CD Projekt RED: Why Employees Choose to Stay Here

News 01/14/2025

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Michal Nowakowski, the company’s co-CEO, confirmed in a tweet that CD Projekt RED (CDPR) is doing quite well in retaining its employees.

This spring marks 10 years since the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. A lot has happened at CDPR since then. After The Witcher 3, it became one of the most respected studios in the world, a position that was then broken when the Polish team released Cyberpunk 2077, after several delays, in December 2020, also for these three platforms. Slowly, however, the Polish team has regained the favor of gamers with the release of its only add-on, Phantom Liberty.

In that time, CDPR has grown to more than 1,100 employees, with Vancouver and Boston each getting a studio in addition to Warsaw. But what does that mean for The Witcher IV? Nowakowski wrote on Twitter that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be 10 years old in May and that about 100 of its developers are still working on new projects at CDPR, including the episode starring Ciri. Many of them are veterans of the first two Witcher projects, including co-CEO Adam Badowski, who’s been working on the franchise so long that he’s been there since its inception in 2002.

The Witcher 3 turns 10 this May. Around 100 of its developers are working with us to this day on our new projects, including The Witcher IV. Some are actually veterans from The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 1, including my esteemed co-CEO, @AdamBadowski , who has been with the… https://t.co/9Sry1S6yh2

— Michał Nowakowski (@michalnowakow) January 9, 2025

Nowakowski was responding to a tweet from Philipp Weber. Weber is the narrative director for The Witcher 4, and he wrote that a new mission for The Witcher 3 was released two years ago. New designers and writers worked on it while preparing for The Witcher IV, including one of the senior mission designers who has been with CDPR since the first installment was released in 2007, and he says it was a great start to getting back into the spirit of the IP.

Nowakowski wrote in a response that there were over 200 people working on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, so about half of the team is still around, which isn’t a bad ratio considering more people usually come and go in a decade!

Source: PCGamer

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