Against the background of GOG’s losses, CD Projekt shared its plans for the store’s future. The main task is to restructure in order to increase its financial stability. Some of the employees will be transferred to the game development team. GOG itself will no longer be financially dependent on other CD Projekt divisions and will continue to develop the concept of selling titles without DRM protection.CD Projekt told about this during a conversation with investors…

Against the background of large discounts, the attitude of users to Cyberpunk 2077 has noticeably improved. The game has returned to the top of sales, and its views on YouTube have jumped by 540% over the past week. However, CD Projekt in its report for the third quarter still does not disclose the exact sales of the title.Analyst Mat Piscatella from NPD Group drew attention to the growing interest in Cyberpunk 2077.

Last week CD Projekt bought the American studio The Molasses Flood. She will develop a new project based on the original IP. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.

CD Projekt has published a financial report for the first half of 2021 (ended June 30). Revenue grew by almost 30%, but the company still does not disclose data on sales of specific games. CD Projekt also shared information about the next generation versions of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, refusing to name the exact release dates.

In the first seven days since the release of The Witcher: Monster Slayer was downloaded a million times, analysts at Sensor Tower calculated. They also found out that the revenue of the mobile AR game in the Witcher universe in the debut week exceeded $ 500 thousand.

The Witcher: Monster Slayer is a new mobile AR game in The Witcher universe. Developers are not in a hurry to share metrics yet, focusing on fixing numerous bugs. However, the project itself has already crossed the mark of 500 thousand downloads on Google Play in less than a week after the release.The Polish business publication drew attention to this Bankier.pl .

PUBG developers decided to follow in the footsteps of CD PROJEKT and create a “Korean The Witcher“. This is how Krafton described a new project that will be based on the series of Korean fantasy novels “The Bird that Drinks Tears”.

Several events related to Cyberpunk 2077 took place over the weekend. At first, CD PROJEKT management stated that it was quite a general state of the game. After that, it became known that sales of the title increased by 374%. But then it turned out that his audience on the PC continued to plummet.

Sony has officially returned Cyberpunk 2077 to the PlayStation Store. The game was absent from the platform for six months, and now it is sold at a reduced price. Despite the return of the CD Projekt project to the store, users are warned about the remaining performance problems.On June 21, the opportunity to buy the game again appeared on the Cyberpunk 2077 page in the PS Store.

China has very strict certification rules, as the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 were well aware of. It turned out that the developers of the game marked with the tag “Winnie the Pooh” all the controversial content that should be removed before the release in China. The problem is that this character has been banned in the country since 2017.

Top managers of CD PROJEKT demanded to vacate their positions. The British firm Abri Advisors, which owns an unspecified stake in the Polish publisher, sent a letter to its board of directors. In it, she delivered an ultimatum: either CEO Adam Kicinski and his deputy Marcin Ivinsky leave, or Abri Advisors will raise the issue of removing the entire board of directors.

The Polish CD PROJEKT Group of companies summed up the results of the first quarter (ended March 31, 2021). It didn’t go well. Despite the increase in sales revenue, net profit immediately fell by 64.7%.

After the scandalous release of Cyberpunk 2077, several law firms filed class-action lawsuits against CD Projekt on behalf of disgruntled investors. Now four of them have been combined into one. Its amount is still unknown.CD Projekt announced the court’s decision in a new report on its official website.

CD Projekt shared information about reserves that relate to possible losses from Cyberpunk 2077 refunds. In total, the company has pledged more than $50 million for this expense item, based on current data and sales estimates.The Ars Technica portal drew attention to the data.

Before the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the game was predicted to have some of the best initial sales in history. After a series of scandals, analysts’ expectations have fallen sharply. But it turned out that the title could not justify even the worst of them. And it’s not about large-scale returns.

Today, on April 22, CD Projekt Group released its financial report for 2020. According to the document, its revenue grew by 310% last year, and net profit by 558% compared to 2019. It was also announced how much the group spent on the creation of Cyberpunk 2077.

About a week remains until the publication of CD Projekt‘s annual report on the results of 2020, but the Polish holding is already impatient to share a couple of preliminary figures. The creators of Cyberpunk 2077 said that last year the company’s earnings increased more than two and a half times compared to the record 2015. Recall that it was then that they released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Yesterday’s announcement of the new strategy had a negative impact on CD Projekt shares. Analysts believe that it lacks specifics. Serkan Toto, CEO of the consulting firm Kantan Games, was one of the first to draw attention to the fall.

CD Projekt is expanding. The company announced the acquisition of the Canadian studio Digital Scapes, which it calls one of its key partners. In particular, she participated in the development of Cyberpunk 2077.