Cyberpunk 2077 was “better than it was received,” CDPR dev says

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Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most exciting game launches of all time. Riding high on The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red, beloved creator of RPG games, built a beautiful, rich, and extremely cool-looking new open world, which seemingly promised to push the genre to new heights. Nevertheless, Cyberpunk 2077 faced a difficult initial reception, with the imminent Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty release date hopefully marking the completion of the game’s long redemption arc. One CDPR dev however says that the original game was “better than it was received,” while also reflecting on what the GOG and Witcher Remake dev can do to heal the relationship with its fans.

The best Cyberpunk 2077 mods have certainly helped the open-world, sci-fi shooter since launch. Likewise, as we anticipate The Witcher 4 release date (as well as Phantom Liberty) there is plenty more to look forward to from CDPR. CD Projekt’s VP of communication Michał Platkow-Gilewski is optimistic about the future.

“These projects are at different stages,” Platkow-Gilewski says. “It’s not that we are doing all that in the same moment at the same stage, because that would be a lot of work. We are thinking about the strategy for the years to come. We really care about our IPs, we want to develop them, we want to create games within them. But also, we want to make sure we are focused all the time.”

Platkow-Gilewski also discusses the scale and scope of Phantom Liberty, and how CDPR sought out star Idris Elba to make the expansion feel comparably significant to the Keanu Reeves-starring base game.

“For us, an expansion should be visibly big,” he continues. “In the base game, we have Keanu, so we said, if we’re going to do something else significant, we need an actor who can