In context: Anytime the modding community gets its hands on a new game, sex and nude mods are nearly inevitable. Modders are still getting their feet moisture with Cyberpunk 2077, merely Nexus had to pull a recent sex mod that immune players to "practise it" with Keanu Reeves, despite it being rated-PG.

Modders have been tinkering with Cyberpunk 2077 practically since day one. CD Projekt Reddish usually encourages community mods for its games. In fact, it simply released its official Modding Back up Tools on Midweek. However, there is one thing the studio is asking modders to stop doing—can you please not turn Johnny Slverhand into a joytoy?

Before this week, Eurogamer detailed how some modders are customizing sex activity scenes by swapping joytoy (Night City sexual activity worker) models with a variety of other NPCs, including Johnny Silverhand, who is portrayed by Keanu Reeves. In Johnny's instance—or any model based on an IRL person—CD Projekt Carmine says, "don't do information technology."

"Our about important rule regarding user-generated content, game mods, in particular, is that it can't exist harmful towards others," CDPR said in a statement to PC Gamer. "In the case of model swaps, especially those that involve explicit situations, it can exist perceived as [harmful] past the people who lent us their appearance for the purpose of creating characters in Cyberpunk 2077."

The Keanu Reeves sexual activity mod was up on Nexus Mods for merely about a mean solar day before getting pulled. It isn't that the customized sex scenes are also explicit. On the contrary, the swapped in NPC models are fully clothed (for the time being), so the sex activity is fifty-fifty tamer than it already was. The trouble is that CDPR does not want to create a situation where real-world actors are put into sexual scenarios that were not in the script.

Reeves does have a legitimate sex scene in the game. It plays out from Johnny Silverhand's perspective in a segment that allows the player to semi-control the mercenary rock star. The scene is virtual, of course, meaning that Reeves did not actually perform the deed in a mo-cap studio or anything. Still, he did agree to this scene when he accustomed the script. Annihilation beyond that could potentially atomic number 82 to legal issues that CDPR would rather avoid. The game maker added that there is 1 exception.

"When making fan content, creators have to brand sure they've got permission from all the concerned parties (which might be people other than CD PROJEKT Ruby-red). For the characters we've invented for the game, we broadly permit you to tweak the game at will and simply have fun. When information technology comes to models of real people whom we've asked to participate in the game, we kindly ask you lot to refrain from using them in any state of affairs that might be establish offensive if you don't have their explicit permission."

So if you happen to have Keanu or Hideo Kojima (yep, he's in the game briefly, image higher up) on speed dial, you might have a chance at talking them into it. Otherwise, please don't effort having "non-sex" with Keanu Reeves.