Scrooge McDuck
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That JRPG Mass Effect offers 4 party member costumes for 2 dollars.
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Persona 5 DLC Price and Release Dates
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Novel Mike
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I mean yeah its expensive and really needs a season pass for it at a cheaper price for everything but its far from the worst.
Tales of Berseria was like 12$ for a whole set of party costumes and there was only 6 party members :/ 7$ + music isn't nearly as bad but yeah as a whole this is one trend that needs to stop being so insane.
Tales of Berseria was like 12$ for a whole set of party costumes and there was only 6 party members :/ 7$ + music isn't nearly as bad but yeah as a whole this is one trend that needs to stop being so insane.
DarknessTear
Banned
Those DLC prices hurt. SMTIV set looks awesome but not $7 awesome. If they ever do some kind of bundle and I'm still playing it, sure... but I doubt it. Default costumes should be fine.
UnluckyKate
Member
pay for these costume ? Come on atlus, why not go the Yakuza Zero way seriously...
Dead End Irony
Member
Do the BGMs automatically play? Or can you equip the outfits without the music changing? I feel I'll enjoy the P5 soundtrack too much to change the music.
If I recall correctly, it changes when the main character is wearing the costume.
That'll have more meaningful changes anyway.
manzoman96
Member
I never bite on DLC but they have me wanting that P4 pack. But at that price, I'll just boot up my copy of P4G.
Now, now, let's not get crazy.
Ultimadrago
Member
I hate large cosmetic DLC schedules so fucking much.
All of the good outfits don't even release until at least April 25th or later. I'll be done with the game by then.
All of the good outfits don't even release until at least April 25th or later. I'll be done with the game by then.
I'm sure someone, somewhere has the data on whether doling it out like this is good, but you're right, and it seems like it would be less profitable than just dumping them all close to/at release.
meltingparappa
Member
I would buy the Devil Summoner one RIGHT NOW (for the low price of 1.4x Episode Gladio's) but it feels completey pointless when it won't be out until after I'm done with the game.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
It's all cosmetic so the prices don't bother me. Don't need a single piece of this.
It makes sense why you'd get there from fighting games, I've totally dodged non-character DLC for that reason.
SuperSonic1305
Member
What's that like $100 CDN? Fuck off.
Ultimadrago
Member
Wait, so those Persona Picaro sets are actual, exclusive Persona you can purchase? I wonder how strong they are...
All that money into Dissidia 012 costumes and music..... looool.
But they were really nice costumes at least! >_<
cj_iwakura
Member
Yeah, Raidou is hard to top. Best battle music. too.
ChasingComets
Member
At least for the Izanagi and Orpheus set, not particularly. The work it works is that once you have the set, you can summon them from the compendium for free the first time (with base skills) or, once your level is high enough, you can fuse them normally. They start at a base level of something like 20-28, so they're not remarkable at all. More worthwhile for the skills they have, which are fairly strong ones you can get in the early game.
BaraSailey
Member
I want the Catherine costumes but I'm not paying $7 for that ...
Last gen for fighters, the norm felt like small costume bundles with the average $/costume being around or less than one dollar. $1 on average feels like a good rule of thumb to me. Much higher than that starts to feel exploitative, particularly launch costumes, and when compared to the common price of $5 for a fighting game character which is a hugely important piece of content. It seems to me that only very recently have fighter DLC costumes started hitting $3-4.
I think publishers are using the "it's only cosmetic" angle in fighters, and mobas/rpgs genenerally having much higher pricing to partially justify the price jumps this gen. Granted the business models and support length have changed, but I still stick to the $1 per costume average to help gauge value. It's why I have yet to buy a SFV costume.
MaximumSpider
Banned
The prices are terrible but I want that P4 pack. I'm part of the probably, I know.
Ultimadrago
Member
Thanks for the info!
sensui-tomo
Member
Speaking of musou titles, the legacy costumes from DW3-6 cost $2.99 and heres the fun part, that was a costume for every character from said game, so about 38+ costumes for $2.99. (and thats just from DW3 which didnt have as many as 4,5 and 6 (they always increased the amount of characters )) but i gotta spend $7 for costumes for the cast.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
I want that SMTIV bgm
For me it's really about the costume rather than the cost as a starting point. I'm more interested in what I get rather than how low a price I pay. It's all optional so I don't -have- to buy anything. But if I do want to buy something, I would prefer something that has effort put into it.
You can sell a bundle of say, 20 color/texture swaps for 5 bucks. That would be good value for someone who just wants "more options" without caring what the options are. But I really like costumes which are essentially new models. Games that do that tend to charge more fro them. I don't mind paying a few dollars for a single costume that I really like, and that's worth more to me than a dozen costumes which are just new textures.
StereoVsn
Member
So to summarize:
- We don't get costumes in game anymore unlike the awesome selection in P4G
- No free costume DLC that they got in Japan (Catherine, Christmas ones, etc...) beside the stupid swimsuit one
- SE is quite a bit worse then the one in Japan as well with no free costumes/summons and crappier song CD
- 7 months delay from Japan and we still get DLC on delay...
- Oh yeah, and it's $7 per costume set
I am starting to think I should just grab the regular edition from BestBuy/Amazon (or steelbook one I guess) instead of SE and spend $14 on couple costume sets since there is no way I am going to keep using same default costumes for 80 - 100 hour game.
Atlus just finds way la to piss off its fans in the West, don't they...
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- We don't get costumes in game anymore unlike the awesome selection in P4G
- No free costume DLC that they got in Japan (Catherine, Christmas ones, etc...) beside the stupid swimsuit one
- SE is quite a bit worse then the one in Japan as well with no free costumes/summons and crappier song CD
- 7 months delay from Japan and we still get DLC on delay...
- Oh yeah, and it's $7 per costume set
I am starting to think I should just grab the regular edition from BestBuy/Amazon (or steelbook one I guess) instead of SE and spend $14 on couple costume sets since there is no way I am going to keep using same default costumes for 80 - 100 hour game.
Atlus just finds way la to piss off its fans in the West, don't they...
Edit:
The game itself will also be included in that eventual PSN sale.
They are tied to the main protagonist & what he's wearing, so if you want Mass Destruction, YOU have to wear the P3 outfit, but everyone else is free to wear whatever they want
WrenchNinja
Member
Man, that's ridiculous
I knew there was a reason why I thought they'd be free!
BRSxIgnition
Member
The SE thing is completely your opinion. Considering the special edition in Japan was almost entirely digital/copy-able goods rather than actual, limited, physical items, I'm inclined to disagree. (Like it or not, the CDs have already been uploaded online.)
I much rather have a physical steelbook, bag, and plush than a collection of CDs I already have/can download, and a bunch of DLCs that are available anyway.
Aww man
StereoVsn
Member
Yeap, it's a BS move by Atlus and Sega. However they know that people are still going to get the game and most likely quite a few will buy the costumes since this is a long RPG and having just one or two outfits for 80 - 100 hours would be quite boring. So basically they don't care.
Handling of P5 in the West is just all kinds of bullshit basically from how delays were handled to the long gap from Japanese release to the SE quality to this DLC business.
Makes one want to just wait for a used version to pop up on GameStop or Amazon. Not that I have nearly the patience for that.