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Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions (www.downtimebros.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I heard that fast travel is very limited, but that you can buy fast travel items for real world money.

The problem with that is: the goal of the game makers should be to make the game as enjoyable and fun as possible to sell as many copies as possible.

However, with such micro transactions your goal now is to add annoying stuff to the a level that maximises your profits. How much you can annoy your customers, depends mainly on the conditioning of your target audience.

So the more of that stuff is accepted and financially rewarded by customers, the more annoying games will become to increase the "need" to sell you a relieve.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume this discourse of making the game not enjoyable for the sake of maximizing profits is probably from people that didn't play the first game and haven't played the new game yet. I know this is a reality in cash grab games, but really doesn't seem to be the case here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see where you're coming from. There are hard mechanics in many games that are part of what makes the game fun for its players.

However, when I play Dark Souls, I know a part is difficult, because the developers wanted it this way and did not have alternative motives. But when I can pay for difficulty settings, I never know if I'm being "reasonably" challenged or being milked.

If you enjoy the given challenges of this game, good for you. I think many of the critics do, too. However, for them (and me) it's a matter of principle, because we fear that the situation will get worse - ultimately leading to the mobile gaming industry that uses all of humanity's knowledge of psychology to make people spend more money than they can afford.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Your argument is correct, however it doesn't apply to DD2 since the difficulty of acquiring things that are being sold for real money is exactly the same from the first game. If it wasn't the case I would agree 100% with you.

I do think it is weird the fact they are selling these things, it is quite ridiculous. However, If they wanted to make a lot of money, they didn't think a lot about it considering that the items that increase your carry capacity are wayyy more interesting and tempting that any of the current ones. Lost opportunity I suppose.