“Felt like rock stars”. How CDPR realized the scale of The Witcher 3's success
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
On May 19, The Witcher 3 celebrates 10 years. To mark the occasion, CD Projekt Red developers looked back in a video at how the game unexpectedly became a massive hit even to themselves.
According to composer Marcin Przybyłowicz, the team was proud of the project before its release, but no one expected such massive success. Cinematic artist Maciej Pietras admits: the first glowing review came as a shock to him — he was so engrossed in reading it that he missed his tram stop. Only then did the realization hit: the audience truly loved the game.
QA testers Artur Kiełpień and Monika Jankowska recalled that even before release, friends and acquaintances were bombarding them with questions. However, the team felt the strongest impact on launch day. Art director Paweł Mielniczuk was at the launch event at the Blue City shopping mall in Warsaw and saw a massive live queue of fans. That was when, according to him, they first “felt like rock stars on stage”.
Localization director Mikołaj Szwed also experienced unexpected fame — in Wrocław, a line formed for his autographs.
Video: https://youtu.be/XOHXj_AeRlY
The Witcher 3 was released in 2015 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Cover art author: CD Projekt RED. Cover art source: The Witcher
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