PierceLee
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FF XV us$60 + Season Pass us$25 + royal pack us$15 = FF XV Royal Edition us$50
Well done Square Enix on screwing your fans that bought the game on day 1 or pre-order, without even waiting for reviews. I understand that a game depreciates in price, later bundles will always be cheaper with more contents, buy on day 1 enjoy on day 1. But the fact is even if you buy royal edition today, it is still not complete, there are more DLCs to come (not included in season pass, need to pay more).
The problem with DLCs (including those individual character DLCs already out) is that it's months after you played the base game, you already moved on to many other games, you forgot how to fight and all the details and tricks you learned before. It's hard to go back into the game again every time there is a new DLC, even if you want to.
And in order to get the fuller picture (and I mean to just understand the basics of the story), you not just need the game, you need to watch the movie first, and also the 4 episode anime (at least these episodes are free). (To be honest, the whole story is crap anyway, there's no need to bother, just play and enjoy the open world part of the game.)
Seriously they should have just released the first half of the game (till chapter 8, but with the big story gaps filled back in instead of being character DLCs) at us$50. Then go make the proper second half (with real open worlds, not the linear crap) and call it XV-2, selling at us$50 two years later. This whole "game as a service" strategy that SE is taking, where they sell a game and keep add to it (for a fee of cos), hoping that players will stay in their game forever, it's just total nonsense. Go back to making complete games, then move on to the next complete game, and the next. I'd rather be playing FF XX now than getting stuck in a forever growing (but still incomplete, and not worth completing anyway) FF XV.
The only FF XV worth the money is "FF XV: A King's Tale". It's a side-scrolling beat 'em up that tells the story of Noctis' father and his gang (yep, yet another separate piece you need to complete the puzzle). Whether it's worth your time is a different matter (it's an ok game, not very good) but at least the price is right... at FREE dollars.
Well done Square Enix on screwing your fans that bought the game on day 1 or pre-order, without even waiting for reviews. I understand that a game depreciates in price, later bundles will always be cheaper with more contents, buy on day 1 enjoy on day 1. But the fact is even if you buy royal edition today, it is still not complete, there are more DLCs to come (not included in season pass, need to pay more).
The problem with DLCs (including those individual character DLCs already out) is that it's months after you played the base game, you already moved on to many other games, you forgot how to fight and all the details and tricks you learned before. It's hard to go back into the game again every time there is a new DLC, even if you want to.
And in order to get the fuller picture (and I mean to just understand the basics of the story), you not just need the game, you need to watch the movie first, and also the 4 episode anime (at least these episodes are free). (To be honest, the whole story is crap anyway, there's no need to bother, just play and enjoy the open world part of the game.)
Seriously they should have just released the first half of the game (till chapter 8, but with the big story gaps filled back in instead of being character DLCs) at us$50. Then go make the proper second half (with real open worlds, not the linear crap) and call it XV-2, selling at us$50 two years later. This whole "game as a service" strategy that SE is taking, where they sell a game and keep add to it (for a fee of cos), hoping that players will stay in their game forever, it's just total nonsense. Go back to making complete games, then move on to the next complete game, and the next. I'd rather be playing FF XX now than getting stuck in a forever growing (but still incomplete, and not worth completing anyway) FF XV.
The only FF XV worth the money is "FF XV: A King's Tale". It's a side-scrolling beat 'em up that tells the story of Noctis' father and his gang (yep, yet another separate piece you need to complete the puzzle). Whether it's worth your time is a different matter (it's an ok game, not very good) but at least the price is right... at FREE dollars.
... $475 with 2 controller, if anyone else got buddy bundle reccommedation, pm me, i can join you. 
