I saw everyone flipping out over the pointless microtransactions in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Why am I not seeing the same level of hate for this, or more? This means that the content is already complete and in the game, yet simply made inaccessible by way of timed release and possibly paywall.
No-one is screaming about Kill the Justice League, because the collective verdict is that it is so trash, it was totally dismissed back before it even launched.
No-one will give it a second look, because it didn’t even get a first.
Because this game was a known cash grab since before release and everyone knew it would be shit.
Dragons Dogma 1 was a largely beloved if not hugely known game, devoid of this blatant cash grab behaviour.
We hold better things up to higher standards.
The funny thing to me is, Dragon’s Dogma 1, in its original release on Xbox 360 and ps3, had microtransactions. You could buy rift crystals, lots of cosmetics, quests, etc. Then they released Dark Arisen as a complete collection sort of thing all dlc included, but I think you could still buy more for that too, mainly just the rift crystals.
Besides that, it seems like every single Capcom game in the last 10 years or something has had mountains of paid dlc, like buying proud souls and blue orbs in the DMC games (consumable upgrade materials), upgrades in resident evil games, all sorts of stuff. Not that I’m defending Capcom’s actions, I don’t like what they do here, but I just wonder why it was Dragon’s Dogma 2 that broke the camel’s back instead of any of their other games.
I dont see buying stones any worse than buying bundles of wood in black flag. People like to bring up Ubisoft to bitch about their micro transactions but in their early games when they did it no one gave a shit. Black flag is still talked up as one of the last great AC’s. I’m fairly certain brotherhood had micro transactions as well and is still a favourite in the series.
It’s the difference between a game designed to be a live service (micro transaction heavy) game and a game focused on single player injecting micro transactions.
I’m not surprised when fortnite has micro transactions, but would be livid if Mario did it.
Losing interest? How do they even have any in the first place?
Wb just needs to be disbanded at this point, TV, movies, video games, everything. Let the ip go to someone with a brain.
