Shenmue I & II has optional In-game purchases??

[Ganoncrotch]

pokoko said:

Medisti said:

You know, some people have compulsive tendencies completely beyond their control. It's just how their brains are wired. It's nice if you don't, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be measures in place to protect people with that problem. Should we take away the handicap ramps, too?

Should we not allow people to enter Wal-mart without someone there to make sure they don't overspend?  Ramps enable people to do what they could not before, so that's not a good analogy.  This is about disabling people "for their own good," whether they need it or not.

Ganoncrotch said:

It's more a case of this to think about.... did they create new content to buy and add into the game for purchase... or have they cut out portions of the already complete game and now ask a charge for what was complete on the Dreamcast and Original Xbox, knowing Sega and 2018 gaming, my bet would be on the latter moreso than the former.

Designing DLC from the ground up is a lot easier than creating something and then going back inside to splice and rewire.  The "complete game cut into pieces" isn't really practical and hasn't been the way things have worked for awhile.  Different developers have said that it doesn't work that way.  Granted, some Japanese publishers can be backwards but that would still be an assumption.  I'm not going to get angry until I see a reason to get angry.

But you are talking about creating new content for a game which is already a complete package just being ported to new systems, it is far more likely that they would take one of the old missions which took a lot of time and effort and add a method to get around that by paying cash or just remove the original methods of unlocking content altogether and replace it with a paywall instead, especially considering that the original games have unlockables which include arcade versions of older Sega classics which are now more commonly sold as separate games on the eshop/psn rather than gifted to a player for spending a lot of time/effort in a game they've bought.

What I'm saying is this is very likely to be original game content cut out and resold than new content added for extra cash on top of the asking price of the game.