Game news This player lost $100,000 by investing in a video game after playing it on a PC worth several thousand euros. The PlayStation version was a disaster
A player previews a video game, loves it, invests, but loses everything because the game has been withdrawn! If you know this game which is the only one in history to have been removed from this online platform in just a few days.
More than 15,000 videos on his YouTube channels, more than 17 million subscribers on the same platform and 8 million followers on Instagram, this is the reputation of “Willyrex”. You may not know him, but this Spanish videographer is particularly well-known in his country. But he is infamous for a “small” error in judgment regarding the success of Cyberpunk 2077. This mistake cost him dearly, literally.
A bitter failure
Like many YouTubers, Willyrex had access to Cyberpunk 2077 in preview. He was able to play it on PC and the game captivated him. The term could even be considered a euphemism, since he decided to invest directly in CD Projectso convinced was he of the success of the game. He decided to give 100,000 dollars (around 70,000 euros at the time) to the Polish company. Convinced of having made a golden deal, he was particularly proud of his idea. Unfortunately, if you have read the title of this article, you understand that everything did not go as planned…
Free money (or not)
It was in a podcast released on YouTube a few days ago that the Spanish celebrity speaks out about this failure. Willyrex admits: he lost the $100,000 he invested in the company. Indeed, qyabd Cyberpunk 2077 comes out in 2020, it’s a bit of a disaster: the game performed very poorly, particularly on PS4 and Xbox One “Fat”, and the game was removed from the PlayStation Store after a few days, in addition to being refunded. A “hard blow” according to the YouTuber, who clearly did not expect such a scenario. Consequently, CD Projekt falls on the stock market, and the videographer does not benefit from the amount he invested.