ARMS will have free DLC charcter, stages, and arms post launch

[SuperNova]

RolStoppable said:

SuperNova said:
With Splatoon it was something born out of neccessity, they pushed that game out unfinished and had to update it for free to make the purchase worth it. It happened to work as a hype and marketing machine for Splatoon, keeping the talk about the game constantly around. It seems like Ninteno reconized that they stumbled onto a marketing goldmine.
ARMS honestly seems pretty complete at launch, so it's extra nice to see them include free updates.

You have that partly wrong. Splatoon was released in a finished state and the content that was made available later was already on the disc.

What you are right about is that the content release model was born out of necessity, because the number of retail releases for the Wii U was abysmal. It wasn't only about building an online community for the game with more control over the balance of weapons, it was also a way to have something new for Wii U for an extended period of time.

I suspect that ARMS' free content updates are also already on the card, although I haven't paid attention to the timing of this updates. If it's like Splatoon and begins within one month of launch, then the content is going to be on the card in a finished state.

I know that the initial few updates with maps/weapons were already on he disk but everthing that released with/after the big August update was actually not, as far as I know. They decided to brdge the game drought+time until the new modes were ready with on disk content.