CD Projekt Pink, the studio behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, apparently has no intentions of implementing microtransactions in its single-player video games.
In an interview with Stockwatch.pl (noticed by PCGamer), CD Projekt Pink Chief Monetary Officer Piotr Nielubowicz responded to a query about whether or not the studio would implement microtransactions in future initiatives.
“We don’t see a spot for microtransactions within the case of single-player video games,” Nielubowicz defined (by way of Google Translate). “[B]ut we don’t rule out that we’ll use this answer sooner or later within the case of multiplayer initiatives.”
Whereas CD Projekt Pink is understood for its single-player video games, the studio is planning to, on the very least, incorporate some multiplayer features in a few of its future initiatives. Most notably, the studio is creating a brand new sport set in The Witcher universe, codenamed Sirius. Though challenge particulars are slim, CD Projekt Pink beforehand stated that it’s going to have each single and multiplayer gameplay.
Nielubowicz’s feedback come amid continued fan pushback towards paywalls and in-game purchases, a dialog that is at the moment centered on Capcom’s most up-to-date single-player sport, Dragon’s Dogma 2. Regardless of its spectacular gross sales efficiency on Steam, many gamers have criticized the presence of microtransactions in Dragon’s Dogma 2, particularly as a result of those supplied make some sections designed to problem gamers simpler to cross by, and assist with issues like fast-travel.
Some gamers, nonetheless, have defended Dragon’s Dogma 2’s microtransactions, on condition that the gadgets you possibly can pay for are additionally attainable via gameplay. Nonetheless, microtransactions in video games stay a controversial matter, particularly the thought of implementing them in $70 single-player video games.
In different CD Projekt Pink information, the studio lately revealed that it is placing the majority of its sources on the following mainline Witcher sport, codenamed Polaris.
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