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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As I write this, Capcom’s new ARPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 is now officially playable on PC through Steam, with the game slated to go live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles in just a few hours.
“Then, after pre-purchasing the Deluxe Edition, I went to install it today and saw a whole page dedicated to it’s Micro Transactions in the store,” wrote player Superius.
The former monetizes the ability to fast travel wherever you want in the game world — Portcrystals are extremely rare to find in gameplay — while the latter’s random nature essentially turns changing your Pawn’s inclination into a slot machine you can spend $2 to “re-roll.”
We’ve only been able to find two Art of Metamorphosis tomes for sale at a single NPC’s shop despite finishing the game, for example, which suggests that there may be a limit on the number of times you can change your appearance unless you’re prepared to fork over some cheddar.
In the past I’ve received review guides that included developer explanations with PR language that I felt might be designed to try influence my opinion of a game.
It’s a slippery slope to ex-EA’s John Riccitiello and his infamous “I want to sell bullets in Battlefield” microtransaction quip of yesteryear.
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