Excerpt from attached article: This past Wednesday, CD Projekt posted a note on its Web site announcing that the parties to the lawsuit filed against the company had “entered into negotiations concerning a potential settlement.” I recently spoke with Harold Goldberg, the founder of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, about the continued fallout of the Cyberpunk debacle. The Witcher 3 won game of the year from the critics circle five years ago, he pointed out. “CD Projekt Red got too big for itself,” he said. “It could not deliver this awesome, very complicated, open world that was promised.” He noted that CD Projekt is a publicly traded company. “When you’re beholden to stockholders,” he said, “you have this odd, extra pressure that makes you want to meet your deadlines, come hell or high water. The game was not ready for consumers.”
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