pc gamer Cyberpunk 2077 lead gameplay designer leaves CD Projekt Red

[ENTERPRISE]

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Zawadzki announced his departure on Twitter, saying, "After almost 8 years, my time at CDPR has come to an end. It's time for the new adventure. To every person I've met on the way – thank you It was an honor and pleasure. See you around

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Let's face it, it is no coincidence he leaves considering the mess CBP2077 was.

 

 

[Andrew]

Honestly, after that, I'd leave as well. The higher ups took his game and just destroyed it.

[funguseater]

If they had just cancelled the PS4/Xbox version I feel the game would have been able to keep much more of it's content intact. The Execs really shot themselves, and their programmers in the foot promising a game like this on such old hardware.

[J7SC_Orion]

...I adore Cyberpunk 2077's graphics and managed to get a fairly stable setup on two 4K systems...still, during a couple of their VARIOUS burst-fire Hotfixes and patches, I twice had the problem whereby the game wouldn't work at all anymore AFTER it automatically installed the latest patches (Steam)...it was working great BEFORE those patches...

 

...I emailed CDR for help on January 24th - but didn't even get a reply until March 3rd...the reply opened with an apology "Thank you for contacting us. I apologize for the late response - we received a large number of inquires..."  By that time, I had figured out what the problem was (the Hotfixes were corrupting 1 or 2 of my 'local' files), but still...

 

...it seems CDR bit off more than I could chew w/ CP2077, at least w/o commensurate support structures. It also seems like it suffered from 'feature creep by committee' during development which kept on delaying launch and complicating debugging and support matters...the PS4/XBox 'compatibility' probably made huge business sense in revenue forecasts, but added a whole new envelope of problems, IMO. 

  

  

 

Edited March 23, 2021 by J7SC_Orion

[mouacyk]

This could be a normal thing.  Designers normally don't stick around to do maintenance work. And CDPR may not be interested in creating new IP's soon.