I think it has to do something with different engine. I'm no 3d expert but if I understand it correctly it does require some tinkering to transfer items between those engines. Personally I don't think it's much of work since mesh and textures should still be usable without any hiccups but considering budget and time restraints it may as well be one of the reasons (aside from low cost DLC content which can be sold full price of course)
yes, as are the sword scabbards on your waist. like for Mitsu's style.
Everything is floaty in this game, moreso than how I remember it being in previous entries. And if it's not floaty, it's bulky.
i understand lol, we see immersion as different things i guess
haha. fair enough.
But in what remote way did someone "manipulate" you into buying the DLC? They told you in very abstract, vague terms what you were going to get, but did tell you exactly how much content there would be, and you chose to buy on those terms. As far as I am concerned, that is 100% on you. You entered into a contract for an amount of content, without specifications as to its style or whether it would be to your taste, and then Namco delivered not just that amount of content to you, but also additional bonuses they never mentioned when initially selling the season pass (something that most of those complaining about the offerings consistently fail to mention). If the exact nature and quality of the items was something that was that important to you to be worth your twenty bucks, there was absolutely nothing preventing you from just waiting to see what the packs would include and then deciding to buy or not at that point.
Absolutely correct--with respect to Dante, we've been down this road on this very thread more than once before. It is by no means a matter of simply cutting and pasting files across versions. Every item added, legacy or novel, requires man hours. It may require a little less in the case of legacy items from more recent games, but the amount of cost in man hours needed to port them is nowhere near zero--especially when the CaS fans expect those items to work perfectly within a complex modeler and front-end editor, and you need look no further than this very page of this very thread to see examples of people expressing such expectations.
I don't see how you've made out even a remotely legitimate argument for how you were "manipulated" into buying anything, old content or no. You entered into a contractual relationship where they promised only a certain amount of items. At no point that I can recall did they ever promise any of us that the items would be new (and I still don't understand why you consider old items as inferior value, for that matter). You decided to purchase under those terms, knowing that the items could be anything. Again, that's on you. No one manipulated you to make that choice instead of waiting to see what the content would look like, if it was so important to you to make that purchase worthwhile--which you easily could have done. Now you have buyer's remorse. Which is understandable, if the items aren't to your taste, but no one put a gun to your head and made you take that gamble. You acted impulsively--no one "manipulated" you.
Sorry, but I just don't buy into your theory of Okubo and a nefarious collection of executives at Namco planning all along to sell you content they know you wouldn't like. They didn't "communicate" what the content if the packs would look like a year and half ago when the DLC first went on pre-order sale because they almost certainly did not know what would be in them. Also, like almost all DLC, no one promised you'd have communication on what was upcoming at any point, beyond what was in the marketplace description, which you based your choice to purchase upon nevertheless.
Which is exactly what you did and exactly why I think your claim of being "manipulated" is super hyperbolic. Now, if you said "I don't think this CaS content was worth what I paid--if I'd known what I know now, I would not have bought it.", that would be a completely understandable position. But you did indeed buy it before knowing exactly what you'd get, and that was your call--your gamble, which you were free to take or not.
Of course you have that freedom, just as the rest of us here have the right to express our own opinions on the transaction and whether it was fair and reasonable with regard to the conduct of the seller. You're the one who entered into an ongoing discussion about that topic--whether you like it or not, your claims of being mistreated by Namco are very much fair game for scrutiny and criticism if you make such an assertion (especially since most of us are in the exact same boat as you and may have different opinions about the fairness factor), just as you criticized a position yourself when you entered the discussion. Freedom of expression is not a one-way street.
By all means--it's as simple as opening a thread. But bear in mind that if you added up all of the people who have ever posted on 8WR over the years, you still wouldn't have one fourth of one percent of the people who bought the most recent game, so. And in reality you're not going to get more than three dozen people voting on that pols with the current traffic here. So as a measure of how many people are satisfied with the product overall, it's about four powers of ten lower than the number of people you would need for statistical reliability. Your methodology would also introduce two biases: 1) we here at this forum are not the usual consumer, but rather a super-engaged and invested sub-portion of the consumer base with heightened expectations, and 2) there is a well known axiom in market research that people are much more willing to complain about a product they found lacking than to make a point of noting that they found a product satisfying.