Nippon Ichi expands Disgaea 3 with microtransactions

By Spencer . June 17, 2008 . 11:16am

You may remember at the NIS America press event additional downloadable content was announced for Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. The first upgrade, which gave players access to ten playable gentleman was free. Starting June 27, Nippon Ichi will release one extra content pack per month until January 2009. The list isn’t very specific with dates, but here is the skeleton schedule:

June 2008 - A bonus pack includes in an extra character.

Summer / Fall - A new ranking system will be available.

Winter 2008 – New scenarios will be ready.

Unfortunately, these packs will not be free, but they aren’t expensive either. Nippon Ichi is charging 100 yen per pack when they go live in Japan. NIS America has not announced a schedule or pricing for any downloadable content to date.

Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice is scheduled to come out in North America in August.

Images courtesy of Nippon Ichi.

TAGS: Disgaea, NIS America, Playstation 3

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Zhemos

Oh lord, lets just hope It's not like the Korean MMO's

Justin Bailey

Can't beat that price and it's bound to be more interesting than level grinding the story mode and Item world.

Spencer

@Zhemos - I don't think it will be as Maple Story.

@Justin Bailey - Yeah, the price seems really low. I guess it depends how long these scenarios are. If you're paying 100 yen for each new fight that might be bit much.

TOLLMASTER

I feel a lot better about the 100 yen price--I was really worried that Nippon Ichi would be trying to nickel and dime us, which is, uh, kind of what they're doing still, but it's not as many nickels and dimes as I thought. Wasn't it five bucks for Oblivion's infamous Horse Armor upgrade? One or two bucks for one or two fights and an extra character sounds really reasonable, given the price of everything else out there.

I wish Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad had had these options; I would have loved any excuse to play those games longer.