CDPR Issues The Witcher 4 Scam Warning

CD Projekt Red has issued a warning about a recently emerged scam masquerading as a beta test invite for The Witcher 4. This public service announcement isn’t the only thing that The Witcher 4 developer is doing in response to the scam.

The fourth mainline entry in CDRP’s hit RPG series was originally confirmed to be in the works in March 2022. The Witcher 4 then received its first cinematic trailer in December 2024, revealing Ciri as its protagonist. Based on everything CDPR has shared to date, the game is still at least a few years away from going gold.

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Despite the RPG being nowhere close to releasing, at least one unknown party has reportedly been attempting to scam people by posing as a source of The Witcher 4 beta access as of late. CD Projekt Red addressed the issue on April 16, warning fans that no such beta exists. The Witcher 4 developer has also revealed that it has taken steps to prevent this fraudulent outreach moving forward, albeit without elaborating on the matter any further.

CDPR’s The Witcher 4 Beta Scam PSA

The scope of the ongoing beta scam is unclear, as are its true goals. Generally speaking, there are multiple reasons why malicious parties might want to mislead people into signing up for something that doesn’t exist. A common motivation is data harvesting, done with the goal of selling basic contact information like emails or conducting full-fledged phishing in order to compromise accounts. Alternatively, if this newly identified scam is attempting to convince people to download something to their PCs, then that something is almost certainly malware.

Beta Tests Aren’t Really CDPR’s Thing

The very premise of this ongoing scam is questionable, mostly because none of CDPR’s single-player games ever had beta tests. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game had two betas in 2016 and 2017, but that’s pretty much the full extent of the company’s public testing efforts, as far as non-mobile games are concerned. Moving forward, it’s possible that The Witcher multiplayer game code-named Project Sirius will have a beta, simply on account of having server infrastructure in need of stress-testing. But The Witcher 4 seems unlikely to require such initiatives.

During a recent earnings call, CDPR revealed that it’s not planning to launch The Witcher 4 during its upcoming fiscal year. The comment puts the game’s release in 2027 at the earliest. It’s therefore possible that The Witcher 4 might end up skipping the current console generation in its entirety.

CD Projekt Red

Date Founded

March 6, 2002

Headquarters

Warsaw, Poland

CEO

Adam Kiciński

Parent Company

CD Projekt