Hopeful for DLC

[Brandon]

Dark Arisen fixed and made the first game even better I hope this one gets the same treatment to me it just feels like something is missing!!!

[Pragmatic Tornado]

Agreed. Bitterblack Isle is the single greatest dungeon I've ever played in a game. If they pull a rabbit out of the hat like that with DD2, that would make me happy indeed.

[Ryan Fenton]

Probably a good idea to temper your expectations of a full expansion for this game.

Might happen - but I think the chances are ... limited at best.

Like, usually, they're either announced way in advance, or are planned and pushed as part of a season pass at launch.

Expecting a renewed investment for this game, given its sales compared to other Capcom franchises... I just can't see it as a good investment.

Not that an expansion can't be awesome - but DD2 itself was a bit of a stinker in terms of reception and sales after launch. Good presales - then players just sort of evaporated, down to 1-4 thousand for the past 6 or so months.

[Brandon]

Originally posted by Ryan Fenton:

Probably a good idea to temper your expectations of a full expansion for this game.

Might happen - but I think the chances are ... limited at best.

Like, usually, they're either announced way in advance, or are planned and pushed as part of a season pass at launch.

Expecting a renewed investment for this game, given its sales compared to other Capcom franchises... I just can't see it as a good investment.

Not that an expansion can't be awesome - but DD2 itself was a bit of a stinker in terms of reception and sales after launch. Good presales - then players just sort of evaporated, down to 1-4 thousand for the past 6 or so months.

With the first title it was not announced for awhile so I understand temper my hopes for it but yeah I appreciate the positive replies.


Did a little digging the game sold 10 mil copies more then enough reason to release an expansion to this story. And apparently some people did some digging Steamdb at the app and a dlc part has been getting updated or something of that matter no expert but overall just hopeful it is true and it does get released or announced soon.

[Ryan Fenton]

Oh, forgot one big one - the face of the project, Hikeaki Itsuno, left the company a month ago.

They made the last expansion largely without him - but still, it reduced the internal clout of the project further.

[Ryan Fenton]

Hey - can anyone find a source for that 10 million copies? All the sources I've found have only mentioned 3 million max. I've only seen the 10 million number mentioned, but never sourced from anything.

Maybe that's the total sales from all the games in the series? That would make sense then - but DD2 itself, I'm only seeing 2.5 million presales, then 3 million total sales, meaning only 0.5 million sales after launch.

Edit: Yeah, seems the 10 million is for the whole series, not DD2.

[Xeriath]

I am just happy if they deliver DLC. Personally I hope for a big snow landscape but I am happy with all, as long it brings more adventure and maybe more RPG content for MainPawn + Arisen.

[Brandon]

Originally posted by Ryan Fenton:

Hey - can anyone find a source for that 10 million copies? All the sources I've found have only mentioned 3 million max. I've only seen the 10 million number mentioned, but never sourced from anything.

Maybe that's the total sales from all the games in the series? That would make sense then - but DD2 itself, I'm only seeing 2.5 million presales, then 3 million total sales, meaning only 0.5 million sales after launch.

Edit: Yeah, seems the 10 million is for the whole series, not DD2.

They announced 2.5 mil after two weeks of the release date. Then when i skimmed the 10 million number i missed the part about about total sales of both games my bad, apparently tho it is now at 11.7 or whatever still not a bad number sales either way with DD2 being over 3 million.

3 million off DD2 since May 2024

https://x.com/DragonsDogma/status/1795387174453395631

10 million in sales combined,

https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e240402.html

With current 11.7 Million total sales currently

https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/05/28/dragons-dogma-2-sales-3-million-copies-capcom#:~:text=The%20entire%20Dragon%27s%20Dogma%20IP,and%20the%20Dark%20Arisen%20version.

Either way since its a public company the investors are happy with this IP by Capcom another big push could happen for DLC for this titles since it easily recouped there money and got the investors paid extra money as well

https://www.ign.com/articles/dragons-dogma-2-has-done-so-well-capcom-is-paying-out-more-money-to-shareholders

On a side not i am not a fan of IGN but at least this was an actual article rather then nonsense.

[Larco]

As someone else said, DDDA had a new director; I presume Hikeaki Itsuno is the sort of "creative vision" and he leaves the donkey work of expansions etc to others; not sure him going means anything one way or the other.

It's going to depend on whether they can turn something out they think will make a decent profit, which is going to be a function of how much it costs to make and what sales they think theyll get.

Id guess that once you've built the main game, adding stuff on is cheaper. And sales of DD2 exceeded capcom's predictions, they've increased their divvies and the share price is up a third over the ytd. Seem to be doing pretty well for themselves.

So id guess yes. Wd seem silly not to take the extra profit. Looking at the original's timeline, I think it launched may 2012, they annouced the expansion dec 2012, and it launched the following april.

Not sure if that sort of cycle is still feasible in this day and age though. cyberpunk released dec 2020, but phantom liberty wasn't announced till sept 2022 and released a year later. My guess is a while.

[Dave Johnson]

As someone who's played many hours of Mad Games Tycoon, I can 100% guarantee that they will make an expansion pack for this game- it's basically free money!

[McSweeny]

Originally posted by Dave Johnson:

As someone who's played many hours of Mad Games Tycoon, I can 100% guarantee that they will make an expansion pack for this game- it's basically free money! :WH3_greasus_rofl:

did bro ever hear of sony?