There have been many games labeled blockbusters and AAA blockbusters that failed miserably right after launch, and thereby gradually were forgotten in the memory of gamers. It is not difficult to name such names, especially in 2023 with typical examples such as Redfall, Forspoken or Lord of the Ring: Gollumn. Failure, trying to save but not succeeding and then closing the project – this has been a familiar cycle of many blockbusters in the past.
However, there are still exceptions and the most prominent is the case of Cyberpunk 2077. After a disastrous launch in 2020, developer CD Projekt has made incredible progress with this blockbuster. Remember, at the time of its release, Cyberpunk 2077 was so bad that the PlayStation Store even had to stop selling the game and refund gamers. Technical errors appear constantly and the player’s experience can only be described in two words: terrible. At that time, no one thought Cyberpunk 2077 could continue to exist until next year, except developer CD Projekt.
With both effort and money, CD Projekt has now turned Cyberpunk 2077 into one of the most worth playing games at the moment. As revealed by CD Projekt’s chief financial officer, these efforts are simply a lot of money. Specifically, after a completely failed launch, 40 million USD was spent to improve Cyberpunk 2077 with updates, bug fixes and now an additional 85 million USD for a large expansion version called Phantom. Liberty. That’s not even counting the production of the hit animated film Cyberpunk: Edgerunners – a very successful project that has strongly contributed to boosting the number of Cyberpunk 2077 players last year. Roughly calculating the two numbers mentioned above, the investment that CD Projekt poured into this blockbuster after its launch also reached 125 million USD (about more than 3,000 billion VND) – a huge number.
That shows how big CD Projekt’s determination is to salvage the Cyberpunk 2077 project. And the final sweet fruit has arrived. At the present time, a live action Cyberpunk project is being worked on and even a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is something that has been suggested many times by this developer.
