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Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Free Version Coming May 19 in Japan

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Free Version Coming May 19 in Japan - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 May 2016 / 16,056 Views

Koei Tecmo has announced the free-to-play version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 launches on May 19th in Japan on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

The company also revealed the game has sold 190,000 units at the end of March.

 

 Here is the overview:

Overview

  • Kasumi is the only playable character, and every feature is available except for the Casino.
  • A "Casino Membership" is required to play in the Casino.
  • "Character Rights" for each character are required to play as characters other than Kasumi.
  • You can’t give swimsuit presents to girls you don’t own the Character Rights to.
  • Basic Free Version-exclusive downloadable content needs to be purchased separately for each platform.
  • The bonus swimsuit downloadable content and other swimsuit downloadable content can be shared with the paid version.
  • You can play the paid version using the save data from the Basic Free Version.

Character Rights and Casino Membership Prices

  • Character Rights – 1,200 yen (PS4) / 1,100 yen (PS Vita)
  • Casino Membership – 2,000 yen (PS4) / 2,000 yen (PS Vita)

Thanks Gematsu.

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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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malistix1985 (on 06 May 2016)

This game seems perfect for small 5 minute bursts, no need to pay for that lol

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Ganoncrotch malistix1985 (on 06 May 2016)

5 mins? that is good stamina!

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Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

I really don't like this model of fractured games. F2P is cancer.

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Ruler Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

DoA xtreme 3 has no microtransactions

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@Ruler - well this doesn't change my initial statement whatsoever - this version of the game is still F2P.

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Ruler Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

its not designed to be free to play

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kurasakiichimaru Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

If you don't want this model then why not buy the full game instead. SERIOUSLY, gamer entitlement is not a good look.

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Ganoncrotch Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

offering something for free.... alongside a full paid version... and that is somehow a bad thing? wtf

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Nautilus Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

This is more a demo than anything else

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@kurasakiichimaru I did buy the full version. All I'm saying is that I don't like this model.

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@Ruler From the article - "Koei Tecmo has announced the free-to-play version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3".

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@Ganoncrotch - where did I say that having both versions is a bad thing? I said that I don't like the F2P model and I stand by it.

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@Nautilus I agree, but rather than calling it a demo and offering the option to upgrade they a fragmenting the content and selling it in pieces. They are doing this because people do buy it, but for me it is immersion breaking.

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Ganoncrotch Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

How does it break your immersion when you don't use this model though? When you said you already bought this game... what difference does this make to you at all then, or is it the fact that you might have actually paid full for the game and you're upset that people get to experience what you paid for for free so you call it "cancer"

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Zenos Zenos (on 06 May 2016)

@Ganoncrotch I have played other F2P games before, which is what I base my opinion on. Constantly being reminded that you can purchase X item or character is immersion breaking for me.

It doesn't make a difference to me and I'm not upset that people will get for free what I paid for (because they won't unless they also pay). I was stating that the F2P model is a cancer on gaming because it bore such horrible practices like microtransactions and it is encouraging more developers to cut out content and sell it separately.

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malistix1985 Zenos (on 07 May 2016)

For this game its especially usefull since people can make an asian account, play it for free and decide if they want to import it or not

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spacedelete Zenos (on 07 May 2016)

honestly most AAA games are free to play games at full price so might as well play for free.

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