Although CD Projekt Pink has a number of video games within the pipeline, the corporate behind the Witcher online game collection apparently does not have sufficient work for all its workers. Because of this, CD Projekt Pink has introduced it is slicing about 100 jobs or round 9 p.c of its workforce. This information follows layoffs in Might and June when 29 individuals had been let go from The Molasses Flood (owned by CD Projekt Pink), adopted by 30 individuals who labored on a Witcher card recreation that was scaled again.
“To satisfy our personal excessive expectations and ambitions to create the most effective role-playing video games, we not solely wish to have the most effective individuals but in addition the proper groups,” CD Projekt Pink CEO Adam Kiciński stated within the announcement. “There is no straightforward technique to say this, however at the moment we’re overstaffed. Now we have proficient individuals on board who’re ending their duties and — based mostly on present and anticipated undertaking wants — we already know we do not have different alternatives for them within the subsequent 12 months.” The corporate will notify all impacted workers now, however layoffs will probably be staggered, with some not taking impact till the start of 2024.
CD Projekt Pink had a tough previous few years — particularly with the mess that was the Cyberpunk 2077 launch. Sony Interactive Leisure pulled the sport from its PlayStation Retailer on the finish of 2020 — just one week after it was launched — resulting from widespread glitches. Prospects had been supplied a refund, and CD Projekt Pink’s inventory tumbled by over 20 p.c, a drop of $1.eight billion. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, its follow-up starring Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba, will hopefully have a smoother launch when it comes out on September 26th.