CD Projekt Purple 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 record of DLC objects which launched alongside the principle sport. Though it transpired almost all this stuff have been acquirable in sport 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 relating to single-player video games, Nielubowicz added “we don’t exclude that we’ll use this resolution sooner or later within the case of multiplayer initiatives.”
This might relate to Venture Sirius, CD Projekt’s multiplayer witcher sport presently being developed by Boston-based studio The Molasses Flood. Regardless of the sport resetting growth early final 12 months, 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 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 sizzling subject CD Projekt Purple has addressed currently. Final week, Cyberpunk 2077’s quest designer Pawel Sasko stated 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 growth, stating the sequel is “not simply repeating what was achieved earlier than” because it confirmed 400 individuals are actually engaged on the undertaking.