CD Projekt Red does not see a place for microtransactions in its single player games, only its multiplayer titles.
Chief financial officer of CD Projekt Red, Piotr Nielubowicz, says that the company does not “see a place” for microtransactions in its single-player titles, having made these comments during a talk with the company’s investors and this came just as Capcom came under fire for microtransactions in its recent single player release, Dragon’s Dogma 2.
These comments and the timing of them seem to suggest that CD Projekt Red is looking to avoid a similar fate, not wanting the same backlash for its own single-player games, and in so doing will keep purchases out of the next mainlines for Cyberpunk and The Witcher games. Responding to a question from an investor, Neilubowicz went on to state “we do not see a place for microtransactions in the case of single player games” further stating “but we do not rule out that we will use this solution in the future in the case of multiplayer projects.”
Aside from this, CD Projekt Red has a few games already in development, ones that are presumably being single-player focused are The Witcher 4, a remake of the first Witcher game, and Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel, Orion. Besides these, The Witcher’s spin-off game known as Project Sirius has also been confirmed to be both single and multiplayer, which opens up the possibility of it having microtransactions.
However, revealing that the studio is also “considering” multiplayer functionality in the next Cyberpunk game, it is unclear if this consideration would make the game a candidate for microtransactions or not. That being said, many fans would expect the focus on the game to mainly lay in the games single player campaign, making it a controversial move for CD Projekt Red to consider it a multiplayer game, inevitably filling it with microtransactions. Either way, the studio seems to be avoiding backlash and it’s the hope of many fans that these single player games remain untouched by microtransactions.
