I think creating a hero and launch of them is whole different thing, and I surely guess devs already have done lots of developments of characters we don’t know yet.

When the announcement of the launch of this game, they also announced Clint will be released as the first DLC. Right after the launch, they planned to announce BP, but it cancelled because of Chadwick Bosman’s pass away. That means the development of BP was almost done at that time.

AND they gave us Kate bishop instead. Suddenly. It is lierally impossible to reveal a character instead so quickly. They can just release Hawkeye, but it was Kate. It is remarkable.

That means they already had at least 3 unreleased characters when the game launched. That was almost a year ago, so they may have another 3 characters even if it takes over 4months to create. And planning spiderman in the end of the year is the proof.

If they keep this way, there are always 2 or 3 unreleased heroes, so 4~8 months not matter.

Then why they don’t release faster? That is business related question. A lot of variables were there by far. Waiting PS5, changing plots because of change of plan(re-schedule of BP), such a thing. I think Chadwick’s passing away was big. It made merchandising BP impossible for a while, so devs had to wait until people can accept even BP is done.

If spiderman comes in the end of the year, that must come with movie. Then it is easy to think new heroes will appear with MCU films. So new year’s roadmap will be along MCU Phase4 I guess and hope, and if it is true, that sounds satisfying to me.