The Cyberpunk 2077 fiasco, is it ever going to end?

Another week goes by and Cyberpunk 2077 and its developer CD Projekt RED are back in the headlines. Just like it happened before it's not good news for the Poland based company.

By this point, there is no shock that Cyberpunk 2077 was promoted as one of the best games to ever grace the PCs and consoles, but it bombed hard when it came out. To summarize what went on, a series of bad decisions form executives pushed the game for its release when it was far from ready. The game was riddled with bugs since day one, making the experience a terrible one, with players encountering game breaking bugs many times per hour.

What was even worse than that for fans of the company and its previous games, was the terrible management of the situation after the launch, but most importantly the deception campaign that they ran prior to the game release in order to save appearances, thing that only made the dig an even deeper hole.

The problems for CD Projekt RED do not stop there, because this past week the company was the victim of an ransomware attack. Everything began to come to light when a message was posted on the official twitter account, informing the public about this attack and showing the message the attackers sent, where they mentioned that they would release the source code for games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, if their demand are not met.

The message from the attacker mentioned some other things too. The most notable being the fact the they would release private company documents from the different departments within company structure that will have a huge negative impact and will damage the public image of the developer even more.

CD Projekt RED took legal actions regarding the problems and have made statements that will not cooperate with whoever is responsible, even if they know that having the source codes of games released to the public will be in fact a huge blow. Things have gone well for some time, the company making sure that personal information of employees, current and former, and also players will not be at risk.

Unfortunately, things do not stop here. Even if CDPR managed to take care of on side of the problem, it seems that the hackers actually released the source code of one of their games, that being Gwent, as for the bigger titles, like Cyberpunk or Witcher, their source codes seem to be auctioned online on a few hacker sites, starting at $1 million.