No more future DLC or FemC [CONFIRMED]

[Hymnos]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PERSoNA/comments/1b9mp3f/wada_confirms_more_remakes_and_why_femc_wasnt/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PERSoNA/comments/1b9mijs/straight_from_the_horses_mouth_its_time_to_let_it/

Another source from Japan website: https://www.famitsu.com/news/202403/08336894.html

They decided to move on to work on their next project completely new title in addition to remake.

[Fyuun]

With Atlus you can always just ignore what they say and just look at what they release.

Atlus was once saying that they will never bring their games to PC. The same with so many other things. Atlus is simply worthless if it's about promises. But with Sega behind Atlus, Atlus did amazing stuff and so far everything is possible.

The literal only thing this "confirmed" is that Atlus simply says "We promise nothing and right now we have so much stuff to do, that we simply have no one to work on FeMC".

It all depends on how many people buy the DLC. If there are so many complainers who are triggered that they don't get more than they paid for, then maybe Atlus simply ignores the idea of FeMC.
It's all about the demand for the current Expansion Pass. FeMC will happen if the sales for the Expansion Pass is insanely high. If the sales are just low, there won't be a FeMC, simply because Atlus has like 20+ games they want to remake and the overall time and manpower would be similar for a whole different game than adding FeMC.

Even with the PSP port Atlus already said that FeMC was basically a whole new game. It's one thing to just do a PSP port with cheap graphics, but redoing everything with Unreal Engine is much tougher. Especially because every designer knows that the higher the detail the exponential more time is required to make those characters feel alive and not artificial.

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Persona games are basically dating game for male especially 3-5, only small audience care about FemC.
and if you want play as FemC Protag in SMT/Persona Universe go play Soul Hacker 2 since the game has poor sales :satisfied:

If you really think that's what a persona game is or meant to be that's honestly pretty sad

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

If you really think that's what a persona game is or meant to be that's honestly pretty sad

after spending more than thousand hours in Persona games especially 3-5 yes I reached that conclusion, the Story and Theme for each Persona game looks different but the pattern is basically same but don't get me wrong even though I figured out the pattern I'd still love the game

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

after spending more than thousand hours in Persona games especially 3-5 yes I reached that conclusion, the Stories and Themes for each persona games looks different but the pattern is basically same but don't get me wrong even though I figured out the pattern I'd still love the game

They could remove romance entirely and the series would still remain mostly the same. You build social links in your free time, of which only a select few lead to optional romance. Not only that, it's literally 1 out of 10 hangouts. After that, it gets barely mentioned except on days like Valentine's day, which again, could just be removed from the game and it would still remain mostly the same. It's a very sad outlook using a feature so minor like romance to identify a series that puts heavy focus on themes, story and characters. Justs seems to me like that's just why you play the games, not why they exist or what they're set out to do

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

They could remove romance entirely and the series would still remain mostly the same. You build social links in your free time, of which only a select few lead to optional romance. Not only that, it's literally 1 out of 10 hangouts. After that, it gets barely mentioned except on days like Valentine's day, which again, could just be removed from the game and it would still remain mostly the same. It's a very sad outlook using a feature so minor like romance to identify a series that puts heavy focus on themes, story and characters. Justs seems to me like that's just why you play the games, not why they exist or what they're set out to do

They already has a game like that and It called SMT, this is why they add new elements like Romance,Slinks,more casual friendly,and freedom to spend your day into SMT and make a spin-off series called Persona and without those elements the game cannot be called Persona anymore,it will be called for another SMT game rather than Persona.
To put it more bluntly Persona is SMT but with romance and dating sims.

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

They already has a game like that and It called SMT, this is why they add new elements like Romance,Slinks,more casual friendly,and freedom to spend your day into SMT and make a spin-off series called Persona and without those elements the game cannot be called Persona anymore,it will be called for another SMT game rather than Persona.
To put it more bluntly Persona is SMT but with romance and dating sims.

You think the only thing differentiating SMT with persona is romance? If so, you've already proven yourself wrong by summorizing more than just romance, speaking of elements as in plural. Like I said, the option or freedom to romance is a minor feature that comes with the games social element. It's simple really, you can beat the entire game and pretty much complete everything without once having to engage in any form of romance. That statement alone completely invalidates your idea of persona being just a dating game

People like you are partially the reason why persona is often viewed negatively by others. It's also just stupid considering how much the themes, story, and cast are the vocal point of the game, and romance being such an incredibly minor feature that's completely avoidable

Also don't get me wrong, if you play the games just for that element or that reason, by all means go ahead and enjoy it, but calling it a dating sim because of it is just stupid.

[Sharkon]

P4 Reload next then

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Nokrahs:

P4 Reload next then

If I knew I would be sure to share it in here bruh

[AngryChair]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

Originally posted by Evangelion:

They could remove romance entirely and the series would still remain mostly the same. You build social links in your free time, of which only a select few lead to optional romance. Not only that, it's literally 1 out of 10 hangouts. After that, it gets barely mentioned except on days like Valentine's day, which again, could just be removed from the game and it would still remain mostly the same. It's a very sad outlook using a feature so minor like romance to identify a series that puts heavy focus on themes, story and characters. Justs seems to me like that's just why you play the games, not why they exist or what they're set out to do

They already has a game like that and It called SMT, this is why they add new elements like Romance,Slinks,more casual friendly,and freedom to spend your day into SMT and make a spin-off series called Persona and without those elements the game cannot be called Persona anymore,it will be called for another SMT game rather than Persona.
To put it more bluntly Persona is SMT but with romance and dating sims.

Romancing is entirely optional and is not what Persona is about, if anything Persona games are a combination of slice of life and dungeon crawling, and a LOT of women play these games too if you didn't know. I guess it's hard to see the difference between slice of life and dating sim when all you play are H games.

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by AngryChair:

Romancing is entirely optional and is not what Persona is about, if anything Persona games are a combination of slice of life and dungeon crawling, and a LOT of women play these games too if you didn't know. I guess it's hard to see the difference between slice of life and dating sim when all you play are H games.

Bold to assume all dating sims are bound to be H-games since there are LOT of dating sim games without even any H-Scenes and the game be like combination both Visual Novel and Slice of life simulator, or are you saying Romance/dating is not part in Slice of life category and it has their own category??lmao

And what you just said is proving my point,without all those elements Persona game is just a regular dungeon crawling JRPG.
And again to put it more bluntly Persona game is SMT but with element of “Slice of Life” are you happy now? Lmao

[Awaken]

Originally posted by Yürei:

Originally posted by Awaken:

Japan does not and never did care for her. The obsession with the FeMC is an exclusively western phenomenon. Nobody in Atlus even wants to remember she exists.

Idk about that. She did come back for Q2. I think it comes down to a question of how many people would truly buy dlc for her route in the first place especially with the amount of work she requires. It probably comes back to a profit decision.

In Q2 she has a whole segment where they basically pronounce her non-canon. Theodore and several of her unique soundtracks got into P3D and she didn’t. Additionally She didn’t get a song, a DLC persona, or any kind of reference in Reload.

Don't expect gender selection for P6 either. Wada talked about it in an interview and pretty much due to how the games work it would drain resources from other sections of the games and they would rather focus on those sections.

[fender178]

Originally posted by Awaken:

Japan does not and never did care for her. The obsession with the FeMC is an exclusively western phenomenon. Nobody in Atlus even wants to remember she exists.

Not so sure about that because she was in the promotional material for the 25th Anniversary of the Persona series. Why would Atlus put her into that if they wanted no one to remember her?

Originally posted by Awaken:

Originally posted by Yürei:

Idk about that. She did come back for Q2. I think it comes down to a question of how many people would truly buy dlc for her route in the first place especially with the amount of work she requires. It probably comes back to a profit decision.

In Q2 she has a whole segment where they basically pronounce her non-canon. Theodore and several of her unique soundtracks got into P3D and she didn’t. Additionally She didn’t get a song, a DLC persona, or any kind of reference in Reload.

Don't expect gender selection for P6 either. Wada talked about it in an interview and pretty much due to how the games work it would drain resources from other sections of the games and they would rather focus on those sections.

True she did have a Segment in Q2 where she is non-cannon in the primary P3 Timeline and she came from an alternate timeline.

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Awaken:

In Q2 she has a whole segment where they basically pronounce her non-canon. Theodore and several of her unique soundtracks got into P3D and she didn’t. Additionally She didn’t get a song, a DLC persona, or any kind of reference in Reload.

Don't expect gender selection for P6 either. Wada talked about it in an interview and pretty much due to how the games work it would drain resources from other sections of the games and they would rather focus on those sections.

This I never know since I never bothered to play another P3 game after FES back then so in my mind P3 FemC always be non-canon,but it seems many of FemC fans is being denial about it and don't accept the fact that she is non-canon to the original P3