Its a third party studio doing the remake, CDPR probably won't be diverting many internal resources away from their existing in-house projects for this.

also this is just follow-up to a previous announcement where they announced 5 projects in various stages of development on top of info about the CP2077 expansion: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/10/cd-projekt-red-witcher-cybe...

They couldn't deliver 1 good project CP77, but now committing to 5 at around the same time?

You said:

>Its a third party studio doing the remake, CDPR probably won't be diverting many internal resources away from their existing in-house projects for this.

but the link claims:

>On Tuesday, CD Projekt Red announced five all-new games currently in development at the studio

Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

> Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

Stock price has nothing to do with how much money CDPR has in their bank accounts. Stock trading is basically a public opinion poll on the future of the company, but not a penny from those trades actually goes to company accounts.

Not entirely true. An equity price in the toilet means you might have to borrow money if you need a big chunk. It also weakens your ability to use stocks to pay employees which in turn requires additional cash outlays.

TL;DR: Companies still depend on equities as a funding mechanism.

and if a company is trading low, their trust is also low, am I wrong? They would will need to trick people into giving them money upfront (preorders?) or borrow from 3rd party to cover a product that will sell and bring cash.

nevertheless, I didn't mean they can't fund it because of low stock price, they got lots of free money from Polish government development fund, but CDPR delivered only 4 big games and only 2 were big hits, The Witcher and The Witcher 3. CP77 sold in many copies, I have one too, but I'm not buying them unless they prove it's worth the price. They completely lost my trust and employees with internal knowledge, who were committed to make Witchers a success story.

Previously delivering 2 (or 3) good games, having stock prices high during that time, getting free money from development fund vs now stock price low, trust in company and their quality dropped, 5 projects in progress? Aren't they shooting too high?

"Trust" is a broad term, so not the one I would use. It's more about expectations of future dividends (and expectations of other market participants' expectations of future dividends, and that goes on until some Nth derivative of the stock's underlying value, also because "growth" is a derivative of "future dividends")

Nearly every stock in Tech is down a lot this year. High growth, low profitability stocks are generally underwater. You'd have to compare their stock to similar companies to see if they are down more or less than those comparable peers.

> hey would will need to trick people into giving them money upfront (preorders?) or borrow from 3rd party to cover a product that will sell and bring cash.

My take on that is that with Witcher games and even with Cyberpunk they made a lot of money. In fact they made the amounts not often seen in Polish economy (I think at some point they were most valuable company in Poland). They should have a lot of cash saved, no need to borrow money.

EDIT: In fact I did find the info about their cash reserves and they are about $220M, which might not seem much from US perspective, but in Poland it is equivalent to their 3 years expenses.

Cyberpunk sold 20 million copies. The game was a critical disaster, to a certain extent, but was financially successful for the studio in the long run. The Witcher 3 in 2020 alone sold 30 million copies, so they're hardly hurting for cash.

Also "currently in development" does not mean every game is getting equal resources, or that each game is in the same stage of development.

>Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

It's new to me that the company makes its money selling its stock, not games.

Have you heard of Elon Musk?

I don't have much info any their organisation and teams, but it may not be a bad idea. Adding people to IT projects beyond some threshold doesn't really make them faster and spreading the risk across 5 projects may be better than going all-in with one.

>Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

It recently went up almost 50%.

Like 2 months ago their price was around 77-80

Now it is around 120~

I expect (I bet my money on) it to be around 150 around december/january

On the other hand Geralt waves his sword above his head like an idiot in Witcher 1. I hate remakes but if I had to have one this would be one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rkdbnv/started_play...

But yeah I want new stories more.

Yes, this is actually a game that would be well served by a remake that makes it more accessible.

The top comment in that thread you linked explains that sword movement is something from the books. No one's to say that'll be removed in a remake.

I don't remember him doing that in the books haha. He was a beautiful swordsman not a goofball.

If you're interested in their strategy check out this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJmgTQ0O8k

And, it seems like a fantastic way to learn a new engine.

While it's surely a constant, I think the entertainment industries at large have really started to milk the nostalgia cow hard

I could say a bunch of soft science things like, go with a sure thing in an uncertain market, blah blah. I think it's simply easier

The start was about 20 years ago, but I do agree

It seems the start is always ~20 years ago from when you talk about, regardless of when you talk about this sort of thing.

It’s when it’s ready for a reboot! I strongly associate it with the movie industry running out of new ideas after the 90s. Episode 1 was 1999 for example, before that most people thought Star Wars was over. Then the marvel stuff.

But maybe that’s just me being nostalgic since that’s also around the time I began being an adult. It does seem convenient how it’s usually timed out so that parents can geek out with their kids; so the industry inherits a new generation of fans. My recent example of that is how apparently Pokémon is very popular again. I was too old to care in the 90s but those kids now have kids of similar age as they were at the time.

Not at all, they have lots of new games coming.

Sibling comment has a link.

GAMERS RISE UP!

There's no way multiplayer would've made sense in CP77 with how OP the netrunner build was, nevermind how the Sandevistan is supposed to work across the wire. The game is completely unbalanced in the player's favor by early mid-game, another artifact of their hastened release process, I can't imagine what they'd have to do to push out a multiplayer mode.