A CD Projekt RED employee has contacted us about a really interesting story. Now before continuing, take everything you’re about to read with a grain of salt. CD Projekt RED’s employee provided us with his payslip in order to prove his identity, so this is – most probably – the real deal. For obvious reasons we can’t share the full payslip as we want to protect this employee.
According to CD Projekt RED’s employee, Electronic Arts representatives are currently visiting CD Projekt RED and meeting with the top management.
“I’m employee of CDProjekt Red and I have some bad news to share with you. Our management is probably talking with Electronic Arts about potential take over. Electronic Arts representatives are currently visiting our studio and meeting with top management. We are not going to release any game soon, so for sure it’s not about any publishing deal, so the only possible reason for EA guys being here is that they want to buy us.”
CD Projekt RED’s next title is no other than Cyberpunk 2077.
Whether EA is meeting with CD Projekt RED for a potential publishing deal regarding this title remains a mystery. It’s also unclear whether EA plans to buy CD Projekt RED.
Moreover, these meeting could very well be for a potential/future digital distribution deal between Origin and GOG.
What is crystal clear, however, is that EA is in talks with CDPR.
As said, take everything you’ve just read with a grain of salt!
UPDATE:
CD Projekt RED’s Marcin Momot responded to this rumor, suggesting that it’s false. Do note that Marcin Momot also denied the downgrade rumors surrounding The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt prior to the game’s release. Whether this is an attempt at damage control or not remains to be seen.
@astreamz Just bumped into Marcin Iwiński – it was new to him. I guess the "informer" has better insight than the @CDPROJEKTRED founder. 🙂
— Marcin Momot (@Marcin360) September 14, 2015
UPDATE #2:
CD Projekt RED issued an official statement.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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EA better not f*cking touch Cyberpunk 2077
Origin on GOG.com is a nightmare come true.
They are not going to be bought by EA, they will try to remain the pretentious good guys. I feel they will probably become greedy as EA or worse.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
-Game industry in a nutshell.
Wouldn’t it be awsome if EA were there to actually learn how not to rape customers and still earn a pile of ca$h? 🙂
Oh no.Please god, dont let this happen.For the greater good.Please.
lol , rip boys
LoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooL
Maybe they’re just discussing bringing more EA games to GOG.
EA’s life is depending on denuvo and always online DRMs, EA games to GOG is impossible
I wouldn’t mind getting some old EA games to GOG. Though it’s unlikely the visit would be about something like that.
i am too but it’s not going to happen specially when EA is so pro DRM.
EA already has some of its older games available on GOG.
ea will execute you and throw you off a cliff as soon as your last games has turned into a dlc rehash and has stopped making money.
Dont deal with the devil cd projekt. They see that you achieved something there with your hard work and your games are not devoid of talent. They will drive your ips to the ground until they stop making money and then shut you down.
Go with valve, go with deep silver, go with WB, go with bethesda, even square enix, but stay away from ea, they are by far the worst.
Stay away from any of these companies.
I’ll destroy the planet if they sell out to Valve an- oh wait. Maybe I need to think of something less destructive…
Please, let the deal happen. Then, eventually, EA will be the best company within the next decade.
That’s not how takeovers work. The buying company usually replaces the bought company’s management with the prospect that they can run the company better.
i’m pretty sure they can run it better. this is EA we’re talking about not some scrub company.
Tell that to Origin, Pandemic, Visceral, Westwood, and Bullfrog.
They’re going to buy them out and shutter them, just like all the others.
Origin was invented by EA, so there was no purchase of the platform they f’ng invented it, on Pandemic, Westwood and Bullfrog i agree… on Visceral I dont agree they made BTF hardline, dead space 2 and 3 that were not bad… I think really that EA with his new CEO change really attitude, and they are trying to think more regarding player experience… at least thats my opinion…. off course in the past EA did many many mistake….
ea is crap and has been getting crap for years, everything ea has is battlefields, bioware and sims.
You can cross out Bioware from the list. The husk is dead even thou EA isn’t quite done ravaging the corpse.
Yeah, it’s not like we’re talking about the absolute cancer of publishers, what could go wrong?
what no, they will ruin the series and close down the studio.
No way… They will turn their games into Social Justice Simulators like new Bioware games and then shut down the studio just like Origin, Maxis, Westwood, Bullfrog and so many awesome developers.
I’m curious to what will happen with GOG. GOG Galaxy is basically a competitor to Origin by EA.
:O
>Got a G-Man avatar
>Throws a big NOOOOO over GOG being taken over by EA – The Rumor
>>After doing mathematics, my brain fried.
As did mine trying to understand, what is wrong? :v
Lemme recap. G-Man comes from Half-Life, which is nowadays a Steam title, and you can’t play Half-Life without Steam’s DRM…
But you get to throw a big nooo over a DRM-free-iendly company being bought out by a not DRM-free-iendly company. I always get to that point before my brain fries out.
Oh… right, because I like a character from a game automatically I’m 100% behind the said company that developed it.
Automatically I believe in all business decisions made by said company and everything made by any of their said competitors, despite being something beneficial for the whole spectre of the medium, is supposed to be my object of scorn and hate.
Also, why didn’t you mention that EA has a Star Wars licensed game coming out, which would’ve made my comment even more incomprehensible for your brain? Oh my, should I mention that I’m not even a fan of said franchise?
You need to sit down and relax a little bit mate.
Good. My brain stopped frying.
Too late, you brain was fried long ago. For real, if you think you can know so much from someone just because his avatar your brain is more than fried.
If you have to let go of that much steam out on sarcasm, you don’t have a brain.
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fvck off.
Hey guys, remember the time EA bought Westwood, Bullfrog, Maxis and Origin and ran them to the ground?
Yeah…
They don’t need to sell it, they can become EA’s b**ch just like BioWare.
then you are extremely naive.
Frack you life, first you give me a cookie like TW3 and now this kick on my balls.. Frack you life. Frack you.
CDPR moving closer to the dark side, how the mightly small studio for PC games have fallen.
You believe whatever people tell you? Guess what?
Arrrgghhh!!! This is too horrific to contemplate. Calm thoughts… paradise waterfall… butterflies…
pls god no
perfect
Keep calm and have faith!
Well it could mean discussing on old games to be released on GOG?
Why didn’t they buy Valve?
Leave CDPR alone and go buy Valve.
That said, I don’t trust this ‘rumor’ a bit.
Why the heck didn’t they buy Valve? Leave CDPR. Valve is more profitable and they would LOVE to be fixed, those crooks.
That said, I don’t have any reason to believe this rumor.
Couldn’t afford Valve. EA didn’t believe Steam would be successful, Valve did.
They couldn’t afford them… before this abomination of a service surface?
Am I not supposed to believe they were not ric- I mean, EA didn’t have the money to buy such a service out at its infant stage.
Valve believed Steam would be worth a lot of money – and it has proved to be right. EA didn’t think Valve was right, so they wouldn’t pay what Valve thought they were worth.
THat’s what I mean.
I think EA were like “are you nuts?” by the time they didn’t think they were right. I’d say they weren’t right too. But now, they have way too much power in their hands, and what do they use it on… oh wait, an idea that could fit in 2004 but not in 2015. And I don’t like that a 2004 idea like Steam is being shoved onto our face in 2015.
Not true: From Nichegamer… http://nichegamer.com/2015/09/rumor-cd-projekt-red-signing-publishing-deal-or-being-acquired-by-electronic-arts/
It seems like this informant could be completely spinning lies, if a message from Community Lead & Website Coordinator Marcin Momot is anything to go by.
“Just bumped into Marcin Iwi?ski – it was new to him. I guess the “informer” has better insight than the CDPROJEKTRED founder,” said Momot on Twitter.
Marcin Momot also lied about The Witcher 3’s downgrade-ation prior to the game’s release.
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-witcher-3-fans-claim-downgrade-ation-is-in-full-effect-after-latest-trailer-devs-comment/
Not implying that he is lying now, but let’s try and keep an open mind. There is a reason this is marked as a rumor.
Yeah, I’m sure some No Name website knows more than anyone else. Alright.
F@ck NO!
6 Million sales of TW3 and climbing, they don’t need them
BTW: EA’s Peter Moore makes scuzzy used car salesman look reputable and sincere.
you got it the other way around man, it is because they sell while not being utter milked over marketed crap that they attracted ea’s suits.
If EA buys them I will NEVER buy a game from them again, PERIOD.
remember when they bought pandemic?
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/528/400/5c9.png
Well, aanyone should photoshop CD project in this picture. xD
CD Projekt will be their Masterpiece.
They will do it. The polacks there are living off vodka and potatoes for the past 20years. they will jump at this opportunity. and they will make in their minds Notch money.
If this is real… Well Rip!
CDPR is the most overrated developer out there. So honestly I dont care. I did care about Cyberpunk but from their trailer they shower they dont understand 80s retrofuturistic cyberpunk.
More importantly, do you shower your trailer daily?
i shower your moms and i take out the trash in the morning.
More importantly, do you shower your trailer daily? XD
i dont live in a trailer homie i live in a mansion but i do visit the trailer park for some good time with your moms and aunties boy
More importantly…
do you shower your trailer daily?
i shower your moms poontang which is more important imho.
Yet more importantly, do you shower your trailer daily?
if so…im leaving games market…!
Dear god. This can’t be true! This just can’t! :'(
Goodbye CDPR it was good to know you. At least you finished the Witcher saga..that can be your swan song.
I’ll remember you fondly for who you are not what you’ll become.
(probably an overreaction but still)
I love that bit: “so the only possible reason for EA guys being here is that they want to buy us”. Just beautiful. Some dev is like “Oh, it MUST be this and this” and you make a news out of it…? What if it’s about, idk, EA games on GOG or something.
‘his payslip’
We’re going closer to the leak!
god plz no just please no !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F’ EA, this should not happen…
Yeah i still remember that liar, is the reason why i didn’t bought the collector edition with his lies.
Gamers care about the Game, CD Projekt RED care about $, so if EA give so much $$$ no one gives a fok about me and you. Keep this in your mind.
You don’t know much about the pc landscape do you?
You don’t know nothing about the business?
They just had a successful Witcher 3 release and started to participate in the Digital Distribution race with Galaxy. Why should they throw all that away?
Nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! >:
R.I.P., it was fun while it lasted (if true)…
If this is true then I doubt it will be anything more than publishing deal for the console version of their games.
Oh, yeah, let’s believe Marcin Mormont, lol.
That guy sure is a trustworthy fella who would never lie to the CDPR fan community.
TBQFH, I almost expected something like this. Once you start selling out and get hooked on that free (after all, betraying your customers isn’t much work) dosh they got from Microsoft for intentionally f’ing up the PC version of W3, it’s hard to stop. This is just the next logical step.
Sad to see this happen to people who once seemed to genuinely care about making good games and listening to their customers.
Valve is a private company. The only way they could be sold to EA is if Gabe Newell will say “Yes”.
Nice meme.
Hah GAAY
RIP
Games journalism at its finest.
Death of another great developer is about to happen if true. And rather not trust Mr. Marcin Momot. He’s a liar.
EDIT:
If EA is going to fund CP 2077 then it’s going to be a Consolized garbage.
Shouldn’t you, you know, fact check before making stupid articles like this?
https://twitter.com/PorygonNews/status/643452833421877248
It’s a bit early for April’s fools jokes.
This was already debunked, but nice click bait.
EA:”Suprise MotherF++++r”…
Desperate for a scoop DSOG? The title of your article states this as fact even though your source was speculating, you know, like they do on CNN all the time, without reporting it as news. Sad. To everyone else, this is bullshit.
The title of this article, at least to me, starts with the word “RUMOR”.
It did not start with that when I posted this. Funny how that happened like that.
Ea games: so i heard you like to lie to customers and downgrade games in pro to consoles.
Cdpr: yes of course. F@$k pc community
Ea ganes: ok. Lets eat together and talk about money…
If Cyberpunk 2077 is releasing in 2017 then right now is totally the right time to be talking publishing deal. The employee clearly has no idea how the business works.
ixigia’s edition
OH GAWD NO NO No NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Hehehe.
Gamers are such stupid conspiracy-theory-lover morons sometimes, it hurts.
A stupid rumor pops out and everyone is already digging the grave.
Not to mention spoiled brats. CDPR are now evil too, really?
No. You have it all wrong. Gamers are probably morons to begin with.
It will be a very sad day if EA does buy CD Projekt Red. Anything EA touches turns to sh*t. Luckily I have 6 other stores that offer DRM free games so I won’t be left high and dry. If EA buys them I wouldn’t touch anything they sell, I’d lose any confidence I have in the company.
This would be the saddest news of the year in gaming!
o.0
http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/comment/comics-Cyanide-and-Happiness-suicide-family-407619.gif
If EA was there then they could have been there to make a deal to sell games on GOG.
I don’t like being lied to but this comes with the job he has. It’s ment to buy some time until proper communication about the problem is prepared. He’s just a meatshield, no reason for hate.
You know to be fair, they still probably have wet dreams about it 😉
It probably isn’t true. There’s no reason for them to sell out now. Not when they’ve stressed how because of their independence, they have so much freedom with the game budget, development time etc etc. This would just seem really dumb. Marcin lied about the downgrade? Well, everybody lies about games being downgraded. How does lying about a downgrade = lying about a takeover? It’s just so different. A downgrade isn’t as important as something like this. Guess we’ll just have to see but I highly doubt it will happen.
If this happens I want EA taking pages out of GOG’s book rather than the reverse.
But this story does strike me as very unusual and more than a little far fetched.
So this wasn’t really journalism, it was clickbait. Because REAL journalists make at least some attempt to check the facts before publishing. You know, maybe contact the company? Check if your source actually works for them?
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/57903-Rumors-rumors-rumors
“”We usually don’t comment on rumors, but this one has become quite viral and we think it deserves to be put to bed: we are not talking with anyone regarding selling CD PROJEKT RED or GOG.com. Period. And the payslip is a fake – it was not issued by our company.”- Marcin Iwi?ski and the Board
All this has done has guaranteed that I’ll never consider dsogaming a credible source for anything in the future.
CD Projekt told Eurogamer:
“We usually don’t comment on rumours but this one has become quite viral and we think it deserves to be put to bed,” said co-founder Marcin Iwinski on behalf of the Board. “We are not talking with anyone regarding selling CD Projekt Red or GOG.com. Period. And the payslip is a fake – it was not issued by our company.”
COMPLETELY FAKE, CD PROJEKT RED HAVE DEBUNKED THIS THEMSELVES.
F’ you, whoever made this horse sh*t up.
Everyone is concentrating on the buyout. Hell, this article suggests that the buyout is unlikely and that the only certain thing is that EA is in talks with CDPR. Something that CDPR’s Benzenzimmern confirmed -> http://i.imgur.com/UaMU6ph.png
The fact that other websites focused on the buyout reference speaks volumes about THEIR credibility. They focused on it in order to post a clickbait article. So blame them. I mean, you can read, right? From this article:
“Whether EA is meeting with CD Projekt RED for a potential publishing deal regarding this title remains a mystery. It’s also unclear whether EA plans to buy CD Projekt RED.”
Regarding the payslip, of course and they’ll deny its credibility. It’s common sense. Oh, and of course and we’ll give CDPR the benefit of the doubt.
You can’t do anything else than “give CDPR the benefit of the doubt” you have showed nothing to back up your claims.
Your focus in this “articles” (You can hardly call it that) was the buy out.
Do everybody a favor don’t write more articles you suck at it. You suck at checking up on facts.
“Regarding the payslip, of course and they’ll deny its credibility.” Really? That sounds as though you’re still determined not to believe them. Which says a lot more about your own credibility than it does about CDPR’s. I suggest you move towards writing novels, if you prefer fiction to fact.
And if this article wasn’t clickbait, you’d have a) changed the title and b) published the updates ABOVE the fold. Because that’s what real news sites do when they find they’ve got something wrong.
Who would even believe this? Like really are you people out of your mind. You believe anything if just a news website is posting it.
There is not a single bit of proof of the claims in this “article”.
Some quotes:
“A CD Projekt RED employee has contacted us about a really interesting story.”
Why would he contact you? Give one good reason.
““I’m employee of CDProjekt Red and I have some bad news to share with you. Our management is probably talking with Electronic Arts about potential take over. Electronic Arts representatives are currently visiting our studio and meeting with top management. We are not going to release any game soon, so for sure it’s not about any publishing deal, so the only possible reason for EA guys being here is that they want to buy us.””
Lets take a look. Not many people will start a sentence with “I’m employee of CDProjekt Red”. Why would he state that in such a manner? Doesn’t seem logical unless he wants fame which then is erased the moment they don’t show his name.
He comes with his own guesses and probabilities, which is also weird as fuck. There can be several reasons for an EA representative to be at CDProjekt Red. Maybe they want to discuss a future deal. This is a guess, however it’s an even bigger possibility than EA buying ProjektRed. Why? Well it takes several years to create a game, maybe EA wanted to team up with Projekt Red on a game, considered the name Projekt Red has right now it could hold very big value for EA to make a game with them.
This worker that contacted you. He can not be high up in the chain so there is no reason to even listen to him. Why he isn’t high up? Well because then he would have been let in on why EA was there and potential future projects of the company.
Anyway there are other things:
How can people know if there really is someone from EA? No proofs.
How can people be sure that it is an CDProjekt Red employee you spoke with? Oh the little note that you have there? It can be faked EASILY.
These type of rumors are so stupid that it literately hurts. And that people believe them that is even more stupid.
Please do us a favor don’t make these type of “articles/news” unless you got valid proof. Or at least that your story isn’t full of flaws like this is. Sorry but really.
By the way I do know that CDProjekt RED has commented on this. My comment was to tell you some of the flaws in your clusterfuck.
If this happens.
1. Witcher 4 is now in development (we never stop a money train at EA) as the next EA/CDPR game. 2 year dev time, cus we do not care about making good games here at EA.
2. Geralt is now a transgender. Half the characters in Witcher are now LBGTQLMNOP. All women characters are now given narrower hips, broader shoulders, wider chins and we gave them all short hair. We basically made them men. Just like DA:I. We do this kind of junk so we can call anyone who does not like our game “phobic”. At EA we do not care about anyone, we just want to irritate our main source of income, while attacking them if they do not like our games. Soon people will be afraid to critique any game we make, because people are mental midgets and afraid of a label based on thin air. Also we have loonies defend out games to the death. They are like free advertising. People like Sam Maggs.
Besides with people fighting among themselves about our bad game? They can’t rally against us. We are brilliant aren’t we?
3. Free DLC? Yeah we are putting a stop to that @%#%. We will be chopping up the main plot like we did on Mass Effect 2 and 3.
4. Cyberpunk 2077 will now be a MMO. We made money off cut scenes/trailers with SWTOR, we can do the same with this game. CDPR’s name attached will sell the game like Bioware sold SWTOR. CDPR made a good trailer we can work with that.
Nooooooooooo…. 🙁