Kyl Von Kull
The Night Tripper
Unless it was contracted by Take Two or Microsoft bought the publishing rights away from Take Two, I'd be shocked if this has DLC. I'm sure Microsoft just wants them to start working on their next gen projects.The writing for the base game is finished for sure, but not the DLC's.
Just to be clear, The Outer Worlds IP was owned by Obsidian and is now owned by Microsoft.
If it’s successful, both Take-Two and Microsoft will want DLC: Take-Two for the money, Microsoft to keep the brand alive. If Microsoft wants to make a sequel, they can buy the publishing rights from Take-Two for a song, because they’re effectively worthless given that Microsoft owns the actual IP. When it was just Obsidian, they needed a publisher, but now MSFT can say: “sell the publishing rights to us or we won’t make any more TOW games for you to publish.” Besides, Take-Two wants a good working relationship with XBox and this property isn’t going to be big enough to be worth damaging that relationship.
Edit: Microsoft, unlike Obsidian, actually makes plans for the future—the plans themselves may suck, but they do think ahead.
The other thing: DLC may have been included in Obsidian’s original deal with Take-Two, in which case they have to make it.