CD Projekt RED delayed a crucial Cyberpunk 2077 patch yesterday, explaining that it’ll no longer release in February, and is targeting a mid-March release window instead. The Polish developer had previously pledged that the pivotal update would massively improve the sci-fi RPG, after its initial release was so disastrous Sony removed it from the PlayStation Store. It’s been missing from the platform holder’s storefront for over two months now.
As it turns out, some developers working on the game from home have been unable to make progress recently, as they’ve been locked out of their workstations following a cyber-attack. Bloomberg reports that some staffers have been unable to login to the company’s virtual private network for weeks, meaning that they don’t have access to the tools they need to do their job. Others had to send their computers to CD Projekt RED’s IT team in order to check for malware.
Worse still, it sounds like the hack may have exposed personal information, including passport details. All in all, it’s not been the best three or so months for the studio – let’s hope that the fallout from the cyber-attack is resolved soon, and the developer can get the game back on track.
[source bloomberg.com, via eurogamer.net]
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This is a shame. Mean spirited and socially useless, these hacks.
I feel sorry for the people who worked on this game. Not CDPR as a whole but the actual programmers. They knew the game wasnt ready for prime time and yet the big wigs wanted it out the door and shock and horror it didnt go to plan. Now they are trying to make the game better and stuff like this happens. These people have endured crunch for so long and are probably experiencing it again to fix this or will due to this cyber attack aswel as stressing over if their personal details are now in the wild.
This is FINE! those patches for our broken game will come VERY SOON!- cd project red
At this point I’d be resigning. While conditions are dreadful in a whole lot of studios, these devs are working for almost zero recognition, being thrown under the bus and now are actively being held back from completing the work that management sabotaged. Not to mention that they’re bearing the brunt of cyber attacks.
Excuses. (Sorry, but it's just so hard to see it in any other way.)
How about we just forget this game and move on?
I guess it sounds fair enough if they potentially have compromised systems, last thing they need is more data going missing.
Meanwhile the devs in question probably get a nice paid holiday!
At this rate Cyberpunk will be more update than game.
No amount of refunds, apologies, fixes, hard work, honesty, or critical and unbiased reporting will assuage the internet sharks who smell blood in the water.
@mrmartinrohr An excuse is a reason you create for yourself so that you don’t do something.
Seems like something like this is outside their control, it can’t possibly fall under the “excuse” category. They didn’t choose this.
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Its amazing how the hype for this game completely disappeared within 2 weeks of release.
They should work from a landfill, inside a fridge full of ice cold water.
The CEOs Company directors the top men whoever is in charge at the top needs to give us a bit more credit we are not all Daft.........1st it was the supposed ransom note hack now it's this....do the top men really think we are that stupid..........The Game was rushed out SONY Aint stwpid......and CDProjekt are having a difficult time sorting it out.
@ApostateMage lol how would they breath. Idiot.
There isn't an emoji that conveys the eye roll i want to give unfortunately, I think maybe some of the staff I work with have gone working for cdpr during furlough, with the amount of crap they've been coming out with lately.
Man at this point I feels sorry for cdpr, not for their top executive but their normal employee.
@LochNass fenyx was great loved that game,also loving valhalla massive game with loads of content ,wish they would get rid of those paid armour mechanics though, surely 60 quid for a game sold in its millions is enough cash.
More excuses. Why can't they come and and say, we over priced we delivered a crap product, you won't be getting any better, we are a bunch of liars who don't deserve any more support from gamers.
Rather than ***** everyone.
@wiiware Wouldn't be surprised if some of em are depressed at this point.
@LochNass Ill never support these criminal acts. They do it everywhere even with hospitals now so if they find this scum Lock them up and throw away the keys. And its the workers who get the short end of the stick always.
Makes sense. Make it harder for them to fix the game that in it's "broken" state caused the attack in the first place.
Pretty ***** to see the devs impacted by the hack. If anyone thinks the hackers did this as revenge they have the same motivation CDPR's leadership has, and that's money, the one true thing they care about. As usual the devs and consumers are mere externalities on the business types and hackers' quest for riches.
geez im an it tech ,hirens boot disc , malware bytes install takes care of any locked out malware type thing even taking the hdd out to scan with another pc, i always have an off line xp machine when repairing harddrives or scanning drives ,but hey bad thing that happened i prefer to fix and make stuff better ,these people distroy and ruin ,whats it all for.
In IT the preferred approach is a fresh install. Anti-virus does not always find all malware.
@Vincent294 true but safe mode you can clear out the malware with anti malware bytes. worked in my experience Yorkshire police lock out screen being one lol
Always a bad actor ruining things for those who may actually enjoy the the game.
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