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I don't think anyone really gives a shit either way. Guess it's a good bonus.

“If it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit”: CD Projekt Red still weighing up Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer options

Cyberpunk 2077, the next ambitious RPG from The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red, has been doing the rounds at the Gamescom 2019 expo this week in Cologne, Germany, not least by making a splash with the announcement that it'll be launching on Google Stadia next year.

The studio itself has been presenting behind-closed-doors demos to press at the show itself, and recent conversations with some of the team have offered more clarity about the previously teased Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer modes in the works for the game, which takes place in a dystopian urban jungle of the future.

Speaking to Eurogamer, CD Projekt Red’s Marthe Jonkers explained that multiplayer isn't guaranteed for Cyberpunk 2077, as the studio is prioritising the core singleplayer experience before anything else, especially as that April 16, 2020 release date looms.

"We are doing R&D [Research & Development] into multiplayer", says Jonkers, "but we’re focusing on single-player experience, and that’s what you’ll get in 2020. It doesn’t mean we’re saying no multiplayer, but it doesn’t mean we’re saying yes either. It’s still an R&D phase."

"If you add multiplayer functions it has to be right. Immersion is super important for us and we have to make sure everything fits together. The singleplayer experience, it all fits together. We’re not just going to slap some [multiplayer] feature in and that’ll be it. It’s possible if it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit."

To some, the tenuous future of Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer won't be much cause for concern, given the strengths of everything we've seen from the singleplayer experience so far. That said, we have to admit that the idea of running around Night City with a friend sounds amazing, so here's hoping CD can figure the online component out in time for launch day, or even beyond.

Good. not every game need MP.

since we are not getting any Deus Ex. I really hope this will be alternate Deus Ex game we will play in 2020. exact 20 years after original Deus Ex.

What kind of worthwhile multiplayer could they even do with this game?

I'm not sure what multiplayer could be done with this game. But you can bet your a** that the investors are looking at that GATV money and want CDPR to figure something out.

This is why single player narrative games are so few and far between these days. The upfront investment is far too risky.

I can see them doing something what Witcher 3 did for Gwent on it's own thing and if Cyberpunk 2077 has anything to do with card game, I expect seeing something Gwent like getting it'a own MP online. And speaking of, do we know what side game will Cyberpunk 2077 have? Gwent like or what?

@davillain-: I could see something a little like the Hitman season 2 MP. Maybe have jobs on offer and competing contracts for people to try to pull off in a living open world like GTA5?

Whatever it will be, it wouldn't matter to me because I'm only getting the game for single player experience.

@davillain-: well I realize the vast majority are.

I thought no multiplayer was already confirmed... maybe I just assumed it wouldn't have it.. Nothing lost in my opinion.

No need for MP, unless it's a form of campaign co-op where you can drop in and out, with progression being tracked simultaneously. That's the only kinda MP that would get me marginally invested in the concept.

I do not care whether or not there is mp, personally. Can't wait for this game to come out.

Developing a multiplayer component for this game would take resources away from the singleplayer component, so I am against including a multiplayer mode.

I mean honestly, who asks for things like this? Just doesn't make sense for a game like this.