Cyberpunk 2077The best days may still be ahead but developer CD Projekt Red announced today that it is shifting focus and resources to other projects, including its new open world. Witcher game. While the sci-fi shooter will still get a story expansion in 2023, it doesn’t look like it will get any more major overhauls in the future.
“We will obviously continue to support Cyberpunk 2077 and still keep updating it but [the] much of the work that we believe has been done and will be completed by 2021,” the company said on today’s earnings call. It also shared a slide showing how development resources have changed over time, with “support for Cyberpunk 2077“Becoming one of the smallest segments as of February 2022.
It was around the same time that CDPR released the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game, as well as patch 1.5, adding a bunch of new bug fixes, rebalancing rewards and skill trees, and expanding relationships with certain NPCs. Many of the improvements have directly addressed previous criticisms of the game, and I’ve enjoyed going back to the latest version lately.
At the same time, patch 1.5 made me feel midway point in Cyberpunk 2077the redemption arc rather than the final winning round. There are parts of the game I love and then there are parts where the simulation still crashes frequently and Destroy all feelings of immersion. CDPR doesn’t say the open-world RPG will never receive another patch on that scale, but all signs point to a downward spiral when it comes to any deeper improvements. about the gameplay or structure of the game. It may not be a retreat so much as a concession What is the limit of the game?.
If so, one No Man’s Sky or Final Fantasy XIVThe return in style may not be in the cards. During its launch in 2020, including the PS4 version was so bad that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store, Cyberpunk sold 13 million copies. Today, CDPR announced it sold just 5 million more in the 16 months since. Currently, that makes the total sales slightly higher than Super Mario Party and behind God of War, both first-party proprietary. It’s also still serious underneath some initial predictions by analysts.
And while Cyberpunk 2077With the future still murky, plans for additional DLC also appear to have been downgraded from time to time. CD Projekt President Adam Kiciński previously said the game will receive “no less DLC” The Witcher 3 had,” and that game received two huge and excellent expansions. For that reason, some initially suggested that Cyberpunk 2077 The same will get two major paid DLC in addition to the smaller free DLCs, but CDPR has only confirmed one so far. It will arrive in 2023, the company announced today. The more specific details remain elusive. One previously planned multiplayer component also seems to have been pushed aside. CDPR did not explicitly confirm its fate when asked about it during today’s earnings call and did not immediately respond to a request for comment when asked to clarify its future plans. Cyberpunk 2077.
No wonder the company is eager, in the meantime, to move on to other things, specially Witcher. CDPR revealed today The Witcher 3 has shipped over 40 million copies, with the series as a whole having sold over 65 million copies. As it tries to develop the next game in that series, it also plans to update more Gwent and The Witcher: Monster Slayera new one Gwent spin-off, an unannounced project at the recently acquired Boston studio, The Molasses Flood, and the next-gen version of The Witcher 3.
That final release was dropped this summer after the CDPR reveal yesterday it is taking away development from Russia-based Saber Interactive and finish it in-house. Despite the lack of a new release window, the company said it was unfair to describe it as “indefinitely delayed”, saying it simply needed more time to evaluate the remaining work. “No one is saying the game is delayed for some epic amount of time before our eyes,” said Michal Nowakowski, SVP of business development.
