Fire Emblem Warriors Season Pass DLC Will Include Plenty of Familiar Faces

Never heard of any of them..

I was hoping for a surprise or two from some older Fire Emblem games, like they did with Lyn and Celica, but nope. Here's hoping this isn't the last of the DLC.

If the first pack is as soon as December this is probably finished content......ugh. I like DLC but not when its fairly obvious that it is just withheld content.....

Koei - "What's a Roy? What's a Ike?"

Wanna see dat Azura

I was hoping that Oboro, Niles, Owain and Navarre would have just been added in an update seeming as they already feature in the game.

Azura, Tharja and Olivia should be fun though!

No issues here. Still hoping other games get some well-deserved representation through DLC or a sequel, though!

@Kimyonaakuma
Wait, so they are in the game, but you can't play them? That's ridiculous.. I don't mind DLC, but this is just absurd.

And with this DLC there still won't be a playable assassin or general, oh and you know four of those characters already have models in the game. (And it doesn't help that they are likely clones of existing characters) I'm surprised that they don't throw the villains in there to because wouldn't it be cool to get 4 characters per pack instead of 3?...Right guys?...Right?

At least Olivia and Minerva will be cool.

"Here's a list of all the finished characters deliberately held back from the game..."

Seriously, having characters that are already in the game, but you have to pay to play as them is disgusting. This coupled with the fact that they already know the complete packs demonstrates to me that the DLC is finished, but is being held back artificially. Tecmo, Intelligent Systems, and Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves.

@Saego I've seen all of them in cutscenes and some of them fight in certain missions.

It seems unfair that we'll have to wait until next year for some of these characters when they already work in the game. They already have 2 out of 3 characters ready for December! It's a wasted opportunity...

@MarcelRguez Cia, Volga and Wizzro are villains though. There's still a chance that they'll include the game's villains for free and maybe add an FE equivalent to Cia's story.
Darios also seems like he'll arrive in an update but it will just be another sword user...

I still don't get why the season pass wasn't in any collector's edition.
I hope Tharja's moveset is nice, at least.

You had me at Tharja, sold.

Buhahahahaha all the characters ppl wanted are in the DLC. Nintendo slowly but surely catching up with industry practices.

@RainbowGazelle "This coupled with the fact that they already know the complete packs demonstrates to me that the DLC is finished, but is being held back artificially."
That they already know the complete packs only proves that they have PLANNED them, which seems pretty sensible on their part. There's a long road between planning and completing development, and they could be anywhere between those two points.

I was hoping of something different. The description of the DLC kinda hinted that other characters could show up but I guess that isn't happening. I don't understand why just one character from each older title can't show up as DLC. And no Donnel? For real?

Fantastic game, season pass got. Love all the characters. Love the Dlc support. So! Sorry gone into this game. Well earned!

@GoldenGamer88

Hope for a sequal myself. FE franchise got enought characters to justify a sequel when the first game sells well enough

@MarcelRguez True, but even if they were already playable people would complain that it's wasted space due to Fates and Awakening being overrepresented. I'm not sure if they play a big part in the story but they probably won't, they are not major characters.
KT should have just kept the characters to themselves. I'm sure that some of the other DLC characters are playable already.

@JJ286 *KoeiTecmo
Nintendo didn't develop it, nor did they publish it.
The game is developed by OmegaForce and TeamNinja and published by KoeiTecmo which offered DLC since the dawn of time...

If you want to blame folks, at least blame the right ones ^^

Koei - "What do you mean by "games before Awakening" ? "

are they thinking of doing a sequel? because they ignored the most popular characters.
Why focus on 3 games only?
some people told me too that the game has a big bunch of clones...
and according to some posts here some of this dlc characters were already in the game?

this is disgusting, if I had the money I wouldn't buy this, even when I like musou games and fe.

i remember buying the season pass for Hyrule Warriors, then they brought out more DLC which was not count in the season pass, they can piss off.

Wouldnt mind having pics of these characters as I only know Tharja, and for as much as I like her I don't see me paying so much as she is DLC.

@MarcelRguez No matter what they did there would have been complaints.
If they were playable at release people would complain that they were a waste of space, they aren't playable now and people are complaining. Even if they didn't feature in the game but were in the files then people would have found out.

If they at least kept them a secret there would have been less problems, it's just a bad move on their part. But they're a business, they know what they're doing. Azura and Tharja have enough fans to make them a selling point for the season pass. We might complain on here but lots of us and others will still buy the game and DLC anyway. The business plan has worked for them for years no matter how shady it is.

Where is Micaiah, IKE, Soothe, Alm ?

@Hobbesyall Alm is the most unacceptable omission. Not only is his equivalent, Celica, playable, but Echoes is the newest Fire Emblem game, so it's fresh in everyone's mind and it would've been great synergy and cross-promotion to include more elements from that game.

@MarcelRguez They already said that they were focusing on only three games and possibly add older characters in a sequel, so I didn't consider that option.

I'd rather they just stayed with those three games, I was excited when Hyrule Warriors added new characters but was disappointed when there weren't any themed levels and stages included.
It would just be a waste if include characters like Roy and Ike but didn't add more story content, I'd rather wait and see them include older characters in a sequel or expansion.

The Fire Emblem fanbase is really divided and nobody was realistically going to be completely satisfied with the game or DLC. The strangest part is that Lyn and Celica feature but nothing else related to their games do.

@thesilverbrick couldn't agree more but they could include a wide range of characthers from every game, look at hyrule warriors, they even got that weird girl from link's awakening what the heck

@santaglause the season pass covered what it said it would cover.

The second season of dlc was just that, a second season.

Nice, new story mode additions!

@Einherjar bla bla...is still Nintendo's franchise.

So the game has content from Awakening, Shadow Dragon, and Fates, and the DLC packs have content from Awakening, Shadow Dragon, and Fates.

I like all of the characters included in this pack, though I hope in the future they represent more Fire Emblem games. It'd be cool getting a second season of DLC with packs based on Shadows of Valentia, New Mystery of the Emblem, and The Blazing Blade. They'll most likely save The Binding Blade and Tellius for a sequel.

I love Fire Emblem but when I see Navarre all I think of is Shin Megami Tensei

Good selection, I'm sure to take it. I'd have loved Charlotte for the Fates DLC... She's my favorite character from the whole franchise now... Oh well...

@Hobbesyall Might be part of the circumstances surrounding the series themselves. Zelda has always had more worldwide appeal vs Fire Emblem's more Japanese centric themes.

I wouldn't be surprised if that heavily impacted the character choices made for Fire Emblem Warriors (which is based around two very Japanese IPs).

Withheld content, and overpriced at that. Glad I didn't buy this game, but it was kind of obvious they would do this from the outset.

Would have much preferred Gaius or Panne in the Awakening DLC, over Olivia to be honest, but at least the Shadow Dragon choices seem pretty solid coming from a guy who didn't play much of that game

I would be much happier if the entire game featured only characters from Shadow Dragon and Radiant Dawn, but refusing to buy it simply because it doesn't feature your favorite character(s) seems weird to me. How does it change the gameplay? How does it make it less fun? Would you refuse to purchase a Madden game because it doesn't include your favorite legend player? A Smash Bros. game because it doesn't it pulled the wrong Final Fantasy character? I'm genuinely curious.

What a disappointment. No characters from outside the 3 core games included. That was something at least Hyrule Warriors got right. It seems like Koei was content just to milk newer fans while offering older fans almost nothing in return. This really was a missed opportunity to introduce newer players to older characters/games alla smash bros. Instead KT chooses the safest most predictable option

What also sucks is that some of those characters are already in game. It's similar to why people are mad about dlc in Marvel vs Capcom Infinite. A bunch of characters that are in game already are locked behind a dlc paywall.

@JJ286 So, you have no clue how licensing contracts work then ?
Is Eiichirō Oda to blame for the DLC politics of Pirate Warriors ? Or is Xenoverse 2's DLC politics to blame on Toei Animation ?

The only indirect involvement Nintendo had was through Masahiro Higuchi, producer at Intelligent Systems who acted as a supervisor on Fire Emblem Warriors.

As with Hyrule Warriors, Nintendo gave Koei free creative liberty over the licensed IP. So, yes, its Nintendos IP, no, it is not their game.

@Einherjar Is still Fire Emblem. Plus Nintendo aren't any better. Look at Shadows of Valentia or BotW for example. Hard mode as dlc?

Soon it will bring loot boxes and microtransactions. Gaming practices are very bad right now.

@JJ286 "Is still Fire Emblem" that has nothing to do with anything, really. It is not a Nintendo game, is merely based around a licensed Nintendo IP.

And im torn on BotW's DLC actually.
While i fully understand why Hard Mode wasn't in the base game (The balancing is iffy as is, probably took some extra night shifts to pull off a playable hard revision) it should have been a free update. The season pass could have then been passed with some more armor sets and silly gimmicks to make up for that.

So yeah, even though the BotW DLC left something to be desired, overall, Nintendo's overall DLC policies aren't nearly as bad as some of their competitors. If you look at Mario Kart 8 for instance, you basically doubled the content for a fraction of the original price. I can't say anything about FE Echoes though, i actually don't care about the main series at all :/ So i never looked into it.

@JJ286

What a childish response to someone trying to educate you. Einherjar wasted his/her effort on the likes of you. Nothing wrong with making a mistake, you could have showed some maturity and just said "Thanks, I'll remember that".

Anyway, I think it's kinda obvious they withheld popular characters for DLC. Tharja? Azura? Yeah. Not exactly subtle. That said, it's up to consumers to speak with their wallets. If you're fine with this practice, buy it. If not, then don't. I myself don't approve of it and have no intention to buy the game at retail value. Maybe if it goes on sale or something.

I will probably wait for a while. I want to see how I like the game before I dive into a season pass.

@Kochambra And I think we all know where that point is.

@RainbowGazelle Oh, I'm sure you're totally determined to believe whatever you've decided is true, no matter whether there's any proof or not.

Withheld content being sold as DLC near launch... Well, New 3DS owners with a modded console could just buy the game but pirate the DLC when the time comes... It's not like the devs of large companies like Nintendo directly get money from DLC purchases, it goes into company/executive's coffers and they divvy it out as they see fit.

Jeez, Guess I'm waiting to get this game a lot longer then I was expecting or just not buy it at all with that DLC roster.

they better bring the hot ninja kagero from fates.

@Kochambra It's obvious to anyone. Tecmo do it time and time again.

This DLC looks pretty slim. I expected a broad range of characters from across the franchise. More characters from the same games already being featured. Tecmo was like, "We're just going to cover three games in the series, that's it." Warriors games go on sale all of the time on Playstation but Warriors Chronicles 3 might have gone on sale once, if that, since its release. And DLC never goes on sale for Nintendo games. If anything, this DLC is saving me money since it's offering characters I don't care for.

Still plan on gettimg the DLC, hoping to see a lot more like they did with Hyrule Warriors.

@RainbowGazelle So your proof is basically "they've done it before". Because any time you choose to do anything, from then on you're basically bound to make exactly the same choice for the rest of eternity, right? So much for free will!
This makes me wonder in how many of those previous times that you mention there was any actual proof of Tecmo doing what you accuse them of doing, and in how many it was just people applying the same faulty logic that you're using in this case.

@Kochambra Calm. I'm not trying to start an argument. Based on past experience, I believe that the DLC is finished and Tecmo are holding it back. If you don't, then that's great, I'm glad you're not as cynical as I am.

Tharja hey...

Season passes and dlc in general are ridiculous. I still can't understand why collectors editions don't include the season pass. Most collectors editions are under 100 bucks and most season passes cost 20 to 30, so why not just include them in collector editions and charge 100-125? I ve rarely purchased dlc in the 10 years since the practices inception so season passes exclusion doesn't affect me in the slightest but you would think their addition to collectors editions would be a no brainer.

Really? A few of these characters are already in the game and I mean, it's one thing to make them part of the DLC but to give us 3 characters per pack AND FILL 4 OF THOSE 9 SLOTS WITH CHARACTERS ALREADY IN IT? sigh at least I get Tharja, most of the characters I would want are not from those 3 games anyways...

"There will be more representation in the DLC" they said.

Meh, even if this game is solid, the cast is vital to me for a power-fantasy game such as this one. I got my Warriors fix through Fate/Extella anyways.

Not bad, a bit light though. I'm hoping to see the DLC really support this game in multiple waves, like it did with Hyrule Warriors (which I will still buy on Switch any day now, Nintendo).

@WiiHawk Fan-service plays a big part in crossover games. If I own Hyrule Warriors, why would I buy FE Warriors? The game-play between the two doesn't differ drastically, so the main thing that'd draw me in is the roster; which doesn't appeal to me as fan who first got into the series with Path of Radiance and the GBA games.
That's my mentality anyways.

Apparently they're saving Ike's series and Roy's series for a sequel, hence the only representation here is Lyndis.

@Mr_Video I suppose I understand that if you're not a fan of musou games. I am, so the characters included is incidental. Not sure how character selection would sway me if they were included in a genre I don't like—a Smash Bros. style brawler, for example. Having played it for a weekend, though, I can say Fire Emblem Warriors is a better game than Hyrule Warriors.

@Onion Educate me? ROFL!! There ain't no need for that. I know who develop FEW and who publish it. But my point still stands. This is still Nintendo's franchise that they gave permission to KOEI to develop for. Keep ranting all u want fanboy.

@Einherjar oh please Nintendo is just as bad with DLC as any other. Just look at the whole amiibo fiasco of Metroid Samus Returns.