Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy - Kotaku Comments

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Rebelphoenix83 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:03:36 MDT

@Achenar: Then stop fucking paying for it! Fucking duh!

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

cantbeatmegaman — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:56 MDT

@doobymoo:
Beat me to it. If Namco is really smart, they'll release an Idolmaster on the Wii and milk even more wotas since the Wii has more install base than the 360 in Japan.

cantbeatmegaman

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Foxstar Sixtail — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:47:34 MDT

@ErskinPig: Your completely missing the point. If Nintendo tells devs "We won't allow you to put a game on our service with Microtransactions." then the devs are likely to say "Ohhohoho, rly?" and not release the game on Wiiware.

Nintendo themselves have not released any games so far that have a single microtransaction within them, it's all up to the various third party devs what they do with their games. Use your brain.

Foxstar Sixtail

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

KM91 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:32:18 MDT

@RickyTV: Because people kept asking for it.

KM91

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

doobymoo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:25:20 MDT

I guess they saw all the cash made in Idolmaster and hopped on board. It might work in Japan but I don't know about us stingy folk in the rest of the world.

doobymoo

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Achenar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:13:57 MDT

@tim333: Have you played the newest one? The multiplayer is brilliant fun - boyfriend and I spend half-hour busrides/spaces between classes doing a dungeon together and jumping on each other's heads.
And the singleplayer isn't /bad/, just average.

I'll almost definitely get the original game - but maybe not the addons. That's milking us just that little too much, and my udder hurts already.

Achenar

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

tim333 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:59:40 MDT

I won't buy this, but not because I have some irrational hatred of pay-for DLC, I just have a perfectly rational hatred of games that are not fun, i.e. the Crystal Chronicles series. (zing!)

tim333

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

maiky-nisute — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:49:20 MDT

to be honest i don't think many people will buy this. and neither will I.

maiky-nisute

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Captain Impulse — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:05:34 MDT

@Bishmon: You're bitching about the lack of comments and blaming it on fanboyism? That's a stretch if I've ever heard one.

Captain Impulse

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Bishmon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:50:35 MDT

Only 46 comments about this? Oh, that's right, it's not cool to bash Nintendo or Squeenix. We're supposed to direct all our vitriol at Microsoft and Sony, those money-grubbing bastards.

Bishmon

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:46:49 MDT

@Roto13: Ten years ago there were no downloadable titles for N64, PS1, or Saturn, so this game would never have been made.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Saith17 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:56:57 MDT

I'm not complaining, playing the game as is is usually great, if they want to add more, great to them, and if it interesting, I'll buy it! Otherwise, cool.

@ATimson: That has me relatively interested in what they will do with these new updates planned for Mass Effect. Should be great.

@excel_excel: I thought that too, unless the game only lasts a few hours. then it would make sense, and also not merit purchase.

Saith17

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Captain Internet — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:53 MDT

@TheEngineer: Rocking the Goggles: Actually, its really not that bad here. Some of the people really need to open their eyes--well, A lot of the people do, but my generation is a huge improvement--but overall its not nearly as bad as TV/movies portray it. Its actually really beautiful here too.

Having said that, yes, I am definitely leaving this state before I settle down, but that is mainly so that I can get a real winter with real snow. Also, my vote not being ultimately futile would be nice.

Captain Internet

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Roto13 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:43:01 MDT

Ugh. Ten years ago, the races would have been included with the game.

Roto13

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Ludwig — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:51:36 MDT

O.o you can buy real clothes for 1-3 dolars in brazil .. cheap/ugly ones but I'm sure the online ones are going to be just as ugly hahaha.

Ludwig

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

ATimson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:42:31 MDT

I'm willing to pay for real DLC, like what Bioware offered for Neverwinter Nights. More modules, with new environments and voiceovers? Yes, please!

But apart from maybe Bethesda, nobody seems interested in having their DLC contain, well, content.

ATimson

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

DONNYchiban — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:41:11 MDT

@GhostWhoWalks: I'm with you. Besides, the prices are extremely reasonable.

DONNYchiban

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Rebelphoenix83 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:41:07 MDT

Fucking DLC I hate this fucking generation.

Rebelphoenix83

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

GhostWhoWalks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:45 MDT

I seriously hope this DLC for Crystal Chronicles ends up being a success. It might give Nintendo the motivation to add downloadable content to their other games. Yeah, I know they've already said they weren't planning on adding any more Brawl characters or stages via download, but minds can change.

GhostWhoWalks

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Bunn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:36 MDT

They keep toucihng on the subject of "dungeons" and yet I do not know if we can play against enemies, or if it is just a "build city" thing.

Bunn

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

tme2nsb — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:18:08 MDT

@excel_excel: Wait for the e3 Announcement. TWO big things for the Wii will be announced. And it WON'T be games either. I'll give you a hint. They are two things the 360 has.

tme2nsb

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

NervClaX — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:57:10 MDT

I know I'm in the minority here, but I will never pay for EXTRA content in a game I've already purchased. It's only going to get worse if people keep paying for this crap. You will continue to get incomplete games that are gimped and unsatisfyingly short. I want to pay once for the complete gaming experience. Not keep paying, and paying, and paying, for what the creators held back or hid somewhere in the code on my game disc.

On the other side of the coin, I applaud creators who aren't afraid of user-generated content, especially when it can be shared between users for FREE. Kudos UT3.

NervClaX

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

TrIxX — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:50:26 MDT

I guess I can start collecting my nickels and dimes again. xD

TrIxX

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

ErskinPig — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:49:06 MDT

@Foxstar Sixtail: A burgler who has a cloak of invisibility would be a complete and total idiot if he said "No, I'm not going to be moral or fair and I'm going to use this cloak to take whatever I want from people" Surely YOU'RE smart enough to understand why, correct?

ErskinPig

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Foxstar Sixtail — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:45:04 MDT

@Spartan1308: Nintendo has nothing to do with this. SE are the ones milking your wallet. Pay attention.

@ErskinPig:Nintendo, being market leaders would be complete and total idiots to tell people "No Microtransactions on WiiWare, full game or GTFO." Surely your smart enough to understand why, correct?

@MantisDragon: Proper SD card support would be more viable. Add ons never, ever sell well.

Foxstar Sixtail

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Black-Dog-Howls — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:39:12 MDT

@Sinfjotle: I didn't say anything bad about the gardening.

Fact: I'm a Harvest moon fan.

I just don't think I could handle what seems to be a Civilization/Sim City game from third person perspective with out the crazy stuff that goes along for the ride.

Black-Dog-Howls

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Demaar — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:38:09 MDT

Horse armour all over again. Awesome. I was already hesitant to swallow the $15 price tag, this clinches it.

Demaar

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

ErskinPig — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:37:57 MDT

Nintendo, being market leaders, had a chance to crush this trend. I see they've gone the other way. Sigh.

ErskinPig

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

MantisDragon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:35:34 MDT

Any word if Nintendo proper has gotten its head out of its ass and come to the conclusion a hard drive might be a good idea if WiiWare catches on?

MantisDragon

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Sinfjotle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:35:14 MDT

@Black-Dog-Howls: Don't you dare disrespect gardening! Bitch about the grinding, complain about the stupid economy, and all those, but gardening is a good system...

Except that it takes a month to do it. ; ;

Sinfjotle

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Sinfjotle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:34:19 MDT

Apparently SE's crappy version of DLC reflects on Nintendo!

Sinfjotle

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Black-Dog-Howls — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:30:43 MDT

Welcome to chibi FFXI, with 100% less grinding and lfg, and 200% more gardening.

Black-Dog-Howls

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Waka in Japan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:30:15 MDT

And here you guys said it was expensive.
Wait till you add all up. hehehe

Waka in Japan

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Spartan1308™ — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:18:38 MDT

Great. Nintendo finally decides to use the internet, but they choose the worst part of what the other consoles are doing w/it.

Spartan1308™

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

N15PCA — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:16:43 MDT

Why can't they do this with SSBB.

N15PCA

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

daizyujin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:08:28 MDT

@Chef: Which is tantamount to fraud. Seriously people, don't buy into this, DLC is never worth it. You never get nearly your money's worth out of it. Vote with your wallet, don't buy shells. Do you honestly think that when a game like Ace Combat 6 comes out with dlc on day of release that you are getting a good deal? You are being stolen from. Open your eyes people.

daizyujin

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

t0yrobo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:59:45 MDT

It depends how it works out. If I buy the game and essentially play it all the way through, and then can add on a few more hours worth for $10 that'd be ok. I'm still in wait and see mode on this one.

t0yrobo

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Chef — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:59:13 MDT

Well, if they're following the 360's lead, all the content will already be in the downloaded game, just locked off.

Chef

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

uranutan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:56:30 MDT

So I guess Nintendo is going in the "rip their customers off" direction with this one.

uranutan

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Kyle81 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:55:08 MDT

@ThisCharmingMan: Dungeons you don't get to go into. The dungeons and stuff you buy, does not allow you to play in. You send people to the dungeon. You spend the whole game building your city.

Kyle81

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

ThisCharmingMan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:51:46 MDT

@TRT-X: Yeah but who knows man, they could be selling a $15 gimped game, and once you're immersed, they charge you a few bucks to unlock new dungeons and what not...before you know it, you've shelled out $50 for a Wii Ware title.

ThisCharmingMan

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Superstar90 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:40 MDT

I'd rather not buy the nasty ugly little baby looking people. Don't know what they're called in the series, but the one in FF:CC Ring of Fates (Meeth) is so ugly and adds an "i" to the end of everything she says. It's so... blargh. God I hate them!

Superstar90

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

excel_excel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:39:21 MDT

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": cool thanks.
Must be some major compression going on there!

excel_excel

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Nirolak — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:39:00 MDT

I really hope Square doesn't apply their pay $1-$3 per race or outfit to FFXIII.

Nirolak

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:36:37 MDT

@excel_excel: It's like 50MB. (200 blocks.)

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Knotan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:35:51 MDT

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": thank you mate :) im still studying. Going back to school in japan in 5 days.

Knotan

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

The Vampire Raziel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:03 MDT

hmmm no thanks no thanks.

The Vampire Raziel

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

TheEngineer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:20:23 MDT

@Afore Notation:
I'm so sorry.

TheEngineer

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

excel_excel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:56 MDT

Looks lurvly though!!@Hion: Agreed!! now how the FUCK is it going to fit on the wii's measly 512mb harddrive??

excel_excel

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:20 MDT

@Knotan: “It's wonderful to wake up to the smell of delicious freshly-baked bread every morning.”
If we want to split hairs, the bread only seems delicious (based on the smell).

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Hion — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:13:21 MDT

I'm sure it's been said before, but gosh this game is pretty for a downloadable title.

Hion

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

eternalplayer2345 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:38 MDT

I was all excited about Wii DLC but if it's just this stuff i'm extremely disappointed. I hope pay and play gets better or else we may have to just refer to it as play and pay and play for 5 minutes then pay and pay and pay and play till you get to where you need a sword and pay and pay.

eternalplayer2345

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Captain Internet — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:11:41 MDT

I live in Alabama, thus this is appropriate.

Captain Internet

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Knotan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:10:57 MDT

im still studying japanese. but the text is something like... everymorning there is delicious yakitatePan. grilled bread.? uhm. help me out fellow "japanese" ^-^

Knotan

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

Polywhirl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:10:35 MDT

Wheee! We get to get nickled and dimed-again! $3 for a new skin? Man, that's absurd. My guess at a final price is $37.

Polywhirl

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

RickyTV — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:51 MDT

Why do I have to pay to pay for more things?

RickyTV

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

TRT-X — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:49 MDT

1-3 bucks for DLC? Sounds about right comparred to XBL. Now it's just a matter of how MUCH you get for your 1-3 bucks.

TRT-X

Square Enix's WiiWare Microtransactions Let You Buy More Races, Outfits, Joy

namesRhard — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:36 MDT

If I have to go down to the shop to buy wii points for a new costume, I may aswell just buy real clothes...
It does give that 200 wii points I always seem to have left over a purpose though

namesRhard