With Cyberpunk 2077 in development
CD Projekt Red wants to ensure that the balance between work and private life is more balanced among its employees.
Co-founder Marcin Iwiński and Cyberpunk 2077 director Adam Badowski announced this in an interview with Kotaku. Iwiński: "We are known - let me be humble - we are known for treating gamers with respect. I want us to be known for treating developers with respect."
He continues: "We have been working towards it for a while ... we want to be more humane and treat people with respect. If they need a while off, that is possible. No one will be surprised." Badowski also says that this also has advantages for him personally. "We are getting older, and most people responsible for the crunch period already have a family and small children, and they feel exactly the same about it."
CD Projekt Red is currently working on two games as far as is known, including Cyberpunk 2077. Although there is no release date for the game, Cyberpunk has been developing for some time. The question is whether the Polish developer can indeed avoid the dreaded 'crunch' for release. "Of course there are times when we have to work harder - I think the E3 demo is a good example," Iwiński said. "Sometimes we have unique specialties, unique employees, and we can't clone them. They have to work on very specific things. And then we have to ask them to spend more time on it because there is no other way."