Hidetaka Miyazaki says the Elden Ring DLC was always going to be massive: "We wanted an experience for the player that was going to match that of the base game"

Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree.

There is no world where the upcoming Elden Ring DLC isn't an absolute unit of a video game expansion, and director and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has confirmed that was indeed always the plan.

We learned recently that FromSoftware hasn't always been perfectly forthright about the size of the Elden Ring DLC, which, as it turns out, is much bigger than originally expected. Miyazaki has a bit of a reputation for underselling things, and Shadow of the Erdtree is no exception with more than 10 new major bosses and "around 100" new weapons packed into the Land of Shadow area.