CD Projekt Red has a lot of them witcher games in various stages of development, and one of them appears to have just undergone a major overhaul. Project Sirius, a multiplayer witcher The spinoff has “changed” and the studio is laying off nearly 30 developers working on it, CDPR confirmed my city.
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Project Sirius was first announced last October, along with plans for a new one witcher trilogy and one Open world remake of the first game in the series from an external studio. Recently acquired by CDPR, indie studio The Molasses Flood is known for The Flame in the Floodwas to be the main team behind Project Sirius, which would feature the single player option, and for the first time in one witcher Game would also include multiplayer.
It’s unclear now if that’s still on the table. Already in March, CDPR a massive depreciation for costs associated with its development, and now the developers of The Molasses Flood have reported that they were fired on May 11th upon the conclusion of CDPR.define a new framework” For the game.
“As the project has changed, so has the make-up of the team working on it – mostly on the side of The Molasses Flood,” said a CDPR spokesperson my city. “The specific number of employees we have separated is 21 team members in the US and eight in Poland (working on the project outside of the US).”
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The company declined to provide further details about the game, including what prompted the change of direction and the layoffs. “Yesterday I was fired because of the molasses flood” now tweeted formerly Technical Narrative Designer Robert Bailey, on May 12th. “Not so much fun updating the bio this time. I enjoyed the work I did up until my last day and would love to continue doing it.”
The Molasses Flood is based in Massachusetts and was founded in 2014 by former gloriole, BioShockAnd guitar hero Developer. It was acquired by CDPR in 2021, who said at the time the team would keep its own identity and not merge with it Cyberpunk 2077 Studio. The Molasses Flood team was quite small before the acquisition, and it’s not clear how many developers are left after the layoffs.
In addition to its offering of Witcher games, CDPR is also currently working on a major paid expansion Cyberpunk 2077 called phantom freedom as well as a sequel to the first game that will Include multiplayer content. This project, like many others by the Polish company, will probably be a few years away.
