CDPR Says Microtransactions Have No Place in Single-Player Games
A senior CD Projekt Red official has gone on record to state that the studio doesn't believe microtransactions have a place in single-player games. And while that move effectively reiterated the company's long-standing stance on game monetization, CD Projekt Red isn't entirely ruling out the possibility of implementing microtransactions in the future.
The Warsaw, Poland-based studio has long been a proponent of microtransaction-free single-player games. It also has a substantial track record of publicly reiterating that stance ahead of its every big launch, having done so in the run-up to the release of both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Although some might see repeated assurance of this sort as redundant, the recent Dragon's Dogma 2 controversy illustrates that many consumers continue to care deeply about having their single-player games free from microtransactions.
As far as The Witcher developer is concerned, the company remains firm in its conviction that single-player games should have a single price instead of resorting to such monetization practices. That's according to CD Projekt CFO Piotr Nielubowicz, who said as much during a recent investor Q&A session following the release of the group's latest consolidated financial report. «We don't see a place for microtransactions in the case of single-player games, but we do not rule out that we will use this solution in the future in the case of multiplayer projects,» Nielubowicz explained, according to the session transcript provided by StockWatch.
The executive's comments delivered yet another indirect assurance that the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, code-named Orion, won't have microtransactions. Ditto for Project Polaris, the fourth The Witcher game that has just entered active production. At the same time, Nielubowicz clearly implied that the possibility of The Witcher multiplayer spin-off, Project Sirius, having microtransactions is still on the table.
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