CD Projekt Red, 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 Red Chief Monetary Officer Piotr Nielubowicz responded to a query about whether or not the studio would implement microtransactions in future tasks.
“We don’t see a spot for microtransactions within the case of single-player video games,” Nielubowicz defined (through Google Translate). “[B]ut we don’t rule out that we are going to use this resolution sooner or later within the case of multiplayer tasks.”
Whereas CD Projekt Red is thought for its single-player video games, the studio is planning to, on the very least, incorporate some multiplayer points in a few of its future tasks. Most notably, the studio is creating a brand new recreation set in The Witcher universe, codenamed Sirius. Though undertaking particulars are slim, CD Projekt Red beforehand mentioned 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 presently targeted on Capcom’s most up-to-date single-player recreation, 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 move by, and assist with issues like fast-travel.
Some gamers, nonetheless, have defended Dragon’s Dogma 2’s microtransactions, on condition that the objects you’ll be able to pay for are additionally attainable via gameplay. Nonetheless, microtransactions in video games stay a controversial subject, particularly the thought of implementing them in $70 single-player video games.
In different CD Projekt Red information, the studio just lately revealed that it is placing the majority of its assets on the subsequent mainline Witcher recreation, codenamed Polaris.
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