077 should accept been releasing. Just unfortunately, afterward going gold, the massively anticipated RPG was pushed back a couple of weeks to December tenth due to developers CD Projekt Reddish having to finalize as many as nine unlike versions of the game, specifically fixing optimization issues on electric current-gen versions.

CD Projekt Ruby put out a study that states that the studio has already seen a return on its investment on its first twenty-four hour period. The report states that the royalties receivable by the visitor in clan with pre-gild sales across all distribution channels accept exceeded both the full development costs related to the game as well equally the marketing and promotional costs that have already incurred or predictable for the rest of 2022.

Cyberpunk 2077 is currently bachelor for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. The game is besides playable on the Xbox Serial X|Due south and PS5 thanks to backward compatibility.

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