Persona 5 Royal Review Thread - Current 95 Metacritic / 95 Opencritic

[DonFerrari]

BraLoD said:

Hiku said:

I didn't say it would be impossible on PS4. I even said "if they were to do this".

I'm saying it's probably impractical.
Royal's filesize is about 170% of the original. (My original P5 was 23.11 GB after being installed, while Royal is 38.65 GB).

I think there may be royaltiy stipulations for Sony regarding bandwidth costs for downloads on PSN. But that aside, since there are so many changes that are constant throughout the whole game, that's probably a lot of extra work for someone to figure out a script for how everything should be patched in the correct sequence. The gamefile of P5+DLC should look the same as Royal's gamefile, but someone has to manually program this to work.

Also, this would prevent sales of Royal as a full game, and undermine its DLC price, because the original P5 is so heavily discounted now. It's currently $17 on my PSN store, and I've seen it even lower.
If they set the DLC price with people like myself who bought P5 Day 1 in mind, then those who buy P5 + DLC today will get away with a price that's lower than what Atlus would want.
If they set the DLC price with new players in mind, then people who bought P5 Day 1 would have to pay more for the DLC than what's necessary or ideal.

Either way, no one would buy Royal as a standalone game for $60.
And I imagine Atlus want to sell it for full price for a while. 

If you're concerned about paying full price again, I understand. But you could wait a while and Royal should drop as low as P5 has.

I said I have it on PS4 because you said it would likely not work on PS3.

They have already changed the codes of the original game to update it to Royal, its not a Remake, so the changes they made there should definitely be possible on my file too.

The file size growth has a lot to do with new textures very likely, so I don't see a problem either.

If their profit is the only reason then I don't think its ok.

They are reselling a game from 2016, if people that don't own it want to pay $60 to get it all together its fine, but for us that already did back then its not.

I understand people could go and buy the game for $25 and the DLC for $25 too (as an example) and get Royal for $50 instead of $60, but that is just something that shows their $60 asking price is not justifyable.

I definitely won't buy Royal in the near future if that's my only option, and if you think that's ok, cool, but I think its not.

If someone that supported them from day 1 can get just shooed around if he doesn't think paying $120 on their game is ok (that's what is happening here), then I might just start waiting for their best edition instead of supporting them right away. Lets see if they can do a Royal edition without people buying their base edition before it.

We are not talking about a Remake here. I have that whole game on the same platform their are releasing this "Complete" edition.

This is at least the third time on persona they have done a second release full price, so you should expect they to keep this greedy stance on P6 and forward.

They even jump time on the vanilla versions without allowing you to do anything (like 1 or 2 months on the calendar) just to fit the DLC in that timeframe plus having that additional days for the extra dungeon(s) and relationships.