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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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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] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've never heard of your definition before. It was "review bombing" when Payday 2 added MTX to the game, which I think was one of the early uses of the term even.

Review bombing is when people organize and get other people to review a game poorly for something they're opposed to, rather than the product actually being bad as a whole.

This isn't to say it isn't deserved for DD2. I have seen tons of reviews of bad performance and things like that. Also one where someone got stuck in the floor and had to delete their save to be able to play the game again. The MTX stuff mostly sounds overblown from my experience with DD:DA, but it does suck it's there are all. I can't tell you if it deserves mostly negative or not because I haven't played it.