The Witcher 3 lead says "not many games" were trying to match the RPG back in 2015, and that meant "there was a risk" to making it in the first place

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“And we tried to carry that over to an open world.”

“But we took these risks,” he continued.

“We did what we could to mitigate them.

I think, in the end, it worked out pretty well.