CD Projekt Red stock declines 29% as Cyberpunk 2077 Metacritic score drops to 90

CD Projekt Red’s share price continues to drop like FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 on the past-gen consoles. The stock fell 29% from PLN 443 per share on December 4 to PLN 313.9, according to gamesindustry.biz.

This has likely to do with the reports of numerous bugs and performance issues particularly present in the PS4 and Xbox One versions. The Metacritic score has also declined from 91 to 90. “Any score below 90 may trigger a negative reaction, score of 95 or more may be a slight positive, touching 98 or more very positive,” warned analyst Michal Wojciechowski earlier this week.

Under its new policy, Metacritic will allow users to submit their reviews on December 12. It’s likely that the user ratings will sink the score even lower. The developer is now hard at work to hotfix all the issues including famously upredictable behaviour of in-game genitals.

Despite the somewhat tumultuous launch, CD Projekt has confirmed that the revenue from eight million preorders has already allowed the title to recoup all the production and promotion costs.