Cyberpunk 2077 Sells 13 Million Copies At Launch

Please tell me why, after being caught in several lies, anyone should believe this claim that 13 million copies of the game have been sold despite the number of refunds? Because I can't believe a damn thing CDPR has to say about anything anymore and yet this keeps floating to the surface.

The company was worth about 8.5b before the disastrous launch. Since then, it's lost about 50% of its market share, or just over a billion in value. They paid out a ton of refunds for the game. Sony, Microsoft and other retailers also paid out plenty of refunds. Even taking this number at face value, that would be some $780m from pre-orders of the game and units sold just after launch.

The suspicious part is that it supposedly factors in those refunds, which were substantial. Let's say a fifth of all sales, for argument's sake. That would be about 2.6m units or $156m. CDPR loves playing with numbers and making big bold statements that simply aren't true when held up to the light. I can believe the 13m units sold thanks to the years of hype. I do not believe for one second that it factors in the refunds because it doesn't make any sense.

Two class action lawsuits now, with 13 different law firms involved. And government investigation by Poland's consumer watchdog group and a new roadmap that is even less informative than that apology video released a few days ago by CDPR.

They've lied so many times in the past and will continue to do so. Why the hell keep rehashing this story when none of it can be verified independently?

I love the game but it has crashed a few times and had to restart the game. Very frustrating.

Stock price has already recovered 10% of its value. You're welcome. Normally I charge for this kind of thing.

@barbaravbb74: Can we flag these without banning ourselves, yet?

Did you knew that CDPR is literally telling you not to play their game for too much because it will brick your saves? Like imagine a dev of an open world game ("the biggest and most immersive open world" at that. their own words) telling you not to play for long or craft many items. Imagine that.

https://youtu.be/ohARQ9kUCa4?t=392

If I decide to pick this game up, it'll be in several years for 10 bucks on sale alongside my 4080 (whenever that comes out). There's so many devs/games to support instead that release finished/polished games at launch. I get that it wasn't the devs decision, but I can't support this "release now, fix later" mentality that has plagued this industry for so long.

I want a manual recount.

It's the arrogance of this studio that is the problem. They're actually very nasty.

I bought on ps4, the uproar is overblown..Andromeda, Anthem had worse bugs and launch issues and if you go back far enough Fallout New Vegas and even Skyrim Ps3 version were even worse. I am 53 hours in and am having fun. The real story should be all the features that were removed

I decided not to seek a refund. I still want to play it, I'll just wait for 3-4 months, and then pick it back up.

Well, hopefully that shuts all those folks up who have been freaking out over every piece of news affecting CDPR. "Their stock price dropped. They're gonna go bankrupt." "Their investors want to sure them. They're gonna go bankrupt."

No matter how many returns there were, the game has already sold a huge amount of copies due to all the hype. And it's probably still selling well even now. And sales will only pick up further as the game gets patched up, until eventually everyone will forget about this fiasco and people will only praise Cyberpunk for the game it has become. And that it should have been at launch. If only CDPR was smart enough to give it enough time.

New and better stuff will come along, long before they fix this "pile".

LOL....and 4 million were returned.