The developers of “Cyberpunk 100” are said to have bonuses regardless of the average critical reviews of their action game get paid. This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency, which has received an internal email from the management.

The studio boss of CD Projekt Red, Adam Badowski, takes responsibility for the bumpy start of “Cyberpunk 2077 “:” We underestimated the effort and complexity to ‘Cyberpunk 2077 ‘To make reality’. The original plan to link bonus payments to review scores is not fair under these circumstances.

It is common in the industry to pay bonuses to developers for average critic ratings. Developer studios usually take into account the average rating at the review aggregator Metacritic. Ambitious studios often set their goals quite high and aim for points or more. At least the PC version of “Cyberpunk 2077” is up to date at Metacritic 90 Points. The console sockets, which have only recently been tested, are likely to score significantly lower due to massive technical problems.

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Coupons for special services According to Bloomberg, particularly committed “Cyberpunk 100” developers could earn coupons for bonus payments, which should be paid out under certain circumstances – in addition to the Critics’ ratings should also have played a role in the release date of the action title. Although the release has been postponed several times and the critics’ ratings are likely to be lower than expected, these bonuses should now definitely be paid out.

According to the CD Projekt, “Cyberpunk 2077” has been pre-ordered over 8 million times. According to the studio, the income from these pre-orders is sufficient to cover the development and marketing costs of the open-world game. Because of numerous bugs and technical problems, the buyer feedback was largely negative, at least among console gamers. Investors also rated the start of “Cyberpunk 2077” as a disappointment, the share of the Polish studio has since fallen by over 9 percent.

Even in the run-up to the release, CD Projekt had come under fire due to the working conditions of the developers. In the final development phase of “Cyberpunk 2077” the employees of the CD Projekt Red studio had to work six days a week, according to Bloomberg.

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