The heads of CD Projekt did not keep their promise. Back in 2019, they mentioned the work culture and development of Cyberpunk 2077 without overtime, while from Monday the entire studio must switch to the mandatory 6-day work mode. As they say – all hands on deck because the premiere is coming.
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In 2019, CD Projekt turned to Jason Schreier to talk about the work culture on Cyberpunk 2077. The journalist was assured that members of the entire team would be able to work standard hours, and During the interview, Marcin Iwiński “undertook” to enable employees to develop the game without overtime.
“From now on, the entire (development) studio is going to a higher speed”
After a year, one of the developers came to Schreier asking for anonymity, who presented a message from the head of the studio – in its content, Adam Badowski emphasized that although he is optimistic about the premiere of Cyberpunk 2077, it is time to eliminate “many bugs and glitches” so all employees will be working 6 days a week. According to Badowski, it will be “typical” work during the working week and one day at the weekend. All overtime hours will be paid as normal.
Badowski noted that Cyberpunk 2077 is currently being certified – Sony and Microsoft have already received files that will be checked.
“I am taking it upon myself to get full support for this decision. I know this is in direct contradiction to what we said about crunch. This is also in direct opposition to what I personally believed some time ago – that crunch should never be the solution. But we used all the other possible ways of finding ourselves in this situation. “
Jason Schreier also found out that Some employees have been developing Cyberpunk 2077 at night and on weekends for over a year, so the whole studio is probably already officially entering crunch mode to make it before the November premiere.
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1311060097569873920
Check it out our impressions of “Cyberpunk 2077. The only official book about the game world”, i.e. an excellent introduction to production of the Polish studio.
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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-29/cyberpunk-2077-publisher-orders-6-day-weeks-ahead-of-game-debut
