RPG Maker VX Ace!, Hmm... Options

[Night5h4d3]

Enterbrain just recently posted an update announcing a new RPG Maker; RPG Maker VX Ace! (cue the heavy engrish)

The cost is currently set at 13440円, and for those of you who don't spend in yen currency (you're crazy) - ahem - that's about 175.16 USD. It'll support Windows XP/Vista/7 (possibly Windows 8 too) 32 and 64 bit versions. From what I can read, they've a release date (for the maker or the website? I'm not sure) planned for December 15th this year.

You can find the link (its all in Japanese) here. Currently, the web page is "coming soon."

Thoughts? Rants? Raves?

Personally, I think they could go with dropping the whole VX bit, unless this is really going to be as handicapped as RMVX was.

[amerk]

As people have previously stated, the $175 more than likely will be a lot less when it's finally released for America (assuming that it will be). If I'm not mistaken, Japan gets their RM's via hardcopies, whereas we get ours through dl, so that alone should shave off some money.

However, based on the cost of the previous makers, once they reached our shores, I'm willing to bet it will be somewhere between $70 to $90, which is still pretty high considering what we are already paying for VX, but may be worth it for the few extra features they are offering (RGSS3, char/face generator, overkill option, some added skill features), but what people really want is a fix to the mapping system. If they don't fix that, it probably won't matter a whole lot what other features the ACE has, because a lot of people will probably skip over it.

On the plus side, just a little over a month to go. I'm sure somebody will get hold of the Japan copy and let us know if it's worth the hype.