The Witcher Dev CD Projekt Red Takes A Stand Against Microtransactions
CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher and upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 have taken a stand against EA-style microtransactions.
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Loot boxes and microtransactions have been two of the most controversial topics in the video game industry over the past few years. It seems that some companies are still rallying against the idea of charging the player more for random content, as CD Projekt Red (the developers of The Witcher series) has stated that they will not be including microtransactions in their future games.
CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kiciński told PC Gamer that a full-priced game should come with all of its content available to the player without any additional purchases. Kiciński claims that “If you buy a full priced game, you should get a big, polished piece of content, which gives you many, many hours of fun gameplay,” and that “The definition of ‘many’ may vary on a title-by-title basis, but in our case it was always 50-60+ hours of the main story-line, with up to a couple of hundred of hours of side activities—if you really wanted to max out the title. To me, this is a fair deal. You get what you paid for, plus we are always trying our best to overdeliver. There is no better PR than a happy gamer recommending your title to their friends.”
Adam Kiciński directly referred to the controversies that have been brewing over the past two years concerning the unfair business practices surrounding microtransactions and locking content behind random drops that cost real money. This negative press culminated in the Star Wars Battlefront II controversy of last year when EA came under fire for tipping the balance of gameplay in favor of those who were willing to pay extra money on loot crates.
The people at CD Projekt Red feel that a full-priced game should give all of its content to players, with paid DLC only be using used for extra content that is truly worthwhile. They certainly kept to their word with The Witcher 3, as most of the DLC for that game was free and the pieces that weren’t were composed of some of the best quests in the game.
It seems that CD Projekt Red will be keeping to their promise with the upcoming Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which is a free-to-play title that is designed so that the player shouldn’t need to spend any money. You can purchase extra packs using real money, but this is meant to be offset by the fact that the game itself is free and the average player should never need to pay cash for booster packs.
The current upcoming CD Projekt Red titles are Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which is due for a 2018 release, Cyberpunk 2077, which still doesn’t have a release date, and a planned fourth game in The Witcher series which hasn’t started development yet.
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