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GameBanshee has learned from an inside industry contact that The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf has indeed been cancelled.

Details are sketchy, but the following facts have been confirmed: after the release of The Witcher, CD Projekt Red took the financial obligation of starting 3 projects simultaneously, a console port of The Witcher, and two more titles based on The Witcher intellectual property, one of which was The Witcher 2.

As the financial crisis hit, the studio was affected as well, finding itself incapable of managing all three projects and forced to lay off a significant portion of its staff. The third Witcher IP project was cancelled, and its entire crew was let go or left of their own volition. A second round of layoffs followed as The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf was cancelled, including around two dozen people losing their jobs yesterday.

All funds and manpower have been redirected to a single project, The Witcher 2, which will be a multi-platform title for PC and consoles.

 

 


http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/stat...lEaevQKOPt.php

 

 

 

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All those people lost their jobs...my condolences to them <=/ 



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That sucks, how much did the original sell on PC? was it affected a lot by piracy?

This does not bode well pc exclusive companies. It seems like the only company doing really well on PC's today is Blizzard.



                                           

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Im so mad right now. I was so Hyped for this game.



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Sure, what you say is the definition, but the connotation of RPGs is what they are in video games." - dtewi

Out of the three projects, this was the smartest one to keep. It's unfortunate how bad the financial crisis is affecting them, but a smart business decision nontheless.



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The original sold over a million units and this might be one of those few titles that weren't all that effected by piracy, at least in Poland were the game was made.

Shame about the projects. A guy that works in CDProject often came to the hookah bar i worked at and we would chat about how things are going, heck, i remeber when he told that they were considering also doing it for the Wii aside from the xbox and ps3. Lately though, he hasn't be coming around. Either layed off or really busy with keeping the company afloat.



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Wow that sucks.



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Sux. Although it was weird how late of a port it would have become. The original version of The Witcher came out in 2007 on PC.



umh??? I hardly see how the financial crisis could be affecting the company.... unless they can't find the financing, which is hard to believe after their first game got such acclaim.

In any case, Console versions is a money syphon....



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Hephaestos said:
umh??? I hardly see how the financial crisis could be affecting the company.... unless they can't find the financing, which is hard to believe after their first game got such acclaim.

In any case, Console versions is a money syphon....

It's not the first time it happens:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=67878

 



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