Cyberpunk 2077’s external QA team allegedly misled CD Projekt over its experience
A new report has alleged that the outsourced QA team behind Cyberpunk 2077 misled developer CD Projekt about the experience and size of its team working on the game.
Upper Echelon Gamers claims to have received confidential documents from an employee at Romania-based Quantic Labs, the external QA company behind Cyberpunk 2077, detailing what went wrong during the QA process, and how it possibly contributed to the game being so broken at launch.
Upper Echelon Gamers was sent what it claims is a “72 page QA testing file, Quantic Labs human resources paperwork, workflow charts” and more documentation supporting the legitimacy of the claim.
“I believe the source to be real. They have provided extensive evidence to support that fact and have made serious claims about the quality of QA activities at Quantic Lab,” it states.
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In response to this story, a CD Projek Red spokesperson said the company “do not comment on rumours”. VGC has requested comment from Quantic Labs and will update this story if it responds.
Following three delays, Cyberpunk 2077 was released in December 2020 with a host of infamous technical problems, resulting in refunds being offered, the title being pulled from the PlayStation Store and CD Projekt shares tumbling.
Around 75 Quantic Lab employees are named in Cyberpunk 2077’s credits (which includes its CEO and managers), alongside around 70 QA coordinators and analysts internally at CD Projekt Red.
Quantic Lab is an experienced QA outsourcing company that has worked with companies such as Ubisoft, Techland, Paradox and Deep Silver. In November 2020 it was acquired by Embracer Group.
UEG’s report claims that in 2019,
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