1.20 Requires PS4 Players to Pay Tickets Each Time a Hair Color Change Is Done

UPDATE 3/6/2020: Team NINJA tweeted an official apology to the fighters and stated that they were working on a better alternative to distribute hair colors. So players are encouraged to not purchase anymore colors until the issue has been rectified. The big hope is that players are able to use their perpetual pile of in-game currency to purchase & swap hair colors.

UPDATE 3/1/2020: While we wait for an official response from Koei Tecmo the mainstream press has started dismantling the "bizarre" business practices of the company. YouTuber, YongYea and Kotaku have also recently joined the fight against Koei Tecmo for their poor treatment to dedicated players.

UPDATE 2/25/2020: We here at Free Step Dodge have received word from a Team NINJA representative that the present functionality of requiring the player to purchase a hair color even if previously purchased is by design. At this time, if you would like to share your feedback to Team NINJA and KOEI TECMO, you have a few options available to you. It would be great if feedback was given by everyone and in any form of content about this situation if capable. Forms of content include but are not limited to Articles, Video, Images, Posts, or Streams. Always tag the company and game's official accounts and use big text in each of the posting. Also here are the Customer Support links as well:

NA Customer support https://koeitecmoamerica.com/support
EU Costumer Support https://koeitecmo.info/inquiry/kte
ASIA Customer Support http://www.gamecity.com.tw/html/support/index.html

For those planning on doing this, sooner is always better than later.

UPDATE 2/24/2020: The PlayStation 4 version of the game currently forces players to repurchase any previously purchased colors, and it requires you to spend Player Points to set the hair color to the character's original hair color. Team NINJA has not yet responded officially to questions. Please do not purchase alternate colors at the moment as we await confirmation from Team NINJA that this is designed functionality. This article will be updated as further news comes in.

A few weeks ago Team NINJA supplied us with their biggest free update for Dead or Alive 6 yet, and now that 1.20 has released we can see that Team NINJA is using this update to focus on cosmetics and new collaborative DLCs from the Atelier Ryza & Gust franchises plus hair color changing functionality exclusively to PS4. 1.20 which released the 25th of February. Judging by one of Team NINJA's recent Tweets, there will be some bug fixes, but real game changes are being reserved for another month. Like always this story will evolve over time with more information and news!

The added hair colors initially ignited some hype from the DOA community, but they are not releasing without an intense controversy that we haven't seen in the Dead or Alive community for years. If you jump through a few hoops to mod hair color changes on PC you can comfortably change your character's hair color to any hue imaginable. From Team NINJA, this feature is set to launch exclusively to PS4 for the exchange of 'Premium Tickets.' We reached out to Team NINJA for confirmation on exclusivity to this feature and they've responded to reinstate that hair color swapping will not be coming to the XBOX ONE or Steam platforms.

With all of this being said, it shouldn't come off as too much of a surprise as they introduced hair color changes with Dead or Alive 5 and Lisa's silver hair is also currently available in Dead or Alive 6. Pricing has been revealed to be one (1) Premium Ticket for each color and due to the fact you must reset the hair color, it creates a huge monetized obstacle for all of DOAs dedicated players.


The Gust & Ryza collaborative outfits look classy & tasteful compared to the consistent bikinis, and new titles have been added in an event that is similar to DOA6s Dumbbell Collaboration last year. While this is not the update gameplay purists are looking for, you can expect more big changes around the release of the Venus Vacation character next month.
 
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It's the view count from Jim Sterling's video, posted earlier in the thread.
Thanks, though I guess I should have guessed that. I only watched it embedded since youtube's new look craps up my browser (probably for the best, youtube comments burn my eyes). I guess the new youtube has a dark mode too? lol
 
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Polygon did their research, they even namedrop FSD at the end of the article
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Not the article in itself but comments & the like that can serve as an excuse for people that never cared about DOA to justify why they never cared about DOA. The actual article reporting thus far (apart from the asinine Jim Sterling comment (never liked the bloke)), has been fairly solid. I'm just always been iffy about people, whom don't give a fuck about DOA, commenting on DOA.
 
We made it fam, YongYea has covered this:

FSD are the fifth source as well, so you may find more people on their way maybe. I first heard about this on Siliconera in comments, then we got a piece and as a moderator there - it got my attention. I'll try to stick around and get into the DOA games which are a little older maybe.
 
We made it fam, YongYea has covered this:

FSD are the fifth source as well, so you may find more people on their way maybe. I first heard about this on Siliconera in comments, then we got a piece and as a moderator there - it got my attention. I'll try to stick around and get into the DOA games which are a little older maybe.

I personally can't stand people like YongYea, (and he did gloss over that you could technically play DOA6 "for free"), but this was a good overview-of-the-situation video. Glad to see FreeStepDodge get some recognition too! I'm really exasperated with Koei-Tecmo right now. This company disgusts me worse than the coronavirus. Team NINJA & DOA deserve better. Much better.
 
If they only try to remedy the situation by stepping back a millimetre like that, I say we respond again just like we have this time. News outlets would have to report on the change as a follow up to their first stories, anyways.
 
for a second I thought when you guys said we did it, I thought tn made some sort of announcement regarding the pricing lmao

Just getting the press to write about this game is a challenge. So yeah that's what that "we did it" is for.

Koei Tecmo is fucked. Their reputation will only continue to tank from here.
 
Still no answer from them ? The communication is really bad in their department. What is their strategy : keep quiet or taking some time to develop a proposer response ?
 
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