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[–] RonnieB 163 points 9 months ago (33 children)

Holy shit, micro transactions for fast travel? What the fuck

[–] Hominine 162 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

From a review:

The explorers camping kit is probably the most egregious of the "DLC" So to explain, as you and your pawns battle you take damage, take enough damage and there is a portion of your HP you can't recover with magic or items. So you'll either have to go rest at an inn or find a bonfire to set up camp. To make camp you'll need the camping supplies item, the ones I have found so far are very heavy in weight, which means your party won't have much space for loot. The explorers camping kit DLC will give you 1 camping supply and make the "explorers camping kit" available to purchase within the in-game shops, and it will be much lighter in weight than the normal camping supplies. Capcom have purposely made the experience far more tedious than it need be in their fully priced AAA game so we would spend the extra money on their quality of life DLC.

Fuck this game.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is literally "make the Battlefield player pay money to reload their gun."

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[–] Chailles 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait a minute, hold up, this wasn't in the game unless you have that?

[–] TrousersMcPants 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It is, afaik all the microtransactions are available in game, most of them are even very very easily available. Capcom has been doing this for years in all their games, even Monster Hunter Rise has the character edit voucher bullshit, but people have finally called them out for it.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Y'all still preordering video games? I thought we had talked about this.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Worse. Not sure about micro transactions but the dlc was released on day 2 with no prior information or heads up. Truly scum of earth behaviour.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Out of the 25 English language reviews of Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s PC version on Metacritic, only two mention the microtransactions.

What the fuck.

[–] Sarmyth 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They got bait and switched is my understanding. The game they played included the content from the micro transactions without them being informed they weren't part of the base game.

[–] CleoTheWizard 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This kind of behavior should be enough for outlets to blacklist developers. But since they don’t/wont/can’t band together to do that, they have no say in how games are reviewed.

Not mentioning micro transactions is equivalent to not mentioning the price. Why review a game if you don’t know if it will be $50 or $100 at launch?

Capcom basically asked them to review a game that doesn’t even exist, they asked them to review a dev build.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago

I refunded it because it ran like shit. This just makes me even sadder.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

how did we end up in a reality where people are actively defending a 70$ release priced game that is single player AND has micro-transactions. A game like this should be thrown into the garbage and everyone should be unified on that. Like it being single player ALONE should make it so it doesn't have MT's but it has both SP and a 70$ price point?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How and why companies do this, I don't understand. Way to kill what would've been a great game

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Money. Even if 5 people scream and get a refund or don't buy it there will be 100 that don't care and just pay. It's the same with every bad thing like preorder, dlc after dlc, microtransactions for cosmetics more expensive than an full title indie game or pay to win in a full price triple a game (like star wars battlefront 2). In the end the group of people just buying is bigger.

[–] filister 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mostly negative is a terrible ad by itself. I am buying only games with either very positive or overwhelmingly positive ratings. Those reviews are tanking their sales I am sure.

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[–] xkforce 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is shocking how many people there are in this thread that try to downplay this. And the sad thing is, most if not all of them arent getting paid a dime to shill.

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[–] fox2263 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yarrrrr. There be no such troubles on the high seas

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[–] BleatingZombie 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Currently, the shill /u/[email protected] makes up 22 of the 116 comments in this thread and all are baselessly defending this game

If you have an opinion, /u/[email protected] doesn't want to hear it and will tell you you're wrong

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I don't care if they're for stuff that easily obtainable, I don't care that all of the other capcom games have been doing it too, I don't care that its a fun game. $70 and having ANY MTX is bullshit.

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