CD Projekt has deemed Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty a industrial success after revealing it hit related numbers to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
Talking to IGN, CD Projekt confirmed Phantom Liberty has an connect charge of roughly 23%, which means 23% of gamers who purchased the bottom Cyberpunk 2077 additionally purchased the enlargement. As revealed by co-CEO Michał Nowakowski on X/Twitter, The Witcher 3’s Hearts of Stone enlargement had a 22% connect charge and Blood and Wine had a 24% connect charge inside three months of launch.
What propels Phantom Liberty even additional, nevertheless, is its launch round two years and 9 months after the bottom Cyberpunk 2077 launched. Hearts of Stone arrived round 5 months after The Witcher 3 and Blood and Wine arrived round one yr after, when downloadable content material is historically launched and normal engagement is usually greater.
Obsidian Leisure studio design director Josh Sawyer pointed this out on X/Twitter in November 2023, when CD Projekt revealed Phantom Liberty had bought 4.3 million copies with an connect charge of 20%, saying his studio hopes for round a 25% connect charge on DLC launched inside just a few months, “so a 20% connect charge on an enlargement two-and-a-half years after launch is fairly spectacular”.
This prolonged size of time between the bottom sport and Phantom Liberty launching — sparked by CD Projekt having to deal with myriad points that even noticed Cyberpunk 2077 faraway from the PlayStation Retailer after its preliminary launch — seemingly precipitated the developer to query making the enlargement in any respect.
“To be sincere, the choice to undergo with the enlargement so lengthy after launch of the single-player sport was a bit counterintuitive,” Nowakowski mentioned within the submit. “However what occurred is proof to us that stable content material that persons are pleased with is the best way to go.”
CD Projekt beforehand revealed Phantom Liberty bought greater than 5 million copies in 2023 after it added a brand new space to Cyberpunk 2077’s Night time Metropolis and a spy thriller storyline starring Idris Elba upon its launch in September. The enlargement was acquired very nicely by critics, with IGN giving it a 9/10 in our evaluation.
The developer launched the ultimate main replace for Cyberpunk 2077 in December 2023, primarily ending the sport’s three-year journey of lively post-launch improvement. Consideration at CD Projekt Purple has now switched to its subsequent initiatives, which embrace Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel, codenamed Orion, and the subsequent mainline Witcher sport, codenamed Polaris.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
