For nylig har det højt elskede studie bag The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt RED, fundet sig selv i lidt af et stormvejr oven på beskyldninger omkring dårlig ledelse og ringe arbejdsforhold. Desuden er der sluppet rygter ud der lader til at foreslå, at udviklingen af deres kommende spil, Cyberpunk 2077, er i total vildrede.
Youtube-personligheden Madqueen Show har i løbet af det seneste stykke tid interviewet en række af ansatte ved CD Projekt RED omkring disse beskyldninger og spillets tilstand. Hun er nu klar til at offentliggøre udtalelserne i en ny video.
Allerførst har hun hørt fra flere anonyme ansatte. at udviklingen af Cyberpunk 2077 er "on track", og at spillet forbedres hver dag, og det gælder både "performance and visuals". Når det så er sagt, så beskrives udviklingen som værende meget hård for studiet.
I forhold til dårlig ledelse så lader der til at være splittelse blandt studiets ansatte, hvoraf nogle har klaget omkring dårlig kommunikation, suboptimal ledelse og sågar usund konkurrence blandt studiets managere.
En udvikler har sagt:
"When in Bioware they said they had a 3 months' crunch. We laughed. during the Witcher 3, a lot of people crunched for over a year, some of them for 3 years.
"The Witcher 3 development kept getting worse by the month. The morale got very low and everyone ended up complaining during crunch supper. Some of us were still looking forward to being moved to Cyberpunk and having a fresh start with a 'new' project. when we finally started switching to Cyberpunk... things got even wilder, even more chaotic. At that time, almost everybody in my team wanted to leave."
Men det er ikke alle der er enige, for en anden udvikler har kun positive ting at sige om studiet:
"In my 10 years of career, I've been in companies that make you do overtime without pay, give you a month's notice to be fired before asking you to do more overtime. That pushed fresh students from school to suicide due to pressure and bullying from their boss. But, of course, you never heard of them, because they're insignificant. CD Projekt Red is in the high tier, my best company in 10 years in the industry in terms of working conditions."