Three years after Xbox and CD Projekt Red partnered to launch a restricted version, Cyberpunk 2077-themed Xbox One X console, a lot of those that purchased it are starting to remorse the acquisition. Why? Because they’re nonetheless ready, years later, for any info in any respect concerning a refund for the current Cyberpunk 2077 DLC launch: Phantom Liberty, which was initially speculated to be within the bundle.
Back in 2020, CD Projekt Red and Xbox partnered to supply a restricted version, Cyberpunk 2077-themed Xbox One X console on the market. The $400, 1TB console got here with a Cyberpunk-themed controller, a digital copy of Cyberpunk 2077, a one-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate trial, and was promised to additionally embody the “future first enlargement launch” per a Best Buy itemizing. Supposedly solely 45,000 had been manufactured; it was the final restricted version Xbox One X model to be launched.
However, in 2022, CD Projekt introduced that it was concluding improvement on the Xbox One and PS4 variations of Cyberpunk 2077, and that Phantom Liberty wouldn’t be launched on these platforms. In a weblog publish, the studio promised that those that had bought the restricted version console can be reimbursed with Microsoft retailer credit for a portion of their buy to make up for the lacking DLC. However, one yr later and with the DLC out on the planet, these console homeowners are nonetheless questioning the place the reimbursement is.
Multiple Reddit and X (previously Twitter) posts over the previous few days, weeks, and months have expressed confusion as to the standing of those refunds. Several people claimed they’d gone to buyer assist for each Microsoft and CD Projekt, however stated that each side gave the impression to be washing their fingers of the scenario by redirecting them to the opposite firm for help. And whereas many customers have rightfully identified that the DLC was nonetheless awarded to the Xbox account hooked up to the console and thus can be accessible on a Series S or X console, that does not do a lot good for anybody who does not have a Series S or X to start with.
IGN reached out to CD Projekt for remark, and was informed that Microsoft can be reaching out to clients who bought the restricted version console “quickly,” however obtained no additional particulars. We’ve additionally reached out to Microsoft for extra readability, and can replace upon listening to again.
It is just too dangerous that Phantom Liberty by no means made it to the final technology, as a result of in response to our reviewer, it is fairly good – a 9/10 that “completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Red’s future RPG.”
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a narrative tip? Send it to [email protected].
