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Originally Posted by Twisted
Limited Run used to say they tell developers to ensure the game is complete before it is on disc..now like this week's release..there running off game runs without add on DLC...which means it's not the complete edition ..so why you gonna have a limited physical edition of the game?..when a complete digital edition download is superior game of the 2?
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That is a excelent point of topic. They changed their policy on this when they began negotiating with Japanese developers.
Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours was LRG's first release that did not include any of the already available DLC. And should be noted that the total regular price to purchase all of the available DLC for this title is presently around $100, crazy!
Also looking ahead, LRG is set to publish several titles that are still either in development and/or localization phases. To publish such a title at launch and assume no errors will be discovered that require patching to resolve or that the publishers will not sneak out some manner of DLC six months after the fact is rather foolish. LRG has been forced to acknowledge this situation. It was one thing when they were releasing games that had already been out for a year or so, another story entirely with new releases.
Cosmic Star Heroine is a great example of a new release with issues to resolve before committing it to a game cartridge. Because Sony will not get off their high horse and make higher capacity game catridges available to developers, the devs are still stuck with having to find ways to put their games on non-compressed 4GB cartridges. Hence why many releases of the last twelve months have had "
optional free audio add-on content" ranging from a couple hundred MegaBytes up to over three GigaBytes of needed memory card space to download, absurd! Or in the case of a certain R3 (SouthEast Asia) Gundam game release, because high-speed internet is not consistantly available across the R3 region, the game comes on two cartridges, a first ever! The first cart of this title being a installation cartridge that requires the user to have a minimum of four GigaBytes available free space on their Vita/PS TV memory card so that catridges' contents to install onto. And, then the second cartridge is the boot cart, and allegedly contains all of the audio and cinematic files for the game. Crazy stuff, but I'm far more accepting of this two-cart setup than needing to download 3GB of data on a day-one game purchase before I can play the game the way it was meant to be experienced.