Talk:BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle/@comment-6533159-20180207023814/@comment-25936766-20180223024447

1) Blake was announced as DLC. Not as free DLC, just DLC. 9/10 times, DLC characters in fighting games are not free. Everyone assuming she wasn't free back then was making perfectly-reasonable assumptions.

Besides, if she (and Yang) was going to be free from the start, then that would've been made clear when she was announced, not weeks later.

2) The paid DLC is an issue for 2 reasons:

1st of all: The game is not being sold at half-price. The game's being sold at $49.99, barely 10 dollars below the normal $60. And that's just the base game, in both digital and physical. Each of the 6 character packs costs $4.99 each, for a total of pretty much another $30, while the "complete pack bundle" is sold at $19.99.

And the "Deluxe Digital Edition" is sold at $70, and indeed, it's the game with all the DLC. And this is my source, if you're wondering. So unless games where you live cost $100, they are not selling anything at half-price. Barely even lower than the usual, without counting DLC.

2nd of all: Only the RWBY characters are truly new. Everyone else consists of nothing but slightly-tweaked reused assets from BB, UNIB and P4A. And so far, out of the 25 characters revealed, only 4 of them are made from scratch.

So when the great majority (optimistically 3/4) of the roster consists of reussed assets, selling off half the roster as DLC is not really excuseable.