CD Projekt RED - One of Poland's biggest Companies

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PC Gamer reports that CD Project Red is now one of Poland's biggest companies:

CD Projekt's market cap breaks $1.6 billion, making it one of Poland's biggest companies

It's been a good half-decade for CD Projekt, the parent company of Witcher and Gwent (and, one of these years Cyberpunk) studio CD Projekt Red and digital storefront GOG—especially the last half-year of it. The company started 2015 with a share price of around 17PLN ($4.18), but following a surge through the end of 2016 and opening months of 2017, it's now sitting at 70PLN ($17.20) per share.

As pointed out by NeoGAF member boskee, That gives it a total market cap of more than $1.6 billion, and despite its scrappy indie appearance, that's enough to make it one of the biggest companies in Poland. For the purposes of comparison, it now sits well ahead of Capcom, which currently has a market cap of $1.38 billion. It also represents tremendous growth since the summer of 2016, when the company revealed that its value had hit the $1 billion mark, as Gamasutra noted, on the strength of The Witcher 3, which was still riding high on the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions, and—as always—GOG.

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Thanks, henriquejr!

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[joxer]

Good. Now buy Bioware from EA, restore it's former no_sonar/no_grind glory and conquer the world!

 

[Silver]

Good. Now buy Bioware from EA, restore it's former no_sonar/no_grind glory and conquer the world!

Your thinking too small Joxer. They should buy EA and free all that delicious, delicious IP.

 

[joxer]

Nah. Why would they need crap like Titanfall - it isn't selling besides it's MMO.
Ah you mean buy stupid TOR, shut it down and make Kotor3? Hell, yes!

 

[BoboTheMighty]

I'm making a fortune from my investments here.

 

[khaight]

Nice to see some of the good guys doing well.

 

[Toff]

They shouldn't buy anyone but should make a Witcher universe MMO.

 

[joxer]

Toff, you trying to get me suicidal here?

 

[henriquejr]

They shouldn't buy anyone but should make a Witcher universe MMO.

Jesus, please no....

 

[lostforever]

Nice to see some of the good guys doing well.

The real question is what now? Where do they go from here...

As far as i know all the small companies (Blizzard, bioware, Bethesda etc) that went big went bad eventually...

 

[Hastar]

Make a Witcher movie, toy line and Saturday morning cartoon. Also, a phone only game where Geralt collects magical coins. Make a MMO that is pay to win where the only way to lvl your character costs $99.99 a lvl.

I think I should be the new CEO of CD Projekt. Yeah, that would be awesome.

 

[BoboTheMighty]

Well they're planning ( or working) on another AAA rpg, the question is what kind? Medieval fantasy?...doubt it, after a decade they seem quite a bit burned out. And cyberpunk has sci-fi futuristic earth covered.
I'm hoping space opera, new universe, no humans allowed. (Mass Effect is great, but too much shooting/action oriented)
Story driven, full of interesting conflicts/narrative themes, something in line of single player Star Trek or setting like Babylon V.

 

[Maylander]

I assume GOG.com is the biggest part here, so this doesn't necessarily mean they're going in the direction of BioWare, Bethesda and Blizzard. Hopefully, they'll just continue doing whatever it is they're doing (both their games and GOG.com are fantastic).

 

[lackblogger]

Hooray for gog, a superb service, delivered well. Here's hoping it doesn't go to their heads too much though and gog remains a library for attracting classics rather than a wallmart just chucking the latest whatever at you

 

[mercy]

Interesting company: They developed Meh-level Witcher games so far and I only completed about 75% of Witcher 1, it was funny with all the cute chicks and jokes like the village is turning to monsters, then the whole story collapsed, went boring and I never looked back at the other crappy boring Witcher titles..

 

[zahratustra]

and I never looked back at the other crappy boring Witcher titles..

and you probably read just one book, found it boring and never looked back? Oh well, whatever.

 

[Toff]

Toff, you trying to get me suicidal here?

No, I'm not trying to get you suicidal but the witcher universe is pretty neat. Lots of new monsters for us Americans and a Witcher would only one of hopefully many classes. I would even preorder it and I never preorder games. Besides MMOs are great, actually all games are great but of course we all have preferences.

 

[kopija]

Interesting company: They developed Meh-level Witcher games so far and I only completed about 75% of Witcher 1, it was funny with all the cute chicks and jokes like the village is turning to monsters, then the whole story collapsed, went boring and I never looked back at the other crappy boring Witcher titles..

I finished it and sold my graphics card knowing that all those future games will be bland compared to it.
Luckily I have integrated graphics so I can play good old games.

 

[daveyd]

Hooray for gog, a superb service, delivered well. Here's hoping it doesn't go to their heads too much though and gog remains a library for attracting classics rather than a wallmart just chucking the latest whatever at you

As long as they stick to their DRM-free pledge, there's a lot of AAA publishers that will refuse to sell their new games on GOG. And good riddance I say, as (with very few notable exceptions) the big publishers haven't released anything worth buying in quite some time. I'm glad that most decent "classic in the making" indie RPGs are released there.

 

[Aerth]

Interesting company: They developed Meh-level Witcher games so far and I only completed about 75% of Witcher 1, it was funny with all the cute chicks and jokes like the village is turning to monsters, then the whole story collapsed, went boring and I never looked back at the other crappy boring Witcher titles..

You have a sure judgement. Hope than you first book did not bore you.