Is this worse than the No Man's Sky debacle? I don't remember actual lawsuits happening for that release.
That's a hard one to answer.
Personally I'd say, no, NMS' was worse.
The thing is NMS was a much lower profile release. CDPR is a well known publisher with a hugely popular series under it's belt. People jumped on this.
And thus blaming the investors for such a bad release is simply wrong. Of course investors want to see their investment pay off rather sooner than later. That's an issue every company that has shareholders needs to deal with. But this does not excuse releasing a faulty product.
You were asserting that investors had nothing to do with it and I disagree. Investors played a part in this situation. Financial pressure is a very real issue that has lead many companies to make very bad decision.
With that said, as I've already pointed out in this thread, ultimately the blame does fall squarely on CDPR. It was up to them to do what they needed to do in order to make investors understand the game needed to be pushed back again. There is no doubt CDPR is the main culprit but to say investors hold no blame is, in my experience, false.
Then again, it's entirely possible that CDPR has the nicest investors ever and they were all crazy understanding for whatever reason and it's really just CDPR that fucked up.
We'll never know.