CD Projekt Red Says Its "Finally Happy" With Cyberpunk 2077

03.04.2024 - 01:43 / thegamer.com / Adam Kiciński

It can be a little difficult to imagine Cyberpunk 2077 being in a completely broken state looking at the game we have on our hands now, but that was the case just a little over three years ago. With constant updates, a fantastic new expansion in Phantom Liberty, and an ungodly amount of money, CD Projekt Red managed to turn one of the biggest launch disasters in gaming into one of the best RPGs the industry has ever seen.

While it will probably take a lot more time for CD Projekt Red to earn back the reputation it enjoyed during the pre-Cyberpunk 2077 days, it's more than made up for the game's rough launch, and the developer is now ready to move on to its next big project now that it's "finally happy" with the state of the game.

That's apparently the feeling shared by developers at CD Projekt Red, voiced by chief strategy officer Adam Kiciński during a recent investor briefing (thanks GamesRadar). Kiciński revealed during the meeting that only 17 developers are still working on Cyberpunk 2077 at the moment, and that no more are necessary, as the team is finally happy to have Cyberpunk 2077 in the state it needs to be.

We are finally happy - since last year - with the state of the game; both the base game and Phantom Liberty - the latter from the very beginning of course, so it's enough.

If you're wondering what the rest of the company is working on, development has now shifted towards its next big project. It was announced last week that CD Projekt Red now has a little over 400 developers working on Project Polaris, the codename for the next Witcher game, a total that CD Projekt Red aimed to have on the title by this summer.

Elsewhere, CD Projekt Red has 47 people currently working on Orion - the codename for Cyberpunk 2077's sequel - as well as 37 developers working on Project Sirius, another game in The Witcher series being developed by The Molasses Flood. A few developers are working on Project Hadar, CD Projekt Red's mysterious new IP, while the rest are working on either unannounced titles or shared services such as localization and quality assurance.

It's nice to see CD Projekt Red be so transparent, especially after the disaster of Cyberpunk 2077's launch, and it's exciting to know that the studio is working on bigger and better things. It seems like a lot of them are pretty far away though, but at least we know just how far due to the studio's transparency. It doesn't make the wait any less torturous though.