There are quite a few things that's gone wrong with CP2077 in terms of launch. The game was released with a lot of known issues which CDPR rushed to get fixed. But as is well known with any software development; squash one bug and two more show up, so there is a lot of whack-a-mole. That combined with sub-par performance and stability on previous generation consoles caused it to be de-listed from the PlayStation Store.
I'd wager that this caused the investors to put pressure on CDPR to put most of their effort into getting the game back up on the PlayStation store before any new content and game improvements other than bug fixes could be prioritized.
Patch developments and release cadence seemed to be going quite well up until the security breach in February (
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/information-regarding-data-security/) where the source code of CDPR games was stolen and an unknown amount of infrastructure and workstations was encrypted by ransomware. Once that happened, a lot had to change both on the development and security side of things. Having all the developers get their workstations back up and running, re-secure access to source code repositories, establish new routines for accessing and working on the games etc. likely caused a lot of pain for everyone involved, and again, I'll bet that caused most of the fixes and development to be severely halted or completely stopped for at least one month.
This hurdle should now be well passed (an update was posted on June 10th in regards to what's been done to prevent this from happening again:
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/security-breach-update/) and from what we can see in the closed QA branch releases the past weeks they are working and testing the next release for CP2077. Paweł Sasko teased a DLC update during his last stream implying that a DLC will be released this month (Clip on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/orrvda
)
He is not a native English speaker, so he might have meant "Within a month", but we might get a nice surprise today or tomorrow if we are really lucky. Combine this with the social media advertisement teasing "Our biggest update yet" that was likely posted a month early, it gives further credence to there being a huge update just around the corner (
https://streamable.com/f6pc6n).
With all that said, I think that the coming half-year will be a very good time for us who love CP2077. COVID is starting to get under control, the CDPR servers are secured and they are working full steam on content and updates for the game. Communication regarding future releases will likely also pick up, but we'll see if they continue as they have to manage expectations.
Current release schedule for CP2077
Day 0: Game release date: December 10th, 2020
Day 1: Hotfix 1.04: December 11th, 2020
Day 13: Hotfix 1.06: December 23rd, 2020
Day 43: Patch 1.1: January 22nd, 2021
Day 49: Hotfix 1.11: January 28th, 2021
Day 57: Hotfix 1.12: February 5th, 2021
Day 60: Data breach: February 8th, 2021
Day 109: Patch 1.2: March 29th, 2021 (Originally supposed to release in February)
Day 125: Hotfix 1.21: April 14th, 2021
Day 139: Hotfix 1.22: April 28th, 2021
Day 189: Patch 1.23: June 17th, 2021