Waldschatten: Do people really want some costumes and a few cheap cheats that bad?
DLC for Legend of Heroes is NOT game content. Sone of the story, no extra characters, just the ability to play dress-up with your waifu and cheese out if you really suck at the game.
So, no, the lack of DLC is not an issue. Falcom DLC is something you buy to support Falcom, not because they do everything possible to force you into it, this is the whole game as is and I've run into one issue in eight hours of play that was related to switching focus between running programs. I've had zero bugs playing this as long as I stayed in game, and it's only bugged out once when I changed windows, likely due to it being done while I was loading a save.
DLC is certainly game content and definitely a
big issue.
These games can take 100 hours or more to beat if you do everything available to do in them. That's an awfully long time. Having cosmetics can add a lot to the fun. I.e. they make it so you don't have to have all your characters look the same as each other because they are all wearing the same uniform (as is the default for most of your characters.
And when you get bored of a look, you can change it, rather than being forced to have everyone wear the same one outfit 24/7 forever (again, which is the default with no DLC).
There's plenty of good reasons why the cosmetic DLCs make for good & very important content in these games.
I do agree with you about the consumable DLCs being cheap cheats which are not good, but those being bad should not be lumped in together with cosmetic DLCs, which are good.
Besides, NISA is a charging a premium, AAA-level price for this game, even though it's not a AAA game. Adding DLC into the price makes it a better value for the dollar,
especially given it's very high AAA-price, combined with it's non-AAA status.
On a different and very concerning note: I've noticed another problem with the CS3 that is being sold on GOG: there is no "Digital Limited Edition" on offer on GOG. On Steam, one of the selling points of that Edition is:
"All Soundtracks and Art Books are available only for a limited time and will not be available for purchase after March 30th, 2020." And the Digital Limited Edition is the
only version that has the full Artbook and the fullest version of the soundtrack, and those items
won't be put up for sale separately, as proven here:
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/991270/extras/TOCS3_Bundles_Updated-616.png?t=1585015452 So, the take-away point is:
Every day that NISA waits before putting the Digital Limited Edition up for sale on GOG, is another precious day
less out of the scant few days that exist before March 30th, that GOG customers are denied any possible chance ever to purchase those things.
And we don't know if those things are even going to be offered to GOG customers at all, which would be quite appalling if they aren't, like for example, if NISA simply never bothered to offer the Digital Limited Edition for sale to GOG customers before March 30, which they might not do.