Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Expansion Pass Announced, Wave 1 Launches Today

Expected, but still hyped for that third wave. Definitely buying for that alone, the rest is a bonus to me.

Alright. I don’t like this. I just paid $120 for the collectors edition and this feels like cut content. Come on, Nintendo. You’re supposed be better than the Ubisoft’s and EA’s. Sigh.

That's three more waves than Mario Kart World got! 🙃

I have no interest in this game or series and have no idea how good or bad the value is, but that feels really scummy, releasing paid DLC for an $70/$80 game less than a month after it releases.

@AgentGuapo It pretty much is cut content, the developers said that the original plan was routes for all 8 but scaled it back.

This is cut content resold to us. Middle finger.

Not interested in Fire Emblem right now, but any word on the price tag?

Edit: Guess it's $35. The 3rd Wave, at least, sounds meaty, but word on the street (this comment section) seems to be that it's cut content, so it might not be a completely fair price, especially given the already premium price tag of the base game. But, I bought some of the Pokemon DLC, so really, who am I to judge?

@Robot99 Intelligent Systems has been obsessed with pumping out DLC for every non-mobile FE-adjacent game since Awakening with the sole exception of Three Hopes, and most of that DLC is pretty polarizing to the community.

What's even weirder is that they don't do this with any other franchise they develop for. Not even Paper Mario.

Far be it from me to comment since I have yet to play this game and unfortunately doubt I'll get to it for some time - I'm only on my third Three Houses route for Sothis's sake - but... Doesn't the base game already have an insane amount of content?! All optional to be fair, though I wish they'd offer each "wave" release separately as well. I can personally do without most extras but am usually on board for more story content. The only reason I picked up the Three Houses DLC was because I had a discount voucher to use and mainly wanted to play through the Cindered Shadows scenario (And use Glass Dark Flier Cannon Constance and my favorite King of Grappling in my current playthrough).

Remember Three Houses? I'm sure you really loved Three Houses. You really liked Three Houses, didn't you?

Between this and FE Heroes, IntSys is giving that game way too much time in the limelight.

The way I flew to Nintendo Today when I got messaged there was DLC announced.

Stoked for the other 4 routes! I'm not seeing it as scummy as some others are mentioning since there's obviously still work being done on the game since it's releasing next year and the devs working on it shouldn't be working on it for free. Just because the paths were cut during development doesn't mean all the work was "done" by release and they're choosing to release it later.

Stoked to be able to recruit Sha Lan, Gaitz and Ursula earlier! 3 of my favourite units and they all suffer from the awful recruitability late game.

Seems like a reasonable price considering the base game is already packed with content.

In Bertrand's route do we just play regular Fire Emblem?

Looking forward to the playable sublords.

I'm still likely gonna get it around wave 3s launch, but this game's story is such a broken mess with obvious missing sub lord paths. To likely have the proper experience for an extra 35 on top of the 70-80 is actually criminal. On the other hand, this is great cause the sub lords immediately seemed more interesting than the lords we actually got. Id easily cut cai, dietrich, and leda for talimun, bertrand, and orchel. So it's nice there'll at least be a way to experience their stories more

I figured they'd shadow drop DLC for the game eventually, but I figured it'd be in a Direct, not just out of the blue like this.

The pricing discourse is going to be unfortunate for this game going forward.

That said, I'm looking forward to this Expansion Pass. I'm satisfied with the content in the base game but I'd love to learn about the other 4 flame lords.

YES! Feed me! this game has been a lore buffet (Sothis, Lady) and that also means it’s gonna take forever to finish (Mid way through my second Lord). Need a release date for the OST Nintendo. Already sitting on the funds. (Starting to feel like there is groundwork for a third game/fourth?) I love Sothisverse so much.

Also Justice for Yu Phas!

Ok well back to my FE induced exile. But that news was good enough for me to log back in.

The base game has hundreds of hours of content. I would gladly pay $35 for more content. Especially if it’s 4 more full paths

Announced DLC this close to initial release always irks me. It means we either got sold an incomplete game and the real cost of the game is $115 USD and with part not on the cart, or the content is just cobbled together from the cutting room floor.

That being said, I'm so in. But I'm irked.

... more than ever, I want full physical releases with the DLC on the cart.

But we have yet to see any modern Fire Emblem game get that kind of treatment.

Not exactly a surprise, they’ve been fairly consistent doing that

Indeed, the third wave extra content seems to basically duplicate the content of the first half of the game, so the price sounds fair. I hope the "more" in wave 3 includes more support convos, after three houses spoiled us, the amount available in the base game is somewhat lacking, at least the four/now eight lords should get more.

Also funny how the wave structure keeps the style of Three Houses and I think Engage, the first waves were just minor cosmetics and items to use and basically the last wave was the only real meat.

@AgentGuapo it is cut content it's gonna cover all the major story events that happened off screen which had significant impact on the story

I feel like there's a difference between "Cut content" and "Planned content." With story-driven games you have to plan for DLC if you ever want to have it because it needs to fit inside your current story. Especially with a story like this one.

I mean ill probably not get this as finishing this game seems like a lot, I have been enjoying it so far but I'm only in part 1 of my first character.

Because everyone was thinking; "Man, this game is lacking in content!"

@Willo567 100% this is cut content resold at a later date. And the only reason it's not available today is to give the illusion that it's not cut content resold at a later date to credulous consumers.

Ewww for now. Maybe I'll have finished a couple of the crazy long first act character arcs by the time the actual expansion arrives in the third wave.

Huh?! I can't believe this 😭

I only just finished my second path for part 1 last weekend and I'm over 50 hours in! This game might genuinely be the longest game I've ever played story wise.

Buying into these "expansion passes" is basically telling Nintendo to please charge us more for games.

Boy, this is really expensive

Bought it immediately!

But I've finished my 1st path so I'll figure out how to get the special weapon for it later.

@Aerona TBH, I really don't mind paying more for great games like this.

@MackerelMan honey when you put it that far out, it's hard to say it's totally done, this may come as a shock to you but planned dlc ≠ complete and cut dlc

@Aerona ...what?
if that were the case, we should've been complaining about any expansion pass dlc they've been doing for ages now. did it ever occur to you this is just a thing intsys does a lot for some reason?

@squiddu-real @MackerelMan @MirrorFate2 @AgentGuapo

It is cut content, you are correct. But this isn't content that was cut specifically to sell back to the player. It's more akin to Torna the Golden Country in Xenoblade 2, where that was also cut content, but was cut for a reason with the only clear way for it to be made was to make it into a DLC pack in the first place.

The devs said in their interview that initially the plan for Fortune's Weave was to have eight playable protagonists, but that they had to make a decision to scale it back due to issues with the game's pacing and scope. They weren't going to have enough time or resources to put the other four protagonists into the game, and thus left their portions of the story within the script while using the DLC as a method to actually flesh out those routes more.

The game isn't lacking for content, and while their routes contain elements that make the story more clear, they aren't events that were never discussed within other routes outright. I'm still in Part 1 of the game, and I'm 116 hours into it.

That being said, it does suck that the DLC is going to make this game more expensive if you do want to experience these routes- but at the same time I'm still glad that we're getting them and that they weren't lost or cut completely. The alternative is that they simply weren't going to happen at all.

@squiddu-real You're right, we should have been complaining earlier. We really let this slide

I dont pay this price for a Fire Emblem game. I dont pay this price for any game. I wont never pay this price for a game ever. Till the end of time.

I want my maddening difficulty... please??

I’m sure the people who whined about $80 Mario Kart will be even more offended by this $105 game.

Yeah, kidding, concern trolls have no sense of shame.

@Rykdrew Ah yes, being proud of stealing games as if it’s some kind of virtue.

@Aerona “Buying into these "expansion passes" is basically telling Nintendo to please charge us more for games.”

You do realize $60 in 2017 is worth $80 in 2026, right? Or do you expect Nintendo to just eat inflation themselves?

@asdfghjklz why? I wont never play this game, because i wont never buy it. Why "stealing"?

Literally not a single bit upset about this. I've got 80 hours in the game already and I'm only about 2/3 of the way through the second route. The amount of value here is absolutely unreal.

The devs were already open in pre release interviews that getting the originally planned 8 interwoven paths into the base release wasn't a viable move. Totally cool to wait another year and give them more money to make it happen.

The more the merrier I say and I don't see any problem with the price since this dlc is packed with content that was cut out before the actual game release date

Everything I've seen about this game makes me glad I don't have it.
The actual Fire Emblem levels seem great, but there's hours and hours of busywork in-between.
3H had enough, Engage was much smoother, why double-down on non-FE chores?

Man, I haven’t even finished one route lol

I’m exactly at 100 hours in the base, so much to do it can be overwhelming. But I love this game so much. I had a feeling those 4 characters mentioned would in some way be DLC. I welcome it, so I’m definitely looking forward to that.

@batmanbud2 I mean this game is connected to Three Houses and in the same universe so it would make perfect sense for this game to have Three Houses content added in.