Although the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was a bug-ridden fiasco that saw the game removed from console storefronts, CD Projekt Red executives are set to receive millions of dollars in bonuses.

According to a recent newsletter by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, the five CDPR executives will receive a combined $28 million in bonuses, with co-CEOs Marcin Iwiński and Adam Kiciński each receiving $6.3 million The five executives will receive a total of $28 million in bonuses. In contrast, employee sources told Bloomberg that they received between $5,000 and $20,000, depending on seniority. These figures are consistent with CDPR's annual financial report, which estimates that the company earned $562 million last year.

This is a 500% increase over the previous year, and Cyberpunk sold more than 13.7 million units. However, employees told Bloomberg that they expected more and that the increase could have been higher if the game had been delayed to fix the myriad of known problems plaguing the game.

It doesn't look good that CD Projekt's very bad week after the launch of CP2077 doesn't seem to have affected the big bonuses for the executives. During last week's investor conference call, Kiciński was asked if it was appropriate that executives still receive such large bonuses, to which the co-CEO replied that bonuses are always tied to profits.

"We earned this money, the company earned this money, of course, but as net profits increase, so do the bonuses," Kiciński said.

Excessive compensation for gaming industry bosses has come under scrutiny in recent years. This week, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick agreed to cut his salary and bonuses in half after facing strong criticism for his excessive earnings, and Bloomberg sources have reported that CDPR is considering raising the salaries of the studio's lowest-paid employees (including testing) to bring them in line with industry standards stated that it is considering raising them.