People were super positive for RE2R, and it got nothing other than the freebie DLC announced before the game came out, too. And people were demanding RE3 DLC... albeit not because they were super enthusiastic about that game (every time SteamDB got updated, someone was super sure it'd be the Clock Tower, I mean it'd be crazy for them not to do that, right?, even after that interview where they said the game was finished). Like, from most indications, RE might be annualized for the foreseeable future, which means the creators are going to be busy with the next game. Hell, rumor was it a while back that Capcom Dev1 had taken the reigns on the RE4 remake over disputes with MTwo (MTwo had apparently wanted to scrap most of what they had).
From what little I know, you can't just decided to add DLC right when the game comes out, it needs to be in the planning stages for a while beforehand--like different company and genre, but Doom 2016's only single-player addition was a free mode that just cut out the plot and added scoring, because for whatever reason Id or Bethesda thought people would care about the multiplayer rather than the single player (and they wouldn't course correct with single player DLC until Doom Eternal).
You capitalize off of Lady D and the others with Funko Pops and T-Shirts. Cheaper, easier, and doesn't require you to go about changing your plans.
Who knows, maybe they are planning something--I doubt it, but maybe--if it is something only in response to the Lady D memes, rather than something they've had in the planning since before the game was announced... I don't think it'll be much good.
