Has the promised content been added back (recall the content that did not make the game on the original release) and most of the bugs fixed?

Given the game's cost, I am hesitant to purchase it not knowing if it was ever fixed to be playable.

Or should I wait another year to allow them to continue fixing it?

If you do get it, feel free to be very liberal with your inhibition for refund. Some few systems may even suffer from hard system crashes and freezes. While the likelihood of yours in particular being affected is probably astronomically small, make sure to close all messengers and anything else that's using databases for the first few hours of playing. I've had Telegram corrupt the message log due to a BSOD caused by the game on my particular system shortly after launch day back then.

Unsure if they fixed those issues with several topics talking about crashes and system freezes currently, I haven't played the new version myself just yet. If none of these symptoms appear within a few hours of playing, your system's fine just like the majority out there. But in case it's not, you'll thank me for the precautions.

What's left then is to figure out if the game itself is enjoyable to you. I've got 500+h playtime on the launch version from back then, and it's a mixed bag. The world and characters kept me going despite it all, but I wasn't a big fan of the distinct lack of commonly expected cyberpunk philosophy beats on the story side of things. Other than that, it's still definitely worth a play, especially on sale and if your system isn't one of the cursed few (and I mean few!) which the game won't like. Nobody figured out just why that even happens to a few in these two years, either.

That's my brutally honest opinion, at least.
I may try the new patch myself sometime soon.

Thanks for the honest reply, Seems like I should wait another year, or just give up on the idea of playing it.

Hey
I've bought it later, played until i've hit a invisible wall with warnig sign saying content of that part of the city will be added later...plus lack of promised features and still unstable game in all sorts...
I recommend you wait, because if this one gets completed, you'll hear about it one way or another.
Playing a game for what it's not will only turn into 70Gbs of disapointment in your ssd and 60 eur less in your bank account.

Still horribly optimized,bugs galore,modders have done pretty good work,but there's only so much they can do.CDPR doesn't care anyway,they are to busy making Keanu Reeves act invested in the future expansion.

Most of the money went to keanu and paying the guy who moddeled the dildos an the tranny propaganda.
You want cyberpunk, buy Deus Ex.

Depends what your expectations are, honestly. It's more dad rock with action scenes and believable characters you can get attached to, as long as you let yourself be railroaded a bit into following the story beats. Less actual "cyberpunk" if you ask me, tho - basically none of the usual philosophy of what it means to be human, or similar. Which to me, is like 50 to 60% of what makes cyberpunk, well, cyberpunk.

It's more like a monotone (literal meaning, no negative implication intended) story of people caught in the crossfire of a world ultimately ruled by financial classes and extreme capitalism, with all of the assorted sociological issues that come with that. Which means, lots of action and dramatic consequences included. Fairly interesting in its own right, I just had hoped for more of the deep "what's human" philosophy variety alongside that. If you don't mind about that particularity too much, you may still find the characters and story very engaging and interesting.

So, don't write it off entirely just yet!

I have never found the game particularly buggy or disappointing. I also waited to get it till it was on sale for $20 for a physical copy at a local retailer.

Would I buy an expansion? Probably, but while I've enjoyed spending time in the game, it's not a game I particularly feel the need to get back to any time soon.

I found myself waiting at least for patch 1.7, if they deliver a proper police system with that I'm actually considering to buy the game, on sale of course.

TL;DR:
I can confirm the game is definitely playable now.

Fun fact, I have installed the game on 4 separate systems, all using the 1.03 installer and patches as available. And it has not once failed to complete the install and be playable.

I have played through the game 3 times (on patches 1.03, 1.06 and 1.3), and am currently half-way on my 4th (started on patch 1.5 and am now on 1.6). I got about 600 hours at this game. 210 hours on the first playthrough, then 180, then 150 and some 60 hours on the current one..

Yes, the game was still bugged AF on patch 1.03. 1.06 sorted most of them, but I wouldn't describe the game as definitely playable until 1.3.

The only technical issues I have had during this last playthrough has been on my own doing, and all of them has been due to incompatible mods (what a shock, right?). Quite a few crashes, but again, what can I expect when using a whole heap of random FAN MADE mods. And whenever I have had an issue, I have read up on the probable cause and fixed it, on my own.

Are there still bugs in the game? Absolutely, I see visual glitches all over the place! Even some of the old T-posing when hitting the gas pedal before the character has fully entered a vehicle.

Visible AI spawns that happens when I do a 360°. The AI is more braindead than the zombies in Dying Light, killing all of the immersion as far as I'm concerned. A clueless police AI that will shoot at you in public for stopping at a red light and they just happened to be close enough to you to trigger hostility.

There are still things that can be sorted out / handled differently (like pedestrians not screaming "maniac!" when they walk into my car), but the game got a TON of things to do! And it can be modded basically to suit everyone's desires at this point. You want a Milion damage shotgun? Done! You want flying cars? Done!

Playing at 2560x1440 or 7680x1440 at will (3x 27" HP Omen Z4D33AA in Nvidia Surround) on an air cooled Intel i9 10900K 5,00 GHz all-core, Gigabyte RTX 3080 Aorus Xtreme, Corsair Vengeance 64 GB 3200 MHz, and dedicated NVMe SSDs for OS and games.

Been building computers and setting up systems since 2007.

Short: No, it's not fixed, still a screwed up thing.

Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Reviews as of 12/29/22
ALL REVIEWS: "Mostly positive" (78% positive)
RECENT REVIEWS: "Very positive" (90% positive)

If you read between the lines there you see that it's pretty obvious that Cyberpunk 2077 has been fixed up to a degree that the overwhelming majority of recent players are happy with it. And CDPR has put a lot of work into fixing it up after its release.

My own playthrough matches the Steam review score. I encountered only a single bug in 90 hours of playtime, and no crashes whatsoever.

So yes, the game has been fixed up to the point of being overwhelmingly bug-free, crash-free, and very enjoyable. (Note: I only did the main story and a small number of sidequests.)

Played it after watching the anime on netflix and it was a really great expirience. After 150 hours i saw every ending and did almost all sidequests. There were no crashes and just a handful minor bugs (like NPC T posing for some moments). Performance is also okay if you use a at least a mid range PC and if you can handle graphic settings but always try those first and compare for yourself.

https://exputer.com/guides/best-cyberpunk-2077-pc-settings-for-high-fps/

SirVincealot, as an afterthought on reading your post, when you're referring to a generic "user," use allincluding "they" (same as "you:" Grammatically plural, can be singular by meaning), not "he" (very rude here, exclusionary). Not only "he" plays games, "she" and others are players too! We should respect and acknowledge every player, should we not? So please think without this awful disgusting bias, be free from the bug.

MorbusGon. The anime is like with "Arcane" of "League of Legends:" Significantly higher quality of storytelling/implementation in its media than the game it was inspired from. For example, the main boss of the anime is significantly cooler than is in the game, not to mention the cyberpsychosis mechanic is not well-present by default.

temps, you're taking it too far, populistically appealing to "ratings" in order to justify the bold claim of "bug-free" (it's not). I'll put it in question by the next paragraphs.

Quote,
"Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Reviews as of 12/29/22
ALL REVIEWS: "Mostly positive" (78% positive)
RECENT REVIEWS: "Very positive" (90% positive)"

Are you serious, this tactic, human ratings as the measure of quality?

I expect we all know and have "this one movie/game" that received a deeply bad average rating, but is actually very good, or a game that's good by ratings, but is garbage. What a rating is measure of is some average people's perception based on deeply-ingrained biases/bugs (read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases), might be influenced by other reviews, being a fan of the game to the extent of "closing the eyes" on anything contradicting the view cannot be ruled out, and it can be based on the previous contexts, not necessary the measure of objective quality of a product.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an example of the game whose advertisement campaign was too successful, whose anime is again very successful, while the game itself does need more work.

Bottomline
The issue is not all agree on the definition: To some "fixed" might be that their play didn't cause a BSoD/softlock in their own run, to others it may be not. What can be said for certain is that Stryder2931 asked on returning the cut content (DLCs/multiplayer/etc) and on most bugs fixed plus it being playable. Is it done? No. At minimum, the DLCs/multiplayer/etc is not in. the equirements are still not met and may not be met forever: CD Projekt Red declines to do, the DLC will be only one, the multiplayer will not be, so on.