Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty DLC Can't Repeat the Base Game's Biggest Mistake

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Cyberpunk 2077 is on the up and up, breaking records it hasn't come close to touching since its launch night. As many are likely familiar, Cyberpunk 2077 was billed as the «next big thing» in gaming and many believed it would define the PS5/Xbox Series X era of RPGs. It fell from grace, and it fell hard. No game deserves to be deemed a failure, and Cyberpunk 2077 has been able to pull off something that Anthem and other games have not.Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty DLC is its chance to push that envelope even further, as it has generated a ton of hype.

That should be applauded, but December 2020 and everything that followed should not be forgotten. The game was pulled from the PlayStation Store for a reason, and it's no secret that the release date was a surprise to devs. Executives boldface lied to consumers, and overall, it was a very bad look that hurt CDPR. While some enjoyed it at launch, it was heavily criticized and a lot of those criticisms still stand—even if it is a much better game. However, in all of this, there is one thing that happened with Cyberpunk 2077's initial release that cannot be repeated with Phantom Liberty, lest CDPR risk another debacle on its hands.

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Cyberpunk 2077 released in full organ failure—there wasn't one issue that made it a bad release, but a plethora of them. What makes each of these system failures worse is that CDPR had time to fess up, but because the video game industry is a business (and sometimes worse for it) and for whatever other reasons it told itself, CDPR never admitted how bad Cyberpunk 2077 was. There are a lot of self-justifications here, but the bottom line is simple: it was delayed not once, not twice, but