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Cyberpunk 2077 manages to be a top seller on Steam in 2021

Kotaku reported some interesting tidbits from Valve’s recent stat dump for Steam, most notably that Cyberpunk 2077 quietly became a top seller in 2021. This might come as a surprise to many, as CD Projekt Red’s game has been controversial for being buggy and unfinished. That might be turning around, though.

While the very top of the charts are populated by games like New World, Valheim, and Naraka: Bladepoint that generate revenue continuously even after someone starts the game, Cyberpunk managed to make the Silver section of the Top 100 top sellers by revenue, a fact made more impressive by the fact that, unlike something like New World, it’s a one-and-done sale. The Silver section also plays host to Resident Evil Village and Age of Empires 4, both games that had good reputations out the gate. Seeing Cyberpunk in their company must be a welcome bit of good news for CD Projekt Red. It also had over 200,000 peak concurrent players, which is a really impressive number no matter how you slice it.

Cyberpunk 2077 seemed to have a rough 2021. The true cost of the flood of refunds the game ended up giving out turned out to be $51 million. And CD Projekt Red still can’t promise the current-gen version will come out this year. And don’t expect to see Cyberpunk 2077 on a subscription service yet, though clearly it doesn’t need to be at the moment.

Пользователей Steam приглашают проголосовать за лучшие игры 2021 года — компания Valve завершила формирование окончательных списков номинантов по категориям. Отбор осуществлялся на основе заявок от самих игроков.

Разработчик Cyberpunk 2077 оригинально ответил на вопрос об отсутствии в игре полицейских погонь

Старший квест-дизайнер ролевой игры Cyberpunk 2077 Павел Саско в шутливой форме объяснил, почему в громком хите польской студии CD Projekt RED нет полицейских погонь и мотоциклов в городском трафике. На размышления о соответствующей теме разработчика подтолкнул вопрос одного из зрителей его Twitch-канала.

Modder adds a metro system to Cyberpunk 2077 for those who want to take it slow

In a medium full of games that fully embraced the concept of fast travel, it’s easy to forget what’s lost in the exchange. All those miles you saved in Skyrim when you instantly travelled between towns are convenient, but you miss out on taking things in, really absorbing the landscape. That’s what modder keanuWheeze aimed to bring to Cyberpunk 2077 when they added a metro system to the game (thanks Destructoid).

With this mod, you can use a fast-travel station to wait for a metro. Text at the bottom of the screen tells you where the train is going next, and once it arrives, you can ride in it in real time, taking in the sights in first or third-person views.

So what’s the point of this? After all, fast travel is already implemented in the base game. But sometimes you just want to immerse yourself in a world or a little bit of the mundane amongst the fantastical. Additions to a game don’t need to be there for purely utilitarian purposes. After all, cosmetics are a huge part of character building that has very little to do with playing the game.

На ранних этапах разработки Cyberpunk 2077 студия CD Projekt RED планировала реализовать в игре работающую систему метро. Трейлер с E3 2018 начинался прямо с поездки на поезде, а разные станции демонстрировались на артах. Однако в итоге создатели урезали функцию.