CD Projekt RED, developer of Cyberpunk 2077, has revealed that a second lawsuit has been filed against the company over the launch of the game.
The Polish developer shared the news through a regulatory announcement issued on January 15, confirming that a second class action lawsuit had been filed against the U.S. District Court in the central district of California.
CD Project RED says the new claim is similar in subject matter and scope to the first lawsuit filed by the Rosen government firm in Manhattan late last year. The case, filed on behalf of CDPR investors, highlighted how the game ‘was virtually unplayable on current generation Xbox or PlayStation systems due to a huge number of bugs’.
CDPR also noted that the new lawsuit ‘does not specify the amount of damages’ and that the studio will ‘actually take action to defend itself against such claims’.
The second lawsuit comes just a week after CDPR co-founder Marcin Iwiński apologized to the players Cyberpunk 2077‘s problematic launch in December. He also noted that the board of directors made the decision to release the game and had nothing to do with the development team.
Shortly after the apology was released, Bloomberg published a report suggesting that the game’s development team knew the game was not ready for wide release, claiming that the demo shown at E3 in 2018 was “almost completely fake”.
The report provided a response from studio director Adam Badowski, who explained that the difference between the demo and the final game is a natural part of the development process. “That’s what the watermark is ‘working on,'” Badowski said.
CDPR is currently being investigated by the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) over the launch of the game, how CDPR plans to fix the game and how refunds are handled.