Quantic Lab responds to claims it misled CD Projekt while working on Cyberpunk 2077
James Batchelor
Editor-in-Chief
Wednesday 29th June 2022
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Quantic Lab, an outsourced QA provider, has respond to reports that it was not honest about aspects of its partnership with CD Projekt Red when the two were working on Cyberpunk 2077.
The original report was published on YouTube channel Upper Echelon Gamers on Saturday, which alleges that, among other things, Quantic Lab promised a veteran team of testers would be assigned to Cyberpunk 2077 but instead gave the work to junior employees with less than a year of experience.
The channel, citing an anonymous Quantic Lab employee as its source, also claimed the company told staff to report a set number of bugs per day, resulting in CD Projekt being bombarded with details of minor performance glitches that distracted from work on more serious bugs and defects.
VideoGamesChronicle spoke to the QA firm's CEO Stefan Seicarescu, who did not explicitly deny the allegations from the video but did claim there were inaccuracies in the report.
"The video published on social media as mentioned in your article starts with incorrect statements about Quantic Lab's history. There seems to be a lack of understanding in the process of how a game is tested before its release to the market."
He added that the company works on over 200 games per year, many of which are from large publishers, and that it "continues to maintain a quality comes first approach to all the work we undertake."
Seicarescu also suggested Quantic Lab would not have been the only QA provider working on Cyberpunk 2077.
"All our customer agreements are confidential but in general, global publishers are working with several QA outsourcing companies, not depending solely on one, in addition to internal QA
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