CDPR can transform from a second-tier developer to a world first-line, inseparable from the success of the "The Witcher" series, and it was officially announced recently that the new "The Witcher" work is already under development.
According to the official visual map, the badge above is the coat of arms of Ciri's cat school, and some netizens speculate that after Geralt's story is told, the new work may start a new story with Ciri as the protagonist.
Probably due to the failure of Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR finally abandoned their RED engine, but chose to cooperate with EPIC and use his family's Unreal 5 for development, and from the official point of view, this cooperation is not only to buy the development license of the engine, but also the technical development of the subsequent version of Unreal Engine, and the cooperation is more in-depth.
Since 2021, CDPR has been caught in the negative public opinion about Cyberpunk 2077, the developers of the entire company seem to be busy fixing the countless bugs of the game, and now that a new work has been announced, it seems that CDPR has shaken off the haze of Cyberpunk 2077 and started a new page.
Needless to say, "The Witcher 2" was given as a national gift to the then US President Barack Obama, "The Witcher 3" 50 million sales in the history of video games is also one of the best in the history of video games, according to the official, the story of White Wolf Geralt has ended in "The Witcher 3", so when I heard that CDPR developed a new "The Witcher", it still attracted a lot of attention.
However, not all players are optimistic about this new game, many people have questioned whether today's CDPR has the ability to develop such a work as "The Witcher 3", and there are game media on Weibo to ask whether players will pre-order this new "The Witcher".
These doubts are also taken for granted, and Cyberpunk 2077 hurts too much. From the beginning of the game ticket jumping, publicity fraud, and then to the multiplayer mode of ticket jumping, suspected cancellation, CDPR constantly backstabed their players who believe in them, until today 2077 there are still many problems that have not been solved, although it is still a good game, but it is obviously far from CDPR's own publicity.
And, even without the 2077 publicity fraud, whether CDPR can make a game of the quality of The Witcher 3 needs to be a big question mark.
In 2017, the four main creators who had served as senior game level designers, senior game producers, former project managers, and senior game art producers of "The Witcher 3" left at almost the same time, and these people also held more important positions in "Cyberpunk 2077", which caused controversy, forcing CDPR officials to issue an announcement to respond, and described their departure as a normal flow of people.
Since then, however, there have been news of CDPR employees leaving almost every year (in fact, there have been some before). In 2021, Andrzej Zawadzki, the chief designer of Cyberpunk 2077, left the company, and Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who was the game director of The Witcher 3, vice president of game development for Cyberpunk 2077, second game director, and was supposed to hold a key position in the new Game of The Witcher, also left the company. In 2022, Materusz Kanik, director of Cyberpunk 2077, who has been working on CDPR for 15 years, also announced his departure from the company...
These are still named, and there are more first-line developers who can't be named, and it is said that naughty dogs have left nearly 70% of their old employees when developing "The Last Survivor 2", and the situation of CDPR is probably not much better than that of naughty dogs.
The reasons for these employees to leave are more complicated, some people can't stand the company's overtime culture, some can't accept the work atmosphere, but no matter what they leave, it has nothing to do with the player, we only know that the current CDPR is not the same thing as the CDPR when The Witcher 3 was developed.
Of course, for Chinese players, the reason for not trusting CDPR is far more than these factors, the previous incident against quint Chinese players has not given a proper explanation until now, although some netizens have forgotten this matter, but this matter still makes many CDPR fans feel disappointed.
As a player, Yunyou Ji actually still hopes that CDPR can do a good job in the new work of "The Witcher", this IP is the foundation of CDPR, previously with false publicity and the reputation accumulated by the "Wizard" series, "Cyberpunk 2077" sold tens of millions of copies, and this "Wizard" new work also undertook the important task of saving the company's reputation.
It is conceivable that if the new "The Witcher" new game has problems like 2077 again, then CDPR will really fall to the bottom and can no longer be saved, which is not only a loss for Poland, but also a loss for the entire game industry.
After all, there is no manufacturer in Europe and the United States that will make beautiful female characters like Yenafa and Ciri in the AAA game.