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Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[+] -17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"how many companions you have"

????? Renting companions of your level has always been free, they only cost rift crystals if they are higher than you. Killing strong monsters and getting your pawn rented give plenty resources.

The character creation tome is easy to get, idk what to tell you.

If you want to throw horseshit to a wall, not this one please. If you had played the game you wouldn't have even mentioned half of what you did.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    “They only cost rift crystals if they’re a higher level than you”

    Ah yes this is additional value and content that you should pay money for, right? It’s not core gameplay to recruit companions regardless of their level like in almost every fucking game I’ve ever played right?

    Imagine licking boot so hard that you actually believe this

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Rift crystals are earned by playing just like the first game. Their only purpose is to hire higher level pawns, but you earn them when people pay for your pawn or you complete their quests. It's part of the interplay of players exchange pawns.

    Recent Capcom games have all done this where it's a great game and right on release they stuff a bunch of micro transactions in for in-game currency but you would have to be an absolute chud to buy any of it because it's so trivial to earn.

    DMCV did the same thing with trying to sell red orbs, the primary upgrade currency, but if you didn't see people complain about it online, you wouldn't even notice it in game.

    They are ticking a checkbox for the suits.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They are ticking a checkbox for the suits.

    Yeah that’s like the whole problem, not a triviality. I’m sure DD2 is fun. Ive watched a lot of it streamed. Seems cool. I’m not gonna buy it because they did this shit, same reason I didn’t buy DMCV and haven’t bought a Capcom game in years. Stop rewarding scummy companies.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, shit, people are calling Dragon's Dogma 2 "DD2"? This will get very confusing with Darkest Dungeon 2 having released last year.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Rift crystals are an in game currency, you don't need to pay money for it! I've been recruiting companions 1-4 lvls above me all the time, I'm lvls 30 now, with the in game currency. The higher the pawn is you get less exp so it's not something that you should do anyway.

    Imagine thinking that renting a LVL 200 companion is core gameplay. Geez...

    This game is an improvement over the first one in almost all sides, with great content. It's stupid reading all this takes from people that clearly have not played it, let alone the original.

    And before you mention the eternal ferrystone from the original, that came with the expansion, not the release.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It’s ok that I can buy in game currency for my singer player game! It’s fine! It’s good actually! Recruiting high level companions, a THING THEY BUILT INTO THE BASE GAME DELIBERATELY THEN LET YOU PAY EXTRA FOR, using in game currency I can buy isn’t pay2win. Recruiting companions isn’t even core gameplay if they’re strong enough, bro.

    It’s ok that Capcom sent reviewers a game without micro transactions that were in retail! That’s fine, it’s fine! The microtransactions were paying for now were expansions before so it’s uh…it’s better, yeah. I actually prefer my $70 USD single player games to have gameplay benefitting microtransactions.

    You sound like you’ve swallowed the boot my guy. You’re so far gone you can’t see the way back. Glad you’re enjoying the game, though. Sounds like it was worth it to you.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago

    I'm gonna ignore all that stuff you extrapolated from my strawman.

    Anyway, of course I'm enjoying it! I loved the original and this is the same and more. This is a great game with BS corporate microtransactions sprinkled in. I agree that the MTXs are BS, but saying that the game was designed around baiting the player into using them outs you as someone that wouldn't enjoy the first one nor the intended gameplay, so it's kinda pointless dosucssing further.

    Have fun lying to yourself about the intended mechanics I guess.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re not supposed to actually know anything about the game here. This is purely a thread for circlejrrking based off of what YouTubers said

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Full price games with microtransactions are negative, end of story. Everybody saying otherwise grew up after they where implemented in every other game so they don't know better.

    They got trained, like animals, to swallow that shit.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    I grew up after them. I think they’re fine in certain circumstances. If the game is supposed to have free content updates for weeks and months and whatever else after launch then yeah sure, why not

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