The Witcher 3 new dlc story will have Dandelion is at the center of it, CD Projekt Red says Songs of the Past is meant to fill in a missing part of The Witcher 3’s story, not than setting up for The Witcher 4.
Dandelion will take a much bigger role, with Geralt getting involved in another adventure connected to his old friend.
The story will also explore Dandelion’s background and his homeland, giving the character more depth than we’ve seen before.
The developers say they went back to the original Witcher books for inspiration, especially when working on Dandelion’s past.
id didn’t “ship DLC.” It extracted it.
A former producer says Revelations was built in a three-to-four-month sprint under the worst crunch he’d seen—12-hour days for two months, 17-hour days, 80-hour weeks. Hollywood lifer on the team said the same. He missed his son for stretches of it. Then he got laid off on launch day.
That’s the real product cycle. Players get a polished expansion. Execs get a clean calendar. The people who paid with sleep and family time get a severance email.
Most of the discourse will stall on “was it mandated?” That’s the dodge. Nobody needs a memo when the workload is 60 hours and “player-quality” is the whip. If the game only exists because someone didn’t see their kid, the crunch was the plan.
The signal isn’t that id works hard. It’s that a legendary studio can still be hollowed out after the work is done —and the audience will mostly remember the trailer.