Thursday, June 8th 2017
CD Projekt Red: We Will Not Give In to the Demands of Thieves
CD Projekt Red are the world-renowned studio responsible for RPG masterpiece The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the two other less known, but still great Witcher RPGs before it. The company is one of the most gamer-oriented, generous game developers out there today, bar none. I say this, because this is a company who did some missteps before, but quickly backed out of them and that have created one of the most memorable and successful open-worlds to date. This is the studio that offered not only a soundtrack CD with their standard edition of the game, alongside a full-color map of the game world, but also went to the lengths of including a small letter to thank us for choosing their game over others. These developers offered 16 pieces of DLC with their game, DLC pieces that other studios had been (and have been) charging customers for.
The company outlined above have come forth in a tweet, publicly calling out an attempt from thieves to ransom stolen development files on the studios' upcoming sci-fi Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red said that they will not give in to demands from the individuals that have contacted them, and acknowledge that the public release of those files is likely to happen as a result. The studio also goes on saying that these files (if they even come to public now that their value has been thoroughly cut down) are "largely unrepresentative of the current vision for the game." I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to get some info on CD Projekt Red's next project from themselves.
P.S.: This editor Is sorry for the above post looking eerily similar to a rant. I just have a low tolerance for this kind of behavior from any part, but most of all, when the targeted party is actually one of the studios that is more deserving of gamers' respect.
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CD Projekt Red Twitter
The company outlined above have come forth in a tweet, publicly calling out an attempt from thieves to ransom stolen development files on the studios' upcoming sci-fi Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red said that they will not give in to demands from the individuals that have contacted them, and acknowledge that the public release of those files is likely to happen as a result. The studio also goes on saying that these files (if they even come to public now that their value has been thoroughly cut down) are "largely unrepresentative of the current vision for the game." I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to get some info on CD Projekt Red's next project from themselves.
25 Comments on CD Projekt Red: We Will Not Give In to the Demands of Thieves
As for the theft of stuff - it won't have any impact on the end result and the thousands of fans that loved the Witcher series will still buy the new Cyberpunk RPG.
I can't bloody wait for the new title. The hackers can go die of something bad.
Thieves and preconceived bigots be damned.
How much they stand for their great products, warning not be mislet by early visuals of a game.
WHAT A GREAT SPEECH FOR QUALITY AT ANY TIME THE CUSTOMER PAYS
The complete opposite to pre-alpha-monetization of other publishers on steam for example,
not bad either but a totally diffrent approach.
So yeah, the best developer out there! :cool:
I think these hackers picked the wrong target. About all they'll gain from it is modders getting a leg up on creating mods. Depending on where they're at in development and what was obtained, they might not even get that much.This sent me on a longer search than I anticipated. The PC port was outsourced to CD Projekt Black which doesn't even exist anymore. There was a language barrier between Volition (English) and CD Projekt Black (Polish). Volition wasn't able (still not able) to obtain the source code from CD Projekt Black for Saints Row 2. Just looking at Saints Row 2, one would easily conclude that CD Projekt Black built an Xbox 360 emulator for the game to run in which is why the game is so sensitive to newer operating systems. Bugs that exist in one also exists in the other (e.g. causing the water physics to go crazy).
10 minutes in, they start talking about it:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/86656459
Now that would be a twist, no?