You could have done that, taken the higher rate and then anonymously denounce them twice as hard for trying to cheat.

I guess that we should be under no illusion that CDPR is a nice company in any way. It's just a company like every other company, maybe worse maybe better, that is difficult to tell without good statistics. So far, this is more rumors.

If in the end Cyberpunk is a great game, customers will buy it and enjoy it and pay stupendous amounts of money for it, regardless of how it was produced. The owners of CDPR will be very satisfied.

But maybe customers should take employee satisfaction into account. Only buy games from publishers where employees are happy. Sounds a bit difficult to do overall.

If somebody interested, here's the rating for GOG.com:

https://www.glassdoor.de/Bewertungen/GOG-com-Bewertungen-E827105.htm?countryRedirect=true

Stock price reflects short term expectations, so the two are not mutually exclusive. What it *does* mean, IMO, is that the future will consist of projects like GWENT, rather than projects of the magnitude of The Witcher.

I couldn't agree more. It's not just web journalism, it's mainstream media as well, who seem quite happy to regurgitate something they read online and report it as fact.

There's no integrity, or appetite for proper journalism these days. All news is perverted by the wishes of the owner, or in the BBC's case, the board of directors. The ones that won't call a terrorist a terrorist.

Interesting. Two things struck me here:

"Lack of complex IT systems enforces usage of manual control over most of procedures."

To anyone familiar with this website, this should come as no surprise.

"Polish employees often switch to Polish in conversations, despite people who don't speak Polish being around."

Maybe it's just me, but even in a multicultural environment, isn't it perfectly reasonable to expect the lingua franca of the host country to be used by default? I've never understood this corporate obsession with anglifying work environments. If you're in Poland, it's reasonable that you should be expected to speak or at least learn Polish.

Anecdotal information is anecdotal information: no, it isn't as good as other types of information, but it is far from being worthless. As YongYea notes, it's troubling because there are *other* indications that something isn't right, such as the silence re Cyberpunk 2077 five years into development.

Just for my peace of mind, I'll try to make this clearer. I have taken great care to acknowledge YongYea's efforts, and have repeatedly posted here, that I hope for some follow up pieces based on proper sources. I have never dismissed the information as worthless.

I can't believe I'm having this much problems getting my point across.

I understand that, I'm just saying that from my perspective we are already past the "starting point", as there are other indications that something is amiss.

A small distinction, but I think it is important, and I apologize if you are offended.

I wasn't offended, I was frustrated, because as I kept posting, I was getting a feeling that I might end up being quoted, as if I might be dismissive.

It's okay, forget about it.

It wasn't the best choice of words on my part. Point taken. : )

Very true... funny enough that many people seem to think that 'citizens journalism' could fix the perceived shortcomings of regular journalism when the concept of 'citizens journalism' or web journalism in itself just embodies the disregard for quality standards and professionalism. Good journalism certainly needs training and resources.

The discontent with management, overtime and low wages sounds believable though.

I don't know what things are like in other non-english speaking countires, but in Poland the result is most corporate workers (and I mean native polish people) start speaking this weird "polglish" hybrid, something like polish but with nouns and adjectives borrowed from english and altered to fit polish grammar. And of course no one outside that corporate culture can understand a damn thing they're saying. I sometimes wonder if different corporations developed different dialects of this and if they can communicate with each other.

That happens in the entirety of Sweden, not just specific multicultural environments.

It's not an average job at a random polish office. GOG is an international company that explicitly wants people from all over the world. And the default language on GOG.com is English, too. The job requirement doesn't mention Polish, but "English. Be able to easily communicate in an English speaking office." Apparantly many people just stayed for 2-3 years. I think it's reasonable to expect that these people would pick up a little Polish for everyday communication, but not that they speak or understand Polish at work. In this scenario, I think the person was right to complain about Polish co-workers taking the easy way out in an "English speaking office" without any consideration for their international colleagues.

Question :

How do we know that this site isn't full of Bullshit? I mean how can it verify that those people actually worked there?

Another question :

I understand that long crunch times are tiring, but what the fuck do you expect a company to do if they want to release a game that is as bug-free as it can get?
WTF?