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Yes, it's $30.
:O oh! I may snatch this after all.
Yes, it's $30.
Welcome to the future. Man, machine, the fusion.
You get out of here with your well reasoned nuanced thoughts! There is no place for that here!I think it's meant more like a season of a TV show.
DLC is a bit like mobile games. Yeah, lots of it is crap. Yeah, lots of it is exploitative. There are gems out there though, well worth paying for. Just try to be a smart consumer and this stuff never has to bite you on the ass. It can enhance your games, and your gaming.
Welp, now we have precedence going forward. Nintendo, whose current console install base sits at less than 6 million, pulls a move that not only alienates the customers that they already have, but also alienates new ones.
This is gonna bite them so hard in the ass...
Welp, now we have precedence going forward. Nintendo, whose current console install base sits at less than 6 million, pulls a move that not only alienates the customers that they already have, but also alienates new ones.
This is gonna bite them so hard in the ass...
Welp, now we have precedence going forward. Nintendo, whose current console install base sits at less than 6 million, pulls a move that not only alienates the customers that they already have, but also alienates new ones.
This is gonna bite them so hard in the ass...
Shhh u should let more rage here.
Nintendo will also offer Trial Tournaments for consumers interested in trying out a sample of the downloadable courses before deciding to purchase. Consumers who own the game and download the Trial Pack will be able to participate in these online tournaments.
To be clear on this, I'll probably buy this DLC if it's quality content. I'm worried about Nintendo opening the season pass door but if they are smart about it it might not be a bad thing. A steady stream of MK8 tracks or SSB stages after release could be a pretty cool thing, in all honesty, and being able to buy them bundled at a discounted price is also something I could learn to appreciate.
If any company could get me interested in DLC it's Nintendo. I just hope they stay smart.
I cringed too at "season pass" but am I getting this right???
You can buy the packs separately as they come along OR you can buy them all and get them as they come along through a "season pass"???
If that's how season passes always work, not really understanding the horror but I must be missing something.
Nah, you won't see fireworks until they unveil the Wii U Too, with always-online DRM.
The only problem I see is the Day 1 DLC. The price could be a bit lower but it's still reasonable.
I was being sarcastic... people are.."omgerd! day 1 dlc.." Like does it matter when a company distributes dlc? Do people feel better if its X amount of days, months to release dlc? The complaint was silly.I've seen people saying it would have been better for Nintendo to wait a month or so to 'reveal' this. Would it really be though? At least this way they are upfront about it an tell you how much content is in the main game and how much you will get from jumping in on the season pass.
I dislike day1 DLC as much as the next person but seeing as there is DLC for every major game now, I find it ridiculous that companies pretend it isn't planned from the very start by announcing it later. Sure there are cases where the development of the DLC continues after the game is released but at least the way Nintendo is upfront about it with Mario Golf.
I'd bet not even Dave thinks there'll be a Vita 2.And it'll still outsell Vita2.
So Nintendo is becomming a soulless corporation?
game is $30 + $15 pass. $45 is the new price for a complete handheld game from nintendo? oh shit
Most people have absolutely no issues with DLC you know.
Would you go as far as saying that they shot themselves in the foot?
What the hell does season pass even mean? Is it similar to having season pass tickets for a team, then you pay for another season pass for the next season?
Regardless, i don't think i've ever paid for dlc.
It's the day 1 DLC that bothers me, but on the other hand the basic game is cheaper to accomodate for it, and the full DLC is huge (I feel it's similar in price and content to New Super Luigi) so I'll consider it after trying the demo
Hope they don't do this for Smash or Mario Kart, I think fragmenting the community is a bad idea, especially in those games. If they have any ideas left over in the cutting room floor, it'd be better if they used them in other games, like cut dungeons in Zelda games
I agree that DLC can extend the longevity of a game, but I prefer the cases where the longevity of a game comes from the amount of content and options it has out of the box. Like Smash, in my family we played each game in the series for the longest time, and we still play Brawl/Melee from time to time
Welp, now we have precedence going forward. Nintendo, whose current console install base sits at less than 6 million, pulls a move that not only alienates the customers that they already have, but also alienates new ones.
This is gonna bite them so hard in the ass...
damn,nintendo keeps learning the wrong stuff from other companies.
instead of learning how to do a decent online infrastructure,or to lower the price of their older games like everyones do,they learn to make day one dlc's and season passes
I'm not wrong in understanding that what they're offering is totally different from an actual season pass, am I?
There's obviously no way of knowing that, but the fact is this allows publishers to pull out content and sell it separately, and it's a shame to see Nintendo get it on it. I guess it was inevitable.
I'm not against DLC. I think Harmonix nailed it with Rock Band. It was a great way to extend the life of the game. Day one DLC only exists to make a little extra cash. There's no reason why it could be included when it's already done.
How much was the full Fire Emblem Awakening game?
At least with this Season Pass, you know what you're getting - it's essentially a discount on all of the DLC packs, similar to what Fire Emblem Awakening did with the DLC maps, just labelled with the tag 'Season Pass'.
Edit:
Season Pass with other companies is usually synonymous with 'We will try to sell you extra fluff with 1 or 2 actual decent pieces of extra content' - here, it looks like it's essentially a discount on buying all of the DLC at once.
I'm not wrong in understanding that what they're offering is totally different from an actual season pass, am I?
You know this is a 3DS game right?
Don't bring this shit into Mario Kart 8.
Please read the post again. Keyword is "precedence".
It doesn't matter if this is a 3DS game we're taking about. Even if it's the tiniest bit successful in this game, they will try it again in the future on their console games.
Awakening's full DLC costs $53 altogether, if you buy the packs ($51 if you got Champions of Yore during the launch promotion).
It adds 25 chapters, 17 characters (and they lack quite a few features compared to the main cast, also they don't have any story role outside of their own DLC chapters), 2 new playable classes, one for any male character and one for any female character, and 5 new skills separate from the new classes.
The core game has 27 "main" chapters, 18(23 with spotpass) optional Paralogue chapters, 42 fully featured characters (48 with spotpass), 120 past game characters mechanically similar to the DLC ones (although with no story roles at all), and 42 playable classes (44 with Spotpass).
Awakening's DLC did some things right, like almost completely separating from the main story by taking place in other worlds, and doing things that weren't done before in Fire Emblem, like crossovers, but in terms of features vs price, it's fairly overpriced compared to the main game.
Nintendo finally crawls out of the Stone-Age. Unfortunately, the few fans they actually have left are still stuck back here.
Please read the post again. Keyword is "precedence".
It doesn't matter if this is a 3DS game we're taking about. Even if it's the tiniest bit successful in this game, they will try it again in the future on their console games.
At least with this Season Pass, you know what you're getting - it's essentially a discount on all of the DLC packs, similar to what Fire Emblem Awakening did with the DLC maps, just labelled with the tag 'Season Pass'.
Edit:
Season Pass with other companies is usually synonymous with 'We will try to sell you extra fluff with 1 or 2 actual decent pieces of extra content' - here, it looks like it's essentially a discount on buying all of the DLC at once.
Please read the post again. Keyword is "precedence".
It doesn't matter if this is a 3DS game we're taking about. Even if it's the tiniest bit successful in this game, they will try it again in the future on their console games. It'll seem reasonable at first, but things like this tend to progressively get worse over time. Then what? Next game, you'll possibly find yourself with even less content for the same price or more.
That's how these type of things tend to go.