8 Controversies That Have ALREADY Hurt Cyberpunk 2077

8. Twitter Scandals

Anybody who’s anybody has some Twitter skeletons in their closet these days, and CDPR (and GOG, in their conglomerate) have three doozies.

Sean Halliday ran the social media for both companies, and first got into trouble after tweeting a picture of someone urinating on a gravestone marked ‘Games Journalism - Committed Suicide’ in reference to the GamerGate controversy.

The other two Tweets were labelled transphobic, with one using the hashtag #WontBeErased (used to discuss trans experiences in America) to promote GOG’s PC games.

The other replied to an innocent Tweet about guys gaming with unoriginal gag ‘Did you just assume their gender?!’.

There’s some things to say in CD Projekt Red’s defence though, even if the Twitter mobs tend to completely ignore grey areas.

The first is that Halliday wasn’t a dev. There’s nothing to suggest his attitude reflects Cyberpunk 2077’s overall, but that hasn’t stopped the outcry.

This is all about the biggest scandals, after all, not the most sensible reactions.

The second caveat is that Halliday was fired after these tweets, seeing CDPR & GOG distance themselves from him. Interestingly, Halliday claims he’d drafted an apology but that GOG refused to run it, instead just putting out a statement that he had been dismissed.