CD Projekt Pink will lay off round 30 extra workers by the tip of 2023 as growth on Gwent: The Witcher Card Sport winds down.
Revealed in a weblog submit on Gwent’s web site, CD Projekt Pink confirmed that “about 30 remaining Gwent workforce members are going to half methods” with the studio.
This contradicts an announcement from December when the developer informed IGN {that a} small variety of workers can be stored on to maintain the sport working whereas the remaining workers can be moved to different initiatives at CD Projekt Pink.
A spokesperson informed IGN that 4 workforce members will probably be laid off in June, with CD Projekt Pink regularly growing this quantity all year long till round 30 workers have been laid off in whole.
“It’s by no means straightforward to say goodbye,” the developer mentioned within the weblog submit. “And regardless that choices like this are unavoidable and a pure results of the transition, we’d like to specific our honest thanks for all of the contributions these workforce members have made to Gwent. Similar to the neighborhood, you helped make the sport what it’s right now.”
This announcement from CD Projekt Pink follows two different waves of lay-offs. The Molasses Flood, which is owned by CD Projekt Pink and presently growing the troubled Challenge Sirius Witcher sport, noticed 29 workforce members laid off earlier in Might.
CD Projekt Pink additionally introduced the closure of The Witcher: Monster Slayer in December final yr, revealing that lay-offs can be made at developer Spokko because of this.
Growth on Gwent is presently being switched to a community-focused approached. CD Projekt Pink introduced the change in December although assured the sport will stay on-line for years to return, with last “official” updates being made out of the event workforce between now and the tip of 2023.
Gwent celebrated its 5 yr anniversary of getting into open beta in Might 2022, however was first launched in closed beta again in October 2016. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales was launched as a full RPG spin-off in 2018 and a single-player standalone enlargement referred to as Gwent: Rogue Mage was launched in 2022.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and performing UK information editor. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.