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NEWS: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Game's Trailer Highlights Goku, Vegeta's Rivalry

The unfortunate thing about this game... as with all fighting games in the modern era... is that it will likely be plagued with season pass content, as well as other forms of micro transactions for costumes and whatnot. This is the sole reason I quit buying fighting games, the only exceptions are in cases where they release some form of "ultimate edition" that has all the DLC every released for the game. Seeing as how Fighter Z never did this, I doubt this will either. So as good as it looks, I'll have to pass.

The unfortunate thing about this game... as with all fighting games in the modern era... is that it will likely be plagued with season pass content, as well as other forms of micro transactions for costumes and whatnot. This is the sole reason I quit buying fighting games, the only exceptions are in cases where they release some form of "ultimate edition" that has all the DLC every released for the game. Seeing as how Fighter Z never did this, I doubt this will either. So as good as it looks, I'll have to pass.

I think I counted 4 Gokus already in base form

Microtransactions and skins (if they are in the game) are optional. No one forces you to buy them. It‘s sad that you base you decision with just this little aspect that hasn‘t even been confirmed.

Games nowadays cost much, much more to make than years ago.

And what‘s the harm with Season Passes?

Microtransactions and skins (if they are in the game) are optional. No one forces you to buy them. It‘s sad that you base you decision with just this little aspect that hasn‘t even been confirmed.

KiboEM wrote:

And what‘s the harm with Season Passes? Microtransactions and skins (if they are in the game) are optional. No one forces you to buy them. It‘s sad that you base you decision with just this little aspect that hasn‘t even been confirmed.

LOL, first off, name me a AAA fighter that's been released in the last 10 years, that hasn't contained any of those things?!

So call me old school (I'm on the cusp of 40), but part of the problem with season passes for me, lie in how much they de-value the base game. For instance, lets take Tekken 7 as an example. If I'm a child and my parents bought me the base game for $70 plus tax, and later on we end up with 4 season passes worth of additional content somewhere down the line. First off, there's no guarantee that my parents can afford to pay for additional content, second you have now lowered the value of the base game by requiring me (or my parents) to incur more cost in order to keep my roster on a level playing field with anyone else that I would be playing against online. I mean after all, you couldn't really call it a fair game, if others have access to a larger roster of characters than I do, just because they happen to have enough wealth to keep paying the developer for more content.

I miss the days where if devs had ideas for more content or improvements to a game, they would save it for a sequel! By sticking to this rule, you keep all the players on a level playing field. Using this model, the only impediment to being able to to play the game, is one simply being able to afford the base game, and not requiring you to be able to afford that and who knows how many additional season passes that are released after the fact, like it is today.

I think the 7th gen consoles (360, PS3) utilized the online component in a more reserved/justified manner then current generations do. During the 7th generation, the online component was used to compliment games, with things like bug fix patches, demos, online gameplay with friends or family, or to simply give someone the flexibility to download the game in full if they didn't want to bother to travel to a store to pick up a physical copy. Fast forward to today, and while the online component is still used for those things, it's also used to exploit gamers with endless amounts of paid DLC, in the form of microtransactions, season passes, skins, etc, and a lot of games are only available digitally now instead of serving as a compliment to a physical release. I know there were some games during the 7th gen that did these same things, but they were much fewer in number.

I don't have a problem with free DLC (like GoW Ragnarok, Valhalla), as this offers additional value, and proves that you're not trying to nickel and dime the players who already paid for the game. This is usually the result of content that was already developed for the game, but cut from the final release for some reason. However, I also realize that developing unplanned additional content cost time and thus money, and it's unreasonable to expect devs to work on something and not get paid for it. So in cases where they can't offer the DLC for free, I would prefer they save it for a sequel.

TLDR, in short, I see the industry shifting more towards tactics that benefit the companies, and not the players, and I think one of the best ways to fight something you don't agree with is by using your wallet!

I for one think the game should be completely free and the devs should support it with additional content for at least 5 years with no financial compensation. For the fans. For the passion. For the exposure!

I mean after all, you couldn't really call it a fair game, if others have access to a larger roster of characters than I do,

I miss the days where if devs had ideas for more content or improvements to a game, they would save it for a sequel!

By sticking to this rule, you keep all the players on a level playing field. Using this model, the only impediment to being able to to play the game, is one simply being able to afford the base game, and not requiring you to be able to afford that and who knows how many additional season passes that are released after the fact, like it is today.

If it is going with treating things like Super Saiyan as a separate character, then I'll probably pass. That is something that has always bugged me when it happens in a DB game. I can see it for certain characters, like Cell since his forms weren't something triggered at will, but for the Saiyans, it just feels like padding. Not to mention, I've always like being able to choose if I use it mid-fight.