At this year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s in-person fan event celebrating its many gaming franchises, CD Projekt Red unveiled a Geralt-themed skin coming to Diablo 4 and revealed that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will cross over with Overwatch in 2027. While cross-game collaborations are a dime a dozen in live-service games nowadays, I was curious why CD Projekt Red and Blizzard specifically chose to make The Witcher collaboration a Barbarian skin and the Cyberpunk collaboration solely focus on Edgerunners. In an interview with Polygon, developers from both studios revealed why these decisions were made.
Why the Diablo 4 x The Witcher collab features a Barbarian skin
For this collaboration, Geralt himself is not coming to Diablo 4. Instead, a skin based on the character will be added for the Barbarian class. CD Projekt Red level design lead Miles Tost tells Polygon that this was the result of “a lot of back and forth on the creative side, which is challenging, but also part of the fun.”
But why the Barbarian specifically? I could easily see Geralt’s look working for a Paladin, or even a Rogue. Tost offered some insight as to why the collaboration went this direction.
“We landed on something super cool with the Barbarian because we see not just the whole weapons expertise — masters that achieve perfection through massive amounts of training — but also relatively low level of magic use. Using physical prowess in general as their main weapon, and knowledge,” Tost said. “I also like to think of the Barbarian’s arsenal system as something that can harken a bit to the need for preparation that a Witcher would need to go through to find the right tool for the right cause.”
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