Rise of the Ronin DLC Announcement when?

[Todd Howard]

Sooooo, surely they are going to announce some DLC for RoTR right? I mean Team Ninja announced 3 dlcs a piece for nioh 1, nioh 2 and wo long before seeing if the games would even sell well, why wouldnt RoTR get dlc? Dont the endings literally imply a possible continuation like Niohs ending did before the dlc resumed where the main game left off?

[zartiavan]

Freak4Leeks の投稿を引用：

Maybe its copium, but it's an open world game, and since they like coping whatever FROM SOFTWARE does maybe they are copying the "lets develop 1 massive DLC for 2 years"

Is the opposite. From copy Team Ninja. See Ninja Blade. Or the bonfire being a straight copy from Ninja Gaiden dragon statue. And Sekiro straight up plagiarized the deflect animation of Ninja Gaiden 2.

[Kinpatsu]

I really wanted a DLC for this game, but it looks like they dont love their own game

[mjuarbe19]

Shirakani の投稿を引用：

The game didn't do well enough on PS5 to get DLC. This is also why timed exclusives need to go away. If it was a global release on all platforms, it would have sold enough to get DLC.

the game didn't sell well because its garbage plain and simple while yes exclusivity does hinder some sales this game is a messing. graphical bugs major performance issues and i mean major issues. broken pc settings. dated graphics. this game was not gonna sell with all of these issues

[Mista Ree]

Kinpatsu の投稿を引用：

I really wanted a DLC for this game, but it looks like they dont love their own game

It has nothing to do with them loving their game or not but instead financials. It was a game that only got made because Sony backed it and it didn't do well on the PS5.

Sony probably knew the game wasn't going to do super well and so they weren't willing to dump more money into than they felt was necessary.

If the game was going to get any kind of campaign DLC they would have announced it for the PS5 version. They wouldn't have waited till a year later for the PC release to announce it.

[Mista Ree]

mjuarbe19 の投稿を引用：

Shirakani の投稿を引用：

The game didn't do well enough on PS5 to get DLC. This is also why timed exclusives need to go away. If it was a global release on all platforms, it would have sold enough to get DLC.

the game didn't sell well because its garbage plain and simple while yes exclusivity does hinder some sales this game is a messing. graphical bugs major performance issues and i mean major issues. broken pc settings. dated graphics. this game was not gonna sell with all of these issues

Even if the game had none of the issues you're describing it still wouldn't have sold well. It's just not the type of game that's going to do big numbers. Sony obviously knew this when investing in it or else they would have invested more money in it, given it a bigger marketing push, etc.

A game like Ghost of Tsushima succeeds where RoTR fails not just because of it's visuals or lack of bugs but ibecause it's immediately recognizable to an audience of what it is and what it's trying to accomplish. None of the trailers or marketing for RoTR ever accomplished that.

RoTR seems more weird, odd or niche showcasing a bunch of different elements that come across as more complicated or off putting to the average person where as GoT is understandable to the lowest common denominator. Everybody gets it.

RoTR has a lot in common with the Way of The Samurai series. A game series that never sold particularity well and was always seen as odd and niche.