CD Projekt has officially denied a statement from a person claiming to be the developer of Cyberpunk 2077, who said that a major overhaul of the game is underway and could be released as early as June. The supposed developer wrote that a significant portion of the game's code has already been rewritten and that most of the "cut content" will be returned.

"You would be surprised how much has already been done. All this talk of "cutting content to finish the main quest" is bullshit." Most apartments with a "closed (locked)" sign were once lootable, they have discarded over 50,000 lines of dialogue, and I believe the June update will bring the cut content back into the game."

This claim was sweeping and completely unverified, but was partly justified by Senior Level Designer Miles Tost in October 2020, who said, "Cutting features and scope is a very normal part of development."

"Of course we iteratively change things, and of course there are ideas that sound great on paper but don't work in a game with all the other features," Tost said at the time.

"I understand that when this happens it's unfortunate for everyone and difficult to understand without having all the background of the development environment.

The post originally appeared on GameFAQs a few weeks ago, but didn't seem to gain traction until it was reposted on Reddit earlier this week, where it received over 1,700 comments. CD Projekt released a new full voice romance for male characters yesterday After releasing a mod that enables the option, it implicitly addressed the "cut content" claim, telling Eurogamer that the unused voice line was only recorded "to avoid accidentally missing something that would require recording in the future."

Today's statement is more forceful, and as CD Projekt itself stated as unusual, "Normally we do not comment on rumors, but in this case we would like to make an exception because this story is simply not true."

This is a very broad denial, and there is no refutation of the specific claim in this post. This is at least in part due to the possibility of legal action stemming from the failure of the game's launch, and no doubt the studio is being cautious in its public statements. Still, the fact that CD Projekt felt compelled to respond is in itself surprising and shows the pressure the studio is facing to turn things around.

We have contacted CD Projekt for more information and will update if we hear back.