Season Pass?

[Kalledon]

I was really excited about this game, but I now see there is a season pass and I'm admittedly feeling cautious. Honestly, if this game wanted to pull something like Tales and have cosmetics up the wazzu, I wouldn't care. But I see 3 story expansions in the season pass. So they intentionally left out content from the main game to milk more money? Is there any indication how big of content this is? Cause the pass is $25 which is half the cost of the game.

[Koryiaki]

Yeah, that is one thing that does genuinely concern me. Like the dude died in production, so we know it's as done as his vision was every going to be. So either you cut out content or it's about to be some glorified fanfic up in here in a few months.

[Duradan]

Originally posted by Kalledon:

I was really excited about this game, but I now see there is a season pass and I'm admittedly feeling cautious. Honestly, if this game wanted to pull something like Tales and have cosmetics up the wazzu, I wouldn't care. But I see 3 story expansions in the season pass. So they intentionally left out content from the main game to milk more money? Is there any indication how big of content this is? Cause the pass is $25 which is half the cost of the game.

No this was part of KS all DLC was voted on by backers, and known as it would be DLC, They are side stories and not needed to complete the game. So blame the backers, not R&B. also they can continue to build the world in DLC/expansion. till a sequel comes out, which they're already working towards as he left for R&B to make 2 sequels

[Drusain]

Correct. Blame the backers for this for waiting for the incentive to get story content at a discount if the kickstarter campaign was successful. I was one of them. After putting money into kickstarters that fell apart and never finished, I wasn't going to back until (or if) the game released. When the campaign started offering free DLC and I was pretty confident the game would release, I backed then. Not before.

So it's both backers who weren't kicking in funds until offering free story content, and R&B for offering DLCs as stretch goals so they could get extra funds for development for the game. I hope that makes sense.

[Kalledon]

Originally posted by Duradan:

No this was part of KS all DLC was voted on by backers, and known as it would be DLC, They are side stories and not needed to complete the game.

THIS is the information that needs to be all over the place. Random side stories that offer some fleshing out to the story but are skippable is fine. I can't say that sounds like it is worth $25, but it also sounds like I'm not missing anything important if I skip over it, which was my main concern, that this was key story that was being offered as DLC instead of part of the main game.

[Thor Armin]

I bought the season pass, but idk how to access its content. Can anyone tell me how? It's weird that you can't even at least use the HQ cosmetics pack.

[Blind Gardener]

Originally posted by Thor Armin:

I bought the season pass, but idk how to access its content. Can anyone tell me how? It's weird that you can't even at least use the HQ cosmetics pack.

None of the DLC has been released yet, not even the HQ cosmetics pack.

[Link]

I believe all KS backers will get the DLC for free when it releases, at least according to one of the updates earlier in the month.

[Duradan]

Originally posted by Link:

I believe all KS backers will get the DLC for free when it releases, at least according to one of the updates earlier in the month.

we get 3, but we don't get the Custom DLC

[alghero]

Originally posted by Duradan:

No this was part of KS all DLC was voted on by backers, and known as it would be DLC, They are side stories and not needed to complete the game. So blame the backers, not R&B. also they can continue to build the world in DLC/expansion. till a sequel comes out, which they're already working towards as he left for R&B to make 2 sequels

Sorry, just to be 100% sure, the side stories seem to be prequels or expanded stories about the protagonists, would those be played outside of the main campaign? i.e. like some sort of mini-campaigns?

I ask because I would never have time to play the game a second time if to access those mini-stories I have to restart the game.

[Esmian]

Originally posted by alghero:

Originally posted by Duradan:

No this was part of KS all DLC was voted on by backers, and known as it would be DLC, They are side stories and not needed to complete the game. So blame the backers, not R&B. also they can continue to build the world in DLC/expansion. till a sequel comes out, which they're already working towards as he left for R&B to make 2 sequels

Sorry, just to be 100% sure, the side stories seem to be prequels or expanded stories about the protagonists, would those be played outside of the main campaign? i.e. like some sort of mini-campaigns?

I ask because I would never have time to play the game a second time if to access those mini-stories I have to restart the game.

The Marisa one is straight up labeled as a prequel, the Markus/Nowa/Carrie one seems like a side story completely separate from whatever's going on in the story but related to lore hinted at by some characters, the Seign one, I'm not entirely sure. The description is really vague, maybe a sequel?

[Raelic]

I think you're right to be cautious about the season pass.

They are being very shady and some of the stretch goals were phoned in.

Shady examples, pre-order bonuses for non-backers and not backers. No explanation on how backers are going to get season pass content or if we're getting the bonus content in the season pass. The terrible implementation of many of the stretch goals like cooking battle.

[GnomeSlayer]

Originally posted by Kalledon:

I was really excited about this game, but I now see there is a season pass and I'm admittedly feeling cautious. Honestly, if this game wanted to pull something like Tales and have cosmetics up the wazzu, I wouldn't care. But I see 3 story expansions in the season pass. So they intentionally left out content from the main game to milk more money? Is there any indication how big of content this is? Cause the pass is $25 which is half the cost of the game.

This is highway robbery. The game is already overpriced and littered with bugs and they want to now milk you for every cent for additional garbage.