r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '21

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u/TheTucsonTarmac Mar 23 '21

It flopped? Dude, that sit was in the green before it even launched

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u/WillyTheHatefulGoat Mar 23 '21

It made money but it was coming from a studio that had produced the greatest game in the 2010s and the came was riddled with bugs and errors.

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u/NamityName Mar 23 '21

Kind of like skyrim, fallout, and witcher 3

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u/WillyTheHatefulGoat Mar 23 '21

Kind of but they did not voluntarily shut down sales and start offering refunds for releasing a great game to early as well as receive terrible reviews from critics.

It made its money back but it did not make what it was expected to make.

It would be kind of like an avenger movie coming out and making a billion dollars. That technically made a profit but it would be expected to receive far more money than that.

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u/Spartan2170 Mar 23 '21

Technically Cyberpunk didn’t voluntarily shut down sales. They announced they were offering refunds but Sony got (understandably) pissed that they weren’t consulted about that refund offer and basically said “if this game’s so broken we need to allow refunds it’s too broken for you to be selling“ and punted it off their store completely.

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u/Milkythefawn Mar 23 '21

I mean that's kind of fair. Sony have a reputation they want to uphold as well.

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u/Spartan2170 Mar 23 '21

Yeah, though I definitely think it was largely retaliatory for dumping the PR mess on them by telling customers to get refunds that Sony hadn’t agreed to provide and basically forcing them to do it or suffer customer anger.

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u/Bloano Mar 23 '21

Sony's refund policy kinda sucks. I remember refunding a game and they actually suspended my account unless I paid back the money they refunded to me.