CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski says the studio still has work to do to fully regain players’ trust after Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch. “I’m not 100% convinced we went through the full redemption arc,” he admitted that some fans are still put off by the game’s broken debut despite years of updates and the success of Phantom Liberty. He said the team hopes The Witcher 4 can help change that. “I hope with The Witcher 4 we’ll be able to convince those people and prove through our actions that we’ve changed.” Cyberpunk 2077 launched in 2020 with major problems, especially on last-gen consoles which were completely broken, and a lot of people refunded it. Since then, CD Projekt Red has spent years improving the game.

CD Projekt Red says fans should not expect a major expansion for The Witcher 4, as the studio is focused on releasing three new Witcher games within six years. Speaking during a recent investor call, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said making large expansions would be “difficult” while trying to keep such an ambitious release schedule. Right now, CDPR seems more interested in pushing the new Witcher saga forward than spending years adding extra content to each game. If everything goes to plan, fans could see new Witcher games arrive more often, but probably with fewer big expansions.

CD Projekt Red has announced a special livestream for The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine on May 28, and fans are already speculating it could be where the rumored new DLC finally gets revealed. So far, CDPR has only said the stream is meant to celebrate Blood and Wine and look back on the expansion with some of the developers who worked on it. Still, the timing has people talking, especially since rumors about new Witcher 3 content have been floating around for a while. Some reports claim the studio is working on another expansion that could help set up The Witcher 4 If CD Projekt Red is planning to announce something new for The Witcher 3, this livestream definitely feels like the place to do it.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 will not repeat the development mistakes of Cyberpunk 2077. In a recent presentation the studio’s veteran technical writers Jarosław Ruciński and Adrian Fulneczek explained how the company has learned hard lessons from past internal documentation failures. They described the previous approach as “chaos,” with fragmented info across multiple systems during Cyberpunk 2077’s development and the shutdown of the Witcher 3 wiki after the game’s launch. To prevent this going forward, the teams for The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 now share a single unified knowledge base, and updated documentation has been made a mandatory requirement before any development milestone is considered complete. “We only made one big mistake, which was thinking that the end of development for The Witcher 3 also meant the finish line for the documentation.” About the Cyberpunk 2077 era: “It was chaos. We had two spaces, two instances.”