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outlawauron on 07 August 2016
Hiku said:
JWeinCom said:

You do not understand correctly.  It's not like Sacred Stones where you can actually choose after the first few missions.  

If you buy Birthright, you have Birthright and you have access to that path which is on the cartridge.  Even if you digitally downloaded Fire Emblem, you can only play the path of the version you purchased.

After Chapter 5, you can make your choice, but that choice is limited.  If you bought Birthright, you can only choose Hoshido.  If you bought Conquest, you can only choose Nohr. 

If you really want, you could go to the DLC shop and purchase the other quest before Chapter 5.  If you bought Birthright but you decide you like Nohr better, you can pay an extra 20 bucks and play that one first, but you've still already paid for the Birthright quest. 

So yeah, if you really want to play Conquest when you purchased Birthright you can.  But when one option is locked behind a paywall, I think it's accurate to say you chose at point of sale.  

Are you sure that even the digital download version is locked? I'm sure I've read/been told on numerous occasions that there is a Fire Emblem Fates version where you can chose a side, and the game will lock to it forever, until you buy the second /third version on DLC.
At first I thought that only applied to the digital version, but the person you quoted made it sound like it applied to the cartridges/as well.

Here's a quote from an article I read about a year ago: "When you buy the digital version of the game, you don’t choose a version up front. Rather, when you pick your side, the game locks to that respective version— an interesting way of handling it that I wish could happen on the physical copies as well."
http://kotaku.com/fire-emblem-fates-big-choice-makes-for-great-storytell-1717662370

So that info is innacurate?

If you try to pick the other team, it literally brings up an eShop prompt.



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JWeinCom on 07 August 2016
Hiku said:
JWeinCom said:

I don't know if maybe they're talking about the Japanese release, but I have the US version of Birthright, and I was locked into the choice unless I wanted to pay for the DLC.

Do you have the digital or physical US version of Birthright?

Digital.