Yes, because they seriously haven't added anything else to this game! Man, this port looks bare bones! How dare they potentially make future content DLC!
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Anyway, the trailer seems to suggest that more characters will be added to the "part of the console release" portion of the game. Iori and DLC are seperate, so the chance of getting more non-DLC characters is actually pretty good right now.
With all the horror stories of SNKP's game division breaking into pieces, people leaving the company, overly hard work hours, and general "not as big as they used to be!" stuff, how can anyone complain over possible DLC, with all the crazy content this retail package has revealed in the past few hours?
How much would all the additional colors and edit options have cost if they were a feature in Blazblue? Yet this is a standard feature of this release.
How many changes and balances did Kane and ANSWER list to characters, after the first day of playtesting? And they still suggest that theres a HUGE amount more to reveal? How much of that stuff sounds like inspired changes, and not just thrown-in differences to claim "lookit, it's new"?
How many stages were added to this game, NOT as DLC, but as new just for this release? And we can assume the classic themes that are available in the arcade release, are already in the console game already.
SNKP hasn't yet shown that they'll charge for things that don't already have substantial likeness in the console release. Nothing has been "held back" at this point, and the new content appears to be at a high quality par VS the arcade release stuff. No Mature and Betty XII type neutered movesets on Saiki or DLC Bonus Iori. Even Billy looks solid!
....It just seems like, at this point, that you would have to extremely cynical to whine and moan over anything at this point. I mean, sure, we can complain over Namco Bandai's overpriced Idolm@ster DLC, or 100s of dollars for ace combat stuff... but complaining over this? Take it to somewhere, something else, that actually deserves it!
I'll just leave with this quote from Kane's changelist, which sums up how I feel, after all the news and info shared over the past day or so:
Once again, I apologize if I misreport something or I have left something out. There were simply far too many changes to record them all let alone let my overstimulated mind process.
The wait was all worth it guys , my hats off to SNKP. The game feels like a HUGE improvement over a near perfect XIII 1.1. Speaking of labels, I dubbed the console version XIII.5 and Aram from Atlus seems to agree with me.
