Cyberpunk 2077 has been lauded by many for its breathtaking cityscape and immersive world, which only got better with the release of the also acclaimed Phantom Liberty DLC and all of the massive reworks and bugfixes developer CD Projekt Red has implemented since the game’s rocky launch. And what better of a way to experience the saccharine sights and sounds of Night City than in virtual reality? Well, for a while at least, this was a possibility with a comprehensive mod made by the prominent solo-developer LukeRoss, but it appears that may no longer be the case. According to Vice President Jan Rosner of CD Projekt Red, who posted on X recently,  LukeRoss’ VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077 cannot exist in its current state due to its paywall.

I’d like to briefly address the discussion around the “Cyberpunk VR” mod created by Luke Ross. We have indeed issued a DMCA strike, as it was available as a paid mod (only accessible to Patreon subscribers). This directly violates our Fan Content Guidelines: we never allow…

— Jan Rosner (@jan_rosner) January 19, 2026

Most of the time, mods are listed to download for free–sometimes with a humble request for donation–but generally it’s not considered to be in the spirit of mod development to require payment. In the case of LukeRoss’ VR mod, the only way to access the Cyberpunk mod or any of his other R.E.A.L. VR projects is to pay him a monthly $10 subscription on Patreon, which CD Projekt Red has a problem with. And indeed, the studio’s issue doesn’t seem to be with the mod itself, but rather because its developer is allegedly profiting from their IP with it. Ergo, CDPR wouldn’t have filed the DMCA notice if the mod was originally free. LukeRoss does not appear to agree with this, and issued a snappy response to Rosner’s explanation, stating:

Thank you Jan. I’m sorry but I don’t believe you are within your rights in demanding that my software needs to be free. It is not “derivative work” or “fan content”: it supports a large number of games which were built upon different engines, and it contains absolutely zero code…

— LukeRoss (@LukeRoss_00) January 19, 2026

This response generated some backlash from the community, who seem dismayed at his choice of monetization. Given the choice to make the VR mod for Cyberpunk free or take it down, LukeRoss decided on the latter. His perspective as shown on a post on his Patreon page is that CD Projekt’s actions amount to “Corpo Logic”–an allusion to the name for the greedy corporations and their stuck-up workers in the game–because they place an expectation on modders to produce for free. He goes on to lament that the studio won’t make their own official VR port, and how difficult the labor of modding the game was “in spite” of the game’s updates. LukeRoss’ frustrations and ultimate delisting of the mod seem to amount to his statement on the Patreon post before he moves on to discussing his other plans for modding:

Anyway. Dear Cyberpunk 2077: I’ve got one less problem without ya.

LukeRoss’ explains in the about page of his Patreon that he decided to implement a paywall for the 40+ games that he has modded for VR is due to the complicated nature of the programming involved as well the time spent on development that has taken away from his primary freelance job.