• Wada reiterates that The Answer was originally considered at the start of development, but dropped saying "it was quite difficult to get off the ground compared to the main project".
  
• The Answer was only approved after P3R was officially revealed (which would have been around June 2023), while the main game was still in development.
  
• The main team didn't have time to work on The Answer DLC, so Yamaguchi is not the director for it. Hashizume, battle planner for games like TMS and Soul Hackers 2, is the director for this DLC. This is apparently very rare in Atlus and was only considered because it was "a dire need" according to Wada.
  

(Mar 9th, 2024, 01:11 AM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

Atlus is owned by Sega, so technically even self-published titles have to go up that chain, potentially, and Sega has done some silly s*** over the years. But yeah, I'm pissed it wasn't part of launch, and I'm secondly pissed that I have to wait until SEPTEMBER to get The Ending! They'll probably charge 30 bucks for it, too; just watch. I'm starting to be really glad I hard passed on this version.

(Mar 9th, 2024, 01:22 AM)Moonface Wrote:

(Mar 9th, 2024, 01:11 AM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

Atlus is owned by Sega, so technically even self-published titles have to go up that chain, potentially, and Sega has done some silly s*** over the years. But yeah, I'm pissed it wasn't part of launch, and I'm secondly pissed that I have to wait until SEPTEMBER to get The Ending! They'll probably charge 30 bucks for it, too; just watch. I'm starting to be really glad I hard passed on this version.

Ah, I forgot about that. I just looked up P3R on Wikipedia to see who the developer and publisher was and didn't consider anything higher in the chain when I saw the same names on both.
Also, assuming The Ending and The Answer are one and the same (I tried using Google to find out but looking up "persona 3 the ending" just gives me stuff about any ending for that game lol) then it costs $34.99 (the price of the P3R Expansion Pass). Looking back at the contents of the EP it's clear most of the price is for Wave 3 because nothing about the first two waves even warrants more than $10.

(Mar 9th, 2024, 03:57 AM)Dragon Lord Wrote:

Now I'm just waiting for them to announce Female MC/P3P content as another $50+ paid DLC.

(Jun 8th, 2025, 08:38 PM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

I don't understand the point of a Persona 4 remake. With Persona 3, that was understandable: P3P doesn't have any cutscenes (or the ending -- yes, I will always refer to The Answer as the ending), playing more like a visual novel, and FES was a nightmare of spaghetti code that made it effectively impossible to port, so they remade it. But this is... confusing. We've got Persona 4 Golden ported to PC and modern consoles. Why are we remaking it? Why not spend that time making Persona 6, instead?

(Jun 8th, 2025, 10:22 PM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

Thank you for quoting that post for me; I didn't wanna quote a post I had made literally 4 minutes before the one I made in this topic. A friend of mine commented about the P4 Anime when I brought it to their attention, and I had to tell them that anime was nearly 15 years old at that point, so no matter how you slice it, Sega is making a baffling decision by having Atlus remake this game.

(Jun 8th, 2025, 10:22 PM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

Personally, I'd rather see them remake Persona 2 a second time, and actually release both games on the same platform for non-Japanese audiences! Because we still don't have a complete duology of Persona 2 on the same platform! We have Eternal Punishment on the PSX, and Innocent Sin on the PSP. WTF, Atlus?!