Okay so one minor nugget of good news. They've announced that Yakuza 0 Directors Cut will actually have an upgrade path, so you don't need to buy Yakuza 0 for full price again if you only want to play that Online Multiplayer mode.
That's all for the good news. Bad news time. SEGA/RGG are impressively managing to burn all the good will they've accumulated since Yakuza 0 originally released.
>You don't get the Y0 Upgrade path if you own a physical copy of the game.
>Vanilla Yakuza 0 is being delisted from pretty much everywhere except GOG. This incudes the PS4 and Xbox One versions.
Now the writing on the wall for them getting greedy has been there since at least Infinite Wealth where they locked NG+ and harder difficulty modes behind Day One DLC. So it's hard to say this is surprising, but what is surprising is that they type of people who would normally take this type of ass fucking gladly, aren't happy either because it turns out that Teruyuki Kagawa the actor they got to be the new likeness of Hamazaki, apprently is a little too good at playing the role of a sleeze Yakuza since he Sexually Assaulted/Harassed some Hostesses. So now the redditor types are up in arms about that, and want him taken out of Kiwami 3, tho I doubt that's gonna happen.
So as of right now, pretty much nobody paying attention to current events is happy with the current state of the series.