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On 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (“Geha”) board, a post claiming “something will be announced about Atlas’s RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio on November 8” set the thread ablaze. Since a price revision had just been announced on November 6, posters braced for the same “complete edition” cash-grab seen with Persona 5 Royal and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. Opinions split on whether it would be a simple DLC or a full repackaged “complete edition” forcing fans to buy the game again. In the end, the actual announcement was just a goofy image about teeth, and the reaction was pure anticlimax after all that bracing.
What people said
Mystery
The DLC will probably run about ¥5000 and spark outrage lol
And then next year they'll drop a full packaged complete edition and spark even more outrage lol
If it's complete-edition DLC, that's not as bad
There's always some idiot who buys it anyway, so they'll never stop doing this
It's definitely coming
If a complete edition were coming, there's no way they'd announce it before the Switch 2 version
They'll put out a packaged version next year
PS5 is ending physical discs, so they're bound to do it
11/8: complete edition announced
Wait, is that what's happening?
Got burned by this with Megaten V too — if they pull a complete edition here, I'm never buying an Atlas game within a year of release again
That's been the case ever since Persona 3 Reload
This game falls apart if you get spoiled, so the right move is probably to rush through it, sell it, and wait
There's also a chance it's just DLC
There's nothing wrong with releasing a packaged version by itself
What people call Atlas's 'complete edition racket' is the Persona 5 → Royal method of making you rebuy AND replay the whole thing, you get that?
It's getting criticized because they're releasing it as a packaged version
Zelda, Stellar Blade, FF7, GTA
Big names and heavy hitters are all trending at once right now
This is just riding the wave
There was some creepy weeb on the One Piece thread spamming the name for promotion, but who cares if you bring up Megaten there — One Piece is a mainstream manga
If it's DLC instead of a complete edition, maybe they've finally learned their lesson
But once a complete edition comes out, the standard packaged version becomes worthless
Both Persona 5 and Shin Megami Tensei V standard editions ended up as 1-coin trash (in resale bins)
You really don't get it, do you…
Plenty of other companies sell a DLC bundle package for newcomers too, think about it a little
so plenty get angry when a complete edition comes out as a packaged release
Capcom read that mood and switched to including DLC via a paper voucher instead
Better to just cut them loose
People like you are the minority
Games are assets now, that's the era we're in
Just look at the retro game market and you'll get it
But then they can't sell it at full price
By the way, what did they answer to that question?
Stuff inserted midway is just an excuse to make you rebuy the complete edition
Just like Dragon Quest XI S
Reality: 'Meta-teeth lol' (a pun on Metaphor/メタファー and 歯/teeth)
https://x.com/stud_zero/status/2119082499007713341?a=AQBvRUNgqCjfmczF3R0&s=19
This has gotta be the complete edition
Must've been rough on whoever had to make this
That's so dumb it made me laugh
Huh, this is Kinuta Dental Clinic (a Japanese dental clinic notorious for its relentless ads)
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The wariness toward a “complete edition cash-grab” stems from past precedent: Persona 5 lost resale value once Royal came out, and Shin Megami Tensei V got its own feature-packed complete edition in Vengeance. Because fans couldn’t tell how far to play without risking having to rebuy or restart, the same suspicion resurfaces with every new Atlas release. The thread split over where to draw the line — DLC is tolerable, but a full packaged “complete edition” is not — with reactions differing based on how much weight people put on resale value and games as assets. One post (#57) claimed that at a shareholder meeting, someone asked whether slower-than-expected sales were due to fans holding off in fear of a complete edition; if true, it suggests the company itself may be aware of this customer wariness. In the end, the “tomorrow announcement” turned out to be an unrelated joke about teeth, and the users who had braced hardest ended up the most let down. The episode itself isn’t aimed at disparaging any individual or company — it reads more as a case where frustration with past sales tactics got ahead of itself and came up empty.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Mystery] Something seems to be happening with Metaphor tomorrow.”
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