The main thing for the weekend (October 8-9)

Journalists found out that the QA contractor deceived the developers of Cyberpunk 2077, the Square Enix Montreal studio was renamed Onoma, and Cloud Imperium Games shared statistics on Star Citizen – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The PC Gamer portal talked to employees of the Romanian company Quantic Labs, which helped test Cyberpunk 2077. They admitted that the organization really misled CD PROJEKT RED. For example, she did not say that only a third of the testers involved in the game had experience in QA, and that no more than a year. During conversations with CD PROJEKT RED, testers were asked to avoid questions about their experience. According to the testers, the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 did not receive the level of service they paid for.

▪️Reddit users noticed that Blizzard fixed a bug in Overwatch 2 that caused players to accidentally buy skins. The problem arose when the player was on the page with skins and at the same time corresponded in the chat. It is reported that at the same time Blizzard refused to cancel such purchases and return the funds.

▪️Square Enix Montreal has changed its name to Onoma. This happened a month and a half after the studio officially became part of the Embracer Group.

The developers of Chivalry 2 reported that the audience of their game has grown by more than 500 thousand people in four days. This was achieved thanks to the appearance of a medieval action game as part of the Game Pass.

▪️Star Citizen was bought by 1.7 million people, and the number of registered users in the project reached 4.1 million. Cloud Imperium Games told about this at CitizenCon 2952. The studio also noted that in 2022, an average of 50 thousand people began to play in Star Citizen every day (several times the audience exceeded 130 thousand people). For comparison: last year, the average DAU of a space simulator was 32 thousand people.