Through a tweet today, CD Projekt Red has given us the news that the world has waited for the past seven years, Cyberpunk 2077 has gone gold with an image of Keanu Reeves’ character Johnny Silverhand holding up a golden disc.
Cyberpunk 2077 has gone gold! 📀
See you in Night City on November 19th! pic.twitter.com/s6U266Y1fp
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) October 5, 2020
When a developer says the game the team has worked on has gone gold, it means that a complete copy of the game has been printed on a disc. Now it is time to start printing more for global distribution when it launches in a month.
It does not mean the developers get to rest as it still needs to polish itself up before getting into the hands of gamers worldwide. Last week on September 29, Bloomberg reported that the studio would go into six weeks of mandatory crunch. Regarding the decision as contradicting statements have been made when it comes to the extreme overtime, studio head Adam Badowski took to writing to the staff about why this has had to happen.
“I take it upon myself to receive the full backlash for the decision,” he wrote. “I know this is in direct opposition to what we’ve said about crunch. It’s also in direct opposition to what I personally grew to believe a while back — that crunch should never be the answer. But we’ve extended all other possible means of navigating the situation.”
The FPS RPG has had a long development. The first teaser showcasing the studio taking the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game into a further future for its following AAA project after the release of 2015’s The Witcher 3 debuted back in 2013. Since then, we have had multiple delays, the latest of which sent the game from September to November.
To continue momentum despite delays, the studio has had Night City Wire, a series to give updates regarding the game’s development and deeper insight into its gameplay and world. The latest episode showed off the gangs of Night City, along with how the studio created this world. We recently got a new commercial featuring the John Wick and Matrix actor, who will star as an important character, Johnny Silverhand.
Now that Cyberpunk 2077 hit gold, all you have to do is wait a little longer. The game will launch on November 19 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. It will arrive on Google Stadia by the end of the year. For next-gen buyers, the game will be available on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 sometime next year.
