Shadow of the Erdtree, the DLC for Elden Ring, will be released on June 21st. This is generating a lot of excitement, as Elden Ring was one of the biggest games of 2022. If not the biggest. That’s why there is a tremendous curiosity about what it will contain, what things it will change, and above all, if it will be the last time we hear about the Intermediate Lands. Something that the game director and CEO of From Software has come out to clarify.
In an interview with Campfire Camp, a Chinese media outlet, Hidetaka Miyazaki has commented on the possibility of there being more DLCs for Elden Ring in the future. While the company has a history of releasing multiple DLCs for their games, it has been confirmed that this will not be one of those cases. Shadow of the Erdtree will be the only DLC that Elden Ring will receive, confirming it as the game’s only official expansion.
Does that mean this will be the last time we return to the Intermediate Lands? Not necessarily. The reason they have specified for not making more DLCs is that they have not ruled out the possibility of making a sequel to Elden Ring. This is because, due to From Software’s game development approach, they always leave the door open to making sequels to their games. This neither confirms nor denies the existence of Elden Ring 2, but it leaves the possibility hanging, if it were to happen in the future.
All of this adds up to the fact that Bandai Namco, the game’s distributor, confirmed that Elden Ring is the beginning of a franchise “that goes beyond the game itself”. So far, this has translated into an art book and figures, as well as a manga: Elden Ring: The Second of the Golden Tree. But for now, that’s all that Elden Ring has expanded beyond the game.
What we do know for sure is that, due to the success of Elden Ring and Armored Core 6, From Software is currently working on several new projects. Whether one of them is related to Elden Ring in any way, we do not know. But it is a fact that we will have new games from From Software in the years to come, with or without it. And just for that, we celebrate.
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