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  • As Dragon's Dogma 2 launched on PC Thursday evening, a previously hidden suite of microtransactions became available for purchase.
  • Things you can buy for the single player ARPG include fast travel points, Rift Crystals for hiring Pawns and buying special items, appearance change and revival consumables, a special camping kit that weighs less than normal ones, and a few others.
  • In response to the microtransactions, Dragon's Dogma 2 is being review bombed, with the game currently sitting at "Mostly Negative" on Steam.
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Damn... I was really close to pre-ordering this one and I held off basically just because I wanted to wait for information about the Steam Deck compatibility. So glad I didn't pre-order. I figured all of the glowing reviews that came out earlier this week would have mentioned secret microtransactions, but it seems like this was a very nefarious bait and switch. I like to give the benefit of the doubt and apply Hanlon's Razor, but it really feels like this was a deliberate and sinister act.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (29 children)

For the character thing, as long as you don't care about restarting you can delete your save and force steam to overwrite your cloud save.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2054970/discussions/0/4289188517340869363/

The rest is absolute bullshit and I hope Capcom gets shredded for this travesty... I'm the type to give a game a chance, and I will play this, but holy shit the greed is disgustingggg

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[–] [email protected] 193 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Imagine putting microtransactions, paid character edit vouchers, Denuvo, and anti-cheat into a $70 single player only game. They know what's happening, they're just trying to shift blame onto the community.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...putting microtransactions, paid character edit vouchers, Denuvo, and anti-cheat into a $70 single player only game

This reads like satire wtf

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (10 children)

They almost got me with preorder last night, but I was like nah I'll just wait and see in the morning. I love how i've been reading for weeks that "it's good they made fast travel hard", like preparing us for a fast travel MTX. Or it's the greatest character creator of all time, but to edit after you have to spend more money - the game is basically $100 canadian. Absurd.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Fuck, really? I mean, I'm not like a die-hard fan of the game(s) or anything, but the first one is still pretty enjoyable. And it's $5 on steam.

And it's a totally complete game, with an in-game barber/character customizer. You can't change your character's body type though, only the hair and skin colors/styles.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Don't forget the performance. One review was saying it's so bad that a dragon was speaking before his animation started playing.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

How's dragons dogma 2? ... To shreds you say... And how about the community... To shreds you say ...

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago (1 children)

lol. First it had denuvo and now microtransacrions? pathetic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is a pidcast that i like and they both praised the game and got sponsored by Capcom. I think i have to sit out the next episode, because i kinda don't want to hear them vwing apologetic towards capcom.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nobody knew about the micro transactions until right before launch, to be fair

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn what a shame looked bad ass. Oh well was not going to pick it up until I finished the first one (if I do since I dropped it within a couple hours....)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The first one takes a bit to get into, but once you're on it it's pretty fun and addicting.

If at least to see where the story goes.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Your character is stored online because of the online functionality, so I think so

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

it is not online only but has drnuvo so you have to connectto the ibternrt reghlarly

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They got what they deserved for hating on Denuvo - pirate scum! /s

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

They were casting spells

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago

Ermahgerd that’s herrbl.

[–] [email protected] 362 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being review bombed

No, it's not. Review bombing is a reaction caused by an extrinsic factor. DD2 is being reviewed negatively because of what's built into the game.

[–] [email protected] 153 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, too many “journalists” chuck around the term review bombed to mean when a AAA game gets a load of (deserved) hate.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Good journalists go back, edit their original review to call out the bait and switch of hiding the microtransactions from reviewers, and adjust their score accordingly with microtransactions taken into accout.

And release a follow up "article" just letting people know what happened and that they've updated the review, so it doesn't fly under people's radar.

Seriously, reviewers need to stop softballing when this shit happens. It's one thing for review copies to maybe be missing the final coat of polish. It's something completely different to completely leave out a feature known to be contreversial in an attempt to pump up scores, then turn it on after the initial wave of buyers can no longer return their purchase. Not like they spontaneously developed this shit since review copies went out.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

It's sad that Japanese developers (and Japanese people in general) have no idea what is going on in the outside world, and are therefore always 10-20 years behind societal development. I remember going there when Pasmo (rechargeable card instead of buying ticket stubs from machines for the subway) was relatively new and having a very proud Japanese person explain to me that Japan was the most convenient place in the world to live because of this. This was in 2011. Fuckers still go to 7/11 to pay their bills.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not saying you're wrong, but this seems about equal to the shit Western developers pull on their game releases nowadays

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, for years there Capcom was trying to be the next Activision

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

And for some reason you still can't charge transport cards online or with a credit/debit card if you don't have a japanese phone. Think that's coming in 2035 at this rate? 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Something was off with the way fast travel worked but I didn't expect they'd try to fucking sell it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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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