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In a recent Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a><\/strong> live stream over on YouTube and Twitch, Sega’s Aaron Webber answered a question about microtransactions, paid DLC and if anything similar will feature in Team Sonic Racing<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Despite many companies embracing this model like there\u2019s no tomorrow, Sega’s development team have apparently decided against it, on this particular occasion. All of the content is included on the game card from day one and it’s simply a matter of playing the game to unlock everything. Here’s precisely what Webber had to say (thanks, Nintendo Everything<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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“So there are two things I want to talk about for Team Sonic Racing real quick, because I think they\u2019re important to talk about. The first is DLC. And there were a couple of options, and option one, was to essentially take content and sell it as DLC later and that was not something that I think the team wanted to do. The team is in a case \u2013 and I kind of prefer this \u2013 which is just all the content that\u2019s going to be in the game is there right at launch. So we\u2019re not going to charge you like 3 bucks later for characters that were cut out of the game or anything. It\u2019s all there. And you\u2019ll unlock everything as you\u2019re going through.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So, based on this explanation, all of the characters will be there, and if anything else is released in the future, it will presumably be free. We guess we’ll find out for sure later down the line. For now, though, it’s clear there a total of 15 characters<\/a> in the game and all of them can be freely unlocked. As for how the various other unlocks work in Team Sonic Racing, it’s all tied to Mod Pods. Webber also mentioned how there were no microtransactions:<\/p>\n

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“The mod pods are the way you unlock parts and customization and color pallets, and all that in the game. This is a system that does not use real money it does not use microtransactions of any sort. And we thought that was really important. So it\u2019s completely random and you earn the currency as you play the game. The more that you race, whether you win or lose, you\u2019re earning this currency and you can cash that in through these mod pods which give you like boosts at the beginning of a race like Wisps or give you the car parts that you can then change and dye and all that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“We did not want to do the microtransaction route at all, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve got this different angle, which personally I think is a lot better, but we\u2019ll leave it up to you guys to obviously voice your opinions and hopefully everyone\u2019s cool with that route.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n