Gamers Doubt Cyberpunk 2077 DLC Will be Released on Time

Cyberpunk 2077 is, was, and will be controversial, and yesterday's announcement only added fuel to the fire. As CD Projekt RED announced during its latest financial summary, Cyberpunk's expansion will launch in 2023 at the earliest. Players are - to put it mildly - annoyed.

Delaying the DLC and limited work contribution

What almost immediately struck the players is only a little more involvement in the work on Cyberpunk 2077 than on Gwent, about which we hear as little as nothing on a daily basis. Not without influence on the development of the game is also a very large human resource focused around The Witcher and "other projects".

Green bar - projects related to Gwent. Yellow and light blue bars are Cyberpunk and its DLC. Source: cdprojekt.com

Of course, as CD Projekt RED scored a bullseye with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt there was no lack of comparisons to this game. Players more than once pointed out that the last part of the trilogy received Blood and Wine - the second large, elaborate story addition a year after the release of the game. Meanwhile, the first DLC for Cyberpunk is still far away, looming on the horizon.

The Witcher vs Cyberpunk - is it really that bad?

At this point it is worth reminding that in March this year we made an effort to compare the development of CP2077 with The Witcher. The conclusions were not optimistic.

• Despite much greater interest in Cyberpunk (8 million preorders), the game received much lower reviews at launch, with only 58 percent of gamers having a good opinion of the game. We all know why.
• As I mentioned above, Cyberpunk hasn't received any story DLCs yet (it's been over a year since the game's launch), while The Witcher 3 at the same time already had two sizable DLCs.
• Failure if Cyberpunk shows that global marketing is not always a good option. There was an incredible hype around the game, which later turned into hatred. In turn The Witcher floated on the wave of popularity in its home country, until the entire gaming world loved it.
• We also can't forget about what CDPR promised and ultimately didn't include in the game. We are talking about wallrunning, working subway (but that, as we know, was fixed by the modders), the ability to customize weapons, or the multiplayer mode, although recently added job offers on the studio's website may suggest that work on it will be carried out.

When did Cyberpunk really launch?

Others point out that Cyberpunk came out as a finished product only this year. Of course, this was thanks to the introduction of patch 1.5 to the game, which fixed a lot of bugs. Still, there are voices among the community reporting that the game is far from perfect.

Will the DLC be full of bugs too?

I've already mentioned that the stigma of Cyberpunk's failure is dragging on behind CDPR? No wonder. The players don't even believe that we'll get the DLC in time - they're worried that it will be as unpolished as Cyberpunk itself at launch.

In the end, players are closer to skepticism than optimism about CDPR's handling of Cyberpunk. Although there are some who will wait for the DLC until it is properly polished and fully playable (if it's not like that for the 2023 release).