CD Projekt RED Managers Get Huge Bonuses

<p>Cyberpunk 2077 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-sold-over-13-million-refunded-over-500k&sol;">sold over 13 million copies<&sol;a>&comma; with around 500&comma;000 copies refunded since its launch&period; Calling the launch disastrous is an understatement&comma; however&period; The game&&num;8217&semi;s poor state <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-cyberpunk-2077-launch-disaster&sol;">lead to it being banned from the PSN store<&sol;a>&period; Even after multiple patches&comma; including one massive one&comma; Cyberpunk 2077 still feels woefully undercooked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That&&num;8217&semi;s not to say the game is terrible&comma; far from it&period; As we stated in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-pc-review-a-diamond-in-the-rough&sol;">our review<&sol;a>&comma; Cyberpunk 2077 manages to shine brightly in multiple areas&period; You have to consider the amount of crunch and short time frame for the development as well&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s actually impressive what the developers at CD Projekt RED managed to pull off&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As such&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a bit disappointing to hear that the staff aren&&num;8217&semi;t exactly happy with the bonuses they were paid&period; Given their immense work on Cyberpunk&comma; which continues as we speak with their promise to deliver ongoing patches to fix the game&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s obvious they deserve it&period; So what gives&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">On a CD Projekt earnings call&comma; someone asked if these executive bonuses were &quot&semi;appropriate&period;&quot&semi; Here&&num;39&semi;s the full question and co-CEO Adam Kici&nacute;ski&&num;39&semi;s full response&period; Kici&nacute;ski is set to receive a &dollar;6&period;3 million bonus <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;6yzo2LKq1m">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;6yzo2LKq1m<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Jason Schreier &lpar;&commat;jasonschreier&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;jasonschreier&sol;status&sol;1388100474646274048&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 30&comma; 2021<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Unfair Bonuses<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>As it turns out&comma; those massive bonuses are going to the board members&period; According to a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bloomberg&period;com&sol;news&sol;newsletters&sol;2021-04-30&sol;cyberpunk-managers-still-win-big-bonuses-after-shoddy-game-launch" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">recent article by Bloomberg&&num;8217&semi;s Jason Schreier<&sol;a>&comma; employees report they earned only &dollar;5000 to &dollar;9000 in bonuses&comma; while senior employees earned closer to &dollar;15&comma;000 or &dollar;20&comma;000&period; This is all fine and good until you consider the fact that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cdprojekt&period;com&sol;en&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads-en&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;separate-financial-statement-of-cd-projekt-sa-for-2020&period;pdf">CDPR board members receive &dollar;6&period;3 million each<&sol;a>&comma; totaling &dollar;28 million for all five board members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Staff feels that the rushed release of Cyberpunk is largely to blame for the low bonuses&period; If they were given more time to work on the game&comma; the reception would not have been as bad&comma; and bonuses would have been greater&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is some good news though&comma; as CD Projekt RED are re-evaluating their practices to keep the staff from leaving the company&period; Wages for some of the lowest-paid positions have been increased&comma; including QA&period; This seems fitting given QA was entirely thrown under the bus during an &&num;8220&semi;apology&&num;8221&semi; video released earlier this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though&comma; even with the additional compensations&comma; the gap between staff and management is still enormous&period; This seems to be common across the entire industry&comma; with the news that Activision&&num;8217&semi;s CEO Bobby Kotick has been forced to reduce his bonus by 50&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What are your thoughts&quest; Let us know in the comments&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;