Cyberpunk 2077 has amused many fans by announcing a limited Floppy Edition on the occasion of April Fool's Day. With this move, Cyberpunk 2077 joins a host of other games that follow the tradition of pranking their fanbase every year on April 1.
Seeing outlandish game announcements on April Fool's Day is nothing new for the fans. This practice is something that developers have grown a knack for, resulting in ridiculous yet memorable moments for players, such as that one time when Among Us devs added a Horse Mode for a limited time. However, it's not every time that an April Fool's Day prank has taken the shape of an in-game event. Sometimes, it's just been the classic stirring of fake news.
One such news has arrived for Cyberpunk 2077 fans as a limited Floppy Edition of the game has been unveiled on the official website. On its announcement page, the developer has described the Floppy Edition as offering a «retrofuturistic experience» and a nod to the days when PC game installation used to be a ritual in itself. Moving on, the post jokingly reveals that the game on floppy would translate into 97,619 3.5-inch diskettes and that it would take «2 months of non-stop diskette-swapping» for installation. Lastly, the post also includes a link to an April Fool's message disguised as a wishlist link.
On Cyberpunk 2077's official Twitter, fans got on with the prank, which led to a string of hilarious conversations. When a user said they wanted this for their collection, the official account replied that they would need to fill the entirety of the room, «from the floor to the ceiling,» to house the Floppy Edition of Cyberpunk 2077. Another user joked, «Knowing my luck [sic] I'd have a failed sector on disk 93538.» The level of developer-fan interaction over social media also resembled a different April Fool's Day post made by the official Pokemon GO handle for a fake update on their game.
Outside the prank, developer CDPR has been hard at work, trying to restore the hype around the franchise bit by bit. Since successfully redeeming Cyberpunk 2077 with the launch of Phantom Liberty, a highly acclaimed DLC, the developer has set its sights onto the next big launch in the series.
In a recent update, CDPR shared the current status of the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, alongside a bunch of other in-development games in its pipeline. The Polish game developer also revealed that the next Cyberpunk game had the second-largest unit of CDPR devs working on it, topped only by The Witcher sequel, which is relatively closer to its release date. Based on the sheer commitment CDPR has shown to improve Cyberpunk 2077 post launch, it seems like a safe bet to assume its sequel will receive the same amount of attention and care.
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