So seeing as how the esteemed assembly is coming to a sort of consensus on the problems, what do we think is actually solvable in about a year's time by patching, what's baked into the game and fucked forever, and what's moddable?
Functional police, mini-games, improvements on civilian/driver Ai, changes on car handling, those were the major things demanded from normies and also are things they need to add for the MMO. Unfortunately , normies like bowling with their cousins that much to make the city "alive".
No rework on release content, so people that want better fixers, well, dont expect much in there. They will only fix the bugs here. Things like itemization and level scaling, they dont see as issues, also, no balance patches. For rebalancing, that will be stuff for mods.
For DLC, we can expect a similar model for Witcher 3, one smaller DLC that add stuff on an area that isnt used and a bigger DLC on a new region , all that region of the oil fields, Arasaka waterfront, most of Pacifica and Watson industrial district, all that stuff looks like the east region nearby Novigrad, probably some stuff will be added there. Probably they will be part of the Morgan Blackhand dlc people leaked.
The bigger DLC will happen probably not on Night City and will have its own world map or will expand the map of Night City. It makes sense to expand the map as the MMO might benefit from that, GTA online has the city and a big wilderness area that is alot more convenient to add stuff in so might be in their interests to use the desert as a cheap way to expand the world area. As Night City is on a desert region, I dont see they adding more urban space and creating an entire new city for DLC doesnt seem profitable, at least, not for the single player version, some bigger DLC with you helping the nomads and Militech as the big baddie makes sense as the game hints Militech is making a move to fuck all nomads on the region once and for all. With the way the nomads even have an entire ending with Panam, that seems to make sense. There is also that casino thing.
The question is how much free DLC they will drop? They may drop free little new gigs especially before the first major DLC as damage control but based on Witcher 3 free DLC, I dont expect much here, maybe they feel pressured to invest a bit more on the free DLC but I dont think they changed their plans for the DLC that much. Maybe they decide to drop the free DLC right before the first bigger DLC to create hype for it and create a narrative of they having learned their lesson and are cool again so normies consume product again?
