When?
In a statement published at the end of January, signed by President Paweł Marchewka, we read that Dying Light will not be released in spring 2020. The team wants to "deliver what it promised", but "need more time to implement its vision". More time... so how much more, I ask? Some employees bet the end of the year, some: the beginning of the next.
The first of my interlocutors claims that the president will aim for the holiday season, because "otherwise he will not get stuck financially, and he is not a philanthropist". So the team cuts what it can, because "with the current scale (project - editorial note) it will not close in 2020".
Second: "I don't know."
Third: "We're here a year before the game's premiere."
Fourth: "This year? There is no game."
"Fifth: I do not believe in 2020. While CD Projekt has already announced September, Techland did so wisely that it did not give a specific date. If, it will be a very ending ... but I would not be surprised if they still dragged on to 2021, because it is associated with many things. Techland needs to go public."
That is why, he adds, CFO Karol Bach (previously associated with mBank) joined the management board at the end of 2018. My source claims that Techland has a lot of money, but not enough money to do a "fantasy project" with Warsaw and - in parallel - another one in Wrocław. And no wonder, game production is getting more and more expensive, a person who knows the realities says that costs will soon increase by about 30%, because salaries keep going up.
Although during the last meeting with journalists, Techland hamleted the debut on the stock exchange (Marchewka: "if we want to develop so much, with such large projects and such a large number of projects that will exceed our financial capabilities, the stock exchange is one of the interesting solutions"), it is said that the debut on the stock exchange is a foregone conclusion...
...or perhaps "was a foregone conclusion"? Just before our publication, rumors reached the editorial office that Techland was to become one of Microsoft's studios. Such speculations have been circulating for some time (and in various media), and according to our informants, they should be confirmed (there is no agreement here) either in the latest "Game Informer" or during the publisher's conference on Thursday.
Except it's nonsense. Nobody in the studio knows anything about the takeover (regardless of the degree in Techland's structure!). In an interview with PolskiGamedev.pl, the residents of Wrocław denied the rumors both officially (they should soon issue a press release on this matter) and in private talks.
