Not to Buy
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owsf2000So the PSN store has updated for Tuesday and the verdict is in from the last post.
Fairy Fencer F's DLC is now standing at 11 items. 6 free, 5 paid I believe.
Tears to Tiara II is finally listed. I believe it was 6 items. Mostly bonus characters from the Aquaplus universe.
In all cases, it's things that either shouldn't have existed in the first place, or are things that use to be free hidden things in a game.
Tears to Tiara II shows me not to buy a game before it's listed, period.
Fairy Fencer F shows me not to buy a game FOR AT LEAST 3 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE. To watch them drip out the DLC each week.
Looks like they've indeed learned to hide DLC as much as possible to avoid lost sales. This means I can't properly determine if a game is worth buying or not on launch day.
As a result, I will never again, EVER, buy a game at launch. Minimum of 3 months before I buy something, and if I still see DLC increasing near that 3 month mark - as I will follow their progress for the games I'm interested in until the DLC makes me lose interest - then I'll add additional months onto the wait time.
Being JRPGs, these things get small runs usually. If I can't find a physical copy at an acceptable price at the end of the wait time, they've still lost a sale.
Atlus is now on the shitlist due to Fairy Fencer F btw. They can join NIS America on the list with all the others over DLC whoring.
This being said, while Ar Nosurge will be waiting until after Christmas as a result of this, that game is still only at 1 DLC item. Not sure what I think about that as I'll have to re-read what the content of that DLC is, but at least it's a good sign compared to the BS the other two games have demonstrated.
sigh.
I liked Atlus too...
Fairy Fencer F's DLC is now standing at 11 items. 6 free, 5 paid I believe.
Tears to Tiara II is finally listed. I believe it was 6 items. Mostly bonus characters from the Aquaplus universe.
In all cases, it's things that either shouldn't have existed in the first place, or are things that use to be free hidden things in a game.
Tears to Tiara II shows me not to buy a game before it's listed, period.
Fairy Fencer F shows me not to buy a game FOR AT LEAST 3 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE. To watch them drip out the DLC each week.
Looks like they've indeed learned to hide DLC as much as possible to avoid lost sales. This means I can't properly determine if a game is worth buying or not on launch day.
As a result, I will never again, EVER, buy a game at launch. Minimum of 3 months before I buy something, and if I still see DLC increasing near that 3 month mark - as I will follow their progress for the games I'm interested in until the DLC makes me lose interest - then I'll add additional months onto the wait time.
Being JRPGs, these things get small runs usually. If I can't find a physical copy at an acceptable price at the end of the wait time, they've still lost a sale.
Atlus is now on the shitlist due to Fairy Fencer F btw. They can join NIS America on the list with all the others over DLC whoring.
This being said, while Ar Nosurge will be waiting until after Christmas as a result of this, that game is still only at 1 DLC item. Not sure what I think about that as I'll have to re-read what the content of that DLC is, but at least it's a good sign compared to the BS the other two games have demonstrated.
sigh.
I liked Atlus too...
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:17 pm (UTC)Also, welcome to the club (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/597285.html). Though, for some reason, I'd thought you were already well past that point, since I'd kind modeled that after some of your past rants anyway, along with my own bad experiences, of course. ^^;;;
That said, I'm really almost to the point now of just swearing off modern gaming altogether. Period. Or, at least, not unless I see something on a crazy sale for 75% off (of a usually already heavily discounted baseline price from the $50-$60+ it was at launch down to something like $20-$30). So, essentially, if I see a modern game that was originally being sold for $50-$60+ on sale for maybe $5-$15 at most, then I might (might) consider getting it at that point. Maybe.
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Date: 2014-10-15 11:17 pm (UTC)But the thing is, typically most if not all the DLC tended to be listed pretty fast, if not even before the game was released so it was easy enough to do a day 2 purchase after going home and verifying the DLC situation. But that's apparently changed, so I'll change with it and officially join the club.
Granted, looking over the PSN store, I can see some games I could invest in between now and christmas since they've already been released for over 3 months and "pass the test". But I'll still wait for christmas since for some of them I'll likely need to get it digitally, and I'll likely just ask my parents to get me a PSN prepaid card for christmas to cover it.