Cyberpunk 2077 is an instant best-seller on Steam in China as pre-orders open

Following its E3 reveal, CD Projekt Red’s blockbuster dethrones Total War: Three Kingdoms as a best-seller

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Let’s hope nobody messes with his dog in Cyberpunk 2077. (Picture: CD Projekt Red)

Published: 9:07pm, 10 Jun 2019Updated: 9:06am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2019, or E3 2019, has just begun, and the game Cyberpunk 2077 is already taking China by storm, generating hype as it has in much of the world.

The highly-anticipated game comes from the Warsaw-based game developer CD Projekt Red, a company Chinese gamers have nicknamed “the dumb Polish donkey.”

At E3, CD Projekt Red brought out John Wick star Keanu Reeves, who appears in the game, to introduce Cyberpunk 2077 and reveal the release date. The company subsequently rolled out pre-orders across Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4. In less than a day, pre-orders for the game knocked Total War: Three Kingdoms off the top spot on Steam’s top-selling list in China.

Pre-order Cyberpunk 2077 on Amazon

Many Chinese gamers even skipped Steam to purchased Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Projekt Red’s own digital game store GOG.com. Some celebrity gamers advocated for it.

“I hope you will choose CDPR’s own GOG when you purchase the PC version of the game. That way, every penny of yours will go straight to ‘the dumb Polish donkey’ rather than having other platforms pocket a percentage of the revenue,” wrote one Weibo celebrity with more than 2.2 million followers.