Season Pass vs Paid V-Stones

Which sounds like a sweet deal in KT standards.

  • Season Pass

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  • Paid V-Stones

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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    2

Kasumi-Phase-X

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Heres a topic I thought about posting, and make a comparison between the 2 business practices that the DOA franchise was blessed (or cursed with depends on how you feel) with one where you can get entire set of outfits & characters (plus 1 stage based on a certain franchise), another which is based on the gacha system with one major difference from what KT did vs other gacha games. Here is a rundown on how these business practices work:

Season Pass (DOA5LR & DOA6)

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Season Pass was first introduced in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round at Feb. 17 2015 at the same time as the game's release (PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, & Arcade) in North America & Canada, with a price tag of $92.99 which comes with the entire DLC set within the bundle, Season Pass exclusive costume (between 1 to 2), & sometimes (DOA5LR)/always (DOA6) a character along with their debut costume set.

Season Pass bundles are very optional, and if you don't want to buy the entire set to have everything you can find other set that has all costumes for 1 theme DLC set which are worth $19.99 or more (depending on set), or you could just buy the costume for between $1.99 or $4.99 (depends on the costume). The only thing you would be missing out not buying Season Pass are the extra costumes that come with it. The only thing that sucks the most especially if third party content (DLC costume or characters) came with the Season Pass, is the whole Season Pass gets delisted giving people who didn't buy the DLC or Season Pass no chances of being able to purchase it.

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Paid V-Stones were first introduced in Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation that was released in Nov. 15 2017 (DMM Games) exclusively in Japan only, which was released later on Steam Mar. 26 2019 & Johren Jun. 2021, these Paid V-Stones have a range between $1.20 to $120.00 (Singapore Dollars) depends on how much you want to pay for along with occasional deals that you can find for example normally you can get 14,000 V Stone which are worth $120, however in certain event you can get 15,000 or 20,000 V Stone which are also worth $120. This game also has Free V-Stones which you can complete tasks within the game, level up your girls, sign in everytime, or buy special bundles to get more Free V-Stones that you can use to buy in the Gacha Events. To get outfits/characters you need to get lucky within the Gacha Set by paying either 500 or 5,000 V Stones (which you can also get tickets for Venus & Trendy which you can get by completing tasks & signing in everytime).

You can use Paid V-Stones as an extension or combination of the Free V-Stones (to level the balance) for any of Gacha from Venus Gacha, Trendy Outfit Gacha, & Nostalgic Outfit Gacha (you can use Paid V-Stones only to get a Ticket to just getting the costume or increasing you luck). However there are certain Gacha that requires Paid V-Stones mainly Star Outfit Gacha (New Character along with their Swimsuit), & Birthday Gacha (New Swimsuit to celebrate certain Girl's Birthday). You can use Paid V-Stone to get Autoplay Pass (which is perfect for grinding, cutting time), get Photo Frame, Contest Costumes with Cute & Sexy theme to give to 2 girls you'd want to give (like you can give Cute to Marie & give Sexy to Nyotengu for example), get rewards right now in Check-In feature within the Home section, buy Spins for Pool Hopping mini game, etc.

Interesting note on Star Outfit Gacha & Birthday Gacha that you can get the outfit without having to deal with the luck factor in Gacha, which you can earn Stars/Birthday Theme Exchange by via spending 5,000 Paid V-Stones in one of these Gacha Events 20 times, which you earn these exchanges after spending your V Stones on these events like if you spend 5,000 you get 10 of these exchanges, and outfits cost 200 (which would be worth 100,000 Paid V-Stones which is worth $840 Singapore Dollars). Your also under a time limit when these Gacha & Exchange disappear you don't get another chance (they do reappear but usually bundled with other Paid Gacha Events like Birthday Gacha).

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Getting Special Outfits can be very costly, requires tons of saving up along with thinking about what you want to get, and if your even lucky you can get the Special Outfit with 1 5,000 Spin.

Another interesting note the Gacha games I've played usually have their currency as one thing, but our buddies at KT decided to split free & paid into two separate currency.
 
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