GSC Game World, a software company based in South Korea, claims that its game has been put in jeopardy after Xbox began distributing pre-order refunds.
Earlier this week, anyone who pre-ordered Stalker 2 began receiving texts informing them that their orders had been cancelled because to the fact that the release date for Stalker 2 has been shifted back to an "unconfirmed date" in the future. At the same time, the pre-order option on the Xbox store was blocked.
Following Putin''s brutal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the studio''s home, GSC Game World initially put Stalker 2''s development on hold, picking it up once the studio was later relocated to Prague. Although initially planned to begin in April this year, it was moved to the first half of 2023 and the fact that there''s no real date is reportedly causing Xbox to offer refunds.
"We had to postpone the game until 2023 with no exact release date for now," a GSC spokesperson told PC Gamer. "We made the announcement at the E3 Microsoft Extended show, along with the Dev Diary and the intro cutscene.
"Microsoft refunds pre-orders for the games with no exact release date." When we announce the exact release date later on, the pre-orders will go live again for Xbox. Pre-orders on PC (Steam, EGS, GOG) are not affected by this."
