CD Project RED management may have been unaware of critical technical problems with Cyberpunk 2077 before release. This was reported by the Forbes portal with reference to the YouTuber Upper Echelon Gamers.
The game was tested for bugs by the Romanian company Quantic Lab. According to an anonymous QL employee, management promised CDPR to bring in the same employees who were looking for bugs before the release. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. However, in practice this was impossible: almost all of these personnel left the company long ago, and less experienced employees took their place.
Quantic Lab challenged testers to look for at least ten bugs every day. In order to fulfill the plan, they basically clung to the minutiae, overloading the reports for developers. Because of this, CD Project RED simply did not have time to solve all the main problems.
In addition, the QL management initially assigned only 30 people to test Cyberpunk 2077, although under the agreement with CDPR there should have been much more. Later, the team was doubled, but even this number was not enough to satisfy all the requirements of the Polish studio. At the same time, Quantic Lab claimed that they were fulfilling this clause of the contract. In addition, an additional 30 people were new to testing, and the other half of the team was forced to spend a lot of time training them instead of performing their direct duties.
Upper Echelon Gamers noted that the information was provided to him in the form of a 72-page document, which he cannot show. According to the blogger, this will give lawyers for Quantic Lab and CD Project RED a reason to remove the video. However, he claims that he checked all the data and is more than sure of their authenticity. Forbes has reached out to both companies for comment but has yet to receive a response.