CD Projekt has named Gabriel Amatangelo as Cyberpunk 2077 s new game director.
The appointment follows the departure of former quest director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who has stepped down from the position and left the studio.
Amatangelo joined CD Projekt in January 2020 as a creative director for Cyberpunk. Prior to the role, he worked as design director on Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC, as well as lead designer on various expansions for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
He will be tasked with leading the development of Cyberpunk s future expansions.
Former Cyberpunk game director, Adam Badowski, will now focus on other leadership duties inside the company. This includes CD Projekt s RED 2.0 transition, which will see the studio alter its strategy in order to develop multiple AAA titles in parallel.
CD Projekt Red s Heads To Receive Bonuses Despite Cyberpunk 2077 Fail
CD Projekt Red s Heads To Receive Bonuses Despite Cyberpunk 2077 Fail
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In a move we re sure will anger a lot of fans of CD Projekt Red, an old tradition is kicking in despite Cyberpunk 2077 s failure this year. In a report from
Bloomberg this past week, top figureheads of the company will be receiving a massive bonus this year. The company s two CEO s,
Marcin Iwinski and
Adam Kicinski, are both set to receive around $6.3m to their salaries as part of an end-of-the-year bonus. That s not together, that s $6.3m EACH. The only other member getting that big a payout, according to the report, is
Cyberpunk 2077 Bosses Will Reportedly Get Millions In Bonuses
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Cyberpunk 2077 has been a profitable disaster for developer CD Projekt, recouping its development cost in pre-orders and earning record-breaking profits for the company. This is despite the game’s infamously poor launch state, a lot of which can be chalked up to mismanagement management who will nevertheless receive hefty bonuses.
While some devs express disappointment at smaller-than-expected bonuses. Updated on 30 April 2021
It s safe to say Cyberpunk 2077 had a particularly rocky launch in December last year. With the game struggling to run on last-gen consoles, CD Projekt eventually started providing players with refunds, while Sony fully removed the game from the PlayStation Store (from which it still remains absent). CD Projekt has since issued various apologies for the launch, promising to continue patching the game and fixing its many bugs.
Thanks to a high number of pre-orders, the game still sold 13.7m copies, helping CD Projekt make over £215m in profit last year. Yet some analysts were expecting the game to perform better than this - and so were some of the game s developers. According to a new report by Bloomberg s Jason Schreier [paywall], some developers were expecting bigger bonuses than what they eventually received, and could have received more if th