Is there No more DLC after this?

[Gungelion]

I mean, not that I can't appreciate if they can't do it.
And it's not like I don't appreciate all the free stuff they gave us.
But considering all the possibilities in just braindance alone, I can't help but feel a little bit.... I don't know.

it just feels like there could be more.

[Funky Koval]

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

[Azrael]

Yep, there are no more DLCs, instead they will start to work on a completely new Cyberpunk sequel.

[Peh]

Sadly, this will be the end. See you in the sequel.

[Gungelion]

Originally posted by LORd_RiVE:

Yep, there are no more DLCs, instead they will start to work on a completely new Cyberpunk sequel.

......I have a plethora of mixed feelings

[Womp Womp]

Originally posted by Magnetic Man:

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

Look at the credits screen at the end of the game. Massive. Labor costs are huge.

However, one has to consider what is meant by "no longer profitable". I've been reading this for the past 10 years and these games largely make a profit. I think it's more due to the ROI - it has to meet a certain threshold. Most of these games are profitable, but the ROI isn't justifying it from their stance.

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Magnetic Man:

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

What are you talking about? Definately false

Cyberpunk
God of War 1 and 2
Elden Ring
Zelda
Last of Us
Ghost of Tsushima
RE remakes
Baldurs Gate 3
Spiderman
And Starfield is about explode
Thats just to name a few

If you ask me Multiplayer and live services games are more risky than single player.

[Bogmore]

If they weren't profitable then people wouldn't make them. It's that simple.

It's a multi Billion Dollar industry, it's projected to make hundreds of Billions this year alone.

[Gamefever]

If only instead of so many threads about opimisation,

We had like threads demanding more content and more DLC.

Well it wont happen in my lifetime but it sure would be awesome.

[Zebedee]

Will be interesting to see how they handle braindances in the future - for Cyberpunk 2077, they know that the implementation was quite polarising and that they were expensive and time consuming to do to get results a significant minority of players detest.

More broadly, wasn't that expansions/paid for dlc aren't profitable (can be true, often isn't) but that the window of time between Cyberpunk 2077's release and them moving fully onto new projects is now elapsed. Part of that time eaten by them needing to clean up the mess of the launch and fixing the game to have even the one expansion on a stable foundation. New Witcher trilogy moves into full production, new studio in Boston opens and gets to work on Cyberpunk 2, which is planning out into the early 2030s (by the time the trilogy is fully released).

[Coffee Addict]

they said PL will be the only paid dlc for CP they never said anything about not giving us anymore free dlc so we'll see

also they are currently working on CP2 so time will tell what goes down

[valium]

Normally I am more on board with sequels rather than low effort DLC to jangle like keys in front of infants, but the Witcher 3 DLC were so fantastic it is rather sad we wont be getting the same treatment for Cyberpunk. Hopefully Phantom Liberty will be meaty enough to be like Blood and Wine and breath new life into the game. Cautiously optimistic.

[jack_of_tears]

Originally posted by Magnetic Man:

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

CDPR made ludicrous amounts of money on this game, the same for Witcher 3 - single player games aren't going away anytime soon, thank goodness.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by Magnetic Man:

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

Which is why I've switched mostly to Indie games in recent years. To be blunt, I no longer care about the so called AAA industry.

I'll definitely be keeping Cyberpunk 2077 up to date and modded, because it's going to be very hard to find any more interesting AAA games that aren't a live service anymore. All good though, I'm fine with cutting AAA games off. I haven't been that big of a fan of them lately anyways, and see them as no more than overpriced cash drains.

Not to be negative about it of course.

[jack_of_tears]

Originally posted by valium:

Normally I am more on board with sequels rather than low effort DLC to jangle like keys in front of infants, but the Witcher 3 DLC were so fantastic it is rather sad we wont be getting the same treatment for Cyberpunk. Hopefully Phantom Liberty will be meaty enough to be like Blood and Wine and breath new life into the game. Cautiously optimistic.

They compared the scope of it to Blood and Wine one some interview but, of course, one should always be cautious about how much credence they give the purveyors of hype.

I am really looking forward to the sequel but am sad it'll probably be another 7 years before we see it.

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by jack_of_tears:

Originally posted by Magnetic Man:

Massive single player games are no longer profitable for AAA companies. Phantom liberty may be one of the last games before life services completely take over. Sad but true.

CDPR made ludicrous amounts of money on this game, the same for Witcher 3 - single player games aren't going away anytime soon, thank goodness.

just look at baldurs gate 3 its sold god knows how many copies has around 500k players per day and is still selling more copies, you can absolutely make a single player game with no micro transactions and still make a profit (the big companies like EA ubisoft and activision are greedy and try any excuse to milk the players for as much as they can since they know people will still buy it)