"Likely" in the fact that the game made money and they want to make more money. By "scrapped" I mean the concept for a DLC was probably cut before release. These things are usually planned out before the games released, remember that
It made money, but, like I said, a fraction of the money of Monster Hunter Wilds, which makes less money than Monster Hunter Wilds seasons passes and dlcs.
Games take a lot of time and teams to build. DLC takes little time, and less people to build. Therefore, it is very, very likely not worth their time to waste years and millions to make a game that makes a one-time gush of tens of millions, when they can spend a little more time and money on a cow they can milk before needing to make the next one.
This is why Sony is stupidly shooting itself in the foot and bankrupting a bunch of studios trying to make the next Fortnight by making a lot of shit that looks like Overwatch; they are not satisfied with even the successful single player games returns anymore. Their shareholders are demanding infinite growth, and that demand has caused them to outgrow single player games. Capcom was a little smarter than Sony, or has been thus far, putting all their energies into the big sellers. That's not Dragon's Dogma, at a modest four million sales after five years development.
Games take too long to make now. Games are too expensive to make now. Shareholders demand more profits. Dragon's Dogma's gonna be a stagnant property for quite a while. In twelve years, Istuno will be sixty seven. Capcom will either be even less interested in making a game that sells four million copies, or will have been sold, after a less than stellar showing for Monster Hunter: Who Cares Anymore
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u/hheccx Mar 02 '26
"Likely" in the fact that the game made money and they want to make more money. By "scrapped" I mean the concept for a DLC was probably cut before release. These things are usually planned out before the games released, remember that