"Welp, the Cyberpunk 2077 anime made me want to give the game another shot," said our Wes Fenlon CD Projekt Red's 2020 RPG shooter following the release of Studio Trigger's Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime.
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It's a sizable boost for a game that claims the highest all-time concurrent player count for a singleplayer game on Steam at 1,054,388. It's also the data point I needed to say that, combined with a timely sale, the Netflix player bump is very real.
We saw it last December when Arcane caused League of Legends' player count to boost by nearly 50%. Dota 2 saw boosts after the release of Dragon's Blood seasons 1 and 2. Heck, CD Projekt Red's own The Witcher beat its launch day numbers after the release of its Netflix series.
So, yeah, you could say that 1.6 Edgerunner update.
You can get the Edgerunners jacket from the Anime.
There are other updates for 2077 in the future, with the game director saying that its broken police will get a complete overhaul.
Amid all of this you might be forgiven for not noticing that Keanu Reeves is coming back for a whole actually wasn't put off by the sex mods.
I call this a second launch for Cyberpunk 2077, but Fraser Brown thinks that the expansion will be 2077's chance at salvation. He says it'll need to be "beyond polished" because it could well be the last real shot at salvaging the game's reputation.
