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Cyberpunk 2077 Is Getting Another Night City Wire Showcase Next Week (2)

Cyberpunk 2077 has gone gold, CD Projekt Red confirms

Going for gold.
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Today is the day that finally, after years of development work, CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 has gone gold. The massive open world RPG was announced way back in 2012, a full three years before The Witcher 3 launched from the same studio. For anyone who doesn’t know, this means the base version of the game is now complete, and ready to be pressed onto discs.

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Of course, in the modern world, that’s by no means finished. CD Projekt Red will now be working on bug fixes and general polish for a pre-release patch, likely to fix lingering issues. The developer was recently called out for its declaration that the team would need to crunch from now until launch, after previously expressing the desire to eliminate the practice from its development cycles.

Although the game was initially announced eight years ago, full production began once development on The Witcher 3 and its DLC wrapped up. That makes roughly four and a half years of full development time, which isn’t a massive amount for a game of this size. It’s no surprise then, that game has seen multiple delays and will be worked on right until mid November.

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