This past week, a whistleblower turned over information to YouTuber Upper Echelon Gaming that claimed a CDPR QA contract studio, Quantic Lab, was a major contributor to the issues Cyberpunk 2077 had at launch.

The 72 page document made claims that Quantic Lab lied about the size and seniority of the team, and that a bug reporting quota for its testers meant that CDPR was sent thousands of less-than-relevant bugs, taking away time from more important issues that were left in the game at launch.

After contacting Quantic Dream for their statement in response to the allegations, I received the following from their CEO, Stefan Seicarescu. It…does not fully address the allegations, but here it is in its entirety:

“Concerning the article published in Forbes on June 26th, Quantic Lab’s would like to clarify the following:

The video published on social media as mentioned in your article starts with incorrect statements about Quantic Lab’s history. There seems to be a lack of understanding in the process of how a game is tested before its release to the market.

Quantic Lab was founded in 2006 with a team of twelve, fully focused on Quality Assurance, and has since then grown into a leading QA company with more than 60 active clients, and more than 400 employees in 3 office locations in Romania. Quantic Lab supports over 200 projects per year from several global leading publishers and continues to maintain a quality comes first approach to all the work we undertake.

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