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I have high hopes for my enjoyment of Dragons Dogma 2. I like the original conceptually but found it's execution to be lackluster enough that I bounced off it.

Unfortunately I've been hearing some bad things about DD2. Bad optimization/performance, all the microtransactions and greed. Unfortunate.

Unfortunately I've been hearing some bad things about DD2. Bad optimization/performance, all the microtransactions and greed. Unfortunate.

While the performance is an understandable thing to worry about (it's apparently becoming the new "Can it run Crysis?"), from what I've heard the microtransactions are all for stuff that you can easily & readily get through normal gameplay, and it literally just for people who want that stuff ASAP.

It's a bit of a both - while all the things are available through normal meaning like DMC5, selling QoL stuff like character customization or fast travel in an open-world RPG with MTX surely doesn't do anything except raise some brows and worsening the marketing for your game from the players, especially when it's a full-price title that cost 70$ at the base price... let alone single-player one.

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While the performance is an understandable thing to worry about (it's apparently becoming the new "Can it run Crysis?"), from what I've heard the microtransactions are all for stuff that you can easily & readily get through normal gameplay, and it literally just for people who want that stuff ASAP.

It's a bit of a both - while all the things are available through normal meaning like DMC5, selling QoL stuff like character customization or fast travel in an open-world RPG with MTX surely doesn't do anything except raise some brows and worsening the marketing for your game from the players, especially when it's a full-price title that cost 70$ at the base price... let alone single-player one.

Look, I do agree that Capcom can be a bit ridiculous when it comes to MTX, but Dragon's Dogma 2 is becoming a whipping boy just because MTX exists for it, not because Capcom's actually nickel & diming players by forcing them to buy stuff. If everything that's available via MTX is also available just by playing the game, then the entire purpose of the MTX is simply to appease those who are impatient & don't actually want to take the time to enjoy the game on its own.

It's a bit of a both - while all the things are available through normal meaning like DMC5, selling QoL stuff like character customization or fast travel in an open-world RPG with MTX surely doesn't do anything except raise some brows and worsening the marketing for your game from the players, especially when it's a full-price title that cost 70$ at the base price... let alone single-player one.

If that’s the case why did Monster Hunter Rise and World both have character editing mtx go on to sell 25 and 14 million copies respectively?

Even the last four RE games had stuff like this and those games sales weren’t impacted in any notable way by fan apathy towards DLC & Microtransactions.

I don't feel "other games do scummy DLC so this is okay" is a good argument. It's okay to complain about it in DD2 for being the newest one to do it. Same with the argument you can earn stuff in-game (supposedly) and the paying money is just for convenience. That's the whole gotcha with battle passes. Time VS Money. Spend 100 hours to get something or pay 20 dollars. All it does is enable and help make these practices normalized and incentivize devs to create game that waste the player's time and nudge them into spending more money. If you don't care then sure, enjoy the game all you like, but people are free to point out how bad this stuff is.

I just like how people have spent the last year pissing all over a game like Starfield for questionable gameplay design and technical issues but little to complain about the game’s premium content. Now here comes Dragon Dogma 2 with similar issues but people are choosing to primarily piss all over the game for an issue that’s at the bottom of the totem pole of the game’s issues and not even a new wrinkle as I mentioned previously.