How to turn a "must-play game" into trash no one wants in less than 24 hours. Good job. Makes me feel sorry for the poor devs who poured their hearts & souls into it only to have the suits fuck it up - again.
holy cow... no kidding! Hype was only building - and then to "reveal" the enshitification before it even enjoys release interest. wow.
Yup, I’ll wait 4 years or whatever until it’s released as “Dragon’s dogma 2, darker arisen, game of the year edition” with all the dlc and microtransactions baked in on a steam sale or some such
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its what japanese game companies do after a "golden era" when they come off on top. they make stupid business decisions that tank their goodwill they just earned.
its why when a japanese game company makes it big, it almost always is followed with becoming the villian immediately after
the sucess of monster hunter, resident evil remakes, and sf6 has gotten to their head.
It sucks because I was looking forward to the game since I liked the first DD but after seeing all the micro transactions they added into a single player game I'm going to pass on it.
Plus, another game with trash “always online drm” and “your profile is stored on the server” idiocy
The worst part of it is that those same assholes that insisted on micro transactions will blame every other aspect of the game before admitting that it did poorly on release because of the blatant money grabbing.
i got made fun of when i said microtransactions were a slippery slope and this was gonna end up happening
The thing with microtransactions is that people actually buy it. And it makes gobs of money. We don't deserve full games.
Whales buy it. For every 1,000 fans upset by this decision there is 1 fan who is rich enough that spending $1,000 on the game is nothing. A lot of these aggressive monetization schemes aren't meant to make money on the average player.
Capcom continually hamstringing themselves. With this and Street Fighter 6 having 100 dollar costume sets they can fuck all the way off. I expect RE9 to let you buy ammo for cash.
I mean, the RE4make let you buy weapon upgrades with cash, DMC 5 let you just buy all the currencies in game directly, I don't even know where to begin with Monster Hunter World's microtransactions. It's shitty, but Capcom does this in literally all of their games now, so absolutely you'll see dumb mtx in RE9 and Monster Hunter Rise.
I was considering buying this but no longer. Game might be good but vote with your wallet to signal intolerance for greedy business practices.
Yeah, I'll just pirate it.
I only pay for games that aren't kneeling at the alter of enshitification.
What was Capcom thinking?
That nerds would bitch and moan and cry then buy it like they always do. Which is exactly what happened.
They added this shit after the reviews and shit came out and said it didn't have any of this garbage though, so it's a bit unfair.
Oh fuck them!
The more I read, the more shocked I am.
They put out a damage control statement today saying that you can find these items in game too. Sounds like they're rare though.
Sounds like that shit is gonna stay out of my steam library forever lmfao
That's... a lot of DLC for a game that hasn't been out for not even a day.
I know the answer is money, but these should really be part of the base game.
"in a truly immersive fantasy world"
Micro transactions are there to help make you feel like more of a peasant I guess.
Oh my God
Well, guess I'll pass on this one yall
Adding this edit to the top because what the FUCK you only get one save file EVER? There's no new game? And it costs $2 to change your character's appearance ONE TIME? Words fail me
Rift crystals? Is there in-game currency for this single player game?
Edit: they have an arcade game style "insert a dollar to continue" option I'm dying
Get out of jail ~~free~~ for a dollar card? The more I read the worse it gets. I'm glad I saw this before sinking more time into the first game. Good to know it's safe to skip.
The teleport stones called "ferrystones" are 10k gold each which is a lot.
In Dragon's Dogma 1 they give you a reusable one for free after feedback that they were too hard to find in the base game.
Looks like Capcom saw a quick buck instead this time around, with a map 4 times as big this is a much bigger issue than in the original and it seems to have been done on purpose to drive MTX sales.
This is also probably the real reason they're taking a harder stance against mods. Within 24 hours, there's already a mod on Nexus that adds one of the items you can buy with real money to an early vendor for like 1 coin.
There's also another mod that just makes all items 1 coin, so it shouldn't be too hard for modders to just completely circumvent the bullshit mtx.
Obviously rarely enough that they expect people to pay for them.
Thats pretty much all capcom was thinking
Geez! I watched the first few minutes of fightincowboy review on it and he was praising it saying the best thing since Elden Ring. I'm sure the gameplay is great, but what a way to get your game reviewed bombed for good reason. I'm sure this will go on sale soon enough if they don't make any changes. What a disappointment, micro transactions should never exist on Single Player games let alone most games. Scummy Capcom!
Is it really review bombing when the complaints are valid?
If they haven't played it, yes. You can't "re-view" something you haven't viewed in the first place.
So taking an aspect of the game and writing a review of it without actually playing it is review bombing.
I'm not saying it's wrong to review bomb, as this deserves it. But reviews are supposed to be for those that have already consumed the product or used the service.
I didn't play the first one, but I know that lots of people loved it and have been really looking forward to this sequel.
This reeks of some short-sighted execs undermining the reputation of what's probably a fun game otherwise for some easy $$.
The fuckers already raised the price to "compete with inflation". I might have been able to accept that by itself, but with this shit added in? It really reveals their intent.
Holy shit, I read some of the other day that there was a bunch of garbage microtransactions but I had no idea it was this bad. And you can't edit your characters without paying $2? What the fuck?
Glad I didn’t preorder. Gonna hope for the pc modding community to unfuck the game
I guess this comment will ruin this now...
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened
Travelling is a big part of dragons dogma, the danger of night fall while you travel is actually really cool. However, mtx is ALWAYS bad
The goal should be fast travel people don't want to use because travel is fun.
The Spiderman games for the most part made moving around the city fun enough that I didn't fast travel, but it was still there for the times I had to go really far away.
If you need a feature that lets players skip a part of your game, you should either make that part better or just remove it. But you should still make concessions to players who want to skip it anyway. Like the little "skip cutscene" buttons.
I haddent heard of any of this until i saw the new Mortisimal gaming video, but he didnt get specific about them. Now that i actually see this, its a pass from me for years.
I'll just wait until it gets the Dark Arisen treatment and all the MTX and pre-order content becomes freely available in the game and the limits on port stones and the random currencies that aren't just gold for shops are removed.
The original game originally had limited fast travel, too. But it was eventually made non shitty and you can just buy the stones you drop as FT points at a shop in the main city.
The most insane part to me still isn't necessarily the money-grubbing shit, because capcom has been doing that in basically every game they've made for a while now. It's sad to me that dragon's dogma is kind of, the outlet for getting shit on, with this, basically because the other games they put out have built-in fanbases and engagement that are gonna ignore the monetization. But maybe they also have more easily ignored monetization, and it's not as though dragon's dogma doesn't have a fanbase, even if the fanbase is much smaller than the others.
Anyways, the thing that really baffles me about this game is that it's not multiplayer. That seems like an obvious sell. Is there like, some idea there that they'd be cutting in on monster hunter's turf, or something? I dunno, the pawns just seem kinda annoying, and the game, overall, seems kind of mid. I haven't seen a large amount of it, in any case, but maybe it's just sort of, the monetization and denuvo is kind of the final and most prominent cherry on top of a dog shit sundae, and nobody's talking about the actual game itself being maybe more mid because of that. I dunno, though, I legitimately haven't seen much on this game outside of this.
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