CDPR Group update - 5 Witcher games, Cyberpunk 2077 sequel and new IP in production.

[FriendlyMerchant]

Almost two years and now they release DLC? You're supposed have been working on a new game by now.

 

[Noct]

Two major games in production, one of which is the start of a trilogy? Their last game was a dumpster fire and they weren't trying to multitask. This reeks of desperation. If anything, CDPR should be scaling back and doing everything they can to not fuck up their reputation even further

 

[Dhaze]

Two major games in production, one of which is the start of a trilogy? Their last game was a dumpster fire and they weren't trying to multitask. This reeks of desperation. If anything, CDPR should be scaling back and doing everything they can to not fuck up their reputation even further

Serious question: has it ever happened in the short history of video games, a developer voluntarily scaling back after a massive year-on-year expansion of the company having lead to disastrous results quality- and sales-wise?

I can't think of a single example. The only scaling back I ever see happen is of a forced nature, that is when the developer burns and crash and scaling back becomes a financial imperative (often the last step before bankruptcy)

 

[NecroLord]

Tranny Geralt incoming. Witcher 4 will explore Geralt's transition into a tranny and the major psychological abuse "she" has to endure at the hands of all the transphobic and bigoted people of the World.
In Witcher 5 you can play as Jamal Tyrone,the new Witcher and bringer of Diversity.

 

[lukaszek]

why wouldnt they make multiple witcher games while they have established netflix show?

 

[just]

if not the games, at least ESG score will be good

 

[Maxie]

marcin iwiński stepped down as a chairman to become a producer again
now he only needs to hunt down and murder badowski

 

[toro]

if not the games, at least ESG score will be good

thanks. i will never play another game from this company

 

[Cromwell]

they died with witcher 3. They can suck all the girlcock they want now

 

[Gargaune]

Wild they are now moving people from Poland to the US.

I wonder what the workforce split is like now that CDPR's got internal offices in Canada and the US. Next time a Polish official visits the US, will he be gifted a copy of The Witcher 5 as an iconic American product?

Almost two years and now they release DLC?

"Now?" No, not now. "Soon..."

 

[gerey]

You know what would be hilarious, if CDPR Canada and US hired ex-BioWare employees.

 

[Ryzer]

You know what would be hilarious, if CDPR Canada and US hired ex-BioWare employees.

You mean hiring their own devs?

 

[Tyrr]

if not the games, at least ESG score will be good

Doesn't seem that popular. 160 likes with 12k+ views so far.
The comments also all shit on them.
Not that it will change anything, but still nice to see that at least the fans have not followed them.

 

[gerey]

Not that it will change anything, but still nice to see that at least the fans have not followed them.

They don't need the old fans anymore - they can just shit out Ubisoft-tier goyslop and make money, and any loss in profit can be made up by including more niggers, more faggots, more troons.

 

[Hobo Elf]

All these AAA corpos promise the moon and then fail to deliver even a simple picture of it. The only people such corporate grandstanding will matter to are the shareholders, which should be cluing all gamers in on who the target audience of this industry really is. Too bad there are enough manchildren thirsty for the newest baby electronic who will enable them regardless.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Grotesque.

 

[Antigoon]

Doesn't seem that popular. 160 likes with 12k+ views so far.
The comments also all shit on them.
Not that it will change anything, but still nice to see that at least the fans have not followed them.

They only posted that on their investor relations channel with less than 6k subs. Their main channel has almost 250k.

 

[Gradenmayer]

Witcher is done to death. If they don't create a full fledged RPG with sprawling dialogue trees or challenging combat, I ain't touching that shit

 

[normie]

Cyberpunk Orion is probably the multiplayer game. Witcher 4 also apparently getting Multiplayer as well.
CDPR are going full Bethesda mode with this shit.

okou, ciri looks dangerously masculinised

 

[|NOVVAK|]

"Long-Term Product Outlook"

Do they even realise just how fucking unappealing it is when they're using language like that to communicate about their next game(s)?

Those annoucements were directed at inverstors, not gamers. They are at https://www.youtube.com/c/CDPROJEKT_IR/videos which is "the investor relations channel of CD PROJEKT GROUP". They've probably dumped all those announcements at once, to show their investors that they are not going down. Good timing, their stock started to go up with Edgerunners release and now most probably it will go further up.

 

[Rahdulan]

Something something butter spread too thinly something.

Also:

Iwiński is resigning as CEO

You have to wonder why, though. For all the mixed reception CP77 received it was a financial success so it can't be that. I imagine Iwinski is just burned out after almost 30 years.

 

[Dhaze]

"Long-Term Product Outlook"

Do they even realise just how fucking unappealing it is when they're using language like that to communicate about their next game(s)?

Those annoucements were directed at inverstors, not gamers. They are at https://www.youtube.com/c/CDPROJEKT_IR/videos which is "the investor relations channel of CD PROJEKT GROUP". They've probobaly dumped all those announcements at once, to show their investors that they are not going down. Good timing, their stock started to go up with Edgerunners release and now most probably it will go further up.

I know, but it's symptomatic of a bigger issue.

I'm seeing a developer producing videos aimed solely at investors, focusing on financial results, long-term project outlook, and group strategy. And sure, big companies being what they are, they have to do that, this much I understand.

But that's the problem. A relatively small dev team working on their passion project—which is more often than not the kind of team who creates the best video games—doesn't exactly do that, or more precisely not like that. Rather, that's stuff on the level of EA or Ubisoft; and after the Cyberpunk 2077 debacle, watching CDPR trudge that path of too-big-for-their-own-good companies is not pretty sight.

 

[NecroLord]

 

[BruceVC]

CDPR did talk to investors and and this is what they have shown:

- pretty much confirms that PL is only expansion to Cyberpunk2077 and they move directly to sequel after than on Unreal Engine 5
- new witcher trilogy in production which was known before
- 2 new witcher games, 1 mobile (mollases), 1 uknown Canis Majoris
- CDPR now has 3 main studios. Poland (warsaw/crakow), Canada(vancover) and US(don;t know where)
- witcher 4 (?) is in pre-production with around 150 people working on it currently
- they are close to 1000 employes.
- After witcher 4 releases they plan to finish whole trilogy in 6 years. So 3 years per witcher game after 4th.

Excellent news, W4 is going to be epic. Its hard to think it could be better than W3 but lets wait and see

 

[racofer]

"Long-Term Product Outlook"

Do they even realise just how fucking unappealing it is when they're using language like that to communicate about their next game(s)?

Those annoucements were directed at inverstors, not gamers. They are at https://www.youtube.com/c/CDPROJEKT_IR/videos which is "the investor relations channel of CD PROJEKT GROUP". They've probobaly dumped all those announcements at once, to show their investors that they are not going down. Good timing, their stock started to go up with Edgerunners release and now most probably it will go further up.

I know, but it's symptomatic of a bigger issue.

I'm seeing a developer producing videos aimed solely at investors, focusing on financial results, long-term project outlook, and group strategy. And sure, big companies being what they are, they have to do that, this much I understand.

But that's the problem. A relatively small dev team working on their passion project—which is more often than not the kind of team who creates the best video games—doesn't exactly do that, or more precisely not like that. Rather, that's stuff on the level of EA or Ubisoft; and after the Cyberpunk 2077 debacle, watching CDPR trudge that path of too-big-for-their-own-good companies is not pretty sight.

That's because CDPR went public years ago, sometime before TW3 release. Since then, it became a globohomo muh stakeholders muh shareholders muh quarterly reports soulless corpo like the others you mentioned.

TW3 worked because it was already being developed during this transition period from a private to a publicly traded company. After that you got Gwent, which was a money sink and nobody cared about, and later CP2077, and we know how well that went. The talent behind the original Witchers left the company after TW3, and most of these guys were responsible for the Red Engine, which CDPR is now leaving behind, not because it's bad, but because the current developers at CDPR are too incompetent to maintain it. The amount of bugs in CP2077 is also tied to this reason, since there are no competent people left that know how to properly use their own creation. So simply outsource your game engine to Epic and adopt Unreal Engine.

Just look at these photos, it's not a meme:

The Witcher 3 Developers Team

Contrast of the development teams before/after globohomofication

Cyberpunk 2077 Female Developers

Now look at small devs, like the Factorio developers, and notice how they look a lot like what CDPR used to be. It's not a coincidence who makes the better games.