In case you didn't know, Final Fantasy XV's getting a season pass, because, well, it's 2016 and this is video games. The pass was spotted on the North American PlayStation Store last night, but Square Enix hasn't revealed anything about the content that it includes, meaning that, as far as we're concerned, the whole thing's pretty shady.
Fortunately, Gematsu's translated the slightly more informative season pass description from the Japanese Store, so now we at least have some idea as to what you're getting. Apparently, it'll feature six pieces of downloadable content that'll release in the following order:
- Booster Pack
- Episode Gladiolus
- Holiday Pack
- Episode Ignis
- Episode Prompto
- Expansion Pack
While it's still near impossible to glean any details from the translated names alone, they do at least give us some idea as to what the various add-ons could be about. For starters, Booster Pack and Holiday Pack sound pretty inconsequential to us, probably offering things like helpful items or maybe alternate costumes - that sort of stuff.
Meanwhile, the character Episodes immediately seem more intriguing. There's one for each member of Noctis' party, so perhaps they'll offer new quests based on the character in question - we suppose that we may even get to play as the other members of the group during these excursions. Hopefully we'll know for sure soon enough.
Lastly, the Expansion Pack could be the real meat of the package here, but it's unfortunately a name that tells us next to nothing. We'd be down for an additional adventure if the actual game itself is worth our time, though.
Anyway, that's enough speculation from us. Have you got any bright ideas about what these bits and pieces might be? Patiently wait for Square to say something in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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Sounds okay if the Episodes and Expansion are good, but we'll see.
Seems like a missed opportunity for:
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If the first one actually does exist this'll be the first Final Fantasy title that I'll Gamer Pass and pick it up in a sale later. Colour me miffed.
I never consider a season pass until I have actually played the game. Sometimes I love a game but still don't buy the pass, because I feel like I am finished after I have beaten it. To often this extra content just feels tacked on and inconsequential.
Roughly $25usd for this season pass could be pretty cool. I'd be worried that the 3 Episodes are very minor/insignificant, but the expansion could be nice.
Personally, I'll probably wait and see how much the expansion pack is alone, because if it's only $15usd, that seems like a smarter buy in my eyes. .... is what I would if I had any self control when it comes to Final Fantasy games... I'm sure I'll buy it day one like the fool I am.
I'm expecting to play as different characters and at least 20-30 hours length of gameplay per-scenario.
@FantasyMeister "Colour me miffed."
Well said, all of it. Some of us have been waiting for this game for 10 years, and really waiting for it for about 2 years, and now they tell us it will be an extra $25 to get the whole game? And we need to pay to see a movie to get all of the backstory? Can't they just release the game and then make FFXV-2 and FFXV-3 if they need more money?
I'm already on hold w/ my PS4 purchase b/c I'm waiting to hear about N3o - will it cost more or will like Xbox One and 1S they drop the current price and bring Neo in at that price, so $299 old PS4, $349 Neo. So I'm waiting. And waiting. And waiting. And now this. So I'm thinking, maybe I'll wait another year for the GOTY edition. And all of the patches come out. Cant' help but think in this day and age there won't be serious bugs when the game comes out that they'll fix over time, and I hate when my save file gets corrupted, or a mission won't complete. That, like season passes, is also the way of gaming today. I've waited 10 years, what's 1 more?
I liked your post b/c you said all of that w/o sounding like a ranting idiot.
@FantasyMeister I see what you did there, nicely done
Does anyone have any experience with JRPG season passes. Don't think I've seen one before. No doubt this game will be long enough without the extra content (touch wood) so not too fussed.
Impossible to tell if it'll be worth it at this stage, and yeah, it's a bit crazy to have a game with such a storied and troubled development throw a season pass in your face. I'll evaluate it later, still plan on getting the core game at launch for the moment though.
I am not buying the season pass before having finished the game and decided if I like it enough to need more content but aren't we over the "I want the whole game" thing now though? I expect the game to be lengthy if I take my time and do everything. This is all extra and won't be ready for a while after the game is released.
The Witcher 3 had a season pass and it surely wasn't short, nor was Dragon Age Inquisition - that didn't sport a season pass and made you purchase all the expansions one by one if you wanted to play them...and many other games with dlc / season passes are perfectly satisfying on their own. We shouldn't generalise imho. I am totally on board with hating shady stuff like Capcom charging for characters that were on disc on day 1 for Street Fighter vs Tekken, or Nintendo having the nerve to release a season pass for Fire Emblem Fates after basically making you purchase 3 games if you wanted the complete experience, but we should totally judge and decide case by case.
How many dollary doos?
Never bought a season pass or DLC without playing the game OR knowing the content of the DLC. Even if I really trust the content will be good (Naughty Dog, you knows I loves you).
Publishers can do it - don't mean we have to buy it. In fact, I personally think people shouldn't do it because there is less incentive for them to make it good if they already have the money.
If they pull any rubbish like making the DLC mandatory for having a complete game experience, then I prob won't buy the game on principle.
@FantasyMeister LOL you win this thread
@FantasyMeister Hopefully Persona 5 will have Pass, Passlao and Passdyne!
But damn your idea was very nice.
@FantasyMeister Haha nice, bringing the thundaga to the comments section takes some curaga.
I'm leaving ff15. Lets be honest it looks terrible with dodgy framerates galore, the gameplay so far has been pants, the characters boring and now splitting off core story components ala ff7s character story segments into dlc. No, no, no. Bad form Squeenix.
What I said before...
How many years and then this. Why would any fan of the franchise have to wait ten years pay full price then pay plenty more for content that didn't take ten years... Huh? Get out.
Apparently a decade wasn't enough time to get everything on the disc.
still got to work my way through the mega content of the fallout 4 season pas first so glad I bought it before price went up. Or I would have felt double robbed
I wasn't that interested to begin with, and well, this just makes it easy;
no buy for me, I'll wait for a sale if reviews are good.
I'll buy World of Final Fantasy instead.
Aren't they confirming that Ignis/Gladio/Prompto do not die (at least before the final boss) by naming DLC episodes after them?
@Sevenifity Assuming you're not joking, that's pretty silly. Entire full priced games like Fable or OoT could be completed 100% in about 20 hours or less. Hell, the original Final Fantasy has an average completion time of 17 hours and that cost the equivalent of $150 in modern money assuming it cost $80 like FFIII on the SNES did. Even if it was the average NES game price of $50 that'd be about $90.
So yeah, please have some context. You're not getting almost 100 hours of game play for about $25 when the original FF gave us just 17 for about $90 to $150.
@Kellanved Could be prequel stories or side stories. Given the focus on Noct as a kid, it might be something similar for them.
It reminds me of how each of the characters in Phantasy Star 2 got a game in the Phantasy Star 2 Text Adventures spin-off series. That includes Nei and she dies less than halfway through the main game.
@Feena It's very nice to read a sensible and mature post like this.
@Matroska Lol I'm not joking, thats what i want.
I mean, why not?
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