I was excited for this game but this pisses me off. This is more egregious than when they locked classes behind DLC for Yakuza Like A Dragon (which was also really bad).
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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If you guys want to politely send Sega some feedback like I did, you can send their customer support a message here
It will probably be free on the pirated version.
I’m sorry Mario, but our princess requires $9.99 to continue our session.
First the change from brawler to bog standard jrpg combat, now they're pulling shit like this. Yeah, this series is going downhill fast...
Only legislation will stop this.
Nothing inside a video game should cost money. Games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games. Developers are being told to invent new forms of bullshit that cost the company nothing and don't feel like the same old lootboxes everyone finally recognized are a scam. It's still just lootboxes. You are being manipulated into throwing unlimited sums of money at a game you already own just so it will function, as a game.
There is no ethical form of that. It's an abuse for free money. You were never going to shop your way out of it. Boycotts don't work, here. So long as they gouge one sucker in ten, your nonparticipation counts for nothing. You will be subject to the restraint, addiction, and frustration that coerced them, until you cough up more money to briefly enjoy the fun version of the game that is being kept from you out of abject greed.
If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
No, all the yakuza games have done this for years now. It's not a new decision they made.
Except they haven’t? Pretty sure both Zero and LAD at the very least didn’t charge for NG+, same with 6. No idea about the Judgement games.
~~bizarre~~
greedy
fix'd
Infinite Wealth mindset
Little did anyone know that the games title was actually a Mission Statement for SEGA.
I don't even do NG+ in these huge games, but now I'm going to skip this one on principle, even though I do like the series. Nope, not going to allow a company to treat me this way.
There will of course be a lot of people who bend over and take it (or even defend it), but I'd rather replay an older title than encourage this shit.
Same. I liked Like a Dragon. I don't do NG+ almost ever.
But fuck them hard for this horseshit.
Hope you didn't buy the other ones that did this, it's not the first one.
Don't encourage it by simply not buying the dlc. It's easy. You obviously don't notice it.
Exactly. NG+ doesn't add any content, it just gives you an alternate way to explore the content you missed.
I'd pay for an expansion, online access, and maybe additional characters (i.e. different play style in existing content), but not NG+.
It depends on the game. Japanese devs are notorious for adding new content in NG+ runs. A good example is Armored Core 6 where you can still get new content up to NG++ and the one that takes this to an extreme is Nier Automata where the meat of the game is the NG+ runs.
Thats not really NG+ then, thats just the base game.