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by smileybarry 1990 days ago
I don't know how much of that outsourcing is true outsourcing. CDPR has around 800 employees total and they've said they have 350[1]-450[2] people working on the game (estimated to be 500 in Oct 2019[3]). Much of that outsourcing might be CDPR hiring artists as contractors as part of the AAA industry's underpaying hire-fire cycle of development.

[1]: 350 in July 2018: https://wccftech.com/cyberpunk-2077-development/

[2]: 450 in June 2019: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/17/cyberpunk-2077-preview-and-in...

[3]: 500 in October 2019: https://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3621721