No More Delays for The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Says

Talking with Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese at Polish conference Digital Dragons, CD Projekt’s co-founder Marcin IwiÅ„ski explained that he’s confident The Witcher 3 won’t be delayed any further. In his words:

“This is not our first game; we are not newbies,” he said. “It’s not like ‘hey we are delaying and we’ll keep on delaying’. If we would think we need more time we would say ‘hey we’ll release it not in Feb but, I don’t know, June’. We made the decision at the moment we were able to judge how much time we needed, and we planned it well and it works well for us. So, no more delays.”

The reaction to the delay surprised CD Projekt Red. Iwinski knew it was bad news his company was announcing, knew he was letting people down who – like him – had expected to be playing a big and long fantasy adventure during their Christmas holidays, on their new machines.

“But we were really positively surprised with the response,” he said. “It was ‘hey guys, great that you have the balls to say that you take your time and you spend money on it’. Because it’s not happening for free. That’s a really important thing to mention.”

It’s not like the decision was made lightly; not only was fan-reaction a concern but CDPR also had to justify the delay and extra expenditure to its shareholders, which heaped on “an additional load of pressure”.