I have just a few questions that hopefully the good people here can answer for me.

1.) How long would you say the main download lasts?

2.) How long would you say each additional chapter lasts?

I am thinking about picking this up tonight and getting started seeing as how the Prologue (Cecil/Kain), Rydia, Edge and Palam portions are already available. Would I get at least 15-20 hours out of all of these?

Uhm.. No.. only if you grind some hours extra... :)
The first pack I finished it around 5-6 hours and the additional tales around 2 hours each... maybe a bit faster..

Whereas conversely, I have gotten easily over 15 hours thus far. Of course, I'm being the completionist right now, and getting all the good stuff from the challenge dungeons, as they will tack the time on for grinding a few more levels.

So this game will end up costing me around $37 and I will be lucky if it lasts me 25 hours?

I will still buy it, but this game should be A LOT cheaper than the rip off price SE set.

SE just continues to disappoint.

Euphoria14 said: So this game will end up costing me around $37 and I will be lucky if it lasts me 25 hours? I will still buy it, but this game should be A LOT cheaper than the rip off price SE set. SE just continues to disappoint.

Yup and the best part? SE probably made all the money back already with the phone version... 

and the challenge dungeons are extra's after you finished a tale/chapter.. I'm too lazy to go back for that...

NiKKoM said: Euphoria14 said: So this game will end up costing me around $37 and I will be lucky if it lasts me 25 hours? I will still buy it, but this game should be A LOT cheaper than the rip off price SE set. SE just continues to disappoint. Yup and the best part? SE probably made all the money back already with the phone version...  and the challenge dungeons are extra's after you finished a tale/chapter.. I'm too lazy to go back for that...

I know they definitely made their money back already, that is why the price pisses me off so much.

Just be glad you don't live in europe... I'm paying €37 for that!!
€37 = $52

:(

How is 25 hours for $37 bad? You'd be lucky to get that much play-time from most full-priced games these days.

My main complaint with "episodic" gaming is most devs haven't figured out that an episode is supposed to be a complete entity in and of itself, with beginning and end, not just a full-sized game cut into bits. It's like a TV mini-series made by taking a movie and just cutting it into semi-arbitrary 20-minute pieces and called them episodes.

You and me may see things differently, but if you ask me if I would pay $37 right now for an almost complete rehash of FFIV with SNES graphics I wouldn't be happy with the idea.

I love the way it looks. I love that it is FFIV. I just do not like the price.

That is also taking into account that this is a cellphone title that has easily made all dev costs back, plus some and they still feel the need to price gouge.