Almost five years after moving to the Cyberpunk 2077-Makers Carolin Wendt is promoted again by CD Projekt Red.
Update March 14, 2023: Carolin Wendt is again given more responsibility at the games manufacturer CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 3, Cyberpoint 2077): As Acting Lead International Community, Wendt is now leading a seven-person community manager team and also coordinates three other regions.
The goal: a clear and uniform approach to existing and future customers of the award-winning Polish game studio. Wendt’s responsibilities include the development of short and long-term community strategies for all existing and future CD Projekt Red titles, the efficient investment of local budgets and reporting to the headquarters in Warsaw.
February 1, 2021 update: Next career step for Carolin Wendt: At the turn of the month she was appointed Senior Community Manager DACH of CD Projekt RED, i.e. with responsibility for the markets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
With the exception of the CD project platform GOG, Wendt represents all game brands of the Warsaw game studio, first and foremost Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series. In her new role, Wendt will take on greater responsibility, including at “Translating global initiatives into local projects”.
CD Projekt RED is currently working on free content, expansions and the PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X version of Cyberpunk 2077. Planned date for the free next-generation upgrade: Q1 2022. Tue The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition should come in the first half of 2022. Part of the team is already busy with new projects.
Message from December 3, 2018: CD Projekt RED strengthens its staff for Cyberpunk 2077: At the turn of the year, Carolin Wendt started as a community manager for the German-speaking area.
Polish studio CD Projekt RED (The Witcher 3, GWENT) sets up a German branch. The employee with the serial number 1 is called Carolin Wendt and comes from the Digital Games Culture Foundation in Berlin, where she worked as a project manager for four years. There she managed websites, gave lectures, produced brochures and was part of the award office of the German Computer Game Prize.
From January 1, Wendt, in her capacity as CD Projekt RED Community Manager, will share an office with Christoph Pardey, who has been Head of Partnerships in Berlin since 2015 and has been building up the German business of the PC games distribution platform GOG.com. Both CD Projekt RED and GOG.com are divisions of the Polish joint-stock company CD Projekt. The German team also includes Fabian Döhla, who is responsible for communication and controls both public relations and the social media channels in German-speaking countries.
Alongside Blizzard Entertainment and Rockstar Games, CD Projekt RED is one of the world’s best-reputed and most consistent development studios. Since 2007, three successful ones have been created in the branches in Kraków and Warsaw The Witcher-RPGs including expansions and the trading card spinoff GWENT. Currently, the studio is working on the sci-fi action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077which has been one of the most anticipated computer games since the gameplay presentation in June 2018 at the latest.
With a bit of luck, Carolin Wendt herself will be on the stage of the German Computer Game Award 2020 (2021? 2022?) and accept an award together with the team Cyberpunk 2077 in contrast to: The Witcher 3 has already won several computer game prizes in the public categories.
