If you jump to the Cyberpunk 2077 website, you will see a page that says the DLC will be available in early 2021. However, given the debacle surrounding the buggy launch, the withdrawal from the PlayStation Store, refunds to purchasers, and the impending investor lawsuit, that schedule may have changed. Here's what we know now As Engadget's Richard Lawler pointed out, the page linked above was actually published the same day as the game itself, before the controversy surrounding the game began. Much has happened since the game's release. And now developer CD Projekt Red is hard at work sending players two major patches before focusing on other things.
Adam Kicińksi, president and co-CEO of CD Projekt Red, said on a conference call with investors that it is "too early" to determine when the DLC will be delivered.
Kiciński said during the investor conference call, "At this point, let us deal with the situation and evaluate it a little more.
As for the multiplayer, it was originally planned for 2020, but was changed to 2021; according to Kiciński, Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer is huge, and just as Grand Theft Auto Online has a life of its own, it is its own product treated as its own product.
"First of all, we don't call it a mode," Kiciński said during an investor conference call in November (translation by Seeking Alpha). It's an independent, dedicated production, and a big production at that. We think of it as an independent product."
Given everything that has happened since the game's launch, one would think that CD Projekt Red would want to get the multiplayer right. In other words, the development team wants to launch the multiplayer in a state where the Internet will not be set ablaze.
Regarding the timing of the DLC, CD Projekt Red has stated that it will be similar to The Witcher 3. The game received 16 free DLC updates shortly after launch. These included several cosmetic upgrades and small quests. This suggests that the majority of the free DLC was likely done before the launch of The Witcher 3, and that CD Projekt Red was spreading the DLC around as a way to keep fans happy before the launch of the massive paid DLC that would add hours of new content.
In other words, if the same is true for Cyberpunk 2077, fans should start seeing drops once the free DLC is probably complete and the game has stabilized on all consoles.
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