I'm going to be downvoted to hell, but I'm loving the game, and all the mtx and complaints about the easy to travel and such are from people that didn't play the original, honestly. This game is like the original but better, maintaining the spirit of the original.

Yes, you could buy revival stones in the original too.

The legit complains are the performance issues and crashes, but anything else... Idk what to tell you, they knew that the slow gameplay that is expected of the player would not be well received but wanted to conserve the original feel, so if you want to bypass the original feel go for it. I won't.

Is this an always online game? If not, im sure wemod will have cheats for it soon enough to give you these items.

Publishers at the slightest inconvenience: We are getting review bombed.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As I write this, Capcom's new ARPG Dragon's Dogma 2 is now officially playable on PC through Steam, with the game slated to go live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles in just a few hours.

"Then, after pre-purchasing the Deluxe Edition, I went to install it today and saw a whole page dedicated to it's Micro Transactions in the store," wrote player Superius.

The former monetizes the ability to fast travel wherever you want in the game world — Portcrystals are extremely rare to find in gameplay — while the latter's random nature essentially turns changing your Pawn's inclination into a slot machine you can spend $2 to "re-roll."

We've only been able to find two Art of Metamorphosis tomes for sale at a single NPC's shop despite finishing the game, for example, which suggests that there may be a limit on the number of times you can change your appearance unless you're prepared to fork over some cheddar.

In the past I've received review guides that included developer explanations with PR language that I felt might be designed to try influence my opinion of a game.

It's a slippery slope to ex-EA's John Riccitiello and his infamous "I want to sell bullets in Battlefield" microtransaction quip of yesteryear.

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The disappointment matches the excitement I felt when it got announced

Only legislation will stop this.

This abuse is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

I was watching Suzi's video on this and I was watching if she was gonna blink twice like she was in trouble.

Capcom's dick move with mods already poisoned the well, this is just salting the earth.

Well. We, the gamers, get what we deserve. Did we purchase shit like this before? Yes.

Did we buy Skyrim's horse-armour and started it all? Yes.

Do we now pay for cheat-codes in a 70-moneyz single-player-game? Also Yes.

Obviously, or companies would stop to come up with such turds coz it wouldn't sell.

I will wait for a crack even though i couldn't await this game. But this? Nooooo. It hurts my fefes.

So these are just speed up purchases that you can get in game? Seems scumy but not a deal breaker. There were what 3 or 4 easy port crystals in the first game, and to get the the max you had to keep restarting the game or playing it over and over. And once you knew where you were going and had some port crystals in good spots, you could get through main story in less then an hour. You have the chance to easily get multiple of any item. If its the same or similar in the sequel, why waste money, unless you have limited time to play games or maybe you're just not into sinking dozens of hours into anything. Honestly its stupid, but as long as no one is blocked from getting the items in game this is such a non issue.