{"id":8448,"date":"2017-12-21T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/zelda_breath_of_the_wilds_champions_ballad_dlc_marks_the_conclusion_of_the_game"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:45:00","slug":"zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-champions-ballad-dlc-marks-the-conclusion-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-champions-ballad-dlc-marks-the-conclusion-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda: Breath Of The Wild&#8217;s Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC Marks The Conclusion Of The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"It's all over.\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/zelda_breath_of_the_wilds_champions_ballad_dlc_marks_the_conclusion_of_the_game\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/zelda_breath_of_the_wilds_champions_ballad_dlc_marks_the_conclusion_of_the_game\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"It's all over.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It might sound like stating the obvious, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC officially brings the game to a close &#8211; there will be no more content released from this point onwards, Nintendo has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Zelda series producer\u00a0Eiji Aonuma\u00a0delivered the news in an interview with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/news\/201712\/20148517.html\">Famitsu<\/a>, stating that the release of the DLC means the game is now complete. There will be no further DLC expansions.<\/p>\n<p>We already know that work has begun on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/poll_surprise_a_new_zelda_is_in_development_but_what_do_you_want_from_it\">next Zelda outing<\/a>, so it makes sense that the team at Nintendo has shifted its attention away from Breath of the Wild. However, given the incredible success of the game &#8211; and the fact that other publishers are supporting their big games for months (sometimes years) after release &#8211; one does wonder if it would have made more sense for Aonuma and his team to continue to expand the world of Hyrule with DLC packs throughout 2018.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Were you expecting more DLC expansions for Breath of the Wild beyond Champions&#8217; Ballad, or did you always think it would be the final throw of the dice for the game? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to\u00a0SLIGEACH_EIRE for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might sound like stating the obvious, but The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild&#8217;s Champions&#8217; Ballad DLC officially brings the game to a close &#8211; there will be no more content released from this point onwards, Nintendo has confirmed. Zelda series producer\u00a0Eiji Aonuma\u00a0delivered the news in an interview with Famitsu, stating that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}