CD Projekt, the Polish studio behind one of the anticipated and derided video games of 2020, can have lots of explaining to do when it updates traders on its technique on Tuesday. Cyberpunk 2077, a futuristic role-playing sport that includes Keanu Reeves, launched in December to scathing evaluations amid stories of bugs. Analysts say it should current a reputable plan to repair these issues and to begin regaining the belief of avid gamers and traders.
“(We count on) a wise autopsy of what went flawed within the CY77 improvement course of and the way the studio would forestall this from taking place once more with different video games,” Jefferies analyst Lyra Li stated.
The firm, which has misplaced 50 % of its market worth since December, was unlikely to flag any new video games in improvement and would as a substitute concentrate on repairing the injury attributable to Cyberpunk 2077’s botched launch, analysts stated.
“The firm wants to show that it will probably be taught from its errors and is ready to flip a short-term disaster into long-term success,” stated Piotr Cieslak, managing director at Poland’s Retail Investors Association.
CD Projekt’s shares jumped 9 % on Monday amid hypothesis about plans free of charge and paid downloadable content material (DLC) for Cyberpunk on the social media platform Reddit.
CD Projekt stated it could not touch upon market hypothesis.
Maciej Kietlinski, analyst at Noble Securities, stated if the discharge of three paid DLCs is true, it could imply that the corporate has an concept for the restore and improvement of the Cyberpunk universe.
“It would take a pair huge DLCs to fire up curiosity in Cyberpunk 2077. Add substantial content material, add storylines, add playability and re-playability. Fix the remaining glitches,” stated Claudio Lenato, a 26-year-old gamer from Italy.
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