The QA firm blamed for the abysmal state of Cyberpunk 2077 has asserted its right of reply. She refutes several points of the previous report and states that there is a misunderstanding of the testing process.
The week opened with a new drama for Cyberpunk 2077. A video posted on the Upper Echelon Gamers Youtube channel accused an insurance company of being a reason for the sinking. The latter defends itself today through a press release addressed to our colleagues at VGC.
Quantic Lab exonerated?
Stefan Seicarescu, CEO of Quantic Lab, begins by explaining that his company “always strives to work with transparency and integrity with our industry partners”. Then to add that the video not only has multiple errors, but that there is also a misunderstanding of the quality assurance (QA) process.
The video posted on social media as explained in your article begins with misrepresentations about the history of Quantic Lab. There seems to be a misunderstanding of the process of testing a game before release.
What exactly is wrong? Already the number of employees. There would be at this very moment more than 400 employees distributed in the three offices that Quantic Lab has in Romania. However, it does not mention the number of employees who had to flush out bugs and other issues on Cyberpunk 2077.
Quantic Lab has over 60 active customers. The company supports more than 200 projects a year from several world-renowned publishers and continues to have a quality-first approach to all the work we undertake.
Several responsible for the Cyberpunk 2077 sinking?
Without accusing anyone, the CEO of Quantic Lab nevertheless specifies that his company was not the only one on the Cyberpunk 2077 project.
All agreements with our customers are confidential, but in general, large publishers work with several quality assurance companies, not depending on one in particular, in addition to their own internal resources (in most cases ).
The two pass the buck and it’s fair game. But in the end, there is surely some truth in this last statement from Stefan Seicarescu. Likewise, and as we said, Quantic Lab can only beone of the reasons for the disaster and not solely responsible. Jason Schreier’s investigation had notably highlighted serious management problems, decisions that completely upset the design or planning with a game that would not have entered development until 2016, according to the journalist’s sources. Problems directly attributable to CD Projekt Red.
While waiting for The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2077 will still receive its major expansion including a new scenario. Will this content be up to snuff upon release? Suspense!