CD Projekt Pink will not be placing microtransactions in single participant video games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time quickly, in keeping with feedback not too long ago 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 could 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 listing of DLC gadgets which launched alongside the principle recreation. Though it transpired almost all these things had been acquirable in recreation anyway, gamers had 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 Pink 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 12 months, Nielubowicz confirms within the interview that it’ll nonetheless function multiplayer elements. He additionally clarifies the sport is being handled as a “AAA mission” whereas VP of Investor Relations Karolina Gnas says CDP is changing into “more and more happy with the progress of labor” with about 40 individuals engaged on it proper now.
Microtransactions aren’t the one scorching subject CD Projekt Pink has addressed recently. 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 gentle on the Witcher 4’s improvement, stating the sequel is “not simply repeating what was accomplished earlier than” because it confirmed 400 individuals are actually engaged on the mission.
