I'm Not Playing Persona 3 Until You're Done Expanding It

Maybe this is just me. I know that expansions to games are nothing new. And hey, I really🧸 don’t mind them! It’s nice when I’ve completed a game and six months later they say, “Hi, friend! Here comes some more of that game you liked!”. I’m also aware that expansions are an important part of the ballooning cost of game development; you have to m🔯ake your money somewhere and it’s far easier to add to something that already exists than to start over. This is all logical.

But for the love of god, nothing makes me want to stop playing a game more than early expansion announcements. I’m not even talking abo🌼ut ‘expansion passes’ that give a hint of a clue of a promise of future content. Those stress me out, too, but at least they usually don’t treat you like a sucker and announce the content after you’ve already bought the deluxe edition.

I say ‘usually’ because my ass got conned into buying the best version of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 3 Reload only to find they were 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:gonna draw blood fr🙈om the othe🍃r arm too. I haven’t even cracked Persona 3 Reload yet and you’re already asking me for $35 for more content that was in older versions of the game? On top o༒f the cost of a deluxe package? I know I’m stupid for falling for it! But it still sucks!

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In my mind, there is absolutely no reason for me to play a game if you’re already telling me it’s an incღomplete story. None. I’m not going to put 80 hours into Persona 3 Reload now in the hopes I’ll remember everything vital to the plot in six months when they release the real ending for the game. I know that I’m an outlier. I also don’t care. When you do this, you’re basically telling me that your own game isn’t worth completing until later. You’re telling me your game is unfinished.

And, to repeat, this annoyance doesn’t apply to things like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shadow of the Erdtree. Sure, we knew it was coming, but did you notice how 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:FromSoftware didn’t release a trailer for it a few days after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring came out? Did you notice that at no point were we made to feel like we were missing something? I could play the game without worrying that I was ruining it by not waiting for the ‘full’ experience. There’s a difference between expanding a story and holding a piece of it in the air with the promise it’ll be delivered eventually for a lot of money. When a new TV show comes out, the creators don’t rush to the podium to tell everyone that this season is fine, whatever, but next season is when it gets good.

persona 3 reload character wearing headphones — via Atlus

I respect that I’m splitting hairs here. I’m describing some very similar things very differently. Whatever. And a lot of it has to do with how it’s announced and when. When I bought Diablo 4, I knew there would be more Diablo 4 content - but Blizzard didn’t go out of their wayﷺ to explain why Diablo 4 alone would be an incomplete experience without it. The devs didn’t release a story trailer for an expansion the moment the core game booted up. Because, if they did, I’d probably𝔉 have just sat on my ass and waited for a complete experience.

There’s also a difference in the kinds of expansions. If a fighting game gives me 168澳洲幸运5开奖ꦍ网:a schedule of when fun little new guys are jumping in, whatever. That doesn’t affect the entire narrative experience. But announcing entire paid story arcs that won’t be available for months is annoying. Especially, and maybe I’m just mad at Persona 3 Reload here, when that story arc 1๊68澳洲幸运5开奖网:already exists in🍒 the thing you just remade. As other people have said on this site, it’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a trick and a trap and kind of a scam. This isn’t an addition to the experience, it’s the completion of the experience. An expans🀅ion should not be called an expansion if it’s absolutely necessary to e🃏njoy the core experience. And it definitely should not be announced within the first month a game exists.

Of course, there’s the argument that people love director’s cuts of movies. Why not change the ending? Why not add something new? Which, yeah! People do like those! But there’s a reason you rarely hear movie studios announce a director’s cut is coming on the exact same day as the normal film release. Oh, there may be rumblings! But again, there is a difference between ‘there will be more content’ and &🌄lsquo;we are giving the true ending later, so just try to remember what happened and keep your wallet handy’.

When I buy and play a game, I want to know I’m getting the full experience. It’s not fun for me otherwise. It feels like going to a club that makes you pay a cover charge when you get in and pay again when it gets interesting. At the very least, I want to think I’m not getting screwed over. Lie to me by omission for a little while. At least give your own game the courtesy of being able to stand on its own before you nickel and dime everyone by treating iജt like a half-formed baby. Treat your game like it counts, not like it’s half of a game that we’re lucky to sample for the low, low cost of $60. Or, really, $70 for the edition that includes a digital ꧙soundtrack you’ll never play once in your entire corporeal existence. I always fall for that stuff, too.