CD Projekt Red CEO Reverses Course After Saying Crunch is "Not All That Bad"

During a call with investors soon after the annunciation thatCyberpunk 2077 would be delayed, CD Projekt Ruddy Co-CEO Adam Kiciński said that crunch at the company was "not that bad – and never was." He went on to say that while the story has been picked upwards by the media and some parts of the squad at CDPR were crunching heavily, the bulk of the team was non. The but people crunching at this indicate are Q&A, engineers and programmers. Kiciński ended his statement by saying that the team was happy about working an extra three weeks and that there are non "any threats regarding crunch."

The side by side twenty-four hour period, an internal email was sent out and afterward obtained by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, in which Kiciński apologized for his statement.

"From the bottom of my middle, I would similar to repent to everyone for what I said during Tuesday'due south investor conference call," reads the email. "I have nothing to say in my defense. What I said was not even unfortunate, it was utterly bad. For that, please accept my most sincere and honest apologies."

Here's CD Projekt Cherry-red co-CEO Adam Kiciński talking to investors most crisis yesterday (left) and him apologizing to his employees for those comments today in an email obtained by Bloomberg News (correct). Quite a turnaround film.twitter.com/YaYNtPDphY

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) Oct 29, 2022

This is the latest in a deluge of stories surrounding the massively successful Shine developer and its upcoming game,Cyberpunk 2077, which was recently delayed from November 19 to December 10. The delay prompted more concerns from fans that the squad at CDPR would have to continue crunching for iii more weeks afterwards an already lengthy period of doing so.

Notably, CDPR had promised last twelvemonth that the company would not be forcing employees to crunch in order to get the game washed. That promise came undone this past January following another filibuster of Cyberpunk 2077, and employees at CDPR were told they would have to crisis. Presumably, that level of crunch is ongoing.

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In the same call with investors, Kiciński said that the reason for the game's delay was its performance on current-gen consoles. "The game is set for PC and runs peachy on side by side-gen consoles," said Kiciński. As for the game's new release date of December x, Kiciński told investors that he feels "maybe not comfortable, just confident" that the game will exist ready across all platforms.

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