CD Projekt RED Has 160 Devs Working on First Cyberpunk 2077 Expansion - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2021 / 4,589 Views
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED joint CEO Adam Kicinski during the H1 2021 earnings call with investors revealed 160 employees are working on the first expansion for the game, while nearly 70 are working on unannounced games.
“The next-gen version is an important step on our adventure in the Cyberpunk universe," said Kicinski. "We strongly believe in the long term potential of this IP. That's why we’re currently working on the first expansion for the game, although I cannot say anything for more about it at this point in time.
"In accordance with our promise to gamers, we intend to keep improving Cyberpunk for as long as it takes. Meanwhile, we do not lose sight of the bigger picture. We want to develop other products based on our franchises and to keep growing our core business.
"Right now, 160 people are working on the first expansion for Cyberpunk, while nearly 70 more are involved in unannounced projects."
CD Projekt RED SVP of business development Michal Nowakowski added it was too early to talk specifics about the first expansion for the game.
"Regarding the expansion, It’s in development but we’re not providing any specifics about the date. We would like to keep up the rule that we’re not commenting on the date until we’re ready to deliver that," said Nowakowski.
Regarding the price, historically expansions have been paid as with The Witcher. However, it’s definitely way too early to talk about price, since we’re not even giving the date."
The developer during the same earnings call said the team is still targeting a 2021 release for the next-generation version of Cyberpunk 2077, however, it might miss the window and not release until 2022.
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Expansion, meaning the content which was cut in the first place, to meet the release date.
So thats why this game is a mess? to many hands in the pot?
Well, first off, this is an expansion that hasn’t been released yet. Second, you probably don’t understand how game dev works. 160 people doesn’t mean 160 designers. Games aren’t written like books. Usually a creative Director splits components down to the designers, and then they and the producers make sure it all comes together coherently once designed. A list of assets specified from the design are then assigned to the dev staff. So, it’s not like someone working on UI coding is interfering with scripting of one scenario, or scripting of another scenario, or any feature code, or the environmental art assets, character art and animations, UI art, dialogue, audio, or the embedded QA, leads, and producers which test and sign off on stuff.
A game that is highly polished and of high fidelity typically requires a lot of staff. While a lot of staff increases the requirement oversight staff, the inefficiency is usually worth the trade off for faster production times. And, on the contrary, games with higher staff typically have fewer problems than those with lower staff. The main reason why games, like Cyberpunk’s original release, have issues is because of crunching the schedule to a shorter time period than the staff could handle… this can effect all sizes of dev teams, not just large ones.
The game revival might come if they give us content that will generate only positive news. So take your time. I beg you… take your time… please… don’t fuck this up…again...ok?
pls just dont,
fix the broken game 1st,
then if its actually working...
release the dlc...
It will expand to a bug free version?
