CD Projekt Red can't seem to catch a break with Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk 2077 released in a broken state on PS4 and Xbox One, leading to widespread backlash that saw the game pulled from the PlayStation Store and CD Projekt Red issue refunds. Since then, controversies about developer crunch, CD Projekt board members getting massive bonuses despite Cyberpunk 2077's issues, and more have continued to hurt the game's reputation. And now it seems CD Projekt Red could have yet another massive Cyberpunk 2077 controversy on its hands.

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People's Republic of China President Xi Jinping famously takes offense to being compared to Winnie the Pooh, to the point where the character has been heavily censored in the country. Kingdom Hearts 3 blurs out Winnie the Pooh in China, and various other video games censor the character's name in game chat. So CD Projekt Red using "Winnie the Pooh" to label censored game files for a Chinese audience could potentially lead to it butting heads with China's government down the road.

One might wonder why CD Projekt Red developers would take such a risk with Cyberpunk 2077's source code, but as Redditor traceitalian explains, "Yeah, the chances of this seeing the light of day were astronomically slim." The Cyberpunk 2077 source code leak is an incredibly rare situation, and so it's safe to say that no one at CD Projekt Red that was aware of this Winnie the Pooh China censorship flag thought it would ever be discovered.

This isn't the first time that CD Projekt Red has found itself in the middle of a controversy over Xi Jinping's dislike of being compared to Winnie the Pooh. The Taiwan-developed horror game Devotion was pulled from sale from various digital storefronts after it was discovered that the game featured the text "Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh moron." The game was later updated to remove this text and was set to make its debut on the CD Projekt owned digital storefront GOG, only for the company to change its mind at the last second due to supposed "messages from gamers." As one might imagine, this resulted in quite the uproar online.

CD Projekt Red has yet to comment on this latest development. It will be interesting to see if it fuels the efforts of a CD Projekt Red investor to oust the company's current CEO, or if CDPR will retain its current leadership as it continues working to fix Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk 2077 is out now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.

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