Cyberpunk 2077 developers ask for basic human decency after death threats over game delay - The Verge

The creators of Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most anticipated video games of the last few years, are having a rough go of it in the lead-up to launch, complicated by yet another delay announced yesterday to help the CD Projekt Red developers finish polishing the game before it launches across nine platforms on December 10th.

Now, senior game designer Andrzej Zawadzki has taken to Twitter in the aftermath of the delay announcement to plead with fans to exercise some basic human decency by not continuing to send the Polish studio death threats.

However, sending death threats to the developers is absolutely unacceptable and just wrong.

We are people, just like you,” Zawadzki wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening.

However, sending death threats to the developers is absolutely unacceptable and just wrong.

There are also legitimate grievances around communication of the delay, with the studio as recently as yesterday telling fans on Twitter that the game would release on schedule.

Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported yesterday that the most recent delay, which means CD Projekt Red developers will likely be working another three weeks of grueling hours to finish the game’s “day 0” launch patch, was announced to the staff at the same time as it went out on Twitter.

In a separate tweet, Zawadzki detailed one of the “mildest” threats members of the studio have received since announcing the delay in which someone threatened to burn them alive for not shipping the game on schedule.