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I think they've tainted the name enough already, it's a bit too late IMO
Yet another unfortunately botched Sequel to a fantastic and immersive first game
I'm interested in knowing what your issues with it are. As someone who never played the first, I found it a pretty incredible and innovative RPG. Probably the biggest disappointment is just that I wish there were more monsters to fight, which I understand was a criticism of the first game until it's Dark Arisen expansion.
I'm really speaking for myself here, but my main issues were the micro transactions that are in the game. Before the game was released, it was announced that you can use real money to purchase wakestones to revive yourself, rift crystals to hire stronger pawns, a portcrystal to fast travel, and even to change your character's appearance (as well as some other items). After the game's release people quickly realized that buying these were not necessary at all and they could all be obtained easily through normal play, but the damage was already done. It left a sour taste in my mouth and made it seem like the devs or the publisher were not confident in the game and felt like they needed to add a way to milk some more cash out of the people who bought it.
I mean, that's just every Capcom release now. It has nothing to do with their confidence or anything, they just add pointless microtransactions because some suit at the company thinks it's a good idea. It's the same shit with Devil May Cry 5, all the recent Resident Evil games, literally everything they published. If that's honestly the only thing keeping you from playing Dragon's Dogma 2, you're making a mistake.
That's an incredibly bad faith argument.
It's not really much of an argument, it's just stating facts. I'm not for the microtransactions, I think it's confusing that they would add such a thing at all, but they've consistently been doing it for all of their published games for nearly half a decade now. I've just chalked it up to a cultural difference since Capcom is an Eastern publisher, and on the sliding scale of scummy microtransactions it's pretty close to the bottom.
What's to be confused about? They make money from it. People complain about it online, but the vast majority of players don't care.
Their implementation of it just feels like they don't actually want you to buy the microtransactions. In Dragon's Dogma 2 for example, one of the most useful things you could buy is a Port Crystal, since it lets you setup a location to fast travel to and they're reasonably rare to find. However, you can only buy one maximum, and you don't really need them at all in the early game. By the time you would need one, you'll have collected like 3-4, and getting an extra one would be honestly pointless. You would think that they'd change gameplay in some fashion to encourage you to spend money, but after finishing the game I had tons of all the stuff they were trying to sell.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I agree, their implementation is weird, but I like it that way since there's less temptation. As you said, I never felt like I was missing out on anything by not buying any of the MTX.
Saying it's not an argument seems an even more bad faith argument frankly.