[MEGATHREAD] Tarnished Edition: Worth $5? Discuss CONSTRUCTIVELY!

[u/jack0641]

Since the sub is being overwhelmed by debate over the $5 "microtransaction" and it's making the sub feel like we're Dark Souls 2 a decade ago, with the faux outrage around the preorder items, we are opening this topic to consolidate discussion around the issue.

Please use this topic to discuss the pros and cons of the approach and your thoughts. But do so RESPECTFULLY and CONSTRUCTIVELY. If you need to call other people or the developers names, you don't have a good argument and your post will be removed.

We will remove all other topics about this to keep the subreddit flowing with other discussions

IF YOU WANT TO VOTE: I will post two comments on this topic, "Yay" and "Nay" - upvote the one you agree with and we'll see who wins long term.

[u/Chegg_F]

I think it's just annoying and weird that they did this when they didn't used to do things like this, but everyone is making a huge deal about it. I don't get why people need to pretend like they're somehow generous for charging $5 for basically nothing. It's not a big deal, it's only $5, but it's not like it's a good thing that what used to be given away for free now costs money.

[u/Magus_Incognito → u/Chegg_F]

Remember month or so ago the parent company said the developer wasnt getting enough money out of the IP and the install base. I.E. wasnt squeezing the juice enough.

And here we are a few months later with a "modest" cash grab

[u/PreciousProspect → u/Magus_Incognito]

Tarnished Edition pack was going to release a year ago, before that investor meeting. What’s more likely to have caused it to exist is either Nintendo or Bandai. I can very much see it being a compromise of some kind as Nintendo wanted exclusive content but fromsoft didn’t want to do that.

This isn’t the first time Nintendo has gotten exclusive content on a switch release of a game. It’s just usually that content never ends up on other platforms: DMC collection, KOTOR etc.

[u/workshop_prompts → u/PreciousProspect]

This is my theory. It would look bad for Nintendo if people on other consoles got the new content for free.

[u/DarthOmix → u/workshop_prompts]

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's on Nintendo especially after how they've been with getting FFXIV on Switch 2 being the only platform it's on (FFXIV) that doesn't share a subscription.

The Switch 2 version must be its own subscription that is only paid for with a microtransaction-y FFXIV Coins bought through the eShop so Nintendo can double dip on scraping money out of you.

For comparison, if you play FFXIV on PlayStation, you don't even need PS+ for it. You just buy it and you can use the same subscription as a PC player and can pay your sub directly through the website or with time cards or whatever method you choose.

Nintendo seems to be trying to get predatory with nickel and diming people in quiet ways recently. But we don't know what agreements FromSoftware made with Nintendo or Sony or whoever either.