This is speculated to be the cause of the Parent Company Type Moon having "GACHA MONEY" via FGO to support the game without extra payment to do free updates. And how Type Moon being well Type Moon, aka weirdly chill and indie in places. And weirdly Yoshinori Ono, who is producer for the game, who pushed for Free Content Update back during his Capcom Days until Capcom

The dlc being free has definitely given me reason to come back to the game from time to time, though I have yet to find a reason to really stick with the game.

What's even more neat about these free MB:TL DLC characters is that they automatically get updated alongside the game's overall updates. Cause, usually, on the rare occasions other FGs give out "free content" to keep, you still have to visit the game's store page to add it to your "owned" item list. But with MB:TL, their characters aren't even an option to select from the online store page. Instead, you're basically GUARANTEED to get these characters added to your copy of the game when they drop alongside any major update for MB:TL

This doesn't even cover all of the free music, the god tier update that added almost everything the community wanted, and the free singleplayer updates as well. These devs are amazing. Type Lumina is the best big fighting game right now.

Another thing about the free content the game is the color editor. Basically instead charging you for extra color sets you get to make your own character colors, as you like. FIghting games often lack customization and this a really cool way to add that in. Also essentially gives you more colors than you'd ever need for free. Sadly the game might not be for me gameplay wise but i appreciate the devs for going great stuff.

It would be amazing if more companies took the "we have a product that generates so much passive income that it doesn't even matter if anything else we make is profitable so we don't need to take every monetization opportunity in our other products" approach. I don't think literally any other company has done that.

I think it's worth mentioning that on the top of characters you get the stages, music along them and recently the added MBAACC music remasters too.

Can’t believe there were people review bombing a game for not adding free content they specifically wanted.

French Bread don't make Fate!! Tsukihime and Fate are owned and created by Type Moon. TM contracts French Bread to make the Melty Games, not unlike Dragon Ball FighterZ being made by Arc Sys. They might be getting additional funding from Type Moon, but I think the overwhelming community response after Neco arc dropped is a contributor as well.

What I'd like would to at least have the DLC characters free to mess around on training mode. I think that would be nice for 2 reasons, 1) You could figure out their move set, see if you enjoy their gameplay and help you do a more informed decission on buying it or not and 2) would give people that didn't pay for the character a way to lab stuff against then without the need to burning money just to have access to them for that reason.... as someone who's broke I'd appreciate that.

Crazy thing is that before this video basically all the discourse around MB:TL DLC was people being pissed at them releasing FGO characters instead of tsukihime/MB characters. Now i thought that shit was kind of dumb when I first saw it, but now I find out they were complaining about free characters?! some people are just beyond help. I dropped the game during launch cause of the netcode issues but you've definitely convinced me to give the game a proper shot

My big problem with DLC characters in fighting games is just how expensive they are. When you pay $60 for Kof XV, you get a whopping 39 characters. Pay another $60 and you only get 12 more. Omega rugal and a couple other things being free was really cool of them, but Imma wait for a 75% off sale on the DLC myself. Also, way more games need to let you use DLC characters for free in training mode. It helps out the publishers since it means more people get interested in the characters enough to buy them.

Heads up about the UNICLR update, they actually released it for free, automatically updating all copies of UNIST (the previous version of the game) and all future versions. It was only londrekia (the new character) that you had to buy. IIRC, even on PS4, instead of saying UNICLR on the home icon it still says UNIST, at least last time I checked on my PS4.

Haha, that's a good joke at the start about those Maids, I'm gonna look up what their story is out of curiosity. ...Oh oh no

Meltyblood is just advertisement for the Tsukihime Remakes and is clearly Typemoon trying to build Tsukihime to be a massive media brand like Fate. Therefore not making money on the dlc is no problem.

Tsukihime RULES and having a dope fighter attached is even better, Im a huge fan of both

Skullgirls actually had a similar "dlc" cycle back in the day where the new character would be free for a month, and then you'd have to pay for them after that initial month

I love these devs. Also the single player content in this game keeps getting expanded for free which is insane.

DA Noelle is in the game because Melty blood is advertisment for the Tsukihime Remake. She looks like that because when Noelle became a vampire she reverted to a physical age when she was last truly happy which if you know Noelle's back story she hasn't been happy in a long time. Note apparently her design was instructed to look like she is in the wrong place at the wrong time which is why her design stands out (for better or for worse) among the rest of the characters. So yeah if her design feels weird or cringe, mission accomplished.

The thing is, this is probably the better long-term business move, too. Fighting games have a lot of room grow, and even if there's a limit on how much they reasonably could, lowering the barrier to entry and the roadblocks to sticking with it can help maintain an active community which drives more sales, and fosters customer loyalty in the long run. And like, not even by using the really scummy tactics corporations love to use nowadays; just by being like... genuinely cool. Like, I have plenty of criticisms of how money-hungry corporations are, but the thing that kills me is, there *are* ways to be just as, if not *more* profitable long-term that involve like... doing right by your customers... and they almost *never, fucking, do it.* Opting instead to throw consumers into the woodchipper for fast cash. And then wonder gormlessly why anyone would think they should all be fucking hanged.

I mean, FUCKING RUGAL (that's his full name) was free dlc in kof 15 and he looks like fun

Man I love melty blood and it's so nice that they give us more characters

0:11 for those questioning this, click the read more button but I will say TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE AND CHILD ABUSE. So Kohaku and Hisui initially had each others personalities with Kohaku being the silent one and Hisui being the energetic one. This is because their family had this ability to give each other energy and Makihasa Tohno (Shiki and Akiha’s dad) needed to keep control of his body because reasons I won’t go into and abused this by raping Kohaku as a child since apparently sex was the strongest method of energy transfer. Eventually, she got more freedom and stopped getting raped, but had to take care of SHIKI (spelled with Kanji in JP, spelled with all caps in English, different from the Shiki we normally know) who was imprisoned for reasons I won’t get into. However SHIKI needed to keep his body under composure for the same reasons as his dad, so he also ended up raping Kohaku. Kohaku after having enough ended up drugging and brainwashing SHIKI so she wouldn’t get raped anymore. Akiha and Hisui later learn of what happened to Kohaku and she gets turned into a regular maid instead of basically a sex slave by Akiha and Hisui says that she will “take on her role” of being the silent one so Kohaku can at least try to be happy So TL:DR, Kohaku got raped by 2 different people as a child and Hisui said “hey I’ll be the sad one so you can try to be happy for once”

there is some misinfo here. They never said they were limited time. It was misinterpretation from "Free dlc decision" that was just bad translaation of "We decided to make the characters free".

I really love the way they gave back to the fans. Like free dlc is really crazy for this day and age. The only thing that I can think of that comes close is sf5 which gives you fight money you can use to get some of your favorite characters by just grinding in game stuff.

I’m excited about project L but I’m worried what it will do to this genre.

Oh wow!! I had no idea about this, I might pick the game up if I don't need any dlc or anything :))

YOU COME IN CLUTCH! I was about to go sleep and miss your new vid. Not Today!

wake up babe Gekko dropped a Melty video ah don't you just love seeing someone react to Nasuverse lore? It's truly beautiful without how much this drives someone insane. Gotta also remember besides the F/GO money, the game sold a lot more than expected at launch, and French Bread has like, 20 employees so they don't really have that many people to give salaries to.

Was that "faaavourite finger" joke a reference to Battleblock Theatre? Lol

I Would really appreciate a Actress Again video.

7:00 Because: read the visual novel!

What did I pay 70 dollars for? Was it just the art book? WAS IT JUST THR ART BOOK!? PLEASE TELL ME IT WASN'T JUST THE ART BOOK

I wonder if they would sell fully fleshed out game modes like a survival mode that like a rogue like.

The dlc being free saved my wallet since i tripled dipped in steam, swtched, and ps4. I also struggle to find character to played. The one I wanted to main where PCiel, Ushi, Mash, and i some how landed on mario. how aggravating would it had been for me to purchase each one seperatly only to find their not my cup of tea?

I've been intending to try this game, just got a phenomenal reason to

I thought that V1.07 was packaged with a special edition of Carnival Phantasm

always remember! Play Melty Blood! with the power of Friendship and Poverty!

i see that the game is on 50% sale rn and im interested to buy it but im afraid as a steam EU player i won't be able to really find matches outside of discord. are there any non-god rank players left? game looks super cool tho especially the dracula guy

Holy shit our boy got a sponsor

I LOVE this game, though the recent dlc update has done something to make loadtimes before matches 100x longer, and I just went back to mbaacc. I hope that this problem is fixed soon.

Free characters post-release is certainly rare. I think I can only come up with two other examples when it comes to big series, with KoF XV adding Rugal (and soon Gönitz), then there was SSBU that put Piranha Plant in there. But yeah, pretty rare. Maybe Multiversus sort of counts, but that game is F2P to begin with. I don't remember what the new characters cost in that recent Nickelodeon platform fighter, possibly nothing as well.

0:18 It also has a Special Segment in the Mugen Community

I think the idea that a money grabber being used to fund another game was the entire reason gacha was even defended in the first place. Its become sadly common for games(or any media for that matter) to be vehicles to fund themselves and grow the company alone rather than diverse experiences able to support each other and still make a profit. Seeing melty blood as an actual example of this gives me hope that Project Moon does the same thing and doesn't get swallowed into the abyss after experiencing the temptation.

The only other game I have seen do this is UNIST when it upgraded to UNICLR. Free moves and a balance update, the new character did cost money tho. FrenchBread also made that game too haha.

Music at 4:48?

"The season pass is what fighting games at large have decided on" Uh, excuse you, Multiversus is actually using a free-to-play battle pass system where each individual character *at launch* is like $5, where you have to grind for not only FOMO skins, but voice packs, profile icons, taunts, and a bunch of other shit that no one cares about in the first place, let alone things that should cost money, all so you can brag about spending more time and money on the game where Garnet is white and the Iron Giant is punching a Rickenmorty in the face! ...oh you said "fighting game," not "ugly piece of shit gambling game" my bad

is ther an emulater for MBBLC?

I might be misremembering but I kinda remember Kamone just saying that the game blew past all expectations so far that they could finance the DLC and give it for free. It was on the Steam front page when it came out.

I know that Skullgirls has done the limited time free charatcers thing in the past. But they've also allowed players to test charatcers while still in development! As in, some of the charatcer's animations were still just sketches kind of unfinished. But it's super cool to see how these charatcers develop over time and take player feedback as well!

Yall is it still free? Because i checked the microsoft store and the dlc's have prices

0:11 Maid lore... :Despair:

Tekken Tag 2 has entered the chat..

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0:11 I feel like I do but also don’t want to know.

Technically SFV let you unlock characters using in game currency. At first getting the currency was so easy and fast the first 6 characters might as well have bean free. Or if you actually bought the first character pass the second one would be free. (I managed to get the first 2 character passes for free and latter also unlocked Kage and Seth for free). Eventually capcom nerfed how much in game currency you could get but at the same time made the game quite cheap to get over time.

I being playing when it come out it good love the net code

"Free DLC? How are they making a profit?" FGO (The most successful and profitable gacha game ever to be made literally twice because of NA/JP releases being separate): Greetings mortal

ARMS is another game that added five characters and stages completely for free. Apparently the game had a patch as recently as November of 2022, which seemed to be only fixing stability issues and had no balance changes or content added, but it proves that someone at Nintendo is still paying attention to the game. As a reminder, this game was released three months after the Switch came out. More on-topic, I've actually seen many negative comments in light of the recent two characters being Fate ones rather than being from Tsukihime. I bought the game because Mash was added, so you can probably guess where I fall on that divide.

0:10 Idk about the remake, but from what I know, Tuskihimie wasn't all that big in Japan back in the day. If anything, Melty Blood was the more popular game back in the early 00's.

After finally reading the fan translation patch to Tsukihime, I now now why DA (Dead Apostle) Noel is a child. She was changed into a vampire and chose the form when she was last happy, as a child before her entire town was fed upon.

Jesus Neco-arc basically just revied a genre

im planning on making a fighting game, and honestly thought that free updates where the norm like they are in any other genre. Apparently they arent.

In addition, I think they went on record to say the game performed well beyond expectations sales-wise and the free content is sort of a "thank you" to the community

I was just looking at this game and I was wondering are their any physical copies for this game or is it completely digital

No, no, no, the weirdest thing about MBTL is how they buffed Vlov with every single update. Like why? I HATE IT

9:04 Nice

it's very appreciated, but personally I especially appreciate it when I play the game on my switch and all the characters are there without me paying twice. edit - oh wow apparently there are new levels I hadn't noticed yet!

I'm super interested in this game. Is it still a discord fighter or is matchmaking pretty good right now?

The GOAT 🐐 of Monte Cristo

Type lumina is a tsukihime remake spin off everything new here like noel and da noel its from it's remake

But melty blood, play melty blood, enjoy melty blood.

What is the song at 8:04?

Number 10: Neko Arc

If you hate d.a. noel GO play and read tsukihime remake You're missing a great fucked up character and lore lmao

tsu-key-hime

I'd pop my shit if Order-Sol was a free bonus character in Strive

8:03 Fun fact they changed her character design drastically

Dota 2 releases new characters for free. Overwatch did it... until Overwatch 2... kinda not sure how that one works. Apex Legends kinda does but it depends on if you count "around 40h worth of in game currency (or use money)" as free or not. Warframe it's similar where it's usually behind "farm the new content that we also just added (or pay to skip)". Bloons Tower Defense 6 lets you get new (and old) heroes with in game currency that's very easy to get. I could also technically count Genshin Impact cause you can get enough f2p premium currency to get new characters, but unlike those other f2p title where it's "money or grind" the characters release much faster than you can f2p grind them for. Ok I don't have a point I just wanted to see how many "games that give new characters for free" I could find. But even then, if you don't count "requires grinding some currency" as "free" (since that's a time cost), then I just have Dota 2. Those are 100% free, and similarly Valve is surfing on big Steam money (and all the cosmetic lootboxes they sell).

...just please...UNI2, as well French bread.

The thing is that this should be a standard thing with all full priced games, its quite sad that we have all grown normalized to full priced games charging us more money to buy a character.

UNICLR was actually a free update if you already own the previous game.

Maybe make DLC characters free in the training mode and monetized to used them anywhere else.

These 8 characters aren't even technically dlc since you don't have to D-own L-oad the C-ontent ,it's part of the game

Neko Arc supremacy

Free DLC in a world where larger companies charge you for even the in-game frame data... French Based

btw type lumina is part of the tsukihime remake series which is far better and less sus than the OG (still kinda sus tho)

Lumina rules, my favorite fighting game. BUY ITTTTTTTTTTT

Project L will be following in the same footsteps with the addition of the game being F2P from the get go. Just like French Bread Riot will have League skins money to mess with so they don't need to worry about making sure their fighting game is financially successful (though it probably will have skins)

Hmmm... it's almost like someone at the publisher has something to prove to other fighting game publishers or something...

Make more melty content

Wait why does the maid act like that?

I think this video is a bit misleading as it isn't French Bread who made the DLC free, but Type Moon. If you look at the info that comes from the devs, the roster, and the story, it becomes very clear that the DLC decisions are up to Type Moon but the game play aspects of said characters are French Bread's work.

just remember that fgo prints so much money they (while not as much as genshin) they can just make anime just for the hell of it. the whales are gods and i kiss their asses with my peasant lips cause holy shit i love dantes. though type moon, where is the tsuki-hime anime that covers all ending and a movie and another kara no kyokai movie?

yeah tsukihime's lore is certainly... a thing. Good? Eh. Bad? Probably. Fucked up? Abso fucking lutely.

ive read somewhere on twitter that the reason why Type Lumina gives out free DLC characters is because, they want to(?) iirc, the developer was really overwhelmed by how the game got positive impressions by everyone and that the game's sale exceeded their expectation. since they dont really need the extra cash by doing paid DLC, they made them free (also as a way of them saying thank you)

Lolis and meltyblood go together like prisoners and orange jumpsuits

Why do the maids act like that...

Wait, so Melty Blood's essentially taking the WINRAR approach

the weirdest thing is that nanaya isnt in it