Cyberpunk 2077's Resurgence Means CDPR Should Go Back To Its Original Expansion Plans
With the success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a new audience for Cyberpunk 2077 has woken the heck up, samurai. On Steam, the game's concurrent player count recently beat The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's all-time peak, hitting a high of 136,724 to Witcher's 103,329 best. The rising tide of Edgerunners has also lifted Cyberpunk 2077's lifetime unit sales above 20 million.
Cyberpunk 2077 launched broken and CDPR has taken a long time getting it into good working order. So, nearly two years out from its buggy release, it's understandable to want to celebrate the game's redemption arc. No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, and Fallout 76 have all experienced the long journey from punching bag to plaudits. Why shouldn't Cyberpunk 2077?
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Well, as our editor-in-chief Stacey Henley recently wrote, the game hasn't been truly fixed, it's only been repaired. Most of the bugs have been patched out, some systems are better implemented, and your character's cyberweiner will no longer clip out of their cyberpants. It's in a solid spot technically — arguably the state it should have launched in — but it's still missing much of what it needs to be a truly great game. For that, it needs significant overhauls.
Which is why it's such a shame that CDPR has announced that Phantom Liberty, the upcoming DLC set to release in 2023, is the only expansion it plans to launch before moving on from Cyberpunk 2077. I want to play The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2078 as much as the next person but, just like CP2077's tough launch caused a shift in CDPR's long-term plans for the game, its recent success should also be taken into consideration.
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