Cyberpunk 2077 Production Director Leaves Studio After 15 Years
The production director of Cyberpunk 2077 Jędrzej Mróz has decided to part ways with developer CD Projekt Red, leaving a cheery goodbye message on their LinkedIn page. While the open-world sci-fi RPG is one of the studio's latest offerings, which went down as one of the most disastrous releases in gaming history, it's largely The Witcher series that fans know best, with Mróz joining the team for the original game's production.
Despite the reception of the sci-fi game starring Keanu Reeves when it first launched at the end of 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 has received a number of updates and has been going from strength to strength, with a series of major patches rolling out and some DLC going live very recently. Despite the changes, the reputation of the studio took a beating during the initial release, with the ambitious title being plagued with a litany of bugs, rendering the game almost unplayable especially for those on console.
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It's unsure why Mróz has decided to leave CD Projekt Red or what they will do next. The news was spotted by Twitter user IdleSloth84 which sources the original post on Mróz's LinkedIn page. The production director for Cyberpunk 2077 simply thanked the studio for having them onboard for the last 15 years, referring to the time as «spectacular.» According to a report from VGC, they joined the team back in 2007 when the studio was just branching out into video game development and was due to release the first The Witcher game. Mróz joined the team as a QA specialist at that point before moving up to eventually become production director on Cyberpunk.
At the time of writing, CDPR has yet to comment on the departure or whether the team will hire
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