Cyberpunk 2077 game director Gabe Amatangelo explained in his DICE 2024 talk that the game’s calamitous launch didn’t just hit the studio’s morale—but the people around it too.
It’s no surprise that Cyberpunk 2077‘s rough launch tanked morale in developer CD Projekt Red. Game director Gabe Amatangelo began his 2024 DICE talk by acknowledging that fact. Ignoring it wouldn’t make any sense. If you want to discuss how the studio turned the game from a buggy mess (the PlayStation 4 version had so many errors it and the PS5 version were removed from the PlayStation digital store) to a sales powerhouse that could propel a premium DLC release to multi-million dollar success, you have to stare failure in the face.