CD Projekt Red's infamous catastrophe Cyberpunk 2077 is still being hastily repaired after months of frantic ongoing work to bring the buggy title to the level of quality it had initially intended, but according to a dataminer, CDPR is already working on at least 10 free DLCs. It'll likely be a while yet before those DLCs are made public, however, given the game's rocky start, and the ensuing and ongoing controversy over the plethora of technical issues since its release back in December.

Cyberpunk 2077's release and subsequent notoriety has become the stuff of legends, and not in a good way. Even with over seven years of development under its belt, the game gained quick and painful infamy for innumerable glitches, bugs, and other technical issues that suggested it had been rushed to the finish line. The subsequent fallout initiated major conversation in the game development industry about crunch culture, and how open-world games of Cyberpunk's size have gotten too big and too detailed for their own good. CDPR has been hard at work since then, patching the game back into some level of consistent playability while fielding lawsuits and refund demands that threaten to tank the entire company. But apparently, it has also been looking to the future, as some DLCs have been reported by an observant Redditor behind the scenes on the Epic Games Store site.

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A Redditor with the handle PricklyAssassin reportedly discovered the alleged expansions back in February, after noting that the Epic Games Store had upped its allocated server capacity for Cyberpunk 2077 by an additional 400 GB, which is a common practice in the months preceding new DLC or expansions. Epic also initially listed 18 upcoming free DLCs, but later reduced the number down to 10. There are no details about the free DLCs, other than their names: Ripperdocs Expansion, Body Shops Expansion, Fashion Forward Expansion, Gangs of Night City, Body of Chrome, Rides of the Dark Future, The Relic, Neck Deep, and Night City Expansion. 3 paid DLCs were later added, though these also lacked additional details. While the original post was deleted from Reddit, Twitter user IdleSloth84 managed to screencap the information, as seen below.

DLC is a common addition to all major titles, so it isn't really a surprise to anyone that CDPR would have some in development. But while most audiences look forward to getting more content in their games, responses to the leak have been mixed at best, as can be expected considering Cyberpunk 2077's checkered history. Some commenters have speculated that the DLCs are little more than major patches cleverly disguised as expansions. Wiser gamers are already wary about adding more potentially buggy content to an already buggy game. Cyberpunk 2077's issues stemmed largely from too much work on too small a team, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that at a time when the entire team is focused on making the game fully functional, with major patches that are already delayed, any DLC they could scrape together on the side probably would end up as a case of history repeating itself.

Regardless, or more likely as a result, the DLC probably won't be making its way to the public any time soon. Even if it did, considering CDPR's many, many ongoing woes, there likely won't be a stampede of excited players eager to snatch them up. It might be wiser for CDPR to market them as patches instead, since those are currently in greater demand than any expansion on a game that was already way too big to begin with.

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Source: PricklyAssassin, IdleSloth84