To cut to the chase, the following is the situation.
◆DLC for Chapters 9, 10 and EX-1 will be sold for $1
(Chapter 8 itself will be sold for $25 due to various circumstances, such as not being able to check the terms and conditions in time and the difficulty of lowering the price due to the “compensation for making the main package free”).
◆Instead, “paid content” such as the soundtrack and “completely meaningless skins (skins that players are unlikely to want)” will be sold at a high price.
(This is implemented with the intention of “If you find the DLC interesting, please buy it to support us.”
The fact that it is worthless will be clearly stated on the store page.
The intention of the paid content is to realize a system where “only satisfied players (at their own discretion) pay for the game after it has been played”, and there is absolutely no way that content that affects the game will be sold.
Content related to QoL (game quality of life) and the type of skin content that players want will be implemented in the main package and other content.
To give an example, a dedicated BGM player will appear for the soundtrack, but at the point of sale for the soundtrack, the BGM ogg or mp3 file will be included in the main package.
In other words, “if you want to listen to the BGM, you can get the file for free”, and we have no intention of specifically prohibiting the extraction of BGM, aside from secondary use in the game).
◆The intention of this change is mainly for heavy users of Discord, and is not intended to benefit or advertise to new players.
◆In short, there is nothing in particular that players will lose from this change.
(There may be some people who find it annoying that the store page is full of lists of irrelevant paid items)
I'm not sure how it feels to release this announcement when the next DLC is still at full price, but for now, since the things that are likely to be done have been confirmed,I'll post them while I can.
(The following is a long post, but I'd like to point out in advance that most of it is a reprint of Discord logs, and there is nothing in particular other than the conclusion I wrote above in terms of the main points.
The main point of this article is finished with the above sentence.)
(Due to the character limit on Steam articles, the details are explained on the following page)
http://temporenup.fuyu.gs/tac_20250125.php