Under Cyberpunk-udviklingen blev CD Projekt RED kritiseret fra nær og fjern grundet ret ærgerlige kommentarer fra tidligere og nuværende udviklere, der slog fast at studiets ansatte blev tvunget ind i såkaldt "crunch", altså systematisk overarbejde.
Men det har angiveligt ændret sig meget siden lanceringen. Jason Schreier satte sig ned og snakkede med instruktøren på Phantom Liberty-udvidelsen, Gabe Amatangelo, som slog fast at arbejdsgangen har ændret sig markant, som er blevet bakket op af andre ansatte:
"On Phantom Liberty, Amatangelo said, they have lived up to that promise, implementing various policies to prevent people from burning out, including a system that alerts management if someone is working for prolonged periods of time. He said if an employee asks to do a few extra hours, he'll permit it, but only to a certain degree. "Fortunately, it's a very healthy work-life balance right now," Amatangelo said. In brief conversations, lower-level staff members backed up that assertion, while also cautioning that work-life balance at the company remains an ongoing, complicated issue — as it is throughout the entire video-game industry."
Det er i øvrigt Amatangelo der skal instruere den kommende efterfølger.
