{"id":84720,"date":"2026-06-19T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84720"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:36:42","slug":"cd-projekt-red-co-ceo-hopes-witcher-4-wins-back-players-after-heartbreaking-cyberpunk-2077-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84720","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Red Co-CEO Hopes Witcher 4 Wins Back Players After &#8216;Heartbreaking&#8217; Cyberpunk 2077 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>CD Projekt Red co-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski thinks the studio has yet to complete a &#8220;full redemption arc&#8221; after the &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/cyberpunk-2077\">Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>, but he&#8217;s hoping it can win back some fans with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-iv\">The Witcher 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nowakowski reflected on the Poland-based game developer&#8217;s journey during a recent conversation with Edge (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/cyberpunk\/cdpr-boss-hopes-the-witcher-4-wins-back-fans-still-put-off-by-cyberpunk-2077s-disastrous-launch-im-not-100-percent-convinced-we-went-through-the-full-redemption-arc\/\">GamesRadar<\/a>). The interview saw him open up about how &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was for the team \u2013 and for fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not 100 per cent convinced we went through the full redemption arc,&#8221; Nowakowski said. &#8220;I&#8217;m convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely, and that&#8217;s a fair thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"cyberpunk-2077-official-ps5-pro-update-launch-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly six years since Cyberpunk 2077 undid much of the goodwill CD Projekt Red had accumulated following the release of its 2015 hit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a>. Years of excitement for the futuristic dystopian RPG quickly fizzled out after launch-day players were met with a long list of game-breaking bugs, annoying visual glitches, and frequent crashes.<\/p>\n<p>These issues were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/cyberpunk-2077-on-base-ps4-and-xbox-one-units-has-major-issues\">especially prevalent on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One<\/a>, and although early sales managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/cyberpunk-2077-pre-order-sales-have-already-covered-entire-development-and-marketing-cost\">see CD Projekt Red quickly recoup its development and marketing costs<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/cd-projekt-red-stock-decline-cyberpunk-2077\">company&#8217;s reputation<\/a> had clearly taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/cyberpunk-2077-playstation-store-return-date-announced\">a<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red co-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski thinks the studio has yet to complete a &#8220;full redemption arc&#8221; after the &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; launch of Cyberpunk 2077, but he&#8217;s hoping it can win back some fans with The Witcher 4. Nowakowski reflected on the Poland-based game developer&#8217;s journey during a recent conversation with Edge (via GamesRadar). The interview&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":84722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84724,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84720\/revisions\/84724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}