this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
393 points (96.0% liked)

PC Gaming

8655 readers
682 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
393
Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions (www.downtimebros.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
118 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like it the way it is, makes leaving town to quest and adventure have another layer of strategy. If someone wants to bypass that strategy layer with money then so be it. I certainly would prefer that it be a mod rather than a MTX, and will definitely not be buying any regardless.

This has been solved for a long time. If you want to force people to leave the town to quests and adventure just stick to Morrowind style fast travel where fast travel doesn't go everywhere. If you want people to be able to fast travel everywhere then let them fast travel everywhere. If people can fast travel everywhere but don't want to fast travel everywhere then it's a single player game, they're free to make up their own rules on how they want to play.

There's no justifiable reason to slap a price tag on fast travel and that's the issue most people have. The fact that it was removed from review builds shows that even the devs know how fucking shitty it is. No need to defend a shitty practice.

[โ€“] Jax 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's also no justifiable reason the same people bitching about Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX said fucking nothing about the RE4 remakes literal pay2win MTX. What was the RE4 remakes review count?

Oh, right, 97% positive with almost 90k reviews. (*On Steam)

This is not a new phenomenon. Capcom has been monetizing their games like this since DMC4. Capcom also makes really good games and is one of the few AAA devs that still delivers.

You people acting like this is a slippery slope are just really, really slow.