Thoughts on DLC

[Alter Xofa]

This is probably the worst I've seen Atlus do DLC, and I've played through most SMT(even the mobile one)/Persona games. How are you going to lock a demon like Mara, who has been in literally every game. Didn't mind Cleo and Mephy in 4A and V as I didn't care about them, but Masakado? lol I'll just settle for standard edition this time around.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Really bad. If it was only costumes and cheat items I'd shrug it off, but how the hell do you lock classic demons and additional story for a game that's not even out yet. If it was expansion that came out months after game's release I'd understand, but no, they expect me to buy the extra story stuff right off the bat.

I'm waiting for a sale, I'd be fine with $60 for a game but these DLCs are unacceptable.

[Sans Undertale]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Really bad. If it was only costumes and cheat items I'd shrug it off, but how the hell do you lock classic demons and additional story for a game that's not even out yet. If it was expansion that came out months after game's release I'd understand, but no, they expect me to buy the extra story stuff right off the bat.

I'm waiting for a sale, I'd be fine with $60 for a game but these DLCs are unacceptable.

Its likely most will buy the DLCs anyway and not see it as unacceptable.

[Pass_the _M]

I decided to go ahead and buy it.

[JonPringus]

It's really wrong, it's always been wrong even back during the 3DS games. The worst not counting the Dancing games was base P5, which was slightly worse than P5R, which was $60 of DLC, but that wasn't including story content.

I highly doubt most players are buying any DLC, but it's like with those gambling games, if even one or two people shill out and buy everything, it will be seen as a success. That's why we need to ban these DLC practices if we want them to end.

It legit would be better to just have the game be $90 or $100 and not have any DLC.

[FhqwhTODD]

off to a keyseller site I go. Where I probably get the whole game with all dlc for 60$ as a preorder.

[Little heartache]

I am not even surprised.

[etch]

It kind of comes across like they didn't want to get bad press for doing next-gen pricing at like 70 USD so instead made the base version 60, but cut out the expansion and offer it for 70 USD in the digital deluxe edition.

[OverKill]

Locking 8 demons that have routinely showed up in prior Megami Tensei games is pretty disappointing.

There isn't even any added story, dungeon, or battle like in prior games when dealing with DLC of this variety.

[etch]

Nemissa, Armaiti, Anahita and to an extent Tzitzimitl don't show up that often in prior games.

[khaychi]

Was kinda hyped for SH2. SMTV is probably years away from a PC port, and SH2 is the next best thing. Blatantly locking cut out content two frickin months prior to launch killed my interest like instantly.

No judging people who get the game and dlc tho. Have fun.

[etch]

SMT V did the same exact thing. Current Atlus is just like that, very scummy with how they handle DLC.

[HexGramarye]

Originally posted by Xofa:

How are you going to lock a demon like Mara, who has been in literally every game. Didn't mind Cleo and Mephy in 4A and V as I didn't care about them, but Masakado?

Nemissa is in the background of the DLC image, so Soul Hackers fans will probably pay the $10 on the off chance she's in it.

I'm not pre-ordering anything, so I'll just let them be the guinea pigs.

[Fyuun]

Originally posted by Xofa:

This is probably the worst I've seen Atlus do DLC

You must be new to Atlus. Atlus and expensive DLC is actually nothing new. This doesn't mean expensive day one DLC is good, but it is what it is.

Still, Atlus games are not gacha trash. While I hate wasting money for DLC, I rather spent at worse like 100 $ more for an Atlus game I love than playing any gacha casino "game" (the moment Atlus releases a gacha game, they are dead for me as a company).
But I'm just playing Atlus games on Steam because of the full Japanese support. So yeah, I see the "Atlus tax" more like a "weeb tax" and gladly pay some money extra for the full game with full Japanese support.

Without full Japanese support I would have bought ZERO Atlus games on Steam. But if you ever have imported Japanese games from Japan and sometimes even bought a Japanese console to play those games, you would know that even those expensive DLCs are nothing compared to how much money you safe by simply buying the game with full Japanese support on Steam.
I simply see DLC and the full AAA price tag as a Full Japanese tax and I pay it gladly for Atlus games. But if you are not fluent in Japanese, then it's no surprise that you don't want to pay insane AAA++ price tags for a game you can only enjoy the dumped down version. I can't even imagine how it feels playing an Atlus game in English with the awkward Japanese "translation" which is literally impossible because artistic Japanese sentences can't be translated to English without sounding awkward, fake, or straight up different.

[AveryChu]

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:

off to a keyseller site I go. Where I probably get the whole game with all dlc for 60$ as a preorder.

Do you know how close to launch said keysellers tend to get stock? I vaguely remember doing this for SMTIII, but I don't remember when that became available.

[etch]

God I forgot they did that with Soul Hackers. Pretty sure there are other early examples as well.