CD Projekt Purple will not be placing microtransactions in single participant video games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time quickly, in response to feedback lately made by the corporate’s Chief Monetary Officer.
Throughout an interview with Stockwatch.pl(translated through Google) Piotr Nielubowicz was requested whether or not future video games may have microtransactions added into them. To this, Nielubowicz replied “we don’t see a spot for microtransactions within the case of single participant video games”.
The clarification arrives at a time when microtransactions are as soon as once more the topic of fierce debate, due primarily to the controversy surrounding Dragon’s Dogma 2’s prolonged record of DLC gadgets which launched alongside the primary recreation. Though it transpired practically all this stuff have been acquirable in recreation anyway, gamers have been nonetheless hacked off at Capcom’s making an attempt to flog them a bunch of extras when the sport had actually simply launched.
For its half, CD Projekt Purple did not rule out utilizing microtransactions in any respect. Following his remark concerning single-player video games, Nielubowicz added “we don’t exclude that we’ll use this resolution sooner or later within the case of multiplayer tasks.”
This might relate to Challenge Sirius, CD Projekt’s multiplayer witcher recreation at present being developed by Boston-based studio The Molasses Flood. Regardless of the sport resetting improvement early final yr, Nielubowicz confirms within the interview that it’s going to nonetheless function multiplayer elements. He additionally clarifies the sport is being handled as a “AAA undertaking” whereas VP of Investor Relations Karolina Gnas says CDP is turning into “more and more happy with the progress of labor” with about 40 individuals engaged on it proper now.
Microtransactions aren’t the one sizzling subject CD Projekt Purple has addressed currently. Final week, Cyberpunk 2077’s quest designer Pawel Sasko mentioned there was a “gigantic, actually lengthy solution to go” earlier than NPCs powered by generative AI can match the standard of hand-written characters. The corporate additionally shed some mild on the Witcher 4’s improvement, stating the sequel is “not simply repeating what was achieved earlier than” because it confirmed 400 individuals at the moment are engaged on the undertaking.