Yakuza: Like a Dragon Charges Just $0.60 for New Game+, But Rises to Nearly $9 in May

This is very bad and it SHOULD be included for free. Charging for new game plus?? What's next, charging me to view the options menu!?

This is baffling. It should be part of the game to begin with, but why charge $0.60 for it? Why not just make it free until May? I really don't get it.

i guess this is part of their new "yakuza direction" aswell?

perhaps a game that locks new game plus behind a paywall deserves to flop.

Damn SEGA goes full greed on that.
I hope this doesn't carry over the international version.

It’s very strange. I mean, I’m totally buying it because I’m a sucker but it’s odd indeed.

This game needs to fail. This outrageous and shouldn’t be tolerated. This Metal Gear DLC save slots bad.

Maybe it's to make money from the second hand sales further down the line. A nominal fee for fans and a big chunk for casuals.

Yakuzas be collecting them protection fees.

@Jaz007 No the game does not need to fail . Just do not pay for it . its hardly going to break the game and most likely the majority of people wont play a second playthrough. Its already a niche franchise over here in the west and games are not exactly cheap to make.

@Jaz007 No, I remember when they wouldn’t even publish Yakuza games over here until about 4 years later so I’d rather the game didn’t fail. We literally only got Yakuza 5 after the PS4 had already launched.

Alright, who did they hire from Konami?

By the time it arrives in the west it better have New Game + ooh i could crush a grape right now .

@Kalvort or save slots........oh WAIT!

@Kalvort
Not that I want to give them ideas but they could go the old skool route and each time you start the game display "insert £1 to play."

Lol, nope for both.

@ShogunRok Cause its 7 Yen, get it? 7Y!!!! GET IT??!??!!?

Reminds me of Konami making gamers pay for an additional save slot in Metal Gear Survive. This is not good 😑

Does that mean by the time it releases in the west, we'll have to pay $19.99?

@Get2thechoppa That is a bit to the extreme comparing having 1 save slot to New Game + . with that kind of comparison why are you accepting of Playstation Plus cause you know if you dont pay for it you are locked out of half a game.

maybe it is a translation error or typo? in either case, hard to get upset anymore after what team ninja has been doing with dead or alive — this is a drop in the bucket by comparison. i have become so jaded about the gaming industry at this point that nothing truly surprises me. getting angry for 5 minutes but continuing to support the game does NOTHING. i know that 99% of those complaining will continue to show support with their wallets so it is hypocritical in all honesty.

That's just greedy, new game+ shouldn't be gated to some dlc

Wonder if this is what we will next gen since Loot boxes are getting banned or near banned. MTs and this will be the new form of extra money coming in

Why bundle New Game + with DLC Items? I don't get it!

Remember when they did this for Super Sonic?

@ArcadeHeroes did you actually read my comment? Im not comparing I said it reminded me.

They could've just made it 60p dearer

@Haruki_NLI they were just testing the waters with that one and look at where we are now with sega.

I honestly did have a lot of respect for sega with how they handled their games but with the way they are going now that is soon to fall real quickly! smdh

@Crazybuttocks198 it is that simple well done that Man/Woman problem solved.

@nessisonett @ArcadeHeroes If niche means this bad of abuse, it's not worth it. Let me also clarify, I'm not talking about a western problem, I'm talking about a Japanese backlash too. I want an even backlash, not a western focused one.

charging for new game+ how awful regardless of the cost

@Jaz007 As I have already said to another person here , if as little as 60c dlc to cover alittle more cost to not only a niche title then by same definition you would want playstation to fail cause you are forced to pay for Playstation Plus. Otherwise you would be locked out playing online which is half a portion of a game . You have to be consistent with your argument .

Bad move and will not purchase a game that charges for a new game plus mode.

7 Yen or 70 Yen?

Because I think 7 yen is 0.065 not 0.65... You also get tons of stuff.

1. Premium New Game (Normal, Hard, and Ex-Hard difficulty options)
2. Super Final Millennium Tower (most difficult dungeon)
3. Newly added PlayStation Network trophies
4. Level-up your job rank to level 99
5. Use weapons forging to upgrade your weapons to “Kiwami”
6. Rare item shop added

7. Special Costume: “Hero” (Kasuga)
8. Special Costume: “Goro Majima Yakuza 0 Ver.” (Nanba)
9. Special Costume: “Kazuma Kiryu Yakuza 0 Ver.” (Adachi)
10. Special Costume: “Joon-gi Han Yakuza 6 Ver.” (Han)
11. Special Costume: “Daigo Dojima” (Tianyou Zhao)
12. Special Costume: “Haruka Sawamura” (Saeko)
13. Special Costume: “Kaoru Sayama” (Eri)

14. On-Hand Lunch Box (x5)
15. Reimen Lunch Box (x5)
16. Special Lunch Box (x5)
17. Eggs (x5)
18. Golden Eggs (x5)
19. Gattsuri Lunch Box (x5)
20. Homestyle Lunchbox (x5)
21. Luxury Kiwami Lunch Box (x5)
22. uyHigh-Quality Eggs (x5)

I never do game+ so not an issue for me. Story is done - I move on.

How is them charging for this any different than charging for cosmetic items or boosts? When I first heard about them charging for New Game+ my first thought was "oh well that doesn't affect me", I never play a game again after I've finished it so any game that has New Game+ never gets touched. I truly feel like people are overreacting about this and not realising that this is no difference than anything else that's being added to a game after the fact or "on disc" content.

Typical Sega, take a good thing and ruin it. RGG didn't help the situation by taking a great brawler and making it turn based nonsense but at least that was a decision by the devs. This is most definitely a publisher's decision and it's a stupid one at that. Interested to see if they pull the same thing in the West how it will effect sales. I already had very, very low interest due to the change in combat system.

It's weird for sure, but companies gonna do what companies do. Still gonna get the game. I can buy a game and NOT get their DLC.

I do that a lot, actually.

Lower the pitchforks and get the collective internet outrage in check. Support the retail version if you want to play this game and don't spend money on silly offerings like this. If it's not profitable it will disappear. Boycotting niche titles for such missteps would be more harmful the long run.

The only real solution that I can see is the formation of some sort of regulatory body that could find this unethical. Gamers will have no effect on this, because we are disgusted by it, and then buy the game anyway. Me included.

isnt 7 yen 6 cent not 60

@nessisonett We actually got it on the PS3 as a digital only release in 2015.