Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is making the utterly bizarre decision to lock New Game+ behind a $15 upgrade

I don't even do NG+ in these huge games, but now I'm going to skip this one on principle, even though I do like the series. Nope, not going to allow a company to treat me this way.

There will of course be a lot of people who bend over and take it (or even defend it), but I'd rather replay an older title than encourage this shit.

It will probably be free on the pirated version.

bizarre

greedy

fix'd

I was excited for this game but this pisses me off. This is more egregious than when they locked classes behind DLC for Yakuza Like A Dragon (which was also really bad).

I’m sorry Mario, but our princess requires $9.99 to continue our session.

I bought all the Yakuza games when they were crazy on sale, and in their GOTY version. I absolutely loved Like a Dragon and would have considered buying it sooner.

Well, looks like I'll play it in five years when it's on sale.

That's sad because I have loved the Yakuza games. Obvious money grab, and even though I never play NG+, this makes me feel like I won't buy this title.

I don't know how I feel about this.

I feel like either you don't care about this, because a lot of Yakuza fans will just play the game for the story and be done with it.

Or you do care about this and...I guess pirate it because NG+ being locked out seems kindof outrageous

It just doesn't seem like an audience thats going to bring in much money compared to the outrage?

It's not like you can even target streamers cause most don't play NG+

Little did anyone know that the games title was actually a Mission Statement for SEGA.

Only legislation will stop this.

Nothing inside a video game should cost money. Games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games. Developers are being told to invent new forms of bullshit that cost the company nothing and don't feel like the same old lootboxes everyone finally recognized are a scam. It's still just lootboxes. You are being manipulated into throwing unlimited sums of money at a game you already own just so it will function, as a game.

There is no ethical form of that. It's an abuse for free money. You were never going to shop your way out of it. Boycotts don't work, here. So long as they gouge one sucker in ten, your nonparticipation counts for nothing. You will be subject to the restraint, addiction, and frustration that coerced them, until you cough up more money to briefly enjoy the fun version of the game that is being kept from you out of abject greed.

If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Yeah... I already wasn't a fan of where the series was going story and gameplay-wise, now I'm just gonna have to call it here. I think im gonna be taking a looooong break from Like a Dragon/Yakuza. I'm not gonna back this shitty behavior with my money. Even If this turns out to be a fun game, they're saying "Oh, the STORY is 100 hours by itself!" No way in HELL that is all forward progress and gripping tales. These games have fluff and filler in their normal ~20 hour stories. I'd just end up losing track of things and burning out well before any the end of the game.

Bizarre in what sense? People will pay for it and it likely won’t stop anyone from buying the base game. NG+ is for niche players.

It’s scummy and slimy, but who doesn’t expect scummy and slimy at this point?

First the change from brawler to bog standard jrpg combat, now they're pulling shit like this. Yeah, this series is going downhill fast...

No, all the yakuza games have done this for years now. It's not a new decision they made.

Isn't this the longest lad game ever? If it's something only the doe hards are actually going to get to, I could see locking it behind more $