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Dragon's Dogma 2 launches to "Mostly Negative" review bombing after microtransactions reveal, and man, what a bummer (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/games

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What you need to know

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] -56 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right? How else would this free-to-play game make its money?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

Gotta admit its a really bad look to launch with 20 microtransaction DLC's on a singleplayer game though.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

While I understand that, I'm kinda sick of game companies trying to sell cheat codes in an already full priced game. It incentives creating a frustrating gameplay loop which can be bypassed for money.

If the game was a live service game, where there is expected updates (and thus development cost/server cost) then it could maybe be okay, but it is walking the line between full priced game and free to play game and I'm still figuring out if I'm okay with that or not.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 9 points 8 months ago

Naw they hid the micro transactions in the developer notes so reviewers wouldn't find them. They knew what they were up to and capcom had been pretty bad about their games and monetisation. This is scuzzy and i hope they get reamed for their underhandedness