Adam Kicinski declares in a meeting with investors that many of the studio’s developers are not subjected to crunch.
Cyberpunk 2077’s delay to next December has once again awakened debates about whether those 21 more days of waiting and work are going to translate into more extended hours for its employees, subjected to the famous crunch; another way of referring to a form of labor exploitation. The CEO of CD Projekt RED, Adam Kicinski, has declared in a meeting with investors that crunch “is not that bad” and that “it never was”.
Mandatory crunch for weeks: working days with Saturdays included
In a meeting with shareholders that was held in order to know this new delay of Cyberpunk 2077, Kicinski has commented regarding the crunch cake that “It is a story that has been echoed by the media, and some people have been subjected to a lot of crunch, but a large part of the team is not in crunch at all ”, but they are limited to doing their full working day.
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“Of course, it will be extended a bit,” he acknowledges; at least 21 more days, “but we have the feedback from the team, they are happy with the three additional weeks, so we have no threats about this crunch,” he ends, reducing the possible severity of this work situation in the study.
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Despite the fact that last May 2019 the Polish studio committed itself to “a policy without mandatory crunch”; Therefore, without any employee having to work more hours than those stipulated in a given period, no matter how much they were paid, in September 2020 it was known that CD Projekt began to work for several weeks also on Saturdays, which left the day weekly to a single day off.
This is not the first time that CD Projekt RED employees have to work under crunch circumstances for Cyberpunk 2077. In January, the studio acknowledged that despite the initial delay (which ran from April to September), it was going to work longer hours. stipulated for a long period.
Cyberpunk 2077 will be released on December 10 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC. PS5 and Xbox Series X | S players will be able to upgrade for free by purchasing the current generation version; the next gen patch will be available in 2021.
