![]() We had probably a year where we were scraping money to make the payroll at the end of the month." ![]() Rather than hit the ground running after The Witcher, CD Projekt was about to fall flat on its face. "Then there is my daughter and then my son. "The company is my baby, is my first baby," he tells me. It was the scariest moment in Marcin IwiĆski's 20-year career. Elsewhere, the publishing-distribution business CD Projekt was founded on had become a black hole, sucking money away, and GOG was barely big enough to sustain itself. The money from the first game had been burned trying to clear up the mess of The Witcher: White Wolf, the console game that never was. It was 2009, two years after the first The Witcher, and the global economic crisis had CD Projekt on its knees. ![]() I travel to Warsaw in Poland to visit CD Projekt, celebrated house of The Witcher, and there's one thing I discover that I can't stop telling people: The Witcher 2 was very nearly canned, and the entire company almost collapsed. Here, Robert Purchese reveals the story of Witcher developer CD Projekt in an article first published in November 2013. ![]() The Witcher 3 comes out on Tuesday, 19th May, and so we've hauled an exciting Witcher-related article out of the Eurogamer archive for you to read again or enjoy for the first time if you missed it.
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