Topic: TOTK opinions 2.5 years later, how could DLC fix these issues

Hi all,
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is a magnificent game and we all know that. Unfortunately there are few but significant issues with the game, namely:
The Depths were visually bland except for in Eldin, and had very little unique areas with interesting content
The Sky could have been so much better, Gerudo and Central Hyrule were bland as stale triscuits
No new towns other than Lookout landing unless you maaaybe count the Yiga Clan Hideout and the central depths mine
Not much love given to the present day sages (especially tulin and sidon)
Very little new ocean content

I know Nintendo said DLC won't happen, but it's great to speculate and with enough fan pressure, it might be back in the question.
What do you all think? Once again, it's one of the greatest games of all time and it's intro, visuals, music, building, abilities, caves, sidequests, characters, bosses, combat, and world are fantastic. I'm just curious to hear your ideas on what DLC could have done to fix what problems there are.

I got really tired of the anxiety of scarce of resources and zonai devices in TOTK. The only reason I beat the game was because I never updated the game, so I could keep using the paraglider duplication glitch.

Bomb flowers were too scarce, too. Playing TOTK just made me yearn for BOTW, where I could farm arrows, had infinite bombs, and if I needed weapons, I could go to the castle to swipe more decent weapons.

I haven't played TOTK since switch 2 because, I assume I can't play the game on switch 2 without updating it. I'm glad I beat the game already.

So, I guess I'd like dlc to address resource scarcity, but they'll never do it, and I don't know how they could do it.

Fan pressure isn't going to make them make a DLC for the game. The Zelda team is done with this version of Hyrule and the series is going to enter a new era entirely with the next big 3D game.

TotK was a fine game already that wrapped up the story BotW started. I will be so mad if it ever gets any dlc. Not because I hate dlc, but because I like the TotK physical copy having all content (not counting Amiibo paraglider fabrics) on the cartridge, compared to the BotW cartridge which is incomplete because of dlc. They're both awesome games though 😀.

@VoidofLight I do think it's possible (if still unlikely) to make dlc while working on a new game, because they said they started work on TOTK in early 2017, and the last dlc for botw was late 2017. Also, borderlands 2, assassins creed mirage, spiderman 2, and mk8dx all got dlc years after release, with some having whole new games in the middle and with SM2 they said it wouldn't happen but it did. Plus, metroid dread they said would be cancelled but was brought back many years later. Despite what nintendo has said about fan pressure and petitions not working on them, they listen more than they'd like to admit. BOTW was a response to how mad people were about the overlinearity of skyward sword. TP was a response to the backlash of WW's art style. TOTK itself was a response to how much people loved BOTW's environmental freedom. When that was too much leaning into the modern, EOW became more traditional. Several features of Zelda Notes were definitely responses to criticism of TOTK. The Animal Crossing New Horizons petitions (57k signatures) to get more culturally representing hairstyles for black avatars and save data backups (22k signatures) also worked, as well as the one to get them to collab with build-a-bear (10k). Zelda Lego and the Zelda Movie were almost certainly because of how much people wanted those. And 55k signatures got the critically praised paper mario TTYD remaster on switch. They listen more than you think. Once again, I do think it's unlikely for DLC to release but not impossible. https://www.change.org/p/dlc-for-the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of...
There's this DLC petition, I know it's small but it's growing and if we reshare it among friends it can multiply faster

@SageofGaming I just don't see it happening, as no DLC was a choice that they made because they felt like this was the most they could do for this version of Hyrule- and they probably want to get onto making a brand new Zelda that takes place in a different version of the map. The game doesn't really need DLC, even with the issues that it has. Breath of the Wild's DLC was done before they began work on TotK- and while TotK did start as DLC, they decided to roll all of the ideas they had for it up into one final game for this era of the series.

The only chance the game would have had to get "DLC" was the Switch 2 upgrade, which they released already and it didn't come with DLC. They have no plans nor reason to add more content to Tears of the Kingdom- especially when they probably made this choice originally due to the pricing of the game mixed with how the game was already heavily pushing the Switch 1. They moved onto the next 3D Zelda project, and made it clear what their stance was on DLC.

Personally I'm fine with no DLC being made for TotK, so I'm not going to sign the petition. Especially given that it will 100% get ignored.

Looks like @OmnitronVariant beat me to it.

Breath of the Wild felt like I was exploring and adventuring through a real landscape. It gave me space to contemplate and just 'be' within a realistic, beautiful environment.

Tears of the Kingdom feels like pinballing from one video game contrivance to the next. Everywhere I look there's clutter that seems designed to remove the space (that I liked so much in BotW) and get me to engage in its elaborate mechanics. Whether it's falling debris for rewinding, or that guy with the sign needing propping up, or some random zonai vehicle parts, or a korok that's lost its friend, or some chump with a wagon that needs help, or a bunch of crazed trees that want to attack me ... just too much contrived distraction. And the environment is far less beautiful because of all the brown rock everywhere. I want them to take stuff out, not put more stuff in.