The first Witcher has it's fair share of mechanics problems. If need, read the books, skip game one, pick up 2.

Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy anyone?

I am honestly surprised by the lack of Masamune Shirow work.

From what I've read, one of the big reasons for it is that one of the paid benefits of funding her was periodic updates as to progress and what have you, and then she started missing deadlines, would refuse to respond to people inquiring about the status, etc.