10 Biggest Gaming Moments Of The Last Decade

There has never been a bigger fall from grace like Cyberpunk 2077. And, if we’re lucky, there never will be again.

Every delay brought out high emotions one way or another, but it meant more and more eyes were on the game to deliver. Cyberpunk’s huge marketing push also gave it a bigger public stage - making what happened next an even bigger embarrassment.

Cyberpunk 2077 was not ready for release, and the pandemic had only exacerbated things. Sure, a few high-end PCs ran the game totally fine, but elsewhere there were all kinds of terrible performance bugs, texture issues and collision detection that made no sense. On the Xbox One and PS4, the game was unforgivably bad. The game was unplayable at worst, and at best didn’t represent the immersive experience that many were hoping to escape to during lockdown.

The disaster dominated social media and even featured in mainstream news. Such was the fallout that the game was temporarily pulled from online stores and some customers were refunded.

There is, of course, a happy end to this tale as the devs worked diligently to bring the game up to where it was supposed to be over the ensuing years.

All in all, Cyberpunk 2077 should be a cautionary tale. If publishers need to learn one lesson from from the last ten years, it’s the bigger they are, the harder they fall.