Riot on the ship: even ordinary employees were unhappy with the leadership of the Cyberpunk 2077 development studio
Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, referring to two employees of CD Projekt, spoke about the recent stormy meeting between the leaders and ordinary employees of the Polish studio.
According to the informants, the meeting in video format began with an apology from the leaders of CD Projekt for, to put it mildly, the problematic launch of Cyberpunk 2077, and continued with a series of inconvenient and caustic questions from employees.
Since the announcement of Cyberpunk 2077 has been the victim of three transfers, however, according to Schreier, former and current CD Projekt employees agree that the release dates set by the directors have always been unrealistic.
One of the developers asked if the studio executives thought it was hypocritical to oblige employees to work overtime on a game about exploiting corporations. The answer was evasive.
Another employee asked why, in January, Marcin Iwinski and Adam Badowski called Cyberpunk 2077 “complete and playable,” even though this was not the case. The bosses took the blame.
Schreier notes that the meeting of CD Projekt executives and their subordinates took place on Thursday – before the shocking announcement of the temporary withdrawal of Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store.
Cyberpunk 2077 was released on December 10 on PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store), PS4, Xbox One, as well as GeForce Now and Google Stadia. Today, December 19, patch 1.05 was released – the update fixes bugs and improves the game on PC and consoles.
