Bloodstained aims for a Staggered Content Release!

As already mentioned above... "Shovel Knight".

Game is of high quality, then players behave like mature adults. Shovel Knight is even being praised due to this development model, for "developers showing their love to the game, by still working on it and offering new content".

Can work. Absolutely. I got Shovel Knight too and while waiting for the last DLC (for the king knight playable character and story), i haven't run out of things to do, since even regular updates add novelties (those Battletoads, ah)!

Personally, i almost always wait for a game to reach a goty version, or a full bundle one, with all content released assembled in one place... Then i start playing. In rare cases such as those kickstarter marvels of late, i forget patience and sink right in, not bothered in the least bit that some features are still absent. Good stuff is good.

This is true Crocodile, but we as a community can only hope that things are done "right". I don't have an issue with staggered content as long as it's all of a similar high quality, but as i just said all we can do is hope for this and have faith that this will be the case. We're all aware that sometimes quality slips with "staggered content" in some cases, just gotta have faith that IGA keeps the standard up.

The real issue with Bloodstained i feel will not be one of quality though, it's going to be more a question of how "staggered" the staggered release will be.  How long will we be expected to wait for certain game modes or features? I'm patient and generally don't mind waiting for content but i do know not everyone is as accommodating as me - some people would be very unhappy to wait longer for content they've already been anticipating since the kickstarter. 

It would be helpful if at some point in the near future someone (possibly from 505) could give us some idea about what features will ship with initial release and what features we're gonna have to wait for along with some kind of vague release schedule for the staggered content.  This approach might silence some critics of the staggered model.   As long as the backer exclusive stuff remains only for backers (it's our reward for having faith in the project) and all the promised stretch-goals are achieved then i'm a happy bunny.  I cant see IGA letting them release something he's unhappy with, staggered or otherwise.

Yeah, but I mean some clarification/rewording and maybe putting in one of Angel's posts might help so people know this isn't actually a thing, at least not yet. It's one of those moves that will be best announced when all of the details are known, to quell the unreasonable doubt and exaggerated worst case scenario theories that follow.

Reminds me, I just saw a fairly large YT channel called Switch News or something put up "new" 2017 demo gameplay that didn't have music, and several people are now freaking out that the game doesn't have music. -_- hahaha...

The only concern I have for staggered release is hard copies of a game. Let's say everything is implemented by the time 1 year has elapsed since launch of the game. Not a problem. But 10 years later (or less) the ability to download the DLC is no longer there (servers removed). So alright, I'll just dig out my physical copy and oh wait... the stuff I want isn't here and there is no way to download it.

Not being able to play your game because it is digital, or part of it is digital is a real bummer, I can still pull out the NES and fire up a game. But today so many things require online access, and that isn't going to be provided forever. You purchase a licence to use the products as described in these terms of service and DO NOT take ownership of them.

Some warranted thread-necromancy, given that some of the extra content not being part of the physical game is still a concern.

I certainly wouldn't be opposed to a Bloodstained "special/complete" version down the road, assuming there'll be any more extra content created for the game beyond what we've been told.