CD Projekt Confirms Layoffs on The Witcher Multiplayer Spinoff, Issues Statement

CD Projekt has confirmed layoffs connected The Witcher multiplayer spinoff, codenamed Project Sirius.

First reported by Kotaku, 9 unit moving connected the crippled were cut. In a connection issued to IGN, CD Projekt confirmed 4 unit successful its Boston bureau and 5 successful its Warsaw office mislaid their jobs, with 9 others told they could use for imaginable roles connected different projects. As of April 30, Project Sirius had 83 unit moving connected it. That fig is present presumably person to 60.

“We adjusted the size of the Sirius squad to bespeak the project’s needs astatine this signifier of development,” CD Projekt said. As a result, 4 radical successful Boston and 5 successful Warsaw are leaving the company, portion 9 others person been invited to interior recruitment processes for imaginable roles connected different CD Projekt Red projects.”

CD Projekt brought Boston-based The Flame successful the Flood developer The Molasses Flood into the fold to marque Sirius backmost successful 2021, but it has suffered difficulties successful the years since. Indeed, this isn’t the archetypal clip it’s had layoffs. In 2023, CD Projekt said Sirius had a "new framework" aft restarting development. Layoffs followed.

There is nary proposition contiguous that Project Sirius is canceled, but it is present astir 4 years since it was announced and CD Projekt has yet to amusement thing of the game. Meanwhile, the institution is hard astatine enactment connected The Witcher 4 (513 staff), Cyberpunk 2 (163 staff), and caller IP Project Hadar (24 staff). There’s besides a The Witcher 3 enlargement coming adjacent twelvemonth and a remake of The Witcher 1.

On apical of that, CD Projekt has an highly ambitious program to motorboat The Witcher 4, The Witcher 5, and The Witcher 6 each successful a six-year clip period. It's this program which fundamentally rules retired the anticipation of expansions for The Witcher 4. And past there’s Cyberpunk 2 to slot successful astatine immoderate point.

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