While it was implicitly known that CD Projekt Red would not have time to develop and deploy a multiplayer mode or whole game of Cyberpunk 2077, the polish studio finally addressed why it is not coming.

Despite being one of the early plans, Cyberpunk 2077 never gained a multiplayer mode nor a standalone multiplayer game.

The reason? But of course the rocky launch and Year 1 of the game.

Now serving as Director of Project Polaris for the Next The Wicther game, Philipp Weber acknowledged to Eurogamer that "had to go away" after the game's rocky launch.

“We really needed to look at what were the priorities for Cyberpunk [after it launched].

The priority was that the main experience will run for the people in a really good state. 

And essentially, the switch of priorities meant that other R&D projects had to go away. With Cyberpunk, we wanted to do many things at the same time, and we just needed to really focus and say, 'Okay, what's the important part? Yeah, we will make that part really good.’”

We don’t need to further stretch that Cyberpunk 2077 is notorious not only for its lengthy marketing phase that started in 2013, but to its rocky launch because the game had so much errors and bugs, that it was practically a game that was truly half-baked and cost CD Projekt so much money and they were forced to arrange a compensation for stockholders that sued because they felt cheated on how the game was truly performing while in the public side, CD Projekt Red appeared that everything was fine for the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 on December 2022, after two known delay.

Of course, the development period was always rumored to be a rocky one and started early as 2013, but reportedly CD Projekt Red did not took things seriously until in 2017 they were forced to restart development from scratch that year and added to the mix, Quantic Lab was hired as their QA outsourced company’s lack of seriousness on their job added more fuel to the fire.

Let’s hope that Project Orion or the sequel/spinoff of Cyberpunk 2077 can bring us more good news regarding the possibility of a multiplayer mode.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Game Of The Year edition could arrive late 2023

CD Projekt Red president and joint-CEO Adam Kiciński said during a recent investors conference that Cyberpunk 2077 will be gaining a Game Of The Year Edition that will include the full game and the expansion Phantom Liberty as per local press.

This is in part to be aligned on how things get operating at CD Projekt Red, after substantial content of a game, a Game Of The Year Edition follows, as we had seen with all The Witcher games.

This probably would be by the second half of 2023, as CD Projekt Red previously confirmed that Phantom Liberty will not be a free expansion and will be available for next-gen consoles and PC.