Insomniac confirms that Spider-Man 2 won’t have any DLC, and fans are very disappointed

During New York Comic-Con 2024, Sony and Insomniac Games announced that they are porting Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to PC on January 30, 2025. However another piece of information caught most of the fan’s attention.

On the official PlayStation Blog, Aaron Jason Espinoza, Senior Community Manager at Insomniac Games, stated: “While we have no additional story content planned for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, we’re delighted to bring all of our previously released post-launch content to the PC version”, further squelching all the fan’s hopes of a potential DLC that would expand the game’s storyline.

This is quite unfortunate, seeing as how the game left many open plot points that seemed to be teasing a DLC campaign, with the “The Flame” side quest being one of the most prominent ones. In contrast, the original Spider-Man game by Insomniac had three DLC packs with lengthy story campaigns that were already out a few weeks after the game’s launch. On top of that, it still got constant free updates throughout the following months.

Fans had high hopes for a potential DLC campaign for Spider-Man 2

Fan reaction on social media websites like Twitter/X or Reddit has been extremely negative, since most of them have been waiting for a DLC announcement since Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 released on October 20, 2023, more than a year ago. Getting a confirmation that this is now not going to happen, after so much waiting, was definitely disappointing for most of them.

The r/SpidermanPS4 subreddit didn’t take the news very well, with many of its members stating their disdain for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, since now they have confirmation that it’s not going to get any more story updates. Many others even went ahead and accused Insomniac of not giving the game the treatment it needed and deserved. Nevertheless, some fans speculate that Insomniac was maybe working on a DLC campaign, and it decided to save it for a separate project (like a standalone Venom game) that it can release in-between bigger games, similar to Spider-Man: Miles Morales.