In 2020 CD Projekt Red partnered with Microsoft to offer $400 limited edition Xbox One X console.
The console included a month of GamePass Ultimate, a copy of Cyberpunk 2077 and access to the first expansion released for the game.
Fast forward to 2023 and The Phantom Liberty DLC has indeed been released. However the DLC was only released on Xbox Series S & X and not on the Xbox One.
So people that bought the limited edition console are rightly pissed that they have seemingly been screwed out of the DLC.
Both Microsoft and CD Projekt Red seem to directing customers who come seeking answers to the other company with neither apparently willing to accept responsibility.
It has been pointed out by both companies that the Microsoft accounts linked to those limited edition Xbox One X consoles do indeed have access to the DLC. They just need to have since upgraded to the Xbox Series S or X.
This isn’t exactly a solution as this isn’t what was promised to them in 2020 when they handed over their $400.
Lol, yikes. Gotta love it when companies force you into an endless Do loop. Hell, it even happens at my job when dealing with some departments…
Regardless, Microsoft needs to refund them the cost of the DLC at the very least. It still stumps me why CDPR thought they’d be able to get CP2077 running smoothly on last gen’s consoles when even high range PCs at the time were struggling with it. Publicly traded companies are such dirtbags. I like the game, but this is a slimy move.
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Yeah, as much as I agree with CDPR about not releasing for those legacy consoles, this is some BS and one of the corporations involved should be making it right. Either MS, or CDPR, or both.
Imagine spending that much money to get a limited edition console that really can’t even play the game it’s based on. Really unfortunate.
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Oh for sure. I just feel bad for them is all. It’s a big purchase and I imagine for some it must’ve been a big let down.
They bought a last gen console after current gen launched, that’s not CD Projekt Red’s problem. Last gen is last gen.
Disregarding that it came out before the current Gen did like the other guy said:
The console is a special edition for this very game. FOR. THIS. GAME.
It’s generation matters zilcho
Doesn’t matter, they should still honor it.
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If they sell a game and say it runs on whatever generation, it should run on that generation. That’s like saying no new games should be expected to run on RTX 3000 series GPU’s because the 4000 series GPU’s have been released.
The game does run. The DLC is not quite the same thing. Good for them for cutting last gen loose. A lot of their problems would have been solved if they did it sooner.
Sounds like a problem they created themselves. They shouldn’t have collaborated on a special edition Xbox that couldn’t run the game well or the DLC at all. Or maybe they shouldn’t have promised a DLC that wouldn’t play on a platform they sold it for. Or maybe they just should have straight up waited for next gen before released and say it’s not supported on last gen. Or they could have optimized a port for the last gen that could be run well. These were all viable options.
They were, but as somone who has both a One X and a Series X, I did run the game on both and it was not a horrible experience on the One X.
PS4 had it rough and original recipe Xbox One and One S were unplayable, but the One X got by.
But then, I don’t think anyone expected the game would need a full overhaul and, what? 3 years before the DLC would come out?
