Polish developer CD Projekt Red has revealed that it currently has no plans for any type of closed or open beta for Cyberpunk 2077.

The news comes way of the game's official Twitter account, which revealed as much while interacting with a fan on the social media platform.

We have no plans for closed/open beta.

— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 21, 2019

As you can see, CD Projekt doesn't outright confirm there will never be any beta, but just that it currently has no plans for one. So, unless these plans change, nobody will be getting their hands early on the highly-anticipated game from the team behind The Witcher series. But, as you'll know, plans change all the time, so there's still some hope.

With no betas, it looks like CD Projekt Red is going to purely rely on feedback from QA testers, which is fine, as long as said QA testers get enough time with the game and have enough manpower.

Further, betas in the traditional sense don't really exist anymore, or at least they aren't extremely common. Most betas these days are so close to release that they serve more of a marketing purpose than anything. Hype builders, pre-order producers, that kinda stuff. If a game is a multiplayer title, betas also can serve as a good stress test for servers. But the days of releasing betas months before launch and changing and tweaking the game based on feedback isn't as common as it used to be.

And of course with Cyberpunk 2077 being predominately a single-player game -- though it will have some type of multiplayer element -- there's even less need for a beta.

Cyberpunk 2077 is in development for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and possibly next-gen systems. At the moment of publishing, there's been no word of a release date or release window.



Posted: Feb 26, 2019 6:46 pm
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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/02/25/cyberpunk-2077-beta-ps4-xbox-pc/