Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Will Be Locked Behind Expansion Pass | Push Square
20.03.2024 - 01:24
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Atlus has now confirmed you will need to buy pieces of content you probably don't want if you wish to play the Episode Aigis DLC for Persona 3 Reload, as the expansion is locked behind the £28.99 / $34.99 Expansion Pass. It won't be up for purchase separately, with a PR representative telling Push Square «the three parts of the Expansion Pass will not be available separately, and only available as part of the full pass».
As such, to gain access to Episode Aigis in September, you'll need to buy the complete DLC package, which bundles in a musical track pack and additional costumes. The former launched yesterday and the latter is out in May, then Episode Aigis releases at some point in September 2024. It's generally standard procedure to allow DLC packs be available for purchase outside of a season pass, as was the case at Persona 3 Reload's launch when Atlus dropped a ton of day one DLC. However, that's not happening for Episode Aigis.
In a recent interview with Famitsu, it was claimed that Episode Aigis — which remakes post-game content The Answer from Persona 3 FES — was going to be part of the base game, but Atlus encountered issues during development. «We wanted to make it happen from the first drafts of P3R, as we felt that it would be essential to have the concluding arc if we were remaking Persona 3. Due to various circumstances, however, there were a lot of difficulties which had to be overcome in order to make the remake a reality, with challenges from the outset of the main P3R project.»
However, based on the positive public reception to Persona 3 Reload, the team decided to push ahead on production of the expansion. «Deep down, I couldn’t just give up on it, so even while developing the main story I kept searching for ways to make it happen,» said producer Kazuhisa Wada.
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Just when you begin to think Atlus can't get any more anti-consumer than they already are, you get another revelation to prove you wrong. Unbelievable.
Well, this will go down well
Whole Episode Aigis saga is laughable… it's like they are trying to provoke anger from every single one of their ex-fans. You have to admire the calamity..
Talk about stealing hearts, the irony, Atlus now looking like one of those bosses in P5 who saw people as ATM Machines.
I don't think that counts an expansion pass then, cuz it's just one expansion that they don't give you all at once, since you can't purchase the expansions individually… Pretty scummy move, ngl
This not only put me off from buying the DLC, it put me off