SiliconEra is reporting (via Square's Japanese web site) that players who pay 1,500 Wii Shop Points to purchase the ridiculously-abbreviated FFCC:MLaaK will only have access to one of the game's races. Players wishing to recruit any of the other three races will have to spend 100 to 300 Wii Shop Points to construct a home for them. Players will also be able to lay down real money for new character costumes, which don't seem to have any effect on the gameplay.
Given the controversy surrounding the pricing of additional gameplay content for Lumines Live, we can't imagine Wii owners will be happy shelling out 1,500 points for what's essentially an incomplete product. Then again, the wide variety of Final Fantasy collectibles suggests a fan base willing to shell out whatever it takes to get their dose of apocalyptic, Japanese RPG goodness. We'll see soon enough, we suppose.
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Paying $1 to $3 dlls. for extra clothes, races and dungeons (you forgot to add Dungeons, Joystiq) is very undersatable.
At least is cheap... 100 points ($1 dollar) is affordable =p
But before the bashign start, please, consider this. It's not Nintendo... it's Square Enix.
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Some of the things they do and allow are really, really dumb.
Why bash Nintendo?
Even as a self-confessed fanboy they really piss me the f#ck off.
First I have to enter a credit-card sized number and wait for the other person to enter one as well so I can send Mii's and short messages.
Then, that's not enough, when I buy a game that's "online" I have to enter a game-specific code as well?! What for!!?
That's like saying they trust me to send you a Mii, but come game time I might try to groom you for rape...
NO!!! I only want to play a frickin game!
How the f*ck am I suppose to organise anything in battalion wars with 'Sean' (who I've only seen once and will never see again), if I can not only voice chat, but lack all abilities to communicate other than requesting help?
Now this shit. It is. Essentially. As I understand it in my draft read. An incomplete game!
Square. This sucks!
That basically sums up Nintendo's attitude here. If anyone is going to put a stop to the ever-increasing ridiculousness of microtransactions, it needs to be Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony.
Don't palm the blame off onto Square for taking advantage of a clearly abusable system (and considering it's Final Fantasy we're talking about, a clearly abusable fanbase).
A one time fee is defensible, pay everytime you start a new game is an outrage.
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"And for those who get really into it, the game could expand even further. Square Enix has provided some provisional details at its website on upcoming downloads for the game. Examples of content include additional houses which, when combined with clearing a special dungeon, unlock new character classes for your soldiers. Also planned are clothing downloads for your king. Pricing is expected to range between 100 and 300 points."
Now I'm more confussed... I guess we need to wait until the extra DLC is available.
So no, it's not pay-per-play, per say.
olay!
Say that three times fast.
Just like the GH3 dlc, a majority of people will pay. We're stuck with this kind of crap, we just have to live with it.
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I'm betting thats gonna make alot of the DLC.
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Slave Owner.
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I am jealous that I did not first post this comment.
You win the Internet for the day, sir.
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For me, well, I guess with Square-Enix messing up the last few FF's and losing my trust, I don't need to see this as a big loss.
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Really it comes down to these three questions in regards to DLC value over price.
-Were the features missing from the game as it was promised? Take, for example, Lumines Live and the game modes which were removed. Same with this. The game has been shown with those multiple races with no indication this was the business model.
-Is gameplay and multiplayer significantly crippled for those who do not pay the extra money? Take a look at plenty of Korean MMOs where the DLC (the only part of the game you PAY for) is cosmetic only. In most games, the pay content doesn't give players an advantage in multiplayer.
-Does the DLC add value in extending the games original experience? Take a look at Rock Band or Warhawk. Both examples expand the gameplay in unique ways and dropships have definately changed Warhawk strategies...
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Where o where are you WiiSports Machine Fanboys gonna put all of the Kayrappy stuff? Or are you just going to relish in the FACT that you have to re-download the same Kayrap over and ovah again.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
KrazyKen: The definition of a real troll.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
Yew take this fanboy stuff WAY WAY WAY more seriously than I do.
I will bash Sony when I think they do something dumb.
Yew however have NEVER said even ONE thing negative about Nintendo.
Yew sir, are on an entirely different level of troll than I can evar "hope" to be.
Kye,
Nice post...Nintendo should not SHIT on it's loyal fans as much as they do. I feel 4 u bro...I really do.
As for Trolls... Well IMO Fernando is hunched under a bridge drinking a mug of Nintendo Gruhl... There are Trolls and then there is Fernando.... Completely different...
Side Note:
Just like the internet trends of troll, lolz, pwnd, +1 you Sir, I keed I keed, First! and any other electronic emotion we all see way to much I am growing increasingly frustrated with people doing this:
xbox guy: Hey Gt 5 Prologue is a demo
PS3 guy: SHut the F up Halo 3 was a demo with Crackdown
Xbox guy- No shit but at least it wasnt advertised as a full game
ETC
ETC
ETC
In case you missed it the fact people are going out of their way to script out little scenes at an exponential rate is starting to annoy me as bad as some of the other mentioned internet *electronic emotions*
Does anyone else agree?
BTW- This game does seem rather pathetic , doesn't it? Charging for races??? I can understand charging for a special gun or a special car but a skin tone?? Obviously it is more than that but it seems pretty nuts to me that anyone would actually buy another race in a game... Devs should take the UT3 PS3/PC mod cooker router or the Spore or LBP route and let us create our own content for the game... Not buy some total BS...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was actually a standard tool set for end users like us to create content for any game? You know, like something supported by all platforms...
You are. But as a troll for the 360 and a troll for the Wii, you end up being 50% less troll by volume. Though you have backed off a bit from your career lows.
No reason yet to feel superior to one of your fellows however.
Plus ONE for you sir. You have not been posting at Joysitq long but I have enjoyed your posts.
As for the fanboy banter back and forth? You are absolutely correct. But if Joystiq did not want Fernandos threatening a NON-WiiSports Machine Fanboy...then they would NOT POST the same flame bait over and over.
I continue to bite because it (for me at least) is all in good fun, and it makes the workday go by faster.
It would make the work day go by faster for the rest of us who post here to make the work day go by faster if you would...occasionally restrain yourself a bit.
BPM: No, Fernando, you are the trolls.
And then, Fernando was under a bridge.
Killjebus, if it isn't your rampant fanboyism or religious hate that's annoying, then it's your odd penchant to purposely misspell things. Stop replacing "you" with "yew", will ya? There's no poisonous trees here.
And, let us all set aside these dumb, hate-ridden names for the game companies and their consoles. No more "Nintendonald's" (Seriously, Curmeo, that's the dumbest thing you've ever thought of), "Micro$oft", "$ony", RRoD 360, DelayStation 3, etc. Just knock it off. It makes you look childish, and gives me a headache.