What you need to know
- As Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched on PC Thursday evening, a previously hidden suite of microtransactions became available for purchase.
- Things you can buy for the single player ARPG include fast travel points, Rift Crystals for hiring Pawns and buying special items, appearance change and revival consumables, a special camping kit that weighs less than normal ones, and a few others.
- In response to the microtransactions, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being review bombed, with the game currently sitting at “Mostly Negative” on Steam.
I’m going to be downvoted to hell, but I’m loving the game, and all the mtx and complaints about the easy to travel and such are from people that didn’t play the original, honestly. This game is like the original but better, maintaining the spirit of the original.
Yes, you could buy revival stones in the original too.
The legit complains are the performance issues and crashes, but anything else… Idk what to tell you, they knew that the slow gameplay that is expected of the player would not be well received but wanted to conserve the original feel, so if you want to bypass the original feel go for it. I won’t.
I think you’re missing the point.
The fact that these microtransactions were sort of hidden by reviewers and then added just a day before launch is shitty.
And if the game was designed to not have easy fast travel, they should have stuck to that vision and not introduced mtx to get over it. Offering these things to players shows a lack of adherence to their own design principles and instead shows their greed.
The negative reviews are well deserved.
I think you’re missing what dragon’s dogma is. The system everyone is so fake outraged about is literally exactly the same as in the first game. Like why would you buy a sequel to a game of you dislike one if the core mechanics of the first one THIS much? It’s absolutely baffling to me how this fake hive mind outrage is rampaging every game related discussion at the moment. Nobody seems to have any sort of introspective capability here.
The micro transactions are shit and they were shit in the first game too. I just can’t fathom WHY you would get this game if you hated that so much.
i hate microtransactions, but as they go, this implementation is fairly benign.