CD Projekt Red has finally revealed why they cancelled plans for a multiplayer mode in Cyberpunk 2077.

Speaking with Eurogamer, Cyberpunk 2077 senior quest designer and coordinator Philipp Weber said:

“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,” he said. “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.'”

Back in October 2022, CD Projekt Red announced five new projects. These include a new Witcher game codenamed “Sirius” by The Molasses Flood, a new Witcher trilogy by CD Projekt RED themselves, a new Witcher game codenamed “Canis Majoris” by a third-party, new Cyberpunk 2077 game codenamed “Orion” by CD Projekt RED’s new Boston studio, and an entirely new IP codenamed “Hadar” by CD Projekt RED.