The Witcher 3 came out in 2015, and though the RPG remains a beloved classic, a lot has changed in those 11 years. CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio behind the open-world RPG, fell in and out of the public's good graces with Cyberpunk 2077. Gwent became a full-on game in its own right, and Netflix turned Geralt's hair into a meme. But the quietest — and perhaps most meaningful — change in regard to The Witcher 3's upcoming Songs of the Past expansion is happening behind the scenes.

CD Projekt Red's 2015 budget breakdown of The Witcher 3 states that the game's core team consisted of around 240 people. The successes of The Witcher 3 (65 million copies sold) and Cyberpunk 2077 (35 million copies sold) have allowed CD Projekt Red to grow. As of February 2026, the developer's employs 933 people.

Before CD Projekt released The Witcher 3, it was an ambitious, mid-sized studio mostly known to hardcore gamers as the company that ran the PC storefront GOG. In 2014, the company said that most........

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