
CD Projekt Red CEO Michał Nowakowski has acknowledged there's no such thing as "magic" that'll somehow fix everything in game development as the studio ramps up work on The Witcher 4 and the Cyberpunk 2077 follow-up.
You might have heard of the term 'BioWare magic' before, especially when it comes to past reports about that studio's history with crunch culture. But it's a term that many studios have used, referring to the belief that an in-development game will eventually, magically come together in the end and that things will 'get better' for crunching developers eventually. Veteran BioWare producer Mark Darrah released an entire rant about the term, if you're interested.