http://kotaku.com/5365769/blazblue-expands-with-continuum-shift
 

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger will be getting an expansion of sorts in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, featuring at least one new character. That new addition would be Tsubaki Yayoi, a previously unplayable character featured in the original BlazBlue. According to details from Famitsu, we'll also get new stages and a refined HUD.

I am seriously hoping this gets released as DLC too. There is no reason why all of us who had bought the original needs to buy a new game. Plus, wouldn't that make online playing not fair? Usually when games come out with an expansion you can't play with those who have the expansion... so that means that anyone who has CS and who has original BB won't be able to play together.

More info on it:

 - New Character: Tsubaki Yayoi
- New moves
- redone stages
- You can play it in the “Game Center Hey” in Akihabara during Sep/26・27
- Beginner mode: a mode which you can execute combos and super moves easier
-New projectile for Carl.
-More ways for Arakune to curse!
-New Distortion Drive for Rachel (Could replace the old one, but probably not)
-New dive for Ragna 

http://www.thebanzaieffect.com/articles/ooga/blazblue-continuum-shift-announced/    

This could be the version they are releasing in Europe, I guess it's nice that they might put out this version everywhere but couldn't they have just saved this stuff for BlazBlue 2? Theres no way I'm purchasing this again considering the amount I spent importing it in the first place. It'd be nice to see this stuff as free DLC but I'm not holding my breath for that.
 
The biggest annoyance with this though is the multiplayer, are the two versions going to be compatible? If so how is it balanced to allow some players access to extra stuff?

People wanna boo-hoo about retail disc expansions.  Folks, we dealt with this plenty of times back in my day.  Whatever.  It's a retail re-release with additional features.  It happens.  If you don't want it, don't buy it.

Have none of you seen the fifty bazillian iterations of Guilty Gear XX? Seriously, this shit is to be expected coming from them.

I seriously doubt SF4 dash or Super SF4 wutever its gonna be called.. It will NOT be DLC. 
Based on the rumours, they are making alot of changes where a patch would not be sufficient. 
 
And seriously? SF4 Dash won't even be out in arcades until next year at the earliest. That means it won't be on consoles till a year after the arcade release. You have plenty of time to enjoy your BB and SF4's before the new iterations are released.

" Have none of you seen the fifty bazillian iterations of Guilty Gear XX? Seriously, this shit is to be expected coming from them. "

blazblue dash

I wanted the pink-haired cat-lady as a playable character. I saw her in the story mode and was like "How the fuck do I unlock her?"

This seems really soon. The game has been out, what, 3 months?

But I just bought BlazBlue ;_;
 
@SuperfluousMoniker said:

" This seems really soon. The game has been out, what, 3 months? "

" People wanna boo-hoo about retail disc expansions.  Folks, we dealt with this plenty of times back in my day.  Whatever.  It's a retail re-release with additional features.  It happens.  If you don't want it, don't buy it. "

" @punkxblaze said:

" Have none of you seen the fifty bazillian iterations of Guilty Gear XX? Seriously, this shit is to be expected coming from them. "

That does not mean it should be done in this day and age.  There were plenty of iterations and SF II and the same with SF III, but we're in 2009.  Stuff changes and that should be one of those things.  Yeah, this stuff will surely be full retail releases. "

" @FluxWaveZ said:

" @punkxblaze said:

" Have none of you seen the fifty bazillian iterations of Guilty Gear XX? Seriously, this shit is to be expected coming from them. "

That does not mean it should be done in this day and age.  There were plenty of iterations and SF II and the same with SF III, but we're in 2009.  Stuff changes and that should be one of those things.  Yeah, this stuff will surely be full retail releases. "

I agree wholeheartedly, I'm just saying old habits die hard. "

Speak with your wallet and stop whining, god.

" Speak with your wallet and stop whining, god. "

Having just bought this game on a whim, I view this the same way I do Madden.  It has a few new things, but overall, it's the same game released a year after the first one.  Frankly, I don't want to wait a whole year (or so) before I play this game that if what I've seen on it is any indication, I will really like.  Same goes for Super Street Fighter 4