DLC Pricing is a bit wild.

I am starting to hate NIS a lot. At these prices we should be getting the full 81 track OST. It doesn't have Japanese text either.

I am so far behind on the series at this point, due mostly to me waiting for the Crossbell games to launch before going through any more of it. No regrets, though - I've got a ton of good stuff to play now. Picking this up now, in any case, and I'll get to it... err... someday.

I agree that the pricing has never been so much "above the edge of common sense", but i think we now live at a age of huge inflation and apparently "the greed of war".

However, Nihon Falcom i do respect very highly because they has always been very friendly to the PC and DRM free community and so i am willing to support them in any way i can. Actually... NIS (Nippon Ichi Software) as a publisher is not very friendly to the DRM community because their biggest franchise, the Disgaea-series, may never come to GoG, because simply... they do not enjoy the idea.

The reason why all the Legend of Heroes games are on GoG is because Nihon Falcom had the wish for a release on all platforms, so... we are in luck on that matter.

I still hope NIS may become enlightened someday and even providing GoG with their biggest franchise... who knows, never say never.

Anyway, the Legend of Heroes-franchise in my mind is on the same league such as Disgaea and for me it is worth it as good as any cash. However, for NIS so far i do currently feel rather limited sympathy; so indeed, thanks to Nihon Falcom for it to make it happen.

For sure, the 162 CHF i was spending on the "Ultimate version" was the most expensive digital game deal i ever made... and there is not much devs i love enough in order to hand out so much money, but for Nihon Falcom... my heart was saying yes.

I totally agree, for this kind of cash the full soundtrack would have been fair to the buyers, although, i guess this was the decision of NIS and in Japan... i do not enjoy to spell it out, it is actually never the case they ever was handing out full soundtracks... at least i can not remember one single full soundtrack as part of a "ultimate edition". Time to make some change i say... maybe they may at some point change this matter.

I just can say... if people really want a soundtrack, they will get it... no matter how its done. So, it will only hurt the ones that are willing to pay a lot of money.

Anyway, sure it is a great game and i am very happy the series was able to come this far for the english community.

With friendly publishers like these, who needs enemies?

I think, the DLCs will get some price cuts at some point. Still, even with a price cut it is still far from being affordable.

I still have missing DLCs for some of the Legend of Heroes-series because i was not even buying them with a price cut, still waiting for some better deal. This time however, i just had in mind to buy it, because i was "throwing away" cash on more evil matters already. Next time i do expect a full soundtrack at this price tag, else it may be the last time...

I mean, some other publishers are barely any better than this: For example for R-Type Final 2 you had to pay 20 CHF for every single set of stages added and it was a very important part of the game, not a "goodie". I can not remember, in my entire gaming history, that some of the publishers was charging so much for "parts of the game" that are so small. Of course i do enjoy do support them but the price still should somewhat reflect the thing you actually get for it.

Hooray! I've been waiting for this one. :) Hopefully it won't be too long until we hear word on the Western releases for the Calvard games that come after. *shrug* As has been the case since Cold Steel 1, it's all only unnecessary fluff and cheat stuff so I'll happily ignore it once again. Problem solved.

Nah, the price for the complete ("Utimate") edition is this time truly special. I can not remember it was ever that big. For the complete edition of Monstrum Nox, in comparison, i "only" paid 95 CHF. Legend of Heroes IV for example was about half the price for the complete Deluxe Edition. Prices seems to have inflated in general.

Of course we can argue "this is only non required goodies", but we all know very well... for a true fan... and there are many "true fans" at the Legend of Heroes-series. not having a complete game can be a hard cookie to eat.

"80 bucks for cheat DLCs."

Falcom really be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The fact that most sites selling the OST are blocked due to licensing restrictions says it all. NIS told me it's not up to them and I don't believe it esp. when soundtrack sites for it are geoblocking my location to buy it and HDTracks doesn't offer it.
If Japanese text was offered I might still buy it for practice. WHY Japanese text can't be offered I don't understand.


edit: How is that stylish electric car made there doing by the way? I would want to buy it if it was Open Source.

Jeez sure is, it also includes "Pay to alleviate the grind" DLC.

I'm behind on the series anyways, guess I'll take it off the Wishlist. Yeah the gaming Industry is going a bit more down the drain every day.

What exactly does "Launch Week Exclusive" mean? That these items will disappear in a week? Or that they will be sold separately?

[EDIT01] Oh... Ok, thanks.

Instabuy for the game itself, but the Rip-Off DLC can go take a long walk off a short pier.

Yeah ... I think I am going for Deluxe Edition. To not miss on the launch week stuff (which is less on Standard Ed.) and will later add the other two costume sets. Since the other DLC packs are items obtainable ingame (according to the complete set description) I wouldn't miss on content...