Square let us play full price for Final fantasy with XV....An (polished) early access title.

[outlawauron]

Hynad said:

outlawauron said:

This is what has people having bitchfits?! The short-term and mid-term goals are in response to fan feedback, much like Bioware did with Mass Effect 3 except doesn't have any outrage directed at them.

The desire to add other playable characters later on is probably something that they should have done, but you can tell they never wanted to do it. They wanted you to play as Noctis with his 3 friends, but don't really like that with JRPGs apparently (as it's perfectly fine in every WRPG).

I don't see how "People wanted this, so we're going to do it" as an admission of failure or somehow makes the game unfinished.

I don't think they're doing all this just based on gamers feedback. The fact that they're mentioning those plans this quickly after release makes me think they had plans for all this, but had to cut stuff because the higher ups wanted a 2016 release. So they had to focus on the most important aspects and took a gamble with the story parts that were cut, hoping what's left in the game would make sense to most. Tabata mentions that there's already localisation being done for the story elements they have planned. This quickly after release makes it doubtful that they started working on all this based on feedback alone.

Doesn't really mean anything. They're still working on the character episodes which means that there's going to be a lot of localization and dialogue needed anyways. I think they've been hypersenstive to feedback as they even borthered to release a large update to a demo. How many games have a 2.0 update to a demo?