All CDPR devs deserve a bonus for making Witcher 3.

really?

Just how I felt when reading sme of the critics, most complaining about working conditions and low pay.

It's a shame that the industry is that way, countries which have better employee protections (especially concerning crunch times) and higher salaries don't have many game studios, if any at all, and that's probably the reason why - they just can't do these shenenigans there.

I'm not surprised the CD Projekt Red is a terrible place to work at ...

Employees aren't supposed to have fun but the least they could do is guarantee them in top condition since it could affect the quality of the work they do ...

Evidently not since the Witcher 3 is still the best rpg on 8th gen consoles to date in my opinion. It also has a great metascore so you can treat your employees like shit and still produce very good games. Whether a CEO of a gaming company should want that is an entirely different story. A company should treat their employees with respect and provide a good environment to work in. But sadly those places are rare in the gaming industry. Insomniac takes care of their employees rather well.

I skimmed through it, but wasn't all reviews basically pre 2016. Nothing new?

I did get contacted once by a HR person at CDPR and if I was interested in a job there, they wanted me to apply for a lesser role/salary that I was already doing. Have to admit that didn't give me much confidence in them and travelling abroad to work there, so I turned down the opportunity for interview.

I guess many of those problems are quite common, once a dev becomes big and important, late Autumn deadlines and all the bad that necessarily follows them, become almost unavoidable, probably only very large publishers with more than one dev team, and each team with plenty of people, on each most important franchise, can give some more rest and less stress to developers. And shit can happen in those cases too, just see what happened between Activision and West and Zampella.

Do people not know they also own and run GoG? Doesn't seem like it to some of the comments in this thread.

"As CD PROJEKT RED, we strongly believe this is not the way it should work and, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we have decided to do it differently. Cutting to the chase, everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform. You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy any special edition to get them — if you own a copy of Wild Hunt, they’re yours. This is our way of saying thank you for buying our game.” -Marcin Iwiński, co-founder and Joint CEO of CD PROJEKT RED

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what an asshole amirite

All I care about is that they make good games. Anyone at CDPR is free to find a different job if they don't like working there. Of, if they think they can do a better job managing, they're free to start their own studio.