I really want CDPR to think outside the already done boxes.
More than anything I want to just have the ability to meet people. Seems simple, right?
Well...I have grown fully disappointed with social media and by no means do I want 2077MP to be like a social media experience, but I want to see some kind of focus on the idea of looking for people throughout Night City (and beyond) to be on a team for certain objectives. (Whether it be finding a love interest or "mission-minded" friends)
Maybe we should have to sift through the numerous players that will be in NC to find our own well made teams. Maybe to do that we would have to play along with the story or just explore the open MP world. In almost every cyberpunk genre anything there is a build-up where the main characters have to find other like-minded people to help with the cause...whatever that may be. There is always someone to help who has skills for "the big job".
A small team is not good enough. A big team has too much liability. A well diverse team of people who are good at what they do is just right. You have to find them and they are also looking for you, but it is a slow story driven search instead of instant pairing.
If a team building focus could be set up that has you searching for the right people it may lead to the impossible tasks, like mucking up some corpo properties, actually becoming possible. Maybe even you and your team could make up their own goals and missions. I have never liked the idea of being forced to be on teams with absolute strangers...unless that is what you are looking for. It would be nice to use the upcoming April release as a skill and character build that can carry over into the MP. So that the veterans of 2077 have a lot to offer for the MP missions. This would incentivize players to make their characters as badass as they can. The style of your character will be important for the first game, but it will tie everything together for the MP because you will finally be among peers, or people who are as badass or even more badass than you.
Most of the time in other MPs there is an instant connection to other people only because they are online at the same time, but 2077MP can offer the possibility to make your own story by a drawn out game-play to find people for seemingly impossible tasks. This could reach into the idea of building intimate relationships, just hanging out, or finding crucial skills for "jobs" in other people. You may find these people at your local hangout spot, by fate, or you could be set up by fixers. All the while your able to explore the city in whatever way you want. That is, you may not take an important job until you are ready and in the meantime you could just be hanging out at strip clubs or building stats.
I really want to see an emphasis on a healthy balance of being able to do whatever you want and finding cool people to hang out with. If CDPR can offer an amazing MP game-play that also gives people the ability to meet and make friends in the real world based on strong connections then it will be an amazing move that could be something that has never been done before.
I like the idea of 2077MP taking notes from VR Chat and/or Second Life for a social experience that can bring together people from all over the world based on style and personality under the Cyberpunk IP. The actual MP may not be like anything above, but CDPR has a lot to work on if they are going to stand out from what has already been done. They can do it, but to give people more than just "in game reasons to fight your enemies" and be together is something that will be different. They are sitting on the ability to offer an alternative to stagnant social media outlets while building up the Cyberpunk IP into something greater than what it already is.