How Cyberpunk 2077 Sold a Promise--and Rigged the System

You can't squeeze a video game to check if it's good like an apple at the supermarket. But if you could, it wouldn't matter; game publishers would dunk it in enough shiny wax to disguise any imperfections. All the consumer sees is their hand reaching for it. There is a chasm between what gamers thought Cyberpunk 2077 would be and the reality of it. Eight years of lavish marketing inflated an edgelord open-world game into a cutting-edge, infinite cityscape brimming with intrigue and desire and possibility.