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You know you're in trouble as a Polish company when you lose all your Piotrs and Pawels and replace them with Sanjeets and Biknars from overseas support studios in India. If you've ever been on artstation you'll know that all of the best 3d/Z-Brush artists out there are usually some Polish guy either named Piotr or Pawel who no one in America has ever heard of but, who does absolutely amazing work. It makes sense as they seem to be traditional names, therefore traditional values/hardworking/non-DEI hires, that's just my theory anyway.
ill do one better, if DEI is so great why the companies go bankrupt and push rubbish games?. shouldn't DEI supporters buy these games in bulk to support the company?
Its the giant investors who control all the media, they buy out all the major devs and publishing companies then control their narratives to suit the agenda, they don't care about the profit, they will sell the companies anyway to minimize loss. And unfortunately Gaming Industry is the one which gonna drop harder, all of them gonna lose their jobs, getting ridiculed, even filled bankruptcy
@@HanSolo__ when I say "Western" I refer to their political and economic ties to the rest of Europe, in the same way Japan and South Korea can also be referred as part of the "Western" world.
The old saying is "once you start getting flak, you know you're over the target". They know nobody wants what they're selling and they need to remain hidden in order to be effective. Thanks to that one Steam group and similar coverage, that's simply not an option now.
Unironically what happened to Kanye West. Even his black privilege was helpless when he joked and questioned the jews. I'm sure my comment will get deleted too quickly
@@EndymionTv Did you saw Phantom Liberty? This was full of ESG and DEI. And thats why its so trash. It has an 30 on Metacritic. Everyone hates it. Witcher 3 the Same trash. CDPR will go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk
@@exysa2798 It's also an awful DLC because of the new ending that ruin everything V was. I'd rather stay with the base game where V becomes a legend of "Night City", at least this character was respected then.
It's basically racism and sexism. How is it possible that they can do that without any consequence? It's like we're back in 1930-40 where black people were separated from white people in transportation, housing, employment, ... It goes against all my values.
CDPR~ "We're firing everyone working for us who is white and male. Our CEO will be replaced with a black woman in a wheelchair. Provided we can find one. We may have to import one from a more diverse country."
The receipts? Few people leaving across a decade and most around Cyberpunk release and an ESG page which is basicaly mandatory for public traded companies in the EU. Be sceptical even of people who share your opinions.
@@vojtam5063 although i do agree on the publicly traded and dont beliving one that has ur opinion cprd moved to canada the graveyard of bioware and soon ubisoft its not about beliving its about pattern recognition
@@vojtam5063Interesting you just completely ignored the main concern of the video that has hours and hours of video, posts, and web pages from the company on question saying it isn't happening. Dissonant, Egregious, incompetence strikes again.
@@vojtam5063 Wait a minute. Yesterday it was "it isn't there" and here you are claiming that not only that it's there but also mandatory. Running for the hills with those goalposts.
He didn't lie and he wasn't fired. You guys are lying through your filthy teeth. He said that director left over 2 years ago. Endymion proved that CEO is right. Noone from Enymion list left in 2023. Was Phantom Liberty woke? Cause CDR didn't change since then and somehow now they are woke even though they released a product that somehow isn't woke.
@@giftapfel Of course he doesnt. Also I understand why he doing double speak because CD Project RED had a lot going on CP77 and it had a disastrous launch but even before that they were looking for investment because PC77 also had a disastrous development and they arent say Sega that cut the loses of Hyena as they had other titles and could take the loss instead of throwing more money into a obviously mismanaged project that would likely fail out the gate (AKA throwing good money after bad), CD Project RED just had CP77 that was their next big thing so they couldnt do that, sure they have GoG but that they simply couldnt afford to cancel CP77 as they had no backup. This leads to CD Project RED being at the mercy of investment companies that are are knee deep in DEI, at this point they cant go back otherwise investment gets pulled and they have no fallback but people seem to had enough of the pushing politics into gaming so on one hand you have to show your investors they are committed to DEI as that is one of the strings that is attached and on the other now you have to pretend you arent because after all the recent high profile flops this would be a signal the game is going to follow the same path. The problem is not the companies or the people running said companies, the problems always been DEI in investment companies being used as "free money" that is a major cause of the current recession, few companies have the funds to sustain themselves and many companies are public with said investment companies being shareholders that sit in the board.
Hehe, funny, Im a senior game designer of 16 years, worked on a number of AAA games on various SDKs, almost worked for them in 2018 but I decided to rather spend some time travelling after KCD than crunchung on Cyberpunk which turned out to be a good decision, now I tried to apply for a senior writing position for CD Projekt Boston and guess what, they havent even checked my linkedin and automatically rejected me this time around despite having all the skills and experience they were looking for, now I know why.
Really is sad to me, there was a time where CD Projekt Red was the gold standard in gaming. Yet they've fallen as well. Granted I take comfort knowing the KCD crew took on a bunch of their talent and that many industry vets are starting their own studios. I just wish it was easier to track down where the people who made great games went to.
Game journos used to attack CDPR and gamers defended them. Now it has reversed and game journos are defending CDPR. They better hope game journos buy all their games as well.
That's your conclusion? Are you 5? Not a single person defends CDPR. Not gamers, not journalists, not pseudo-jourlalists. Nobody. Who said you have to buy anything. Parasites.
Modern response to critics: (1) You are lying, the things you are saying are not actually happening (2) Okay, they are happening, but it's not as big a thing or what you think (3) Okay, yes it is exactly what you say and as big as you think, but it's a GOOD thing. I've seen this play out so many times. Watching this narrative repeat in every single newspaper, press release, debate is the primary reason I don't read mainstream ANYTHING anymore.
This lfmao. And they think they have everyone utterly fooled which is the best part 😂 From step 1 to 3 no one believes a thing they spout from their mouth. All that changes between 1 and 3 is the amount of people and normies that get in on the story
Indie devs are no better, they’re a bunch of weirdos who make the same 3 types of games with the same themes of depression, gayness, and religion bad, and then get high off their farts because they’re oh so original
Indie devs will instantly become DEI when they start becoming slightly bigger Also, big corpos like Microsoft will eat up most small companies to recoup their losses from the triple A failings
It's either he's so obtuse and ignorant of what his own company is doing - or he's trying to blatantly gaslight us all. Either way, he's cooked and so is CDPR.
it's because he knows the woke are too lazy to look into any of it and will just take another woke's words as fact. it keeps their toxic positivity bubble from bursting.
Oh yeah? How about the stories they write? Or how about the GOG platform and how about supporting modders and old games preservation? That's all lies, right?
Diversity equity and inclusion? bigotry, injustice and exclusion of anyone white, male and straight. The mayor of London over here literally said: : " What is the opposite of diversity? Wite men!"
Thats what's happend when white men don't stand up for themselves. There’s a war going on against white men and christianity but we are in deep sleep. Proves is our sight but we are too blind to see. Just ask who is behind white guilt ideology and who is pushing it
@@irena4545 I wouldn't necessarily call being drugged, groomed and technically graped (at least at first) by a lesbian criminal a relationship. That said, she did have some visible attraction to e.g. sorceresses when they all bathed naked so her bisexuality can be presumed canon.
I mean, she did have a lesbian relationship in the book, but I don't think it was meant to be healthy or a good thing. She was still a child and was practically being groomed by Mistle. It was very disturbing to read.
@@BrunlocLet me guess you'll tells use you are going to buy 5 copies of it to own us and then neither buy nor play any of it? Yeah we did this with concord and everything else already we know you won't play it either.
cdpr are one trick ponies witcher 3 and that's it witcher and witcher 2 were good, but not great cyberpunk took years to get fixed you ain't missing much
I am angry at them as well and I have been working on Witcher number Ona ages ago... I would think that they were smarter - but no - they are stupid virtue signallizers - especially Nielubowicz in that woke T-Shirt. Piotrek what have you done from yourself, moron!
Make sure to boycott GOG since that's their other main source of revenue. DRM-free games and older games aren't worth supporting DEI/BRIDGE initiatives.
The pattern is simple - 1st a company goes public, 2nd it opens an office in the US/Canada and that office becomes main one. BOOM! It's pretty much owned by Blackrock and goes to full on DEI/ESG with agenda replacing what makes a game... game. Gameplay and story.
Ccp can continue to make games as Black myth wukong, i couldn't care less for the political leaning of the devs i just want quality game narrative and gameplay
@@albertbickel2585 I've seen better games. Mainly indie games made from China that *DOESN'T* suck. (Super Alloy Crush counts as a normal game, because it's NOT A CLONE OF DARK SOULS like BMW. It's a very unique mix between a platformer and a beat'em up meshed with Metal Slug elements.)
I was planning on playing it, but now I won't. I was also waiting to buy Cyberpunk until after I finished my backlog of games, but now I won't buy that either.
@@sergiarilla8608that is the goal. To infiltrate every facet of society with their agendas. You still think this is about money? Money is a tool to them, not the end goal. That’s what happens when you take control of a countries currency. This is what our forefathers warned us about and we got intelligent nerds like yourself who are still completely oblivious to the gravity and scale of the situation at hand.
@@Ya39oub_Gno. They will win the war. Cdpr wont give a sh** about me and u. Do you knoe what black rock is? They could fail like for fuggin ever and would still have money. Blackrock is literally printinh money at this point. Theyr assets and the company s worth is estimated to be 9 trillion dollars (no joke) So yeah... as long as blackrock is giving them money (the! Do this with almost every game dev now) the studios can produce w0ke trash on demand forever
Dont buy ever. Not from anyone who has the shite like they do posted on their company website. Its the only way to kick them in the balls. Make them broke. Make them spend millions on a game that doesnt sell.
@@czaczaczar The Witcher 3 is my top 1 game. 100% all of them. Did not buy the Cyber Punk because the sings were there. If The Witcher 4 is good. after I`l see enough gameplay. I will buy it.
Dude it’s always been that way. Are you ignorant to how companies work? There’s the devs and writers, and then the corpos who make the business decisions. It’s not the same 5 dudes doing literally everything in the company. If anything the cdpr corpos being so evil is probably what inspired some of cyberpunk
Unfortunately this is the cycle of video game company life. Almost all of the great companies of the 90s and early 00s are now blundering corporate hulks that can't not screw up every time. Whether it's making s**t games, all the good devs jumping ship over years, out-of-touch and greedy CEOs, or Woke BS in an attempt to garner ESG cash is irrelevant, they all become corrupt garbage at some point. The only one that seems to have escaped this predictable cycle at this point is Nintendo, but they have issues of their own.
@@just.a.guy324 But the devs and writers are absolutely 100% the problem because they're the ones making the creative and artistic decisions - the corpos just want a profit, but it's the devs that insert their preferences and ideologies into the game.
Hi. I'm from Poland and I just want to confirm that - unfortunately - everything about CDPR was said here is true. This is no longer the company which did your beloved Witcher. It's now full of DEI and rainbow s*it, where men are treated a second class human beings. At the very least NEVER preorder their games, regardless how sweet sweet honey PR bullcr*p try to convince you to do otherwise. And after game launch - approach as if you were approaching a hedgehog. You have been warned.
@@johnniepeters2717 basically whole material is selling narrative of an author. He is glazing himself and trying to get some likes. I would have to watch it again and I don't want to but he sells his narrative and calls it "facts". He is not even checking facts straight because "devs" that he put in video is not even talking in Polish even though he thinks it's Polish. Author and developers said that "they don't know why Reds stopped Red engine support". He doesn't understand the developement cycle. It's better to turn into UE5 than bringing new people and teach them the engine. It takes a lot of time and resources. But the author was so into the narrative that he didn't care about facts at this stage. They dropped engine to be able to recruit people more easily as well as making onboarding easier. Because after certain projects end, people leave work in game dev. So probably they calculated that it's too costly to mantain and teach people the red engine. And old workers didn't like it that they drop it. Again, they can have their own opinion. Another thing was with the program for refugees from Ukraine after Russia attacked them. The program was held to help them assimilate in our Country. Polish language is not mandatory and even it's not used in the company which is very international. But again, Author took it as "just focus on English and hire abroad people" but they do it XD This is just from the memory but whole video is a big manipulation. Whole wokeness community is pain in the ass and very toxic but this video is does nothing good except busting his ego as some Jesus of game dev.
@@despicable6545 Pathetic.😂😂😂 You wrote an entire book and provided not 1 single piece of evidence for your claim AND you're dodging the elephant in the room: DEI.
@@Vargre No, they are not moving to US. They are in the process of a building a new studio in Boston in addition to the ones they already have. Witcher 4 is being developed in Poland and the new Cyberpunk is going to be made in US.
@@rafabartosik9870 Well moving or not the damage is being done and they will not stop till we make them... imma keep my 1% hope in case they make good games with no political or gender ideas
As a Polish Man I am ashamed of it I give them my respect, time and monet, but they WHO have Hope in just flip me of and shitted on me.😭 Btw 13:55 they speak in czeski
THe problem for me is that, alot of the older games, like the Witcher III are hard to play now, because I know what CDPR has turned into and I know ill never have the same experiences I did when they were REAL.
The fact that he got real defensive, seems like you hit a nerve. He didn't address the blatant DEI policies in full view on the companies site and obviously just wants to shut down any further discussion on anything to do with their company's inner turmoil. Here's hoping that new game made by the former Witcher 3 game director blows CDPR's next project outta the water.
Pattern recognition is a blessing, it's the biggest help in avoiding and ignoring anything that has DEI. I had already lost all respect and interest in CD when Cyberpunk came out, and seeing them do this just confirmed that I made the right decision, they can go bankrupt for all I care.
Dropping the Polish language requirement among crew only makes sense if company does not employ significant Polish-speaking workforce anymore. Which seems likely knowing how many native devs left them in the past few years.
@@Cruelty1633 Both things can be absolutely true, yes. I met quite a few people down here who have been working/studying in Poland for years now and don't even speak a word in Polish.
Hey Endymion. The way they're hiring by race and merit is quite easy. It's one of those "technically correct" things. They're hiring best talent IN THAT CERTAIN race/sex group. Like for example if you have 10 people applying for a position and they're all disabled lesbian POC-s, then you hire the best 2 of those 10. Think of it this way, the highest ranked female chess player isn't in the top 100 of FIDE ranking. And when they say they want the best chess player, they don't mean they want the best chess player overall, they want a best chess player who is also female. Which means you immediately dismiss the top 100 players. Same goes for the DEI. When they claim they hired the best talent, what they leave out is that they maybe hired the best talent who also met all the race/sex/whatever based criterias. That does not mean they hired overall best talent.
@@ptolemaios4241 lol, then get ready to make some hard copies, because I'm 90% sure they'll make some "optimization patches" for witcher 3 that will make hf the people more diverse, yenefer trans, Cyri bi, and dandelion gay... I really hope I'm wrong but I have my latest version archived with all the required cracks, just in case
@@Petru0406this is not a thing one has to worry about on PC my friend. Please make the jump when able. It takes away a lot of power from these companies when you do so. I don’t have any flag injections on Spider Man 2018 for example
@@ArtPeasant He is talking about PC and he means make backups. Yeah if they changed witcher 3 that badly, people would upload their own versions. Point is backup the media you want to preserve because these companies want to extort you for everything they can.
Cdpr has released one game in what the last decade that wasn't the Witcher 3? They then spent years fixing Cyberpunk 2077 for free to get it where it should of been at launch. I hope the next Witcher game is good but my god I'm not optimistic.
Well done for exposing the truth. They think all gamers are ignorant and don't care where they spend money. Let's see if the failure of many companies like Ubisoft will be taken seriously, if not CDPR will be next to go broke.
Yeah. I also hope this is not putting him in the crosshairs of gaming journalists again. They hate Vavra because he is anti Woke. I think this was a podcast from less than a year ago and they were, among many other things, talking about engines and why warhorse didn’t choose UE back then for KCD etc. And then he talked about the reasons and about UE being great but also not without issues (bringing up what he had heard from inside CDPR). He didn’t say they were incompetent.
C'mon to non native speakers all western Slavic language sound the same. 🙃 Also the same goes for eastern and south branch.🙂 South being specific as most of them are the same language😅
at least in cyberpunk all the DEI nonsense makes sense, and guess what, it's a corporate ruled world where nobody cares about morality anymore, and even then, your actions speak for you, not your sexuality or identity. the irony isn't even flying over their heads anymore, it's in a completely different world compared to the imaginary world they inhabit.
So here''s what i predict: Witcher 1 was a Polish/Slavic culture game that felt like living something we were not used to, and it was refreshing. Witcher 4 will be another case of AAA medieval California. 🤣
There is good YT video of Czech guy who explained what Blood Origin did wrong and this was one of the points. 'Blood Origin is another proof that Netflix doesn't understand The Witcher' by Folk Walk.
I don't know how much of what he said could be called actual lies tbh, game developers overpromise literally all the time. On a game this size a million extra features will just have to be cut for practicality
@@grottphd9090How about the part where they had a gameplay trailer with features that never made it into the actual game, and made the game look finished when it was a horrendous buggy mess for over a year after launch?
CDPR: Makes video about ESG. Also CDPR: We dont do DEI here. Man these people... whatever the CDPR that used to be the studio to look up to in the gaming industry has been long gone.
How is it *legal* to offer opportunities based on a person's sex? Article 21 (European law) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights *prohibits discrimination based on sex* , race, color, religion, or other grounds.
People [especially lawyers] can use anything to prove it's not discrimination, but addition etc. Corpos like that have specialists who are good with reinterpetation of laws to be in their advantage.
@RunyaEithelNar True, they always have excuses ready because they are low-life slime. I'm just pointing out the absolute and total ludicrous hypocrisy of it. Equality laws already exist, yet the only people who get away with flagrantly breaking those laws are the ones that do it under the guise of "inclusivity" ... it's truly disgusting.
@RunyaEithelNar Yes, I understand that ... (it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual question) You're correct; all companies and the services we rely on are actively encouraged and promoted to push certain political idealogies (even if that means flagrantly breaking existing equality laws) because they are backed by the incredibly wealthy investment firms that run the world and socially engineer every aspect of modern life.
Apparently CDPR is a signatory member of Poland’s diversity charter. As Grummz stated they are bound by this agreement to hire for diversity. “Special emphasis on recruitment.” So yeah... So much for hiring for merit.
Personally I didn't like it. The main thing it has going for itself is its budget and things that come directly as a result of it. Then again it is a Larian game at its core and they are obsessed in hiding most of their game behind companions while being incapable of writing them in a compelling manner. Every single companion I've met was unlikable. Someone I wouldn't want to have in my party. Where are the real, normal, people? It felt like the illithids went around bringing all the specialest of snowflakes together onto the same ship. Those are characters made by players I wouldn't want to play RPG with. Every single one of them hogging your attention and trying to become the protagonist. Where are the unlikely heroes rising up to the task despite their humble beginnings? Where are the genuinely good people? I wouldn't trust any of their companions to not stab me in my sleep.
I had a hard time with it too. I mean, overall a good game but so much bloat. How many fucking boxes and barrels do you have to open to find food, especially if your playing on legendary? I wont play anything harder than the main one, just because I get sick of having to open every fucking thing so I have enough food to feed my party. It got tedious and boring for me.
Cyberpunk was my lesson. Never again until weeks after release when Im sure its a quality product and not woke. They they get rewarded with a purchase.
They stained themselves with that whole cyberpunk fiasco 4 years ago, but to come out publicly and say that you hire on merits instead of ticking corporate boxes when you’re doing the contrary, with the info on your own site contradicting everything you’ve said publicly no less, is the L of the century, it would have been better and he hadn’t come out and said anything at all. Now they’re under a microscope. I’m boycotting everything they have to release now.
In the modern age of the Internet, how the hell do people like the CDPR CEO think they can get away with bare-faced lies, when they will get caught out in their lies so easily. Idiocy at it's finest.
The director of W3 left 2 years ago, which is around the same time CDPR dropped a YT video celebrating their adoption of ESG. Coincidence? Maybe, but it does make one wonder. Also, I don't trust anyone who supports "equity". Equity is the exact opposite of equality as it requires that specific groups of people be treated differently to achieve its goals. "Equity" requires discrimination in practice. Therefore, anyone who supports DEI is anti-equality and pro discrimination, in my opinion.
I'm a Pole, and we don't claim CDPR anymore. They had a good run until 2016, but barely anyone who worked there then is working there now. It's a soulless shell of itself anymore.
I had Cyber Punk in my cart, half off. Then I thought about all the woke shit going on at CDPR, and sadly had to put it back. Never will I ever give them money.
Your really missing out man. Cyberpunk is absolutely amazing. If your playing on console look into getting a used copy if you are so against giving them money. But dont avoid this masterpiece just because the company sucks today.
Cyberpunk is pretty great and didn't notice any obvious messaging. It's not near as good as Witcher 3 but it's alot better than Cyberpunk 2 or Witcher 4 are going to be
I don't care about the companies who make games/movies/shows I used to love. I only care about the IPs they made. CDPR, Disney, Bethesda, Warner Bros, Blizzard, BioWare... The sooner garbage companies like this fail the better. Let their IPs be sold to someone else who will do something good with them. Companies that abandon their audience do not need to exist.
Better yet, we need intellectual property law with shorter terms. Conan has just gone public domain and now there are a ton of new Conan novels, comics, etc, coming out. Look at how Amazon has ruined Tolkien's mythology with its terrible show. If the Tolkien IP was no longer protected by copyright anyone could make better games, movies, etc.
Oddly Ten Cent and Saudi Arabia, needing to divest and grow, have a record for buying and growing games studios, leaving them creatively alone, by many dev accounts, and focus only in earning money ie - make good games that customers are willing to buy and spend money. Clown world where China and Saudi Arabia are focus on earning money by making products appealing to what customers are willing to spend, compared to Western companies who are focus in pushing Agenda. Clown world.
whenever you hear people say "conspiracy theories" they actually mean "there's indeed more to it, please don't do your research & pretty please stop looking into it". & that guy proved it true once again
CDPR has been woke for years now. This is nothing new. I don't understand how people seem to have forgotten about it. They've been making threatening noises about "modern audiences" since around the time the Witcher 3 got its next gen update, maybe sooner.
Im positive CDPR was already beginning to be compromised at mid development of Cyberpunk there is no explanation why suddenly after 5 years of development most of the veterans of the company left, they had to almost remake the game from the ground up with lots of unexperienced people resulting in a disastrous launch, by now that company is fully hijacked by the rainbow DEI MAFIA
Hi I wanted to explain something to you guys. As a Polish person and also an ex-CDP employee, I can tell you a few things. I agree with the CEO that most of the hires are based on real talent. I would say that part of the website about EDI is a kind of PR. It simply looks good on a website. But to get a job there, you need to be really good. They sometimes hire juniors (very rarely), but recently, the staff has been full, and they are taking only seniors and experts if anyone because the crew in Warsaw is stable and rather full. Yes, some talented people left, but the people who replaced them are also very talented. Some will be missed and are irreplaceable. But you know the show must go on, and time will tell. Now, here are a few words about Polish reality and rainbow t-shirts the company made. Support for gay rights in Poland is different than in the West; because in Poland, they do not have any rights. They cannot get married. Like other marriages, they cannot inherit goods and create legal partnerships. So, supporting gay rights in Poland is a brave act; it's being a rebel. Part of the government is ready to finally give them some rights, but they are not in the majority, and the other parties are super Christian, and they believe in bible stuff like only women and men can get married. So, I'm guessing CDP making this t-shirt was trying to make a point in a political discussion and show their support for the minority, which in Poland has literally no human rights. The program girls in games is an educational program. None of these girls got hired. What I'm trying to say is that CDP supporting LGBT in a country that does not give equal rights to this minority is not the same as pushing the EDI agenda in your games. Having mentioned diversity and being open to other cultures on a CDP website doesn't mean the hiring process is based on DEI, which this video suggests. CP2077 launch was bad, but they had a good redemption story, and Phantom Liberty won the best ongoing game among many others. Polish lessons for foreigners are intended to help them survive in Poland (like helping them communicate in shops or in their daily lives) because all meetings and email communication in the company are in English. In other words, the company doesn't need them to speak Polish to perform their jobs; it's in their own interest to learn in order to function in a Polish country. Overall, I would say it's a good employer, and I remember it as a good, supportive company. Their mind was always open to people in need, they helped countless NGO's. I remember them donating PLN 1 million to the Polish Humanitarian Action, which is designated to help refugees and victims of the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. During coving, they also donated 1 million PLN to NGOs supporting our healthcare system.
What does any of that have to do with making good videogames? Endymion is exposing them for their obsession with social activism and its prioritization over game quality, which your comment seems to corroborate, especially considering how poorly Cyberpunk 2077 launched.
@@Disconnis Maybe I wasn't clear. What I'm trying to say is that CDP supporting LGBT in a country that does not give equal rights to this minority is not the same as pushing the EDI agenda in your games. Having mentioned diversity and being open to other cultures on a CDP website doesn't mean the hiring process is based on DEI, which this video suggests. CP2077 launch was bad, but they had a good redemption story, and Phantom Liberty won the best ongoing game among many others. Polish lessons for foreigners are intended to help them survive in Poland (like helping them communicate in shops or in their daily lives) because all meetings and email communication in the company are in English. In other words, the company doesn't need them to speak Polish to perform their jobs; it's in their own interest to learn in order to function in a Polish country.
I am from Poland and I am living in Cracow where there is cdpr Office. And only thing I can say is CDPR unfortunatelly went to left side a couple of years ago. Im very sad about that and hate the way which CDPR choosed. I hope they will change their course and back to old ways of creating games. And for CEO I can say only one thing, shame of you.
CDPR knowingly released a completely busted game on last gen consoles, barely working game on current gen consoles and PC. They can go kick rocks for eternity. Also the games media shilling for that sh!t was disgraceful.
I miss when CDPR was just being dragged for having terrible work conditions when making Witcher 3. I recall they lost a lot of talent after Witcher 3 because of the crunch culture that had developed in the company. I was wary when they announced Cyberpunk because of that, and wasn't surprised at its horrible launch. I don't trust the guys in charge of CDPR, long before any of this new stuff.
I think there's needs to be a dev investigation on UE5. Remember that Epic Games themselves issues DEI requirements for use of their engine. Now every team is using UE5, and we keep hearing about issues with it. I'm willing to bet that not only is it a personelle problem in training the devs, but also a engine hindrance problem. UE5 was specifically designed for graphics, not performance.
Thank you for watching! What's interesting as well is that the moment the CEO spoke about me immediately multiple articles spawned at the same time. Well that's weird isn't it?
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You know you're in trouble as a Polish company when you lose all your Piotrs and Pawels and replace them with Sanjeets and Biknars from overseas support studios in India. If you've ever been on artstation you'll know that all of the best 3d/Z-Brush artists out there are usually some Polish guy either named Piotr or Pawel who no one in America has ever heard of but, who does absolutely amazing work. It makes sense as they seem to be traditional names, therefore traditional values/hardworking/non-DEI hires, that's just my theory anyway.
It's not weird at all he ran to his woke allies in the media before he made that comment.
Its the realy Witchher now i am afraid. I hope i am wrong but my hopes are not high 😔
My cousin's husband still works as a programmer at CDPR and he says very similar story to yours.
Just a shout-out, dude. You're saving me so much money.
If DEI is so great, why they always get offended when someone point out they are DEI hiring?
I've learned what DEI means-- Didn't Earn It Borrowed this from somewhere. Name one thing more important then DEI? Ability!!!!
It means we wre winning that they are denying it now. Good, I want this woke filth to be terrified and running scared forever
Pearl Clutching
ill do one better, if DEI is so great why the companies go bankrupt and push rubbish games?. shouldn't DEI supporters buy these games in bulk to support the company?
People only know they're DEI hiring because the quality went to crap.
"Wake the fuck up samurai, we got DEI money to burn"
CDPR, probably
looks like they started early😎
@@CruXad3r lol
ESG money
Woke the fuck
I just wish they didn't waste their time interacting with yellow journalists and just develop the game to its finest instead...
Western game developers are playing a race of who goes broke faster
Its the giant investors who control all the media, they buy out all the major devs and publishing companies then control their narratives to suit the agenda, they don't care about the profit, they will sell the companies anyway to minimize loss.
And unfortunately Gaming Industry is the one which gonna drop harder, all of them gonna lose their jobs, getting ridiculed, even filled bankruptcy
You know Poland is not Western? Right?
@@HanSolo__ when I say "Western" I refer to their political and economic ties to the rest of Europe, in the same way Japan and South Korea can also be referred as part of the "Western" world.
In this day and age, if you get dogpiled by these people, you know you're doing something right.
The old saying is "once you start getting flak, you know you're over the target". They know nobody wants what they're selling and they need to remain hidden in order to be effective. Thanks to that one Steam group and similar coverage, that's simply not an option now.
@@Mirthful_Midori Detect more! Not enough 😂
Unironically what happened to Kanye West. Even his black privilege was helpless when he joked and questioned the jews. I'm sure my comment will get deleted too quickly
I'm actually looking for the dogpile comments, but I can't find any - did Endymon delete them? Weird
"they hated you because your'e right" yep same what happened to Jesus
CDPR is becoming the very thing they saved the gaming industry from.
They are infested with the rot & they’re legally bound to keep gaining more rot, it’s so lame
@@EndymionTv Did you saw Phantom Liberty? This was full of ESG and DEI. And thats why its so trash. It has an 30 on Metacritic. Everyone hates it. Witcher 3 the Same trash. CDPR will go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk
@@exysa2798
Did you see*
And no, PL was fuckin great, wtf you on about?
@@exysa2798 It's also an awful DLC because of the new ending that ruin everything V was.
I'd rather stay with the base game where V becomes a legend of "Night City", at least this character was respected then.
arent they polish? we need to inform the polish government , they dont stand for this crap
In practice DEI is basically modern day segregation, these people are the exact same thing as what they’re supposedly against
Everystein Singleburg Timeowitz
They👃 hate white culture and entertainment they don't control 😅
It's basically racism and sexism. How is it possible that they can do that without any consequence? It's like we're back in 1930-40 where black people were separated from white people in transportation, housing, employment, ... It goes against all my values.
that is so obvious.... sadly rest of mainstream media is also full of them.
Yeah, segregation against white people, the world is watching.
Its ANTI WHITE STRAIGHT MALE......
CDPR Ceo: "Endymion is a liar!"
Endymion: *Shows receipts"
CDPR Ceo: "I'll just ignore that...."
CDPR~ "We're firing everyone working for us who is white and male. Our CEO will be replaced with a black woman in a wheelchair. Provided we can find one. We may have to import one from a more diverse country."
The receipts? Few people leaving across a decade and most around Cyberpunk release and an ESG page which is basicaly mandatory for public traded companies in the EU.
Be sceptical even of people who share your opinions.
@@vojtam5063 although i do agree on the publicly traded and dont beliving one that has ur opinion cprd moved to canada the graveyard of bioware and soon ubisoft its not about beliving its about pattern recognition
@@vojtam5063Interesting you just completely ignored the main concern of the video that has hours and hours of video, posts, and web pages from the company on question saying it isn't happening.
Dissonant, Egregious, incompetence strikes again.
@@vojtam5063 Wait a minute. Yesterday it was "it isn't there" and here you are claiming that not only that it's there but also mandatory. Running for the hills with those goalposts.
A CEO lied through his filthy teeth? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!! Well not that shocked.
He got fired today 😂😂😂
@@exysa2798 you got an article?
He didn't lie and he wasn't fired. You guys are lying through your filthy teeth. He said that director left over 2 years ago. Endymion proved that CEO is right. Noone from Enymion list left in 2023. Was Phantom Liberty woke? Cause CDR didn't change since then and somehow now they are woke even though they released a product that somehow isn't woke.
@@giftapfel Of course he doesnt.
Also I understand why he doing double speak because CD Project RED had a lot going on CP77 and it had a disastrous launch but even before that they were looking for investment because PC77 also had a disastrous development and they arent say Sega that cut the loses of Hyena as they had other titles and could take the loss instead of throwing more money into a obviously mismanaged project that would likely fail out the gate (AKA throwing good money after bad), CD Project RED just had CP77 that was their next big thing so they couldnt do that, sure they have GoG but that they simply couldnt afford to cancel CP77 as they had no backup.
This leads to CD Project RED being at the mercy of investment companies that are are knee deep in DEI, at this point they cant go back otherwise investment gets pulled and they have no fallback but people seem to had enough of the pushing politics into gaming so on one hand you have to show your investors they are committed to DEI as that is one of the strings that is attached and on the other now you have to pretend you arent because after all the recent high profile flops this would be a signal the game is going to follow the same path.
The problem is not the companies or the people running said companies, the problems always been DEI in investment companies being used as "free money" that is a major cause of the current recession, few companies have the funds to sustain themselves and many companies are public with said investment companies being shareholders that sit in the board.
@@drakron This answer seems the closest to reality.
cdpr has to do this because they are opening studios in USA and Canada.
they ARE going to end up like Ubisoft.
They should have stayed here in Warsaw
Ubisoft died when they switched their main headquarters to Canada. Just more proof that everything the Canadians touch turns to shit.
@@Rezlusiowabeing in Warsaw probably caused the problem
I mean we all know what Warsaw is like
Then again they got a Kraków office
Why open a studio in USA or Canada when you already have talented people in Poland an generally speaking, salaries in Poland are lower?
@@GreyDeathVaccine to make more games in shorter period of time. its also to grow the company's stock value etc.
When the CEO of a major company starts attacking random small RUclipsrs you know you're over the target.
Hehe, funny, Im a senior game designer of 16 years, worked on a number of AAA games on various SDKs, almost worked for them in 2018 but I decided to rather spend some time travelling after KCD than crunchung on Cyberpunk which turned out to be a good decision, now I tried to apply for a senior writing position for CD Projekt Boston and guess what, they havent even checked my linkedin and automatically rejected me this time around despite having all the skills and experience they were looking for, now I know why.
Really is sad to me, there was a time where CD Projekt Red was the gold standard in gaming. Yet they've fallen as well. Granted I take comfort knowing the KCD crew took on a bunch of their talent and that many industry vets are starting their own studios.
I just wish it was easier to track down where the people who made great games went to.
DIE HR checking resume: hmmm male ✅ straight ✅ white ✅, into the shredder
Yh bc you are not woke enough😂 so youre doing everything right bro
Change your name and profile picture to a more diverse candidate and see if they look
best go to japanese or korean company, hopefully the smaller ones are still not dei'd
The fact that the CEO singled you out, then got knocked on his own arse, was brilliant.
This only happened because Elon is on charge of X. You think this would have happened under the previous people?
Game journos used to attack CDPR and gamers defended them. Now it has reversed and game journos are defending CDPR. They better hope game journos buy all their games as well.
That's the biggest red flag right there. All game journos are absolutely wacko, and if they defend anything, that should raise eyebrows
you know tha tthe cia owns mockingbird "journo lists" right.
they think journos are their main community
That's your conclusion? Are you 5?
Not a single person defends CDPR. Not gamers, not journalists, not pseudo-jourlalists. Nobody. Who said you have to buy anything.
Parasites.
@@Cruelty1633 Actully, I did not, although I long since suspected something like that, do you have a source for this this is fascinating stuff tbh
Modern response to critics:
(1) You are lying, the things you are saying are not actually happening
(2) Okay, they are happening, but it's not as big a thing or what you think
(3) Okay, yes it is exactly what you say and as big as you think, but it's a GOOD thing.
I've seen this play out so many times. Watching this narrative repeat in every single newspaper, press release, debate is the primary reason I don't read mainstream ANYTHING anymore.
This lfmao. And they think they have everyone utterly fooled which is the best part 😂
From step 1 to 3 no one believes a thing they spout from their mouth. All that changes between 1 and 3 is the amount of people and normies that get in on the story
I love how all triple A studios are falling down. It's time for Indie companies to stand up
Indie devs are no better, they’re a bunch of weirdos who make the same 3 types of games with the same themes of depression, gayness, and religion bad, and then get high off their farts because they’re oh so original
There is money to be made by giving people what they want. Dreams are about to come true!
Indie devs will instantly become DEI when they start becoming slightly bigger
Also, big corpos like Microsoft will eat up most small companies to recoup their losses from the triple A failings
Why do these Western devs think that adding Wokeness to a fantasy game will make them better?
Money
@Mika-Fresh that seems counter productive if they want money 😂
Money from Blackrock :)
Their bonuses.
fear
It's amazing how the CDPR guy can lie through his teeth like that.
One look at their website and their ESG video shows he's full of bull.
It's either he's so obtuse and ignorant of what his own company is doing - or he's trying to blatantly gaslight us all. Either way, he's cooked and so is CDPR.
it's because he knows the woke are too lazy to look into any of it and will just take another woke's words as fact. it keeps their toxic positivity bubble from bursting.
That's how little they care about you
Insane ...
Oh yeah? How about the stories they write? Or how about the GOG platform and how about supporting modders and old games preservation? That's all lies, right?
Lads who left CD Project opened their own studio - Rebel Wolves - they are making a gime as we speak, it's gonna be a great game.
Diversity equity and inclusion?
bigotry, injustice and exclusion of anyone white, male and straight.
The mayor of London over here literally said: : "
What is the opposite of diversity? Wite men!"
But but but it's not discrimination when you're discriminating against wyt men.
"behaviors have to be forced" -LF
Thats what's happend when white men don't stand up for themselves. There’s a war going on against white men and christianity but we are in deep sleep. Proves is our sight but we are too blind to see. Just ask who is behind white guilt ideology and who is pushing it
@@goqul I feel thy sarcasm from thy stutter
EXCELLENT WORK. ENDYMIONTV DON'T PLEASE ACTIVISTS NO
They are going to turn Ciri into a girlboss lesbian in Witcher 4, 100% sure.
Well, she _did_ have a lesbian relationship in the books...
@@irena4545 True, but she's canonically bisexual. Witcher 4 will probably retcon this tho.
@@irena4545 I wouldn't necessarily call being drugged, groomed and technically graped (at least at first) by a lesbian criminal a relationship. That said, she did have some visible attraction to e.g. sorceresses when they all bathed naked so her bisexuality can be presumed canon.
she'll be a man in witcher 4 or at least she'll look like one
I mean, she did have a lesbian relationship in the book, but I don't think it was meant to be healthy or a good thing. She was still a child and was practically being groomed by Mistle. It was very disturbing to read.
The fact they hired Mary Kenney CDPR is finished...
LOL wishfull thinking not much?
Why dont they push for working class men, who are actually excluded from so much, unlike women? Oh, DEI.
I will never give CDPR a penny ever again.
That would bring some much needed life experience to the fold. It would be good.. but they are done for. No more money for them from me too..
Your loss then
@@BrunlocLet me guess you'll tells use you are going to buy 5 copies of it to own us and then neither buy nor play any of it?
Yeah we did this with concord and everything else already we know you won't play it either.
@bobdole3804 I ain't that petty, but you got the part about me probably not playing it I do other stuff besides gaming
cdpr are one trick ponies
witcher 3 and that's it
witcher and witcher 2 were good, but not great
cyberpunk took years to get fixed
you ain't missing much
Ok seems CD Projekt Red Games are off the list. NEVER! NEVER NEVER NEVER bite the hand that feeds you... Your customers.
Don't worry, I'm sure their targeted "modern" audience will support them..... 😗
@@omnigizmo Yup, all 12 of them...
They were off the list after cyberpunk. An anime don't rewrite history
I am angry at them as well and I have been working on Witcher number Ona ages ago... I would think that they were smarter - but no - they are stupid virtue signallizers - especially Nielubowicz in that woke T-Shirt. Piotrek what have you done from yourself, moron!
Make sure to boycott GOG since that's their other main source of revenue. DRM-free games and older games aren't worth supporting DEI/BRIDGE initiatives.
The pattern is simple - 1st a company goes public, 2nd it opens an office in the US/Canada and that office becomes main one. BOOM! It's pretty much owned by Blackrock and goes to full on DEI/ESG with agenda replacing what makes a game... game. Gameplay and story.
We're not in a game crash. We're in a WOKE game crash. Normal games are doing just fine. Black Myth Wukong certainly did just fine.
If you can call a CCP game "normal."
@SamtheBravesFan did they added any CCP related to the BMW ?
U hate the country so much or brainwashed and now all u see is your own fantasy
@@SamtheBravesFanBlack Myth Wukong is a normal game, he is correct. It's not normal where it came from I guess but it's a good normal game
Ccp can continue to make games as Black myth wukong, i couldn't care less for the political leaning of the devs i just want quality game narrative and gameplay
@@albertbickel2585 I've seen better games. Mainly indie games made from China that *DOESN'T* suck. (Super Alloy Crush counts as a normal game, because it's NOT A CLONE OF DARK SOULS like BMW. It's a very unique mix between a platformer and a beat'em up meshed with Metal Slug elements.)
Dear God no... they already butchered the Witcher through Netflix. I don't need them doing this to the games too.
They already did with the Witcher Mobile game that didn't even last a year.
I new the witcher4 was fucked the moment they brought their next compony to canada.
Unfortunately, it's already been happening for many years.
The first 3 games already exist, they can't take thar back.
They are updating the remake for "modern audiences" iirc
Amen Endymion! Keep fighting the good fight and ensuring the truth is out there!
CDPR will realize it's mistake once The Witcher 4 will flop in sales because of Wokeness.
Gay black geralt will be something else
I was planning on playing it, but now I won't. I was also waiting to buy Cyberpunk until after I finished my backlog of games, but now I won't buy that either.
Facts dude lmao
@VnVnV-893 😂😂😂😂😂
@@VnVnV-893get it right, it will be trans black geraldine.
So sad, CDPR already fell into the ESG-DEI claws, I wanted new witcher and cyberpunk games, but the oligarchs of blackrock won again
CDPR has already been infected by a virus, which has no cure.
They literaly haven't. Games will flop.
@@sergiarilla8608that is the goal. To infiltrate every facet of society with their agendas. You still think this is about money?
Money is a tool to them, not the end goal. That’s what happens when you take control of a countries currency. This is what our forefathers warned us about and we got intelligent nerds like yourself who are still completely oblivious to the gravity and scale of the situation at hand.
They can win a few battles but they will lose the war.
@@Ya39oub_Gno. They will win the war. Cdpr wont give a sh** about me and u. Do you knoe what black rock is? They could fail like for fuggin ever and would still have money. Blackrock is literally printinh money at this point. Theyr assets and the company s worth is estimated to be 9 trillion dollars (no joke)
So yeah... as long as blackrock is giving them money (the! Do this with almost every game dev now) the studios can produce w0ke trash on demand forever
14:05 this is not Polish 😂 if it is then my whole family and friends have been speaking an alien language this entire time
But Polish is an alien language
@@LudwigVaanArthans xD
Well I can see why you say that 🙂
Do not pre-order, never! Do not trust them, never!
Dont buy ever. Not from anyone who has the shite like they do posted on their company website. Its the only way to kick them in the balls. Make them broke. Make them spend millions on a game that doesnt sell.
Just don't buy.
@@czaczaczar The Witcher 3 is my top 1 game. 100% all of them. Did not buy the Cyber Punk because the sings were there. If The Witcher 4 is good. after I`l see enough gameplay. I will buy it.
I've learned my lesson with cyberpunk the base game.
Never pre order, was the best advice long before all this verminous wokery.
CDPR became the Corpos they preached against
Dude it’s always been that way. Are you ignorant to how companies work? There’s the devs and writers, and then the corpos who make the business decisions. It’s not the same 5 dudes doing literally everything in the company. If anything the cdpr corpos being so evil is probably what inspired some of cyberpunk
Unfortunately this is the cycle of video game company life. Almost all of the great companies of the 90s and early 00s are now blundering corporate hulks that can't not screw up every time. Whether it's making s**t games, all the good devs jumping ship over years, out-of-touch and greedy CEOs, or Woke BS in an attempt to garner ESG cash is irrelevant, they all become corrupt garbage at some point.
The only one that seems to have escaped this predictable cycle at this point is Nintendo, but they have issues of their own.
@@just.a.guy324I prefer the corpos over the current day devs tbh lol
@@just.a.guy324 But the devs and writers are absolutely 100% the problem because they're the ones making the creative and artistic decisions - the corpos just want a profit, but it's the devs that insert their preferences and ideologies into the game.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97it's all of it, not one thing or another, ALL
Hi. I'm from Poland and I just want to confirm that - unfortunately - everything about CDPR was said here is true. This is no longer the company which did your beloved Witcher. It's now full of DEI and rainbow s*it, where men are treated a second class human beings. At the very least NEVER preorder their games, regardless how sweet sweet honey PR bullcr*p try to convince you to do otherwise. And after game launch - approach as if you were approaching a hedgehog. You have been warned.
Thank you Sir, will follow your advice.
A lot is not true so don't put this "I'm Polish and i'm confirming it" shit as anything revelant
@@despicable6545 than debunk the parts which aren't true. I'm waiting.
@@johnniepeters2717 basically whole material is selling narrative of an author. He is glazing himself and trying to get some likes. I would have to watch it again and I don't want to but he sells his narrative and calls it "facts". He is not even checking facts straight because "devs" that he put in video is not even talking in Polish even though he thinks it's Polish. Author and developers said that "they don't know why Reds stopped Red engine support". He doesn't understand the developement cycle. It's better to turn into UE5 than bringing new people and teach them the engine. It takes a lot of time and resources. But the author was so into the narrative that he didn't care about facts at this stage. They dropped engine to be able to recruit people more easily as well as making onboarding easier. Because after certain projects end, people leave work in game dev. So probably they calculated that it's too costly to mantain and teach people the red engine. And old workers didn't like it that they drop it. Again, they can have their own opinion. Another thing was with the program for refugees from Ukraine after Russia attacked them. The program was held to help them assimilate in our Country. Polish language is not mandatory and even it's not used in the company which is very international. But again, Author took it as "just focus on English and hire abroad people" but they do it XD This is just from the memory but whole video is a big manipulation. Whole wokeness community is pain in the ass and very toxic but this video is does nothing good except busting his ego as some Jesus of game dev.
@@despicable6545 Pathetic.😂😂😂 You wrote an entire book and provided not 1 single piece of evidence for your claim AND you're dodging the elephant in the room: DEI.
CDPR ain't even Polish studio anymore.
No, theyre not. They are moving studios to the US. They already have one in Canada.
@@Vargre Thank you .. That is ALL THE INFORMATION we need .
BYE BYE CDPR
@@Vargre No, they are not moving to US. They are in the process of a building a new studio in Boston in addition to the ones they already have. Witcher 4 is being developed in Poland and the new Cyberpunk is going to be made in US.
They sold it to the devil.
@@rafabartosik9870 Well moving or not the damage is being done and they will not stop till we make them... imma keep my 1% hope in case they make good games with no political or gender ideas
As a Polish Man I am ashamed of it I give them my respect, time and monet, but they WHO have Hope in just flip me of and shitted on me.😭 Btw 13:55 they speak in czeski
Musel jsem třikrát slyšet že to má být polština
😂
Własnie! Też tak myślałem że to nie Polski.
@@AzarilianI’ll be honest, I wouldn’t have known if you didn’t explain 😂
It is Czech, unsurprisingly when Varva is Czech😅
More reasons why I will never buy from Studios like them ever again....
Fuck this shit, I'm buying older games, fed up with Modern DEI bullshit.
THe problem for me is that, alot of the older games, like the Witcher III are hard to play now, because I know what CDPR has turned into and I know ill never have the same experiences I did when they were REAL.
The fact that he got real defensive, seems like you hit a nerve. He didn't address the blatant DEI policies in full view on the companies site and obviously just wants to shut down any further discussion on anything to do with their company's inner turmoil. Here's hoping that new game made by the former Witcher 3 game director blows CDPR's next project outta the water.
What game are we talking about? I'm super interested
He knows he's in the wrong but just doesn't have the guts to admit it. When emotion is high, intelligence is low.
@@sorentheblade I think the vampire-themed game is still unnamed.
@@czaczaczaraccording to Wikipedia it's called Dawnwalker
The CEO has scrubbed and deleted all of his socials now that this video came out and proved all the corpos were lying.
CDPR is competing with Ubisoft with who can go bankrupt the quickest
Witcher 3 was the end for this company.
3rd times the charm.
When Geralt retired in the Corvo Bianco CDPR's competence retired alongside him.
Pattern recognition is a blessing, it's the biggest help in avoiding and ignoring anything that has DEI.
I had already lost all respect and interest in CD when Cyberpunk came out, and seeing them do this just confirmed that I made the right decision, they can go bankrupt for all I care.
Pattern recognition has ensured the survival of mankind since our inception and will continue to do so till the end of time.
Worry not, Endymion, theyre just jealous that you're the Geralt in this situation
GigaGeralt
True
This.
13:45 "the podcast is in Polish" from a Czech director of a Czech company...
Never change Americans!
😅 true
Dropping the Polish language requirement among crew only makes sense if company does not employ significant Polish-speaking workforce anymore. Which seems likely knowing how many native devs left them in the past few years.
probably hiring for their american offices
@@Cruelty1633 Both things can be absolutely true, yes. I met quite a few people down here who have been working/studying in Poland for years now and don't even speak a word in Polish.
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the WOKEness, not join them! Bring balance to good games, not leave it in utter sh*t!
Hey Endymion. The way they're hiring by race and merit is quite easy. It's one of those "technically correct" things. They're hiring best talent IN THAT CERTAIN race/sex group. Like for example if you have 10 people applying for a position and they're all disabled lesbian POC-s, then you hire the best 2 of those 10. Think of it this way, the highest ranked female chess player isn't in the top 100 of FIDE ranking. And when they say they want the best chess player, they don't mean they want the best chess player overall, they want a best chess player who is also female. Which means you immediately dismiss the top 100 players. Same goes for the DEI. When they claim they hired the best talent, what they leave out is that they maybe hired the best talent who also met all the race/sex/whatever based criterias. That does not mean they hired overall best talent.
I didnt know this shit hapend in CDPR, well bye bye Witcher 4, you will never see my money. Witcher 3 forever .
@@ptolemaios4241 lol, then get ready to make some hard copies, because I'm 90% sure they'll make some "optimization patches" for witcher 3 that will make hf the people more diverse, yenefer trans, Cyri bi, and dandelion gay... I really hope I'm wrong but I have my latest version archived with all the required cracks, just in case
@@Petru0406this is not a thing one has to worry about on PC my friend. Please make the jump when able. It takes away a lot of power from these companies when you do so. I don’t have any flag injections on Spider Man 2018 for example
@@ArtPeasant He is talking about PC and he means make backups. Yeah if they changed witcher 3 that badly, people would upload their own versions. Point is backup the media you want to preserve because these companies want to extort you for everything they can.
Citi was bi or homo in the books.
There was no Gamer Gate 2. It was Gamer Gate still going since 2014.
yup
Its season 10 of GamerGate
What is gamer gate
@@Killerboyh a scandal about game journalists being corrup and paying sex to play.
So CDProjekt red wil be the next to fail. Extremely poor leadership seems to be the norm in gaming companies.
CEOs don’t know what the grunts are doing. They’re too busy going to diddy parties.
Ain't no party like a Diddy party!
- Lebron James
Well.. better make sure baby oil not in the CEO office.. ooOOff..
@@RezaQinLebron diddy james
Not in a company this size. The CEO is one hundred percent committed to DEI
Diddy like to Party, you just got to tell him NO
Cdpr has released one game in what the last decade that wasn't the Witcher 3? They then spent years fixing Cyberpunk 2077 for free to get it where it should of been at launch. I hope the next Witcher game is good but my god I'm not optimistic.
I’m worried too
Gay black geralt is going to give yasuke a run for his money
Good point!
@@VnVnV-893Trunes black Geralt
It will not be good...honestly, just plan for it now and you won't be disappointed.
Well done for exposing the truth. They think all gamers are ignorant and don't care where they spend money. Let's see if the failure of many companies like Ubisoft will be taken seriously, if not CDPR will be next to go broke.
13:45 Thats not Polish, thats Czech btw.
I was also going to comment on that
Thx. I can't tell the difference between Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Russian.
From north or south Czechoslovakia?
@@ejkr2051 You aware that Czechoslovakia ceased to exist a couple decades ago, right?
They're speaking Czech not Polish, probably an interview in Czech Republic.
Daniel Vávra and Warhorse Studios is a Czech studio.
Yeah, I was facepalming when I heard this is in polish, but oh well, it could be worse....Like common mistake of taking anything slavic as Russian xP.
Yeah. I also hope this is not putting him in the crosshairs of gaming journalists again. They hate Vavra because he is anti Woke. I think this was a podcast from less than a year ago and they were, among many other things, talking about engines and why warhorse didn’t choose UE back then for KCD etc. And then he talked about the reasons and about UE being great but also not without issues (bringing up what he had heard from inside CDPR). He didn’t say they were incompetent.
C'mon to non native speakers all western Slavic language sound the same. 🙃
Also the same goes for eastern and south branch.🙂
South being specific as most of them are the same language😅
@@tamarans.ns.ii.4968 just because you lack the ability to discern those languages doesn't mean that they actually sound the same.
No wonder Cyberpunk 2077 was a mess when it launched. Fcuk, this means we have to expect the worst from CDPR for their next games forward.
at least in cyberpunk all the DEI nonsense makes sense, and guess what, it's a corporate ruled world where nobody cares about morality anymore, and even then, your actions speak for you, not your sexuality or identity.
the irony isn't even flying over their heads anymore, it's in a completely different world compared to the imaginary world they inhabit.
So here''s what i predict:
Witcher 1 was a Polish/Slavic culture game that felt like living something we were not used to, and it was refreshing. Witcher 4 will be another case of AAA medieval California. 🤣
There is good YT video of Czech guy who explained what Blood Origin did wrong and this was one of the points. 'Blood Origin is another proof that Netflix doesn't understand The Witcher' by Folk Walk.
@@RunyaEithelNar That is a pretty good video, indeed! Nice recommendation.
This is the same CEO who lied about 2077 for years
I don't know how much of what he said could be called actual lies tbh, game developers overpromise literally all the time. On a game this size a million extra features will just have to be cut for practicality
I thought he left after that release.
@@grottphd9090How about the part where they had a gameplay trailer with features that never made it into the actual game, and made the game look finished when it was a horrendous buggy mess for over a year after launch?
being “for everyone” used to be frowned upon, I miss it
CDPR: Makes video about ESG.
Also CDPR: We dont do DEI here.
Man these people... whatever the CDPR that used to be the studio to look up to in the gaming industry has been long gone.
as soon as they put dlc in withcer 3 from that awful tv show i knew they were cooked.
How is it *legal* to offer opportunities based on a person's sex?
Article 21 (European law) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights *prohibits discrimination based on sex* , race, color, religion, or other grounds.
People [especially lawyers] can use anything to prove it's not discrimination, but addition etc. Corpos like that have specialists who are good with reinterpetation of laws to be in their advantage.
@RunyaEithelNar True, they always have excuses ready because they are low-life slime.
I'm just pointing out the absolute and total ludicrous hypocrisy of it.
Equality laws already exist, yet the only people who get away with flagrantly breaking those laws are the ones that do it under the guise of "inclusivity" ... it's truly disgusting.
@RunyaEithelNar Yes, I understand that ... (it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual question)
You're correct; all companies and the services we rely on are actively encouraged and promoted to push certain political idealogies (even if that means flagrantly breaking existing equality laws) because they are backed by the incredibly wealthy investment firms that run the world and socially engineer every aspect of modern life.
If a game "journalist" defends them, do not trust a word out of their mouths.
Apparently CDPR is a signatory member of Poland’s diversity charter. As Grummz stated they are bound by this agreement to hire for diversity. “Special emphasis on recruitment.”
So yeah... So much for hiring for merit.
Sounds odd, is there an official name in English?
Poland would be the last place that I’d imagine wanting shit like that
- how many lies do u want?
- CDPR CEO: yes
I think Baldur's Gate 3 is an amazing achievement in its own right in the category of RPG. It belongs in the same tier as Witcher 3, or Elden Ring.
Personally I didn't like it. The main thing it has going for itself is its budget and things that come directly as a result of it. Then again it is a Larian game at its core and they are obsessed in hiding most of their game behind companions while being incapable of writing them in a compelling manner. Every single companion I've met was unlikable. Someone I wouldn't want to have in my party. Where are the real, normal, people? It felt like the illithids went around bringing all the specialest of snowflakes together onto the same ship. Those are characters made by players I wouldn't want to play RPG with.
Every single one of them hogging your attention and trying to become the protagonist. Where are the unlikely heroes rising up to the task despite their humble beginnings? Where are the genuinely good people? I wouldn't trust any of their companions to not stab me in my sleep.
I had a hard time with it too. I mean, overall a good game but so much bloat. How many fucking boxes and barrels do you have to open to find food, especially if your playing on legendary? I wont play anything harder than the main one, just because I get sick of having to open every fucking thing so I have enough food to feed my party. It got tedious and boring for me.
I like how their website is not DEI but Diverse, Inclusive, Equitable. Interesting choice of order.
They will " Diversity, Inclusion, Equity " a swift ded if they keep bending to esg money.
so it's DIE.. as in dying. Good to know. Did no one in the company realize.. oh wait..
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" - The Dark Knight
1939 - Germany invades Poland...
2029 - Germany asks Poland to invade them...
The entire west is just laying down and letting itself be conquered.
Never in history has this happened.
What a legacy we are leaving behind huh.
At the rate it's going, the Ottoman Germans will invade the femboi Poles in 2029, don't get it mixed up
And people made fun of us when we were screaming about CDPR
NEVER
TRUST
THE
CORPOS
Why were you screaming that seems rather excessive
Johnny Silverhand would agree with you
Just like what happened in WW2, Poland Game Developer has been DEInvaded
Fun fact. This diversity charta was mainly created by former chancellor Merkel. ^^ From Germany.
@@PiratDunkelbart thats bullshit, try to take a look at the bigger picture. also, angela "merkel" isnt german at all, she has polish and jewish roots.
You know the funniest bit.. Pause at 7:04. It is still an acronym of DEI but in a much better and poignant order.
Don't let this distract you from the fact CD Project Red lied for years about Cyberpunk. And ripped off fans with a half developed game.
Cyberpunk is a masterpiece, too bad CD is woke
Hasn't most of the talent left to form a new studio. Nvm we shall see.
Almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk at launch. CDPR will go bankrupt soon
@@DeepDishCookie Cyberpunk is a piece of muff
@@DeepDishCookieyes but it took 2 years after launch to make it a functional game and they still lied about features that never made it in
CD Projekt is dead to me.
Yep, and I hope it burns to the ground in bankruptcy 🎉
Me too. Cyberjunk was mediocre trash anyway.
@@TheBadderman Calling it mediocre is way too generous...
Cyberpunk was my lesson. Never again until weeks after release when Im sure its a quality product and not woke. They they get rewarded with a purchase.
I believe Endymion is saying the truth but still anything is possible honestly I just pray this dei thing doesn't kill Witcher 😢😢😢
"dear investors, we assure you, that in ten years our company will lose 70% of stock value and will lose all its reputation"
- DEI loving CEO.
Looks like we have to say goodbye to CDPR and their games. Another studio killed by a DEI cancer. Such a shame.
They stained themselves with that whole cyberpunk fiasco 4 years ago, but to come out publicly and say that you hire on merits instead of ticking corporate boxes when you’re doing the contrary, with the info on your own site contradicting everything you’ve said publicly no less, is the L of the century, it would have been better and he hadn’t come out and said anything at all. Now they’re under a microscope. I’m boycotting everything they have to release now.
In the modern age of the Internet, how the hell do people like the CDPR CEO think they can get away with bare-faced lies, when they will get caught out in their lies so easily. Idiocy at it's finest.
Chugging instead of sipping the " kool-aid " unalives the braincells as seen everywhere lately in alot of western companies.
Remember they were comfortable lying to their fans before the launch of Cyberpunk. It’s not that shocking to see them lie now.
The director of W3 left 2 years ago, which is around the same time CDPR dropped a YT video celebrating their adoption of ESG. Coincidence? Maybe, but it does make one wonder.
Also, I don't trust anyone who supports "equity". Equity is the exact opposite of equality as it requires that specific groups of people be treated differently to achieve its goals. "Equity" requires discrimination in practice. Therefore, anyone who supports DEI is anti-equality and pro discrimination, in my opinion.
Facts.
I'm a Pole, and we don't claim CDPR anymore. They had a good run until 2016, but barely anyone who worked there then is working there now. It's a soulless shell of itself anymore.
It's funny how Cyberpunk had the male character in their promos during release & now it's the female everywhere...
You are not supposed to notice that
Mass Effect did the exact same thing.
@@Vargre
Assassin's Creed Valhalla did the same thing.
The podcast clip is in Czech as Vávra is Czech. We are based Czechs, thank you very much😉
I had Cyber Punk in my cart, half off. Then I thought about all the woke shit going on at CDPR, and sadly had to put it back. Never will I ever give them money.
Your really missing out man. Cyberpunk is absolutely amazing. If your playing on console look into getting a used copy if you are so against giving them money. But dont avoid this masterpiece just because the company sucks today.
@@TheHollowBlade no I'm not. Woke company.
Cyberpunk is pretty great and didn't notice any obvious messaging. It's not near as good as Witcher 3 but it's alot better than Cyberpunk 2 or Witcher 4 are going to be
@@DdHenley307 there's apparently a trans character, but even if it was perfect, we shouldn't support a bad company.
You can find it in the jolly-roger websites pretty easily, it's honestly a fun game.
I don't care about the companies who make games/movies/shows I used to love. I only care about the IPs they made.
CDPR, Disney, Bethesda, Warner Bros, Blizzard, BioWare... The sooner garbage companies like this fail the better. Let their IPs be sold to someone else who will do something good with them.
Companies that abandon their audience do not need to exist.
Better yet, we need intellectual property law with shorter terms. Conan has just gone public domain and now there are a ton of new Conan novels, comics, etc, coming out. Look at how Amazon has ruined Tolkien's mythology with its terrible show. If the Tolkien IP was no longer protected by copyright anyone could make better games, movies, etc.
Oddly Ten Cent and Saudi Arabia, needing to divest and grow, have a record for buying and growing games studios, leaving them creatively alone, by many dev accounts, and focus only in earning money ie - make good games that customers are willing to buy and spend money. Clown world where China and Saudi Arabia are focus on earning money by making products appealing to what customers are willing to spend, compared to Western companies who are focus in pushing Agenda. Clown world.
whenever you hear people say "conspiracy theories" they actually mean "there's indeed more to it, please don't do your research & pretty please stop looking into it". & that guy proved it true once again
CDPR has been woke for years now. This is nothing new. I don't understand how people seem to have forgotten about it. They've been making threatening noises about "modern audiences" since around the time the Witcher 3 got its next gen update, maybe sooner.
Im positive CDPR was already beginning to be compromised at mid development of Cyberpunk there is no explanation why suddenly after 5 years of development most of the veterans of the company left, they had to almost remake the game from the ground up with lots of unexperienced people resulting in a disastrous launch, by now that company is fully hijacked by the rainbow DEI MAFIA
Hi
I wanted to explain something to you guys. As a Polish person and also an ex-CDP employee, I can tell you a few things.
I agree with the CEO that most of the hires are based on real talent. I would say that part of the website about EDI is a kind of PR. It simply looks good on a website. But to get a job there, you need to be really good. They sometimes hire juniors (very rarely), but recently, the staff has been full, and they are taking only seniors and experts if anyone because the crew in Warsaw is stable and rather full.
Yes, some talented people left, but the people who replaced them are also very talented. Some will be missed and are irreplaceable. But you know the show must go on, and time will tell.
Now, here are a few words about Polish reality and rainbow t-shirts the company made. Support for gay rights in Poland is different than in the West; because in Poland, they do not have any rights. They cannot get married. Like other marriages, they cannot inherit goods and create legal partnerships. So, supporting gay rights in Poland is a brave act; it's being a rebel. Part of the government is ready to finally give them some rights, but they are not in the majority, and the other parties are super Christian, and they believe in bible stuff like only women and men can get married. So, I'm guessing CDP making this t-shirt was trying to make a point in a political discussion and show their support for the minority, which in Poland has literally no human rights.
The program girls in games is an educational program. None of these girls got hired.
What I'm trying to say is that CDP supporting LGBT in a country that does not give equal rights to this minority is not the same as pushing the EDI agenda in your games. Having mentioned diversity and being open to other cultures on a CDP website doesn't mean the hiring process is based on DEI, which this video suggests.
CP2077 launch was bad, but they had a good redemption story, and Phantom Liberty won the best ongoing game among many others.
Polish lessons for foreigners are intended to help them survive in Poland (like helping them communicate in shops or in their daily lives) because all meetings and email communication in the company are in English. In other words, the company doesn't need them to speak Polish to perform their jobs; it's in their own interest to learn in order to function in a Polish country.
Overall, I would say it's a good employer, and I remember it as a good, supportive company. Their mind was always open to people in need, they helped countless NGO's. I remember them donating PLN 1 million to the Polish Humanitarian Action, which is designated to help refugees and victims of the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. During coving, they also donated 1 million PLN to NGOs supporting our healthcare system.
What does any of that have to do with making good videogames?
Endymion is exposing them for their obsession with social activism and its prioritization over game quality, which your comment seems to corroborate, especially considering how poorly Cyberpunk 2077 launched.
@@Disconnis Maybe I wasn't clear. What I'm trying to say is that CDP supporting LGBT in a country that does not give equal rights to this minority is not the same as pushing the EDI agenda in your games. Having mentioned diversity and being open to other cultures on a CDP website doesn't mean the hiring process is based on DEI, which this video suggests.
CP2077 launch was bad, but they had a good redemption story, and Phantom Liberty won the best ongoing game among many others.
Polish lessons for foreigners are intended to help them survive in Poland (like helping them communicate in shops or in their daily lives) because all meetings and email communication in the company are in English. In other words, the company doesn't need them to speak Polish to perform their jobs; it's in their own interest to learn in order to function in a Polish country.
The Witcher ended for me after blood and wine
CDPR has been dead to me since Cyberpunk.
That was them?
same here
I am from Poland and I am living in Cracow where there is cdpr Office. And only thing I can say is CDPR unfortunatelly went to left side a couple of years ago. Im very sad about that and hate the way which CDPR choosed. I hope they will change their course and back to old ways of creating games. And for CEO I can say only one thing, shame of you.
To think people used to think CDProjekt Red would save the gaming industry
Also first!
Dont worry. We will not buy CDPRs games anymore. Their woke Witcher remake, and gay, girl boss Witcher 4 will fail.
Yeah! The Witcher remake is censored for modern audience. When I heard that at the time I knew CDPR was going down the woke path like Rockstar.
@@DevaChriss For modern audience? All 23 people?
CDPR knowingly released a completely busted game on last gen consoles, barely working game on current gen consoles and PC. They can go kick rocks for eternity. Also the games media shilling for that sh!t was disgraceful.
They dare attack Endymion for no reason. This just further proves Endymion right.
..nah not 'for no reason'.. it's for a specific reason they have to make those dumb statement out.
Since the Witcher 3, cdpr has gone down the drain.
I miss when CDPR was just being dragged for having terrible work conditions when making Witcher 3.
I recall they lost a lot of talent after Witcher 3 because of the crunch culture that had developed in the company.
I was wary when they announced Cyberpunk because of that, and wasn't surprised at its horrible launch.
I don't trust the guys in charge of CDPR, long before any of this new stuff.
I don't buy games from companies anymore, I literally look at the names of the Directors and buy games based on that.
3:44 notice he didn’t say he wasn’t losing talent. Just that he was losing less then other developers lol
Like a good CEO he used selective language
Because He is lying. CDPR lost almost all developers. CDPR is dead
I like to try to imagine if DIE bs wasn't in gaming. I get real happy, then I get super depressed when I realize that it is
I think there's needs to be a dev investigation on UE5.
Remember that Epic Games themselves issues DEI requirements for use of their engine.
Now every team is using UE5, and we keep hearing about issues with it.
I'm willing to bet that not only is it a personelle problem in training the devs, but also a engine hindrance problem.
UE5 was specifically designed for graphics, not performance.
yet black wuking is ue 5? So where is thee real issue, chinese asians seem to giv zero fs.