As part of a new interview with Axios, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has commented on the delisting of Cyberpunk 2077 from the PS Store last December. Six months after the RPG's hotly-anticipated release, the game is yet to return to Sony's digital supermarket, and that's because the company didn't want to sell something with the knowledge it may be broken. Ryan explained: "This was a tough decision for us to make, but ultimately, we had to act in the interests of the PlayStation Community, and not knowingly sell a game that might result in a bad experience for them."
The outlet then clarifies that the PlayStation suit didn't offer any details as to what CD Projekt RED needs to achieve or do in order to get Cyberpunk 2077 back on the PS Store. As recently as 25th May 2021, the Polish developer said it was in talks with Sony over the game's return to the storefront. CEO Adam Kiciński said: "We are still in discussions and with every patch the game gets better and there is a visible progress, but as we said the decision is an exclusive decision of Sony, so we are waiting for the information about the fact that they took the decision to bring back this game."
The last patch for Cyberpunk 2077 arrived almost two months ago at the time of writing, so it's certainly been a while since the RPG was last updated and improved. During that time, it was reported the game sold 13.7 million copies, of which 28 per cent were for the PS4 version. And then there was the recent pre-release montage put together by developers that showcased just some of the glitches experienced.
[source axios.com]
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You know what Sony. Props to you.
I've been saying for years Sony needs to enact more quality control in their store. Glad to see they are finally agreeing to that. Let's see whats coming to the store next week......oh.....Pretty Girls Klondike Solitare.....nevermind then. Thats a load of bull.
Good. There should be more of this. Obviously most games wouldn’t be in the absolutely shocking state this turkey was in on launch and I’d expect most delistings would be short term but still, it needs to happen. Games should be finished when released, they always used to be and it should return to that and offenders sanctioned. For the good of the customers
@Jayslow I was just gonna say. Lmao
Beat me to it.
Only high quality works of art like Life of Black Tiger pass Jim's sky high standards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C155flrtKYc
Life of Black Tiger.
I imagine Jim Ryan stinks of scotch and cigars and speaks with a slurred geordie accent. If i'm wrong, i'm wrong, but either way, he's still not welcome in his own country until he sorts those prices out.
I'm glad to see that everyone in this comment section recognizes the elephant in the room. lol
Yup sure says the company that is still open to selling you the renowned fan favorite Life of Black Tiger.
Cmon Jim🤣
"This was a tough decision for us to make, but ultimately, we had to act in the interests of the PlayStation Community, and not knowingly sell a game that might result in a bad experience for them."
Are you sure about that Jim? I am more inclined to believe that it is more the fact it was high profile, and that CD Projekt Red asked customers to look to yourselves for refunds from PSN without consultation.
Wow never seen Life of Black Tiger. Hopefully we get it on PS Plus soon.
Meanwhile on Switch eShop
"YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE SHOVELWARE"
They obviously got pi**ed off at the d*cks at CDPR, after they sold a broken game then asked people to go to Sony for refunds without consultation.
I played the first few missions on Cyberpunk and it was decent. There is definitely a good game in there. It’s just simply not finished. I’m glad I have a copy though and I look forward to giving it a proper run once a true PS5 release is ready
Given the likes of assassins creed and life of black tiger I don’t believe them. It is 100% to do with cdpr wanting to allow refunds
@Matroska Life of Black Tiger isn't a high profile release tho. Only internet memers know about that game.
Let’s be real. Sony only removed this game as Cyberpunk’s people tried to pass the buck and told their customers to go to Sony for refunds. Knowing full well Sony don’t usually offer refunds
This is the same person what is happy to have Life of Black Tiger on there along with Gilson B Pontes games.
Come on the only reason they removed it and done refunds was because CDPR put them in a very difficult spot where refusing refunds was very bad PR. If CDPR had never said what they said about refunds i doubt Sony would have gave a damn.
Jim Ryan on Cyberpunk 2077:' Sony Didn't Want to 'Sell a Game That Might Result in people asking for refunds
Fixed it
Obviously he isn't going to say it's because CDPR passed the buck to them
Can Jim pull all the other games that "might result in a bad experience" if we compile a list to send him?
Controversial take, but they shouldn't have licensed the game for sale on the playstation store in the first place if their concern was the Playstation community.
All games should have to go through some form of certification process before being allowed to release on the store.
I suspect the bigger issue was Sony didnt want gamers to start demanding a proper refund policy for ALL digital games once they saw it could be done with Cyberpunk
@Jayslow Alas, what might be perceived as poorly designed crap does not amount to broken crap.
Guys, by Playstation Community he's referring to Sony itself. Cyberpunk was a bad experience for Sony because players complained.
If Sony cared about player experience they would ban devs like Breakthrough Gaming, the voices, and Random Spin. Thing is, players of those games don't complain about their bad experience to Sony so the "Playstation Community" he cares about isn't having a bad experience.
C´mon Jimmy you just didn´t wanna deal with the refund fever that was going on specially with your refund policy or maybe you were just thinking of the children´s.
I wonder if Jim Ryan bought a faulty tesla he'd expect a refund?
***** right!!!! And thanks for the refund sony
@Rob_230
100% agree with you.
The refund policy on PSN is next to non-existent and needs improving drastically.
In terms of this game and others, I feel too many use a day one patch as the holy grail to fix a rough game and platform holders are obviously fine with that.
Just cancel the game on ps4 and focus on the ps5 version. And yes, psn should have refund, like steam.
Yeah, right. Tell that to Ubisoft buyers...
@HotGoomba Then explain Life of Black Tiger?
"Act in the interests of the Playstation community"
That's a first and it's still laughable
Terrible reason. What about all the other broken games they’ve allowed on to the store?
They just didn’t want to issue refunds.
Sony needs to enact a seal of quality that guarantees a minimum standard for new releases. Too many broken and unfinished games being released to line the pockets of shareholders.
@Entrr_username I literally never said that Sony does a good job at clearing out garbage in general. I'm just impressed that they didn't do so with Cyberpunk 2077.
I meant looking back I was too enthusiastic at first, but yeah.
I call b:$@/ on that. Sony just didn’t want to deal with refunds.
Cyberpunk is far from the worst game on sale on their store, but it’s the only one were the publisher asked consumers to request refunds.
For everyone saying Life of Black Tiger... people new LoBT was crap before hand and has always been very cheap to buy, whereas 2077 was over-hyped and people were deceived about the lack of quality of the game and was full priced.
I just hope lessons have been learned by ALL developers, as well as Sony.
He likes telling porkies doesn't he 😅
@Loftimus Wind your neck in. WTF does commenting personal remarks have to do with video games?
I might believe Jim Ryan if they didn't also have buggy messes like Fallout 76,Ark Survival,PUBG & indeed ticked off on Cyberpunk with the promise of the day 1 patch....it had everything to do with the lack of any Steam style automated refund system. Did hear some Aussies were initially denied refunds for Cyberpunk despite the EU PSN store being fined for breach of consumer laws here like Steam/Valve were.😕
Jim, I don't think some people believe you.
🤔
Whatever the reasons it really does seem as if Cyberpunk (the digital version anyway) is dead on PS. That's pretty astonishing really, one of the most-hyped and anticipated games of all time and it turned into a nightmare experience for many console gamers.
I still have hope that one day I'll play it on PS5 and really enjoy doing so but right now I'm more interested in hearing more about The Witcher 3 upgrade.
Jim I talk sh*t Ryan. He left the Show up for weeks and that was unplayable, still not great now. Oh but wait that's a 1st party game, Sony don't want to loose that money do they!!! Luckily I left Cyberpunk on my PS5 and still play now, looking forward to seeing what comes next for the game.
@Profondo good point Jim Ryan Doesnt have a neck either....
Everyone going on about Black Tiger, it’s hardly the same is it. That’s unknown, whereas Cyberpunk is one of the biggest releases of the year and expecting to be sold to millions of players so you’d be mad from a business point of view to treat them the same.
@Profondo i'm pretty sure wind your neck in is for nosey people stretching their neck to get a good look in....
@Loftimus Bravo pour le clown. Get over yourself, you ain't smart, funny or clever, just an inconsequential, immature little man desperate for attention. Now off you pop petal and give your head a wobble.
@Jayslow I think it needs to be a standard is all stores how great would it be if a game ran out of the box without mayor issues i dont see any losers besides the big wigs.
To everybody that said why the life of black tiger still there: That's because the devs didn't lie to customer, it's a bad game but the devs didn't put fake trailer and pretend it's a good game. If customer bought the game, it's their own fault.
Just looks at the night city wire episode, that's a fake trailer and information for the game. I think because sony get burned with no man sky, this time they just didn't want the headache lol.
@Col_McCafferty Still i believe this will send the message nobody is save.
@Profondo lmao best ya got?
@Matroska love this game. A truly great experience!
How about offering refunds as a way to protect the PS community? Lol!
@Cadeni I think you mean the “tiger in the room”. ;D
I think Jim ryan comes off as a pretentious douche & maybe thats just me thinking that . playstation pre-ryan were some good days .
this guy also takes things too seriously . Stop kiddy-fying playstation when its adults putting money in your pockets.
PS - the truth is they took cyberpunk off the store because they didn't want to deal with so much traffic-calls and support with refunds and cancelling pre-orders . Who do they think they're kidding ?
#FireRyan
I never heard they pulled out Fallout 76 from the store
@Jayslow at least that game will work as intended
@Jayslow 🤣🤣🤣
Another round of "Jim Ryan tries to spin something into positive PR and instead fails and looks more smarmy than if he hadn't tried" I see.
[Insert angry comment about Jim Ryan]
LIE FILLED PR BOLLOCKS!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Why not implement a refund policy aswell as sanctions for developers who put out broken games. Maybe if you hadn't allow devs to put completely broken games on your platform for eg outriders ac valhalla fo76 marvels avengers all rife with bugs at launch yeah you removed cp2077 however in the state it was in at launch if JR truly believed his own verbal diarrhea all of these games would also of been taken down 🤣🤣🤣
Sony took it off the store because they didn't want to lose money because a few whingy betches had issues, the game is and has always been great, too many entitled ***** think they deserved a perfect game, no game in history has been perfect in launch, I'm and sick to death of hearing all these whiny betches thinking they are entitled to anything, go back to your cage you pathetic excused for humans.
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