@Sal Romano:
Just being overly cautious I guess :3 Better safe than sorry!

@FaithlessMr: It’s perfectly fine to post links to other websites. =P

Would be kind of weird if it wasn’t, no?

@chinglee:
Sorry, it turns out it was Toryama who said it, not Kitase. I’ll just copypaste what he said regarding DLC (and the fact that the DLC does was not to include any new story segments:

“Download Content

The game’s DLC is being worked on by a separate team consisting of younger staff. This team is separate from the team that’s working on the overseas version of the game.

The first DLC will be the boss monster Omega (details here). In general, the game’s monster DLC will consist of boss fights that you fight at a colosseum, an area that can’t be entered in the main game. If you crystalize the DLC boss, you can make it into a party member and take it out from the colosseum with you.

In addition to monsters, the game will include non-monster enemies as well. While Omega is the first DLC, Toriyama is hoping to release costumes for Serah and Noel quickly. He’s also hoping to release large scale content, as well as content that brings changes to the Historia Crux.

The current plan is to release download content through Spring of next year at a pace of once every two weeks. Toriyama would not share final DLC pricing, only saying that it’s currently under investigation.

The DLC will not affect Trophies or the story, Toriyama assured. These areas can be completed with the disc on its own.

Many of the initial pieces of DLC are actually in the form of retailer specific pre-order bonuses. Square Enix has announced all the pre-order bonus items they’re going to announce, Toriyama confirmed, so you can probably decide where you want to buy the game now. There’s currently no plan to release the pre-order items separately.”

Here’s the source (I believe it’s okay to post links to other websites?) http://andriasang.com/comz1o/

That’s why I felt somewhat outraged at the possibility of this being story or episodic DLC, when we were promised that all DLC would not have to do with story. There’s ofc a chance this has been mistranslated, but…I also read that elsewhere.

And this was posted on the 22nd of November, 2011, which is more recent than the GameInformer report, from July :P

@FaithlessMr:
Sorry,thought I hit the reply button, bro…..or got mixed up with GT forums or something XD

You did? Well I can say that I follow the game very closely and believe I read most if not all XIII-2 related articles/news/interviews and such and I can’t say I’ve read a single one that shows the devs saying that they will ONLY(sorry for using caps, dunno how to bold letters on this site)release DLC that will be stuff like Weapons, skins and monsters. Maybe only pre-order bonus DLC but not DLC after the release of the game is what will not be story DLC, is what they meant?

Besides, they mentioned that they will have story related DLC way more than 2 weeks ago so you can’t really say they lied but I can see that since you missed that Gameinformer article stating that there will be such type of DLC, that you’d be annoyed with the devs and thought that they did lie.

I do hope that I am correct about Sazh’s involvement in the sequel, Sazh is too aweome to be a piece of DLC D:

@chinglee:
Hey dude. I suggest that you hit the reply button if you plan on having me reply back because like this I don’t get any notification in my mail box and I wouldn’t know someone answered me back in here, unless per chance I decide to read up on some of the new comments (which I seldom do, tbh).

Anyway, I read Kitase mention like one week ago? Perhaps two, that the DLC for the game would not be story related. The only type of DLC he said we were to expect would then be weapons, skins and monsters for the battle arena. I’m okay with that.

I’m not okay with having to pay to have one of the cast members from the original game back, when all the others are on it. It would be nice if your theory was correct, but I hardly see him as a “Monster” we could use in the party. Would be nice if true tho.

@zerolegacy0:

thats not exactly news to me but i can’t say that Famitsu has ever failed me. they very likely exaggerate on purpose but i’ve never felt i was misled, simple as that.

I mean it’s not about their “honesty” compared to the western press, it’s all about the perspective they give from the japanese market point of view and when it comes to japanese games, i value it greatly

That said, i read above you canceled your preorder, why is that ?

@Gaara D. Dragon: Really because in Japan Famitsu is notorious for being paid off by game companies. Take a read of this post by a guy that works with Famitsu employees on a weekly basis. I think you’ll find that they are not being entirely honest in their reviews.

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=476

@Chaos Raiden:

lol, I can’t believe anyone pays attention to Famitsu’s scores for videogames. They’re probably the worst offender of “boosting” undeserving videogames scores.

Dengeki and Famitsu are my most trusted reviewing sources when it comes to japanese games.

Any doubts are gone, certain purchase this one.

That was from a Gameinformer magazine Issue 219 July 2011.

After that they announced they type of DLC that you mention, Faithless.

Also, because it’s Sazh DLC doesn’t mean it’s 100% story related. He could simply be a recruit-able “monster”. One way this could work is like the Omega Boss DLC: You fight him in the Arena and if you win you obtain him.

What would annoy me is if Sazh is not even shown in the game itself .

Guess it’s my fault for actually believing that guy lol.

Hopefully the PS3 ver has optional install, although really, since the loading times are somewhat long only when changing timelines in the Historia Crux, it’s not such a big deal.

About Sazh DLC: As long as Sazh makes some appearances in the games story segments and the DLC is just basically being able to recruit him into your party(kinda like monsters) then I am completely fine with that as long as the price for Sazh is reasonable ;)

Ummm…the score: Not much to say since they basically just gave it a grade and the full review isn’t out. I want to know what they thought about the game.

EDIT: *reads through comments* Good lord there are some really childish oafs here -__-

@zerolegacy0: ._.

I am curious to see what score Famitsu will give. I am very surprised if they give the game score higher than 34/40.

@whiteferrero: Yeah. The way SE frames their DLCs is downright obvious. Before the actual game? Lol. It’s just like Capcom with their unlimited prefixes/suffixes in their fighting games. And then re-release a collection..and then people buy it again. Good thing I won’t. Enjoy playing this guys. I’ll just enjoy my Trails in the Sky, Tales of Graces: F, and Ni No Kuni, tyvm. :D

@abful: My arse FF 13 was terrible. Fanboys will ALWAYS complain no matter what.