During a call with investors immediately following the announcement of yet another delay of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt RED co-CEO Adam Kiciński downplayed not only yet another postponement of the game but also and above all the extent of the workloads. extraordinary development team. The speech left several insiders baffled, also because Kiciński would also have said that the development team was even happy to work a few more weeks.
The next day, it was sent an internal e-mail in which Kiciński apologized for his statement, mail which was then disseminated from Jason Schreier of Bloomberg, The email roughly reads the following:
Here's CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Kiciński talking to investors about crunch yesterday (left) and him apologizing to his employees for those comments today in an email obtained by Bloomberg News (right). Quite a turnaround pic.twitter.com/YaYNtPDphY
- Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) October 29, 2020
“From the bottom of my heart, I would like to apologize to everyone for what I said during the investor conference call on Tuesday. I have nothing to say in my defense. What I said was absolutely bad and inexcusable. For this reason, I ask you to accept my apologies. "
This is just the latest of the stories involving the Polish developer and Cyberpunk 2077, which was recently delayed from November 19th to December 10th. Doing crunches for another three weeks after a stressful period is definitely not recommended. CD Projekt RED promised last year that the company would not force employees to crunch to get the game done. However, that promise was canceled last January following another Cyberpunk 2077 delay.
