The only thing I didn’t like about FE Awakening is that you required some of the DLC of repeatable grind levels in order to successfully complete Ultra-super-duper-nuper hard mode on hardcore mode.

They essentially balanced the game for DLC owners. That's a shitty practice. I am not sure if that is fixed by this DLC practice, but I wouldn’t really care because I’ll be getting the expanded version of the game.

Ugh, I was hoping that this game would have been out before summer so I could really dive into it... but it comes out at the end of July... and I have to go back to work on August 1st...and it doesn’t sound like the support maps dlc will be released immediately... so I will probably hold off playing until then... which means I probably won’t get to really play it until Christmas break because I don’t really have time to play games during the school year... and I don’t like to start games I really like until I have a bunch of free time because I get too distracted... why couldn’t Nintendo have just released this in the spring!

To be perfectly honest, I didn't really have much of a problem with the DLC strategy in Awakening/Fates. Yeah if you're obsessed with getting everything you're gonna have a bad time, but most of the content wasn't that meaningful outside of the AU stories about the kids, who weren't particularly interesting characters anyway. I think I spent about $8 on both, just for the Radiant games fanservice and the Fates prequel story just to make sense of that crazy plot.

Echoes was definitely worse, but still done in the same "salad bar" vein where the story DLC was distinct from the cosmetic and fast-grind stuff, and I didn't feel my experience was lessened by foregoing any of it. Still, $8 for about four hours of side story content was pretty lame.

That being said, having everything in one bundle is much nicer overall, and I'm definitely much more likely to pick up an expansion pass at that price.

Awakening DLC looked terrible so I never even bothered. Only DLC done right by Nintendo in my books was MK8 when you bought the two passes for 20 or whatever.  I believe if you bought MK8 on launch month you got a free download game also.  How I got NSMBU.  Those were the days they were really struggling.

Ive only bought them exp and gold dlcs for both Awakening and Fates. While I bought the special edition of Fates. 

For 3 Houses I will be buying the standard edition and the usual exp and gold dlcs. And I will wait for more info on Wave 2-4 to see if the expansion pass is worth. 

That is what I thought too. But 2 games are saving me until July 26. 

1. A Auto Chess mode on League of Legends called Teamfight tactics recently released. 

2. I bought Planet Coaster which was 75% discount on Steam. 

Both of this games are keeping me busy and both are very enjoyable. 

Yeah... sure my students would enjoy that...

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was insane value. You got all of this extra content across multiple updates in the game; then at the end, and entirely new game on top of it all.

Will Fire Emblem Switch come with that level of content? I’m unsure.

Well Nintendo said that the development team needed a little more time in completing the base game...So that's the reason.

If they needed more time, they needed more time.

Nintendo's generally been pretty good about DLC. But Fire Emblem has always been the weird exception for some reason. So it's good that Three Houses breaks that trend.

It's good to see the change, but I likely won't buy the expansion pass until the content is all released. Bar the Conquest and Revelations campaigns for Fates, I've avoided buying any Fire Emblem DLC precisely because of Nintendo's pricing strategy - so I'm glad to see this change. Hopefully these extras turn out well.