Powers at Summer Game Fest: the DLC will be a different scale

At Summer Game Fest 2026, Will Powers told IGN that the Crimson Desert expansion will be “something completely different” in scale, scope or size. Everything added since launch, the studio called updates. It calls the coming project a DLC and says there is a reason for that. He did not reveal the contents.

He again ties support to the studio’s habit of developing games for a long time, even when the game is single-player. Players are asked to spend more than 100 hours, and for that money the team wants to offer many things to do.

They will keep revising the story, but Powers does not promise a full rewrite. He is talking about narrative coherence and clearer character motives. Boss rematches, controller buttons, pets, mounts and pinball he lists as things already shipped, not as the DLC’s contents.