
Phantom Liberty closed the Cyberpunk 2077 feedback loop, earning back some of the goodwill lost due to the chaotic launch of the base game with a compelling expansion. It sold exceptionally well (five million copies in 2023), and developer CD Projekt Red considers the DLC offering a bonfide commercial hit.
Speaking to IGN, CDPR confirmed an impressive attach rate of approximately 23%, meaning almost one out of every four players who bought the base game went on to purchase Phantom Liberty. Co-CEO Michał Nowakowsk noted on Twitter that that's one percentage point more than The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone (22%) and one point less than Blood and Wine (24%), widely considered one of the best post-launch offerings, a single-player game has ever received.
But what makes Phantom Liberty an interesting case is that it was released two years and ten months after Cyberpunk launched. Hearts of Stone, meanwhile, followed The Witcher 3 just five months after launch, and Blood and Wine almost a year to the day, which is quite impressive. For an entirely different set of reasons, Phantom Liberty was essentially a second launch for the game, earning CD Projekt a contentious Best Ongoing Game win at The Game Awards.
Did you pick up Phantom Liberty, and if so, what did you think? On par with CDPR's previous offerings? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source ign.com, via twitter.com]
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Well deserved as it's fantastic DLC to a fantastic game. I'm playing Phantom Liberty now and loving it.
Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 had a horribly bad start, but now it's easily one of my favorite games of this generation.
@KilloWertz I have yet to start cyberpunk seriously. Everytime I try to start it either one of the games I've been waiting for gets released (lies of p,hogwarts,diablo 4 and lords of the fallen) or another big patch is scheduled so I hold off until that's installed 🤣. I have phantom liberty and I am going to start this game once and for all...Once I've finished wo long fallen dynasty 🤣
Loved Phantom Liberty, my favorite RPG experience of 2023. A bit surprised how quickly those TW3 expansions came out after the initial game, but they CRPR definitely showed a devotion to their game that is somewhat admirable.
@SlySnake0407 to be fair they have shown a lot of dedication to all their games. Cyberpunk still gets so much negative press about its initial launch debacle but everybody conveniently forgets that the witcher 1,2 and 3 all launched with a lot of game breaking bugs and severe performance issues. All of them took a long time to correct and took longer than cyberpunk.
@Northern_munkey I do feel like Cyberpunk's launch was worse than any of the Witcher games. The Witcher 2, my favorite in the series, was my introduction to CDPR's games, and I don't remember its (or TW3's) issues being nearly as bad as Cyberpunk's.
I don't think Phantom Liberty's Game Awards win was contentious at all honestly. It is an absolutey fantastic expansion that totally deserved the award, and last year Final Fantasy XIV didn't do something major to win Best Ongoing Game (they will most definitely win it again this year with Dawntrail).
"Did you pick up Phantom Liberty, and if so, what did you think?" I really liked the ps5 version of the base game which I got for cheap after the disastrous launch, and now I got the dlc, and I thought how great this would be on psvr2.
It is such a pity that not enough people at cdpr think alike. I don't think a vr version would be a major commercial success given the relatively small player base, but I could imagine that an adaptation similar to what was done for Re4 would not be that expensive and could pay the bills. Maybe for the next version cyberpunk 2088 ?
I did, but haven't tried it yet. I'm about to finish the base game again, for an ending I didn't try yet. After that, I'll begin a new base game with the new big update, aaaaaand THEN I'll be ready for it 😄
I bought it without finishing the main game. I started Cyberpunk a few weeks after 2.0 dropped and it has been a FANTASTIC experience. I seriously love it. Easily a top 3 RPG for me (sitting alongside the ME trilogy - which I consider a singular experience, and Witcher 3). I am nearing 50 hours and barely feel like I've scratched the surface.
@SlySnake0407 maybe not on the consoles but on the PC there was no end of performance issues,stability issues,driver issues etc,etc...I remember them well.
Waiting for it to drop to the sweet £15 spot, then i’ll bite👍
Superb expansion. I love the more mellow and open Johnny in this.
An outstanding expansion and together with the updates have made this my favourite open world game
I started Cyberpunk on PC about a week or so ago and already put 17 hours into it and just started Act 2! I really love it. I plan on getting a little further in the base game before buying the expansion.
Is Phantom Liberty available on Xbox One/PS4? If not then surely that attachment percentage would be higher.
As a day 1 player, the expansion really cemented the redemption arc. It was brilliant and I want another one (i know we're not getting one) but hopefully everything CDPR learned from the experience means Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 will be sensational.
Also getting the tram system as a final bonus was much appreciated
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