I so badly want this game but I refuse to pick it up until they fix some of these issues. I can no longer abide by these shitty launches and anti-consumer decisions. And it's eating me up inside because this is one of my most anticipated games of a decade.
Same brother. I've come to learn with age the "joy of missing out". Save money, save time, save heartache. I'll play it when I want to, if it's good price and it actually works.
I think you were right when you said "we just want the quality of service we deserve". I truly believe that big AAA devs are giving us exactly what we deserve, or more to the point, what we put up with. Gamers of old knew what quality games looked like. New gamers did not. However after releases such as BG3 and Elden Ring more and more new gamers are understanding that games can be a lot better than the crap they have been absorbing in the recent past.
You really want to hurt them? Buy it and refund it. A refund costs THEM money on transaction fees. You pay the fee when you buy. They have to refund the fee and pay another transaction fee on top of the refund.
Luckily the developers implemented only MTX that have 0 impact on gameplay or the game itself. It satisfies the greedy execs while having literally 0 impact on the players experience. Win-win. Yet here we are jumping on the hate brigade because our favorite youtubers like click-bait headlines without telling the full story or even playing the fucking game. Not a single MTX for sale has any incentive to purchase outside players wanting to voluntarily support devs in return for a tiny boost to their single-player experience. Fully opt-in MTX hurt noone, and if you don't like them then vote with your wallet. Wanting to take away player agency because you personally don't want to partake is some backwards-ass boomer logic. Leave the option there for players who want to support devs or want the limited boost that DD2 offers with MTX (there literally aren't even any repeatable purchases, just a limited stock of tiny items you can easily earn in-game). Please think for yourself.
@tanklike4413 Says the one on the hate brigade replying to every comment with some quirky reddit gotcha. Dude get a life. We're allowed to expect better than what we've been getting. Genuinely pathetic 😂
@@tanklike4413Do you seriously think the money from micro transactions goes to the devs the majority of the time? Are you that ignorant to the ways of businesses?
I'm sure the people having problems love the smug "game runs fine for me". Read the steam reviews it isn't running fine for lots of people. @@Startrance85
@@Startrance85 If the game chugs in towns then it doesn't "run fine". And whether you have a 3090 or not is irrelevant, since it is a CPU issue and has nothing to do with your GPU.
@@Seoul_SoldierYeah read somewhere that the CPU load is insane in the game, running a Intel 10900K so should be fine i guess. But i dont have fps/latency problems in the open world
Ive got an rtx 3060, i5 11th gen with 16 ram and i get 20 fps at best in the capital, never since getting my pc had i issues running games at 90 fps at the minimum until DD2, even with all settings on low. RDR2, C2077, Elden Ring, FFXIV, among others ive ran comfortably at 120+
The executives at Capcom repeatedly, year after year, put the game designers and developers at capcom in a shitty position and took a dump on their hard work by gross mismanagement, shortsightedness, and underhandedness. They repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of success, be it from the terrible release state of PC port of monster hunter world, to the sorry state of monster hunter rise initial release, to the current day failure of a release of dragon's dogma 2. They had a chance to establish themselves as THE only surviving triple A studio that is still putting out games that players can safely just buy from without worry about all the issues plaguing all the other major triple companies, like Blizzard, Ubisosft and co, but instead chose to take a dump on themselves. If 2023's baldur's gate 3 release signifies the end of the reign of triple A as the only source of mega-sellers in the video game industry, 2024 seems to herald the death of triple A studios as companies that are able to put out quality games that sell well, as even capcom, who has a track record of putting out solid games, have sunk lower and lower every single year to the point where their reputation and the gaming experience of their major titles are tarnished.
That’s what the biggest kick in the nuts is to me. The people responsible for any shitty aspect of this game are never the ones that feel the wrath of consumers it’s always the developer meat shield. Capcom execs are fucking soulless ghouls.
True. DD2 would have been the first time I bought a AAA game since Guardians of the Galaxy, which I regretted buying too. I was going to pay $70 which is More than any game I ever bought, but I'm happy I didn't pre-Order. They didn't even offer a cheaper Pre Order price.
"They had the chance to establish themselves as the ONLY surviving triple A studio that players can just safely buy without worrying about any issues" Excuse me, FromSoftware??!! As far as I am aware, Armored Core 6 was released last year with the most smoothest and stable launch not seen in the triple A landscape in a long time.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 fair enough . I was gonna say fromsoftware too . But i never finished armored core 6 .i got bored after maybe 10 or 11 levels . It was my first armored core . And i didnt like it . But i dont blame them it happened alot with me last year .
If we want the end microtransactions, we need to stop buying (or return them) once we know they are there. Until this happens, keep expecting them. It's that simple.
The problem with micro-transactions is the inevitability that studios will strip out fundamental pieces of the game to sell as DLC. It has already been done, and it will only get worse if we allow it.
Considering Capcom has been doing this for over 15 years and most games are still playable without MTX to the point where some people don't even realize that beloved games in the past were riddled with them kinda proves your statement factually incorrect. I agree that microtransactions are slippery slope, but if they have managed to stay on the top of that slope for 15 years, it's probably better that I let them stand there and only really worry about complaining when they actually start sliding down that slope.
@@SherrifOfNottingham capcom may have been 'doing it for 15 years', but it wasn't ok then, and it isn't ok now. a lot of people have now simply drawn a line in the sand after the mtx was snuck in post review process. There's a reason I haven't bought their recent releases like DMC5, RE4 remake etc, and it isn't because the games are bad. At least with Monster Hunter World and Rise they restricted their gouging to cosmetics. I can just about stomach that given that they are technically live service like multiplayer titles. This is a single player RPG. Full price. MTX has no place here and that's not even talking about the utter shitshow that is performance, not only on PC. If the execs keep whining that these games are too expensive, then they have two options. Validate the price by making finished all inclusive products worth the cost of entry or get out of the industry and let teams that know how to, do so.
@@SherrifOfNottingham I'd rather they get off the slope entirely. I didn't like the option to buy red and blue orbs in DMC, and I don't like this either. I will never understand why people keep defending this bullshit practice when any other company would get absolutely skewered for it. Imagine if CDPR let you buy cyberware or eddies with real money. Or if From Soft started selling AC parts in Armored Core. Or if Larian Studios sold in-game gold and spell scrolls as DLC. The fury across the internet would be immeasurable. But they didn't do that. Because unlike Capcom, some companies still have standards. MTX has no place in singleplayer games. Period. Whether they've been doing it for 15 years or 15 minutes people are done putting up with this shit. Especially when the game releases in a state where a lot of people can't even play the stupid thing in the first place.
@@AtraCulpa In all honesty, restricting mtx to cosmetics you can't get naturally in game is worse than mtx based around consumable items you can get in game with very little ease.
They had the perfect example set for them just last year. Baldur's Gate 3 came out last year with 0 microtransactions and a MUCH more stable release. It was praised by players and critics alike, and Larian made BANK. There was proof that success can be achieved via GOOD business practices, and they still dropped the fucking ball.
yeah dont blame the devs... blame the company... that's why i always pirate Ubisoft games: I hate Ubisoft. I guess i need to add capcom to the list? gonna wait 2 weeks to see what they do with DG2 before checking if they need to be added to the "always pirate" list
hmm...I love the game to bits but Im pretty sure BG 3 wasnt a stable release...the fact that they released constant hotfixes and big patches...if anything its just workable on launch
Imagine McDonald's charging you for the bag, charging you for the tray to carry your food to the table, the wrappers, the napkins, straws, bathrooms, ect. At some point, you can't say something is standard, then remove it thinking you could get extra money by doing less work. That is the issue. There use to be a time when companies would undercut each other, they would give you more for an equal or less price. The government was designed to keep companies from getting into bed with each other, but once congress started getting paid by the companies, they stopped caring.
This is probably the last Capcom game I will buy. They put out an early character creator with 5 slots for an arisen and 5 slots for a main pawn. That I don't have at least 5 profiles to start the game is Capcom demonstrating their contempt for their clients. This is Konami levels of bullshit.
Really, for all the (deserved) outrage over performance and mtx, this is actually the thing that I’m most annoyed and shocked by. They make probably the greatest character creator imaginable and then only allow you to play as one character, ever. This is a ROLE PLAYING game - stop telling me to “get over it” you can change vocations whenever you want. Maybe people want to have a scary looking thief, a gorgeous sorceress, an old mage and a huge bearded fighter. You’re telling me to experience all the classes,I just need to keep bending around my one and only character? - absolute BS. Name one other RPG made in the last 20 years that doesn’t let you have multiple campaigns?
@@justinmills1721 I was already meh about getting the game due to Capcoms war on mods and then the MTX thing but this is the part that really ensured I do not buy the game
@@Ashgan9 if you understood that modding games is illegal in Japan, not the legal grey area that it is in the west, you'd understand why Capcom spends effort blocking mods for their games.
I remain convinced that Denuvo loses more customers than it gains by preventing piracy. Sure some people might buy your game because they can’t pirate it; many more won’t buy it because it has invasive software and performance issues. They must figure it’s worth it, but I feel like with this backlash Capcom would have been further ahead to dump Denuvo & MTX and proclaim their decisions as a selling point, rather than downplay those things and piss off players. Word of mouth is a powerful marketing tool (as we’ve seen with Helldivers 2 and BG3) and Capcom threw that away.
The stupid thing is that game piracy has been measurably marginalized to the point of not being significant anymore. People will gladly pay for convenience. DRM free versions of games exist on other platforms. GOG is still around, and despite Baldur's Gate 3 being sold on GOG without any DRM, it's still selling millions of copies on Steam, and that holds true for any new game released on GOG (that being that it's DRM free release there doesn't have any lasting effect on sales on other platforms). According to the dumbass execs who enforce Denuvo, releasing on GOG should be a death sentence for sales, that it would lead to exactly one copy sold, with the rest of the world pirating that same DRM-free copy. But that's simply not true, because they are so delusional they don't realize that most consumers will gladly pay a fair price for a product that they find value in. I could totally start pirating basically any game I want, I have the knowledge and I do it for TV shows and movies all the time. But rather than do that, I support the developers, buy the games, and gain the convenience and peace of mind that all I need to do is open Steam and I know I have an up-to-date safe copy of the game that I legally have a license to play. And I'll say right now most consumers aren't savvy enough to pirate games safely, so it's not even an option for the vast majority of a game's audience.
@@KyleDavis328 Recent posts on Steam regarding denuvo are extremely volatile and aggressive, basically making the claim that if you think denuvo isn't a literal gift from god, then you're a pirate who's just mad you can't steal the game. Honestly the vitriol being unleashed on anyone who criticizes the game is a big turn off for me. From a psychological standpoint... it's not a great sign. Maybe capcom fans are just deranged, but it seems to me they ALSO realize what's been done to the game they wanted so bad and are just lashing out. I'm extremely interested to see how this turns out in a week or two, and in a month. Starfield fans had the SAME reaction to criticism in the first few days or so of launch. Now where is it? lol. But hey, if the games gets fixed or a 'dark arisen' type of special edition with no MTX or w.e. comes out maybe that one will be worth getting... eventually. I'd say that I hope they reverse the MTX decision and fix the lag straight away but I'm not insane. Their steam post said they "would look into performance improvements in the future"... that doesn't inspire confidence.
Conjecture. Some people will NOT buy the game if it has no DRM and share it with their buddies after each update so they don't have to buy it, that's how real life works.
A game can be great, and have a terrible launch. I can understand liking the game for what it offers, I loved DD 1. However, we cannot continue to make excuses for games releasing in this state. Regardless of if you’re having fun on your PS5 or Xbox, we should not forgive a company for releasing a product that simply doesn’t work. Not taking away from people’s fun, but it’s 2024 and our standards have to be higher than this. The amount of people saying the performance issues are not a problem baffle me.
The product works and it works well, not our fault PC's aren't standardized so every person has different quality PCs with different parts that run differently
@@DDSix66no because when pc’s that are objectively more powerful than the consoles are having performance issues that means it’s the games fault and poor optimization
@@DDSix66You’re just flat out wrong. You should not blame hardware that works perfectly fine when it’s the responsibility of the studios to make it work. If you’re going to sell a product for 70$, it needs to work. There’s no point in blaming pc players for the companies shortcomings. We as gamers and fans of games should stand up for eachother when this kind of thing happens. When a lot of us lose, we all lose and companies can continue to be anti consumer and get away with this nonsense. The game has issues and you can enjoy it while acknowledging certain things should not be accepted. However this mentality you have is exactly why this keeps happening with lots of games.
@@DDSix66 I mean it literally says the recommended specs your computer should have to run the game on steam but people with 4090's are even having problems. Clearly don't know what your talking about.
tbh our standards should probably be lower now than ever. games are harder to develop now, more expensive to fund development, way more difficult to standardize across the thousands of different combinations of parts, take way more man power. there is a much higher likelihood that mistakes will be made. this isn't to say people shouldn't have high standards for aaa games, it's just worth taking into consideration that it's significantly more difficult to meet standards now than it was 10 years ago.
I love the fact that we're going backwards in the gaming industry, like, in technology going further but in games backwards and i love it, NO MORE GREED.
The not able to create new game save or even delete the old one thing within the game made me refund this. I will probably pick it when it’s on sale when they have sorted their shit out. It is really disappointing but I think it is a sign that I need to finish my backlog on steam.
70$ base price and 80$ for a bunch of paid extras that are now on mtx, what worst are these bot account or real npc human defending this greedy company, a cope for their impulsive buying and lack of reasons. Base price should be 50$ with all the fixes.
If you have a mid CPU don't buy it right now. I have a 5600 and the performance was in the 50fps range but dips down to 30fps frequently. Got to the pawn camp and it went below 30fps with horrible frame timing. I refunded until the performance is fixed and it's on sale for like $40. Don't ruin your first experience with this game.
I'm so glad that you appreciate the importance of what Larian is doing and spreading Swen's philosophy on making great games. It cannot be reiterated enough. As for this game, it makes me really sad. I've been more excited about DD2 than any other game, 2nd only to BG3. It's a truly unique game, and that is so rare. It's so sad what they've done to it.
"...triple A Game..." It's not a AAA game. It's not the publisher place to label a game AAA. That's the players prerogative. Gamers have labeled BG3 as AAA. That was their choice and when you look at the game you know why. DD2 is not an AAA game.
@@Ashgan9 people need to remember that modding a game in Japan is not a grey area, it's full on Illegal. So its not surprising that Japanese publishers put effort into preventing it.
100% correct on BG3. It is about balance. Give you devs time to make a good game. Set realistic goals and timeframes for personnel you have working without overworking them and burning them out. I know Cyberpunk 2077 released in bad state but it now in state it should have been and is completely amazing, but the launch still hurt it. I still play CP2077 one because it is fun and immersive but also because it is solo with no microtransactions. Really there is ZERO reason to have MTs in single player game and for that fact all games. It just reminds me of one of my core values from military. Excellence in all we do. Meaning. If you create something or do anything. It should come out feeling like you did your best and launched with minimal issues. When you say we can launch and then patch it sends message you can do mediocre and fix later. That is sad leadership message to send.
I Totally agree, I wouldn't have Pre-ordered Dragon's Dogma 2 if I knew that there were going to be Microtransactions in it & the only reason I did buy it, is because I Bought & Loved Dragon's Dogma a couple of Weeks back, so I thought lets just get it. It's a Single Player Game so there just shouldn't be any Microtransactions, Full Stop, it's that Simple.
The sheer impatience of publishes and big developer's management is hobbling their profits and they refuse to see that. Take the time to have a polished release and watch how many sales you get. Compare that to how much you lose for an unfinished launch. Now add in all those DLC sales that you will get because the game succeeded on word of mouth from that good launch. Do you see now bottom line addicts?
People who defend microtransactions by saying "oh you know it's not needed and it doesn't cause any harm" are the reason Publishers keeping injecting microtransactions in thier games.
It's not needed and doesn't cause any harm. It hasn't for any previous Capcom game, doesn't for this one, and won't for future ones. Other companies continually ramp the MTX bullshit injection, but Capcom has stayed consistent with the exact same player-friendly, win-win MTX that checks the suits boxes while not having a single effect on the player experience for the past decade+. Helldivers 2 does the same exact strategy (selling a currency you can already earn in-game easily for cheap, and doesn't force FOMO or any other incentive to actually spend) and everyone praises their monetization. DD2 does it for the 10th time in a row for Capcom games, and everyone loses their fucking minds.
In this case, if you read the items, you actually get a lesser version of what you can get in game, so there is no point in getting anything from the cash shop unless you desperatly needed to, its like they added them just to please investors that dont even play the game
@@tanklike4413 helldiver's is a very different kind of game though to be fair and different types of games have different micro transaction expectations Also the fact that they do it over and over again doesn't make it okay. It just means they do the same bad thing over and over again.
Imagine if the community had common sense ignored it to a point it was just removed from game because no one got micro transactions. Just a stupid thought by a stupid guy.
My big problem with DD2 and the reason I won't buy it. Microtransactions in a single player rpg. That means danuvo to protect their microtransactions which creates poor performance and instability. This is a known fact. That also means no mods. Company wants to protect their additional cash flow of mtx so they cannot allow any modding of the game. This is not multi-player or live service. So much potential wasted.
You could try playing the game, then you'd realize the MTX are _actually_ optional, since Japanese game development has for a long time designed their games expecting certain regions to not even have the ability to buy them.
@@SherrifOfNottingham You could just grow some self-respect and not support shitty abhorrent practices of having MTX in a SINGLE-PLAYER game but of course that would be straight up impossible for your FOMO addiction 🙄
I don't care about the MTX but the Denuvo thing is killing it for me. Its clear as day performance is suffering on any system in main cities and without Denuvo you would see allot stable FPS.
@SherrifOfNottingham you don't understand. The instability, poor performance, lack of mods....all are because of the mtx, indirectly. Without mtx there would be no reason for Danuvo which is almost certainly causing all the problems. I guarantee when a cracked version appears it will be better performing and more stable than the paid version. That is the way of DRP software.
You do know the game is modded to heck already. There's a mod selling the appearance change book for a couple golds in the first town. There's a mod unlocking smaller characters to make. There's cheatting mods all over the place. Infinite stamina, increased vocation XP gain etc... And the performance has problems on console too. I doubt they put Denuvo on those in the first place.
Larian studios head basically said there’s an endless loop we have to break if only there was an experience in a video game where you have to break an eternal loop and endure and succeed in the world that comes after
I'm a complete game dev pleb but like - how did games as old as GTAV solve the whole CPU processing mass amounts of NPCs problem 11 years ago but Capcom can barely get a medieval/fantasy world with a fraction of the NPC population running at a steady 60 fps? If the RE Engine couldn't do open world then maybe they shouldn't have used the RE Engine?
I'm only slightly less of a gamedev pleb but there are several things that contribute to the processing cost of NPCs. There's the obvious stuff like their models having a lot more detail which increases the GPU cost to render them whenever they're in your line of sight, but there's also subtler stuff like the complexity of their AI behaviors and HOW those behaviors are implemented. For example if the NPC AI has to read through a huge list of behaviors every time they do something, and every NPC that's spawned in is doing this, it can massively balloon the processing cost at the CPU end. If you implement ways to narrow down the number of behaviors certain NPCs need to sift through then you can greatly cut down the processing cycles it will take for them to do anything, and you can further cut the cost down by perhaps making it so that NPCs don't engage in processing-heavy behaviors unless the player is actually nearby them, that way you wouldn't have say NPCs halfway across the city map still soaking up as much processing power as NPCs standing right in front of the player.
check out this interview: "digital foundry kingmakers" they show how they offloaded much of the work done on cpu to the gpu. clearly, that wasn't done here.
There's something odd about the performance though. In Vermund, FPS tanks, NPCs pop in etc. But in the post-game, there's a new "city" that is equally populated, if not more populated, than any other place. Yet, the FPS remains as high as it does outside - but the NPCs still pop in! This leads me to suspect that it's not the NPCs at all that make the game chug, it's something about the cities themselves.
@@Jairion It's not odd. Not really. Decryption of data tends to be a CPU task. The more CPU bound your game, the more additional CPU load (like Decrypting files) will negatively impact the performance of the game. When you have a pile of unique assets being loaded in - that is going to require a pile of new data to be loaded up and decrypted, and if it's not being done pre-emptively, you are going to see visual artifacting like this. And what is worse - it's likely done intentionally to reduce the speed at which the game will end up being cracked. My guess is: Give it a month, Denuvo will be cracked out of the game, and Capcom will basically have to issue a patch that rips out Denuvo. It will probably be burried in the patch notes, if it is mentioned at all, and it will just be a "We fixed performance issues in regards to NPC model pop in, and some stutter issues on less powerful machines. The game should be more stable.". The only way we get rid of Denuvo is if we the community literally just stop buying games with it incorporated. Just point to Baldur's Gate 3 and say "See, popular game, sells well, doesn't have BS DRM to contend with". But publicly traded companies are stuck being ran by people who were trained and taught in the 60's and 70's as to how to run a company and... they still haven't figured out that "Stock market number go up" doesn't mean crap all if people stop buying their product. And yes: We should stop buying from some of these companies.
After watching this, I think I'll wait a while before I buy the game Thank you for the information, and for your always calm and well-argued videos I've been a subscriber for a long time (mostly lurking). I'm glad that your channel is growing so fast Keep up the very good work
Same thing happened with Hogwarts Legacy, Denuvo was in there and the CPU usage was waaay over the roof when the game released. Cracked version of the game proved that Denuvo was the main issue for the game because the FPS would be raised by 25 in my case, which is not a small number.
Absolutely phenomenal video, great dialogue. Your verbiage is superb. All this had to be said, the elephant in the room per se. I agree with you completely. Earned my sub.
At least one of them also shared that it was so inconsequential that they didn't see a point in mentioning it- not defending the micros, but the reviewers weren't maliciously or unfairly leaving out information
You have very similar concerns about the DLCs/microtransactions that I have, it motivates the developer to make the game worse to motivate us to buy items for real money to make the game good again.
Except that capcom has been doing this for over 15 years and this has never been an issue with their games. The original game that people loved literally had the same kinds of MTX, most people didn't notice or remember this, because they design the game around certain regions not having MTX available.
Thanks for summarizing exactly how I feel. The questions I have for people who defend these practices is "when will the MTX be too much for you? Are you will to accept people that will defend that?"
CoD MW2 had map packs, I see the same people that are craping on DD2, openly say they were fine with map packs. Map packs literally pay wall content. DD2, all items within an hour, are acquirable naturally. Ignorant masses.
@@Buttz2Buttz what's funny is that map packs were literally designed to fragment the community at the end of the game's lifecycle so people would buy the new game. Where as DD2's microtransactions are literally designed around the Japanese audience (because of their work culture) of people WANTING 5-10 minute time saver purchases, despite the game being so playable without them that they have previously released games in the west without the ability to purchase those microtransactions. MHW is an amazing game despite it's 500 dollars of DLC (and thats without including the iceborn expansion)
@@SherrifOfNottingham Yep, considering the western market, and their inability to focus for long, you'd think they would be happy. I mean, people in the west complained Elden RIng didn't have the ability to buy souls, so they started a market to sell and buy themselves. Like what? I don't understand people anymore.
i wish capcom lock ferrystone and port crystal exclusive to mtx and you can't get in the game normally so you have to buy it to fast travel so the hater can cry about it legitimately instead of crying about something like this nonsense LOL@@Buttz2Buttz
the combat and story is what makes me hooked, I remember lifting my shield to springboard and my pawn archer, straight up jump up and shot a minitour in the eye!
I love this review because ur just being so honest about your opinion of the game itself and still addressing the actual problems. I myself haven't had an issue with the game crashing but have experienced the lag in vermund. My pc isn't anything crazy but its good to know that mine isn't just pos or something. To charge extra for a game and not release it 100% finished is becoming all to common, but im glad that i can still experience and enjoy the game (unlike cyberpunk which i preordered on my Xbox one s)
End of fourth quarter actually, but with the amount of ignorance around the game that's present, it's hard to expect people to understand the Japanese fiscal year.
They will hopefully ditch denuvo to improve performance, at this point there is no excuse for ruining performance for the sake of having that on it. I don't care about the microtransactions because, like in RE remake games, I just ignore them. As long as the games don't start to feel grindy for the sake of pushing mtx sales, that's what I will continue to do, just ignore them.
I have a 7800x3d with an overkill cooling solution and even my performane in town is abysmal. My question is what chip did they test this on and where can i buy it?
@@ImpendingApotheosis no I owned and played it. Check the store page and the Library page, where it usually is. Nada. Then I refunded it. Maybe I'll snag it on sale but not for $90…with one save file, and the other issues.
No it is not a bitter pill. i just didnt take the pill at all. for 60/70$ you simply cant have any microtransactions nor release it unpolish. automatically skipped. once the game is Fixed and around 30$ is when i will buy it. if they wanted me to buy it full price then it should have been polished and without microtransactions day 1. You have to earn that 60$ price tag let alone the 70 mark. its a Game... not something that is needed.
In the age of Larian (BG3) and Arrowhead (Helldivers 2), these kinds of anti-consumer / pro-business practices look particularly egregious. I’m happy that capcom’s end of quarter is in March. I want them to see their bottom line take a hit while reading about games adopting pro-consumer stances. Maybe then they’ll finally realize the paradigm shift and choose to either get with it, or take their proper place as a footnote in some grad student’s case study on how large gaming companies fell from grace by failing to adapt…
*Helldivers 2:* - Have microtransactions for equipment that affects gameplay which can be sidestepped with sufficient gametime - Woot! Consumer friendly! Go team! *Dragon's Dogma 2:* - Have microtransactions for items that hardly affect gameplay which don't even need to be sidestepped because they are easily accrued in the course of the game - Evil! Bad! Burn the anti-consumer witch! Pick a lane. Or call me a bootlicker. Your choice. The performance gripes are valid. The MTX gripes are not.
@@drakeford4860 rarely does anyone buy that helldivers armor for the stats which can be found on non-mtx armor. It just becomes cosmetic at that point. If anything it stops people from buying them because they might have bad stats. Doesn't mean they should be there, but at least the game is $40 and they're adding new free content. DD2 is not the type of game to add any form of content because the story is already complete.
@@Shamshirotheir is no need for a lot of stuff their is no need to hell divers to nerf stuff because that’s similar to every other live service game nerfing stuff to make the experience last longer shits annoying but doesn’t seem relevant at all
After you accept harmless micro transactions, harmful ones will definitely follow. Which means there are no harmless micro transactions. As a principle we should never support such games. Let the blood suckers drown in their own blood, not ours.
To people that buy the microtransactions in this game, please kindly find your local cartel and ask for a face lift, because you deserve such a wonderful service
Of course, his bonuses depend on meeting short term targets based around share price and dividends. Workers, customers, and the long term health of the company, (and wider economy), be damned.
In Dragons Dogma 1 original release players are given 1 port crystal per Game run. Every time you finished the game and went New game+ you could find an extra port crystal.
@@metaempiricist yea that is Capcom mistake, the only reason i can think of is they want to sell it one by one for ppl who dont want to buy the full package
@@Tenma295 They should have tagged them all as preorder bonus items in the store so misunderstandings like this don't result in a bunch of morons reeeing like an antifa rally.
@@Innocent64_. Load game, get put right into the fight. It runs well and smooth. Some quirks with controls but it ran and ran well. DD2 on the other hand? Most aren't able to even PLAY the game. It crashes in the character creator. Other fall into a rock in the first 5 minutes and are stuck. No delete or restarting of game without going into the files manually. You need to be objective and not a brand sucker.
@@Innocent64_. It is actually. Everything in Helldivrs 2 can be gotten without money. In fact you GET free silver credits in gameplay. It's completely different. And once something is unlocked it remains unlocked. It's not like buying and using single items at all. DD2 defeats the whole POINT of limited items in the game.
"jUsT dOnT BuY tEh mICroS DoyYyyyYY!" i wont, and i was never going to and ill just give the game a maximum low score review and not buy part 3 until its on sale and stop respecting capcom after 30+ years of gaming, buying all the megamansm residnete vils , street fighters, marvel vs capcoms, monster hunters, dragons dogma, okami and whatever else they made i forgot. devil may cry and probably more. lol
@@metaempiricist you can buy rc unlimited times. the fact you cant buy camping kits in game with gold until you buy the microtransaction with real money that also makes them weigh less is also more grimey greed trying to manipulate ppl into spending real money
@@THaB4DGuY You CAN buy camping kits in game with gold without buying some mtx camping kit thing...who told you that? I've been buying them the whole time without any mtx at all. The fact that they're selling weight lowering mtx is trashy though. Also rift crystal purchases is something people asked for from the first game. Those people were wrong, but lazy people usually are.
@@metaempiricist apparently the dlc camping kit is the low weight one that you cant buy in game unless you buy in store with real money. im not buying any mtx but its annoying knowing my basic low quality camp set weighs more than a full warrior armor set, but i guess you get what you pay for, and $70 isnt enough to get the good lightweight camping set lol
@@THaB4DGuY You gotta understand. They're selling you the easy way out. If you want to buy it go ahead. But you don't need it. You shouldn't even want it.
I mean, fair point. Just don't buy the game at all. These microtransactions are made to monetize for your inconvenience. I don't play games to be inconveined so I buy a fun game instead.
If your not playing this game cos of MTX your overreaccing to rage bait youtuber idiots. Iv played like almost 30 hours and didnt even know there was a cash shop till I saw people mad about it online. The PC performance is an issue, the MTX thing is just lol that people are actually mad about or skipping the game because of it. The MTX lets you buy a useless currency that you get 10000s of within a few hours anyway.
TBH...it is a good argument... if a game as mtx I look at it and think.... can I play and have a good time without using them? if yes, that's what I do and never buy them... if not, I don't buy the game. Having said that, if I REALLY (and I mean REALLY) like the game, sometimes I can buy some cool skins. I dislike them a lot more when it comes to competitive / multi player games, in those I think it should only be cosmetic. I'm not sure if I'll buy the game or not, I'll wait a month to get all the reviews. Either way...vote with your wallet and decide what matters to you... I for one NEVER buy game I really want without a physical copy.
@@DandelionMonk and we will assume you made this asinine comment because you like hearing the sound of the keyboard tapping. Like honestly, who makes a comment such as yours. I’m not the one rage baiting for views and clicks. I swear, the gaming community deserves a collapse of the industry.
@@canaanstuart3331 you say you find it frustrating that suddenly everyone see things the same way as you. Only a negative person would find it frustrating. Anyone that wasn't complaining for the sake of complaining wouldn't complain about it for sure. Be happy the world has finally come around to seeing sense.
Capcom is probably going to release a performance patch in the Online Store for 5.99. Probably released it unoptimized and laggy just so they can sell you the fix later. CEO said he wants 100 dollars a game, and this is probably one of the many microtransaction ways they'll probably do it, just like making you pay real world money to change your appearance. Money to start a new game, money to delete your save file. I'm surprised they even allow us to uninstall the game without having to pay a microtransaction first. Also I'm pretty sure I've heard the port crystals you can find in game are limited, so you have to buy more with real money. It's likely other items you can find in the game will be limited as well, just to make you buy them with real money. Also, I really wish I knew they had Denuvo before I bought it. Denuvo is a hot mess, and not in any sort of good way. Denuvo has also been reporting people for piracy and getting their accounts suspended, if they manually delete their save file so they can start a new game without paying the microtransaction for permission to play a new game first.
Luckily I upgraded to the best hardware 4090 and 13900 k with fast Gen 4 storage and 64 gigs of ddr5 and my 48 inch 4k monitor runs at 120 HZ and it stays maxed out through the whole game and doesn't even use 90% of the GPU. I uncapped it just to see what kind of frame rate I could get and it was going all the way up to like 180 but since my monitor can't run it I locked it at 120. Still if I hadn't upgraded I would be pissed because it would run like dog crap on the 2070 super I had before that..
Gonna say this everytime this topic comes up. Monster Hunter World, 200 microtransactions in it. Most of the items there you can't earn in-game. Costs 10 dollars to redesign your character in that game. Still has a very positive rating on steam.
Yes but monster Hunter world has THREE save slots and they give you one free pass to customize your character which is nice. DD2 has none of that right now.
@PowerDragon999 why people keep bringing up character customization when they already debunked it. You can edit your character. infinitely, same with pawn. Just not the race.
@@heatherdeep8367You forgot "for free." I'm all for tackling anti-consumer crap, and I'm perfectly on-board for folks being irritated with the PC performance, but I'm done listening to people talk out their ass about how "horrendous" the DD2 MTXs are.
Denuvo and microtransactions are a bitter pill to swallow. People could've overlooked the performance-issues if it wasn't for the other 2 problems. And according to "FightinCowboy" some reviewers actually knew about the microtransactions(him included) but for some inexplicable reason chose not to mention them in their reviews.
As a developer who has worked at companies similar to Capcom I can say that if you want to defend this game, you should bring up these issues. The vast majority of devs just want to make the best game possible, and we disagree with these sort of self destructive decisions, but those disagreements are silenced by upper management and or greedy investors UNLESS the audience speaks out about it. Capcom is saying their looking into fixing a lot of these issues now, but I'm nearly 100% certain that these issues were all brought up by devs ahead of time. They were just ignored until people like you, the target audience, spoke up.
I don't like that people keep bringing up the quote of "traveling isn't boring", as if he himself put the microtransactions in. Capcom has been doing this with all their games, and if you'd seen this guy talking about his games, you know he's in it for the game itself. It feels like there was also no communication on what they would be, because the microtransactions are completely pointless and easily earnable in game. It's like playing Minecraft and purchasing stone tools. They aren't that good and you can get them quick anyway. Point being the devs didn't make things inconvenient so you would purchase them. with that said, they definitely shouldn't be in the game at all, and it's definitely bull shit. I just don't like some of the insinuations that have been occurring
People are misinformed. It's actually just natural to read a title and agree with the mob . Anyway, I don't agree with the MTX, but they are 100% pointless, the most expensive one at 4.50 usd, I had that within an hour, the appearance changer everyone said you have to pay $2 for, earned in 10 mins in game.
I agree after buying and playing the only true issue is performance. The micro’s while harmless here, let the mob lose their mind on this one. This was so silly, wait a month for god sake if you must do something you KNOW is going to piss off people and prevent them from purchasing.
The point I was making is that regardless of the necessity, regardless of the fact you can get it all by playing the game, Capcom decision to monetize specifically port crystals and RC is antithetical to the purpose of those systems in the first place. I can love the game and appreciate the teams work and vision while disparaging Capcom for undermining that hard work and the vision of the team to hopefully take advantage of vulnerable consumers. Instead of saying, "It shouldn't be there , but..." Let's just say "it shouldn't be there. "
@@LegendaryDrops Capcom has been doing this for over 15 years now, considering the Japanese audience (thanks to their work culture) actually appreciates 5-10 minute time saver purchases, which is why capcom games have had MTX like these for so long. And if you understood their history you'd realize that Capcom has actually removed the ability to purchase such MTX in western versions of the game in the past, and have always designed their games to function and be complete without them because of MTX not being available in certain regions. But understanding a company and doing research on it is too hard, but we understand that negativity creates better engagement so you're gonna pump out misinformed hate videos about the game because you'll get an army of people cheering you on for hating the game. And because misinformation creates more engagement as people take the time to call you out for your bullshit. I thought the channel might be promising when it said its piece about helldivers, but it turns out you're just a toxic-tuber that puts out blatant misinformation and complaint videos. I don't mind real criticisms of the game, not having a start over button is crazy, but easily fixable. The character creator's limits are pretty restrictive compared to the first game, and some of the settings hit the morph bounds long before the edge of the slider, and denuvo sucks and kills performance. Talking about real issues is fine, but harping on non-issues is needless negativity for an otherwise great game. Why do you think gaming executives don't listen to you? It's because this video is a hit piece, all of the valid criticisms get invalidated by the inclusion of fabricated problems.
* It's an amazing game * The technical problems can and will be largely fixed * Microtransactions in single player open world is really really bad * Microtransactions can be totally ignored without you knowing they are/were there
when they let me have as many save files as I want, and as many characters I want without paying for them in a single player game. Then I’ll buy the game
Spawn Wave brought up an interesting point in his DD2 video. He questioned if the performance issues are due to a limitation of the RE Engine? Prior to DD2 we have only seen the engine in relatively small, closed world, controlled action set piece games. Capcom probably didn't have the resources/time/or want, to refine the engine to make it optimal for open world games.
Well, Bethesda gets destroyed every time their engine is mentioned (and rightfully so) and CDPR switched to UE5 because their engine was lacking, so I'm not going to give Capcom a pass on it either.
Limitations of the engine don't exist when you're using your own engine... That's literally why you use your own engine, so you can change it whenever you want to get rid of any such limitations. Bethesda gets shit on because they use engine limitations as an excuse for not doing better. If you're using unreal, engine limitations exist because you can't tinker with the engine to get it to do what you want. There's more to making your own engine than not paying epic/unity licensing fees. If the engine can't handle large cities, then the real limitation is their engineers that made the engine.
@TheHarrisontemple And I hope you keep crying about things you can't change. If you don't like the game, don't buy It . It was only $70 And most of the things you can get by playing the game .
@@og.gamer5756 it's funny that you think I actually care about dragon's dogma, the game always sucked to me I just can't stand idiots that allow microtransactions to become so commonplace.
@TheHarrisontemple then why or you here on this post and Responding to me in a beginning about the game or what there doing bro? Make this makes sense. Don't get upset because someone else is enjoying The game Go play minecraft or go buy $30 dollars skin on call of duty or something. People like you be trying to destroy the gaming community.
The whole "you can earn microtransactions in game" is such a bullshit line because they control and design how accessible a resource it is. People are absolutely delusional if they believe the corporates suits didn't figured out with help of psychologists the perfect drop rate to make people feel they need to purchase them. It reminds me of Diablo 3s RMAH, they said it was being implemented just to stop RMT for the game on shady websites, etc and then we found out they made good items much rarer to push people to use the RMAH. Never trust a corporation has good intentions if they have shareholders to answer to.
One of them is camping gear. 4 hours in and I’ve come across 20 camping gear to pick up. Not to mention it’s not really that big of a grind to acquire all the others as well.
@@gregc.9313 People seem to be activley ignoring people like us, who can easily prove them wrong. Quite irritating actually, This game pushed boundaries other companies said impossible, and its catching crap for no reason. The devs made a truley open world game. Every building, dungeon, and town, can be walked in and out of freely, no load screen. Thats crazy, they did what gamers have been asking to do for YEARS. And this this what they get? They give you an optional purchase just like RE did, which no one cryed about, same as MHW, which no one cried about, but this guy gets hell? ITs a sad day in gameing. I havent felt bad for a dev in a long time, but Itsuno, he dosent deserve this.
@@Buttz2Buttz MHW has like 500 dollars worth of MTX, and the amount of western players I know that think it doesn't have any really paints a picture of how little people actually pay attention to the details. It's like the people complaining about Overwatch lootboxes, the battle pass system they swapped to is far worse for consumers, but people are so simple minded that they'd rather fight the term lootbox and think they've won when the company makes the system fundamentally worse.
@@SherrifOfNottingham Right? It astounds me. And dear god did they butcher Overwatch, and people still played it, like you say they would rather fight the terminology than the practices companies employ. I saw people complaining about not being able to use all 5 of each chars they made in demo. Yet the demo tells you first thing, you can only port one of each. And they are acting like that never happened, like what? I loved MHW, just ignored the MTX, and you're right, alot of people don't seem to know they ever existed. I bet if all the info about DD2 was packed into a 15 sec TikTok, they would have known what the deal was from jump lol. I feel like this is one big episode of Pranked, but no one has said cut yet.
D4 and Cyberpunk taught me a valuable lesson with prepurchasing titles... and then being broke. I will wait to purchase this after they fix the performance... We do deserve better from this company, and hopefully people learn... I purchased Dragonsand Dogma #1, and am enjoying that for the first time.
I absolutely love this game. I did have a spawn stuck in an animation and created an issue where it created my entire squad to fail. I even tried to force them into combat. I did not enjoy that experience.
Can't speak to PC, but the console experience (at least on PS5) is pretty smooth. Capcom doesn't usually simul-launch their PC titles. I wonder if it was an experience/staffing issue.
there is no reason for Capcom to allow micro transactions in a pay to play single player game for example NieR: Automata is a single player game that has zero micro transactions...at the end of the day Capcom is one of many greedy corporate companies yikes 😞
The problem I have with the microtransaction fiasco are those two points. 1. RC is not instrumental to the pawn system. It only costs RC to hire pawns of a higher level, or rather OP pawns that can carry you through and not be fun. Pawns that are your level or belong to a friend are free to hire. 2. You can have ten port crystals in the game regardless of whether you buy that one or not. What's more is that the portcrystals are only half of the game's fast travel system. Can't use em without Ferrystones, which aren't a microtransaction. I get that people dislike microtransactions and agree that they have no place in a singleplayer game, but I feel it is being blown out of proportion unfairly for DD2. We were fucking lucky to get this game, and now it will have a bad reputation for something that no one who made it had anything to do with.
It is so sad, its being blown out of proportion like a game of telephone, people really think you need a single thing in the shop. I read someone thought you can buy a character slot with money. It’s eclipsing the real issue, performance
@@djbootymeatlive1484someone was spreading misinfo that you need a week to gather enough RC to buy art of metamorphosis. The game hasnt even been out for a week and people believe this 💀
Blown out of proportion? For adding microtransaction in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME! no, the flame ain't even big enough for the transgression. This is the 1st horse armor all over again and your blasé attitude are one key contribution in allowing company to get away with it .. and then the fat cat in the company can use the metric to crush any opposition to further microtransaction. I am an old timer fan of dragon dogma but I rather this game burn and crash than to allow such attempt to bring microtransaction in SINGLE PLAYER GANE into the PC discs to unchallenged
This was the first large games company AAA game ive purchased in a long time close/at release (since Skyrim Legendary edition) and i was so excited for it too after finishing the main story in the first DD game… but now after amongst all this controversy and hours spent in crash screens just to get into my save… I realize now im better off just playing indie and finding big games in smaller places - monetization is the death of art, and games are not just a non-exception… they are the easiest exploitation
Monetization is fine.... but it must be secondary to passion. They should try to make the best game possible while having some profit, instead of the most profit while having some game.
@@ricardokojin7 I agree - I just use that idiom at the end to further push the fact that when money is involved in order to gain profit, margins are shrunk, corners are cut, and people are screwed over, both consumers and developers. In those scenarios, the only ones who win are the company owners, managers, and stakeholders - literally the people who's only passion is to milk our money. smaller companies are less likely to do this because their teams dont have extensive management trees, they work together to passionately work on their project and are kept accountable - having gone from a small tech company to a national lab, I can see this in my everyday - its the same shit just different toilet.
When the Inside Games guys basically played quarterback for Capcom and said that it's unfair to get mad at this game if you didn't at other Capcom games baffled me and a lot of people. How the mighty fall when they have to cover for their sponsors.
When Monster Hunter Wilds releases and has microtansactions in it, that when I know Capcom players truly have no integrity. Seeing players defend the microtransactions just because it always existed before frustrates me to no end because it shows me that these players are USED TO IT.
Very grateful for your thoughts man. I’ve been debating what to play next and this was high on the list, but i’m comfortable to leave this one for later. Maybe once bleeding edge features like, “New Game” are introduced, or the game’s balance with its monetised elements has been shown to genuinely be a non issue... Death’s Door it is!
Did you know that MTX in this game is a "one time" purchase. That's why some are labeled as A B C... Also they are one time use. Also there are enough in the game to have the max amount. Only maximum of 10 port markers can be used, which means the "spare" one bought as MTX is useless if you find 10 in the game. Basically it is for impatient players. Even the camping tent is not the lightest in the game(there is an "Elite Camping Kit" which is 4KG).
@@sebastianprice1528 Not defending, as many others that just share facts. You can do whatever you want with that info. Context is important as much as avoiding fallacy(logical).
@@sebastianprice1528he’s not defending the practice the problem is people are lying about the microtransactions and spreading misinformation people are actually going around telling others that you have to buy new game plus it’s bad that they’re in the game but people lying about them is even worse
@@sebastianprice1528It's literally the same shit that's in the deluxe edition 😂 Now go protest against the deluxe editions offered by nearly every single game.
Fantastic video and I agree. The way that I look at it is this, I have realistic expectations of value when purchasing a video game. These companies are fully able to meet and most certainly exceed my expectations. Where I get pissed is when they fail to even meet the bare minimum of my, and the communities, expectations. They over promise, over charge, and under deliver on quality; for that is a demonstrated recipe for disaster. I wish more people would simply stop feeding into the system that smacks us in the face each and every time.
Well put video! I haven't seen more reviews tackling the topic of MTX in Dragon's Dogma 2 and how some of the playerbase shrugging it off. At least on a PR perspective, CAPCOM really failed to read the room, especially with the perception of MTX and performance optimizations.
The issue I have is precedent. One publisher presses an issue and it opens the floodgates to predatory behavior. If they get away with it other AAA will do it and make it worse.
As a veteran of the first game since the PS3 days, someone who has bought the PS3 Dark arisen, the PC Dark Arisen and PS4 Dark Arisen, someone who has been dreaming of this sequel for 12 years my heart goes out to Itsuno more than anything, imagine how he feels having the first game gutted midway through development, then finally getting to complete his dream only to have the scumbag executive shit all over his efforts and cause a shitstorm on release. Honestly, my heart is breaking for him. If you can look beneath the Crapcom BS the game is amazing and truly everything I had dreamed of and it is so sad to see it's brilliance overshadowed by greed like this.
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Capcom had the opportunity to begin the Larian trend. Could have been an easy GotY contender and a launch to be celebrated for years to come.
Amen.
And now I'm going to wait for a 50% sale or the opportunity to fucking pirate it.
Same
Helldivers 2 has gotten locked down
Larian is GOAT
"We're sorryyy" *Rubs Nipples*
So sorrrrrrrrrryyyyyy
Exactly.
LMAOOOOO
“Our experts told us we shouldn’t add in micro transactions, but how were we supposed to know all gamers would hate it?”
Sooorry...
I so badly want this game but I refuse to pick it up until they fix some of these issues. I can no longer abide by these shitty launches and anti-consumer decisions. And it's eating me up inside because this is one of my most anticipated games of a decade.
Same here. Well said.
Yah , same just spend the $$ on popcorn and pvp on Reddit and UA-cam .
stay strong brother
same and i was waiting for it for so long
A lot of the items being sold in the cash shop is something you can get in-game while playing. You don't need any of those things to progress
I will get it fixed as complete edition with 80% discount in 3 years. I have fomo no more. I‘m not young anymore.
Same brother. I've come to learn with age the "joy of missing out". Save money, save time, save heartache. I'll play it when I want to, if it's good price and it actually works.
There's a lot left for me to play
I can wait
Exactly what I do brother.
There is so much wisdom in these posts.
Exactly, I'm doing the same.
I think you were right when you said "we just want the quality of service we deserve". I truly believe that big AAA devs are giving us exactly what we deserve, or more to the point, what we put up with. Gamers of old knew what quality games looked like. New gamers did not. However after releases such as BG3 and Elden Ring more and more new gamers are understanding that games can be a lot better than the crap they have been absorbing in the recent past.
You really want to hurt them? Buy it and refund it. A refund costs THEM money on transaction fees. You pay the fee when you buy. They have to refund the fee and pay another transaction fee on top of the refund.
passionate developers and greedy executives is a dangerous combination
Luckily the developers implemented only MTX that have 0 impact on gameplay or the game itself. It satisfies the greedy execs while having literally 0 impact on the players experience. Win-win.
Yet here we are jumping on the hate brigade because our favorite youtubers like click-bait headlines without telling the full story or even playing the fucking game. Not a single MTX for sale has any incentive to purchase outside players wanting to voluntarily support devs in return for a tiny boost to their single-player experience. Fully opt-in MTX hurt noone, and if you don't like them then vote with your wallet. Wanting to take away player agency because you personally don't want to partake is some backwards-ass boomer logic. Leave the option there for players who want to support devs or want the limited boost that DD2 offers with MTX (there literally aren't even any repeatable purchases, just a limited stock of tiny items you can easily earn in-game).
Please think for yourself.
This one statement sums up so many games perfectly
@tanklike4413 Says the one on the hate brigade replying to every comment with some quirky reddit gotcha. Dude get a life. We're allowed to expect better than what we've been getting. Genuinely pathetic 😂
@@tanklike4413Do you seriously think the money from micro transactions goes to the devs the majority of the time? Are you that ignorant to the ways of businesses?
@@PolymorphBananaYou know, it is possible to make a point or speak your side without being condescending.
The first quest is getting the game to run.
Game runs just fine only issue is big cities. Then again i got a 3090.
I'm sure the people having problems love the smug "game runs fine for me". Read the steam reviews it isn't running fine for lots of people. @@Startrance85
@@Startrance85 If the game chugs in towns then it doesn't "run fine". And whether you have a 3090 or not is irrelevant, since it is a CPU issue and has nothing to do with your GPU.
@@Seoul_SoldierYeah read somewhere that the CPU load is insane in the game, running a Intel 10900K so should be fine i guess.
But i dont have fps/latency problems in the open world
Ive got an rtx 3060, i5 11th gen with 16 ram and i get 20 fps at best in the capital, never since getting my pc had i issues running games at 90 fps at the minimum until DD2, even with all settings on low.
RDR2, C2077, Elden Ring, FFXIV, among others ive ran comfortably at 120+
The executives at Capcom repeatedly, year after year, put the game designers and developers at capcom in a shitty position and took a dump on their hard work by gross mismanagement, shortsightedness, and underhandedness. They repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of success, be it from the terrible release state of PC port of monster hunter world, to the sorry state of monster hunter rise initial release, to the current day failure of a release of dragon's dogma 2. They had a chance to establish themselves as THE only surviving triple A studio that is still putting out games that players can safely just buy from without worry about all the issues plaguing all the other major triple companies, like Blizzard, Ubisosft and co, but instead chose to take a dump on themselves.
If 2023's baldur's gate 3 release signifies the end of the reign of triple A as the only source of mega-sellers in the video game industry, 2024 seems to herald the death of triple A studios as companies that are able to put out quality games that sell well, as even capcom, who has a track record of putting out solid games, have sunk lower and lower every single year to the point where their reputation and the gaming experience of their major titles are tarnished.
That’s what the biggest kick in the nuts is to me. The people responsible for any shitty aspect of this game are never the ones that feel the wrath of consumers it’s always the developer meat shield. Capcom execs are fucking soulless ghouls.
True. DD2 would have been the first time I bought a AAA game since Guardians of the Galaxy, which I regretted buying too. I was going to pay $70 which is More than any game I ever bought, but I'm happy I didn't pre-Order. They didn't even offer a cheaper Pre Order price.
"They had the chance to establish themselves as the ONLY surviving triple A studio that players can just safely buy without worrying about any issues" Excuse me, FromSoftware??!! As far as I am aware, Armored Core 6 was released last year with the most smoothest and stable launch not seen in the triple A landscape in a long time.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 fair enough . I was gonna say fromsoftware too . But i never finished armored core 6 .i got bored after maybe 10 or 11 levels . It was my first armored core . And i didnt like it . But i dont blame them it happened alot with me last year .
@@dragonandavatarfan8865fromsoftware is my favorite game maker at the moment .
Well said. First video that not only makes it very clear why this is an issue but that also doesn't add "but its optional" in the same breath.
If we want the end microtransactions, we need to stop buying (or return them) once we know they are there. Until this happens, keep expecting them. It's that simple.
It is that simple. It's also simple to stop 'voting in' crooks. But it requires coordination. And we're all too addicted and divided to cooperate.
that's impossible. cuz content creators exist. for them buying this is basically a job.
Unfortunately, I waited over a decade for Dragon's Dogma to get a sequel so even with microtransactions I'm still going to buy the game itself.
Boycotts don't work unless it is a small business. If you want the end of microtransaction it would be better to bring this issue to your government.
@@lizzyisbored9882- Budweiser told a different story, though lol
The problem with micro-transactions is the inevitability that studios will strip out fundamental pieces of the game to sell as DLC. It has already been done, and it will only get worse if we allow it.
Considering Capcom has been doing this for over 15 years and most games are still playable without MTX to the point where some people don't even realize that beloved games in the past were riddled with them kinda proves your statement factually incorrect.
I agree that microtransactions are slippery slope, but if they have managed to stay on the top of that slope for 15 years, it's probably better that I let them stand there and only really worry about complaining when they actually start sliding down that slope.
@@SherrifOfNottingham capcom may have been 'doing it for 15 years', but it wasn't ok then, and it isn't ok now. a lot of people have now simply drawn a line in the sand after the mtx was snuck in post review process.
There's a reason I haven't bought their recent releases like DMC5, RE4 remake etc, and it isn't because the games are bad. At least with Monster Hunter World and Rise they restricted their gouging to cosmetics. I can just about stomach that given that they are technically live service like multiplayer titles.
This is a single player RPG. Full price. MTX has no place here and that's not even talking about the utter shitshow that is performance, not only on PC.
If the execs keep whining that these games are too expensive, then they have two options. Validate the price by making finished all inclusive products worth the cost of entry or get out of the industry and let teams that know how to, do so.
@@AtraCulpayou shouldnt buy MHR and MHW too. Cope. Justify purchase
@@SherrifOfNottingham I'd rather they get off the slope entirely. I didn't like the option to buy red and blue orbs in DMC, and I don't like this either. I will never understand why people keep defending this bullshit practice when any other company would get absolutely skewered for it. Imagine if CDPR let you buy cyberware or eddies with real money. Or if From Soft started selling AC parts in Armored Core. Or if Larian Studios sold in-game gold and spell scrolls as DLC. The fury across the internet would be immeasurable. But they didn't do that. Because unlike Capcom, some companies still have standards.
MTX has no place in singleplayer games. Period. Whether they've been doing it for 15 years or 15 minutes people are done putting up with this shit. Especially when the game releases in a state where a lot of people can't even play the stupid thing in the first place.
@@AtraCulpa In all honesty, restricting mtx to cosmetics you can't get naturally in game is worse than mtx based around consumable items you can get in game with very little ease.
They had the perfect example set for them just last year. Baldur's Gate 3 came out last year with 0 microtransactions and a MUCH more stable release. It was praised by players and critics alike, and Larian made BANK. There was proof that success can be achieved via GOOD business practices, and they still dropped the fucking ball.
Its capcom. Capcom will always force mtx just like activision. Dont blame the developers, the developers are not Capcom capcom is the publisher.
Meanwhile Palworld on poverty budget...
(I mean, face it, 6 million dollar is like *percentages* of AAA budget, BG3 included)
yeah dont blame the devs... blame the company... that's why i always pirate Ubisoft games: I hate Ubisoft. I guess i need to add capcom to the list? gonna wait 2 weeks to see what they do with DG2 before checking if they need to be added to the "always pirate" list
@@TheEPICskwock the devs are capcom tho
hmm...I love the game to bits but Im pretty sure BG 3 wasnt a stable release...the fact that they released constant hotfixes and big patches...if anything its just workable on launch
Refunded, i cant make it thru character creation without it crashing.
Bro imagine elden ring had souls to buy as mtx or the estus flask upgrades, they would've been shit on.
Imagine if they if From software made it where you had to buy new game plus
@@joeherrera8826they didn’t do that here though?
Well, I think there will always be some corporate dickriders out there defending their beloved companies’s scummy practices.
Except the items in the shop are actually quite bad, you dont know the reality of the situation or what they do
Imagine McDonald's charging you for the bag, charging you for the tray to carry your food to the table, the wrappers, the napkins, straws, bathrooms, ect. At some point, you can't say something is standard, then remove it thinking you could get extra money by doing less work. That is the issue. There use to be a time when companies would undercut each other, they would give you more for an equal or less price. The government was designed to keep companies from getting into bed with each other, but once congress started getting paid by the companies, they stopped caring.
This is probably the last Capcom game I will buy. They put out an early character creator with 5 slots for an arisen and 5 slots for a main pawn. That I don't have at least 5 profiles to start the game is Capcom demonstrating their contempt for their clients. This is Konami levels of bullshit.
God forbid you share a PS5 or Xbox with your household. Ridiculous.
Really, for all the (deserved) outrage over performance and mtx, this is actually the thing that I’m most annoyed and shocked by. They make probably the greatest character creator imaginable and then only allow you to play as one character, ever. This is a ROLE PLAYING game - stop telling me to “get over it” you can change vocations whenever you want. Maybe people want to have a scary looking thief, a gorgeous sorceress, an old mage and a huge bearded fighter. You’re telling me to experience all the classes,I just need to keep bending around my one and only character? - absolute BS. Name one other RPG made in the last 20 years that doesn’t let you have multiple campaigns?
@@justinmills1721 I was already meh about getting the game due to Capcoms war on mods and then the MTX thing but this is the part that really ensured I do not buy the game
The char creator said, you could ONLY PORT ONE OF EACH. Can yall really not read? You just mash through menues then get pissed huh?
@@Ashgan9 if you understood that modding games is illegal in Japan, not the legal grey area that it is in the west, you'd understand why Capcom spends effort blocking mods for their games.
I remain convinced that Denuvo loses more customers than it gains by preventing piracy. Sure some people might buy your game because they can’t pirate it; many more won’t buy it because it has invasive software and performance issues. They must figure it’s worth it, but I feel like with this backlash Capcom would have been further ahead to dump Denuvo & MTX and proclaim their decisions as a selling point, rather than downplay those things and piss off players. Word of mouth is a powerful marketing tool (as we’ve seen with Helldivers 2 and BG3) and Capcom threw that away.
The stupid thing is that game piracy has been measurably marginalized to the point of not being significant anymore. People will gladly pay for convenience. DRM free versions of games exist on other platforms. GOG is still around, and despite Baldur's Gate 3 being sold on GOG without any DRM, it's still selling millions of copies on Steam, and that holds true for any new game released on GOG (that being that it's DRM free release there doesn't have any lasting effect on sales on other platforms).
According to the dumbass execs who enforce Denuvo, releasing on GOG should be a death sentence for sales, that it would lead to exactly one copy sold, with the rest of the world pirating that same DRM-free copy. But that's simply not true, because they are so delusional they don't realize that most consumers will gladly pay a fair price for a product that they find value in. I could totally start pirating basically any game I want, I have the knowledge and I do it for TV shows and movies all the time. But rather than do that, I support the developers, buy the games, and gain the convenience and peace of mind that all I need to do is open Steam and I know I have an up-to-date safe copy of the game that I legally have a license to play. And I'll say right now most consumers aren't savvy enough to pirate games safely, so it's not even an option for the vast majority of a game's audience.
Fact and dev like this waht make me want to pirate it
Don't bet on how stupid and bull headed the greedy fat cat in CAPCOM can be.
@@KyleDavis328 Recent posts on Steam regarding denuvo are extremely volatile and aggressive, basically making the claim that if you think denuvo isn't a literal gift from god, then you're a pirate who's just mad you can't steal the game.
Honestly the vitriol being unleashed on anyone who criticizes the game is a big turn off for me. From a psychological standpoint... it's not a great sign. Maybe capcom fans are just deranged, but it seems to me they ALSO realize what's been done to the game they wanted so bad and are just lashing out.
I'm extremely interested to see how this turns out in a week or two, and in a month. Starfield fans had the SAME reaction to criticism in the first few days or so of launch. Now where is it? lol.
But hey, if the games gets fixed or a 'dark arisen' type of special edition with no MTX or w.e. comes out maybe that one will be worth getting... eventually.
I'd say that I hope they reverse the MTX decision and fix the lag straight away but I'm not insane. Their steam post said they "would look into performance improvements in the future"... that doesn't inspire confidence.
Conjecture. Some people will NOT buy the game if it has no DRM and share it with their buddies after each update so they don't have to buy it, that's how real life works.
A game can be great, and have a terrible launch. I can understand liking the game for what it offers, I loved DD 1.
However, we cannot continue to make excuses for games releasing in this state. Regardless of if you’re having fun on your PS5 or Xbox, we should not forgive a company for releasing a product that simply doesn’t work.
Not taking away from people’s fun, but it’s 2024 and our standards have to be higher than this. The amount of people saying the performance issues are not a problem baffle me.
The product works and it works well, not our fault PC's aren't standardized so every person has different quality PCs with different parts that run differently
@@DDSix66no because when pc’s that are objectively more powerful than the consoles are having performance issues that means it’s the games fault and poor optimization
@@DDSix66You’re just flat out wrong. You should not blame hardware that works perfectly fine when it’s the responsibility of the studios to make it work. If you’re going to sell a product for 70$, it needs to work.
There’s no point in blaming pc players for the companies shortcomings. We as gamers and fans of games should stand up for eachother when this kind of thing happens. When a lot of us lose, we all lose and companies can continue to be anti consumer and get away with this nonsense.
The game has issues and you can enjoy it while acknowledging certain things should not be accepted. However this mentality you have is exactly why this keeps happening with lots of games.
@@DDSix66 I mean it literally says the recommended specs your computer should have to run the game on steam but people with 4090's are even having problems. Clearly don't know what your talking about.
tbh our standards should probably be lower now than ever. games are harder to develop now, more expensive to fund development, way more difficult to standardize across the thousands of different combinations of parts, take way more man power. there is a much higher likelihood that mistakes will be made. this isn't to say people shouldn't have high standards for aaa games, it's just worth taking into consideration that it's significantly more difficult to meet standards now than it was 10 years ago.
How does this channel have only 58k subs? I am in industry professional and your takes are surprisingly correct and mature.
I love the fact that we're going backwards in the gaming industry, like, in technology going further but in games backwards and i love it, NO MORE GREED.
The not able to create new game save or even delete the old one thing within the game made me refund this. I will probably pick it when it’s on sale when they have sorted their shit out. It is really disappointing but I think it is a sign that I need to finish my backlog on steam.
Another "glad I didn't waste my money" moment for me.
Same dodge that bullet better save it for Stellar Blade.
@@ArielCleirigh Now that's a game I'm actually looking forward to. Capcom's fanboys can have Dragon's Dogma, give me some Stellar Booty.
70$ base price and 80$ for a bunch of paid extras that are now on mtx, what worst are these bot account or real npc human defending this greedy company, a cope for their impulsive buying and lack of reasons. Base price should be 50$ with all the fixes.
@@Seoul_Soldier rumor has it that they are going to hevely sensor Stellar Blade shortly after release.
@@Ragnarok182 - Hopefully the devs of that game won't be dumb enough to consider committing reputational suicide like that lol
I want to play this game but imma give it time to blow over and see what performance optimizations they do
Same. I want to play it.
If you have a mid CPU don't buy it right now. I have a 5600 and the performance was in the 50fps range but dips down to 30fps frequently. Got to the pawn camp and it went below 30fps with horrible frame timing. I refunded until the performance is fixed and it's on sale for like $40. Don't ruin your first experience with this game.
I’m not sure how much can be done it seems be an engine issue
Which means they knew about this issue since they started development most likely
wait till the crack, denuvo remove is usually a performance boost
Wait for a deep sale, and upgrade your CPU in the meantime. 99% of games are never worth buying in the first year.
I'm so glad that you appreciate the importance of what Larian is doing and spreading Swen's philosophy on making great games. It cannot be reiterated enough. As for this game, it makes me really sad. I've been more excited about DD2 than any other game, 2nd only to BG3. It's a truly unique game, and that is so rare. It's so sad what they've done to it.
"...triple A Game..."
It's not a AAA game. It's not the publisher place to label a game AAA. That's the players prerogative.
Gamers have labeled BG3 as AAA. That was their choice and when you look at the game you know why.
DD2 is not an AAA game.
It’s a shame, I was looking forward to this game. Instead, I’m boycotting it for business practices I cannot support.
same
That was me with their lil war on mods, and now I'm more convinced then ever that their lil war on mods is only greed in order to sell more MTX.
You are not alone. Saving offline characters online just to charge for character creation... That's a new low.
@@Ashgan9 people need to remember that modding a game in Japan is not a grey area, it's full on Illegal. So its not surprising that Japanese publishers put effort into preventing it.
I'm with you, this one hurts though
mtx - bad perfomance - denuvo yeah i buy it sale when its fixed and denuvo removed
Honestly, I probably will too. Who knows maybe they'll add a bunch of live service giveaway items by then too.
Not for $70 and denuvo.
I will be waiting for when it 30 dollars in a few years then play it ::: I loved the 1st one
Remember dos2 definitive edition?. They added convenience DLC for free that you could enable and disable as you saw fit.
100% correct on BG3. It is about balance. Give you devs time to make a good game. Set realistic goals and timeframes for personnel you have working without overworking them and burning them out. I know Cyberpunk 2077 released in bad state but it now in state it should have been and is completely amazing, but the launch still hurt it. I still play CP2077 one because it is fun and immersive but also because it is solo with no microtransactions. Really there is ZERO reason to have MTs in single player game and for that fact all games.
It just reminds me of one of my core values from military. Excellence in all we do. Meaning. If you create something or do anything. It should come out feeling like you did your best and launched with minimal issues. When you say we can launch and then patch it sends message you can do mediocre and fix later. That is sad leadership message to send.
I Totally agree, I wouldn't have Pre-ordered Dragon's Dogma 2 if I knew that there were going to be Microtransactions in it & the only reason I did buy it, is because I Bought & Loved Dragon's Dogma a couple of Weeks back, so I thought lets just get it. It's a Single Player Game so there just shouldn't be any Microtransactions, Full Stop, it's that Simple.
The sheer impatience of publishes and big developer's management is hobbling their profits and they refuse to see that. Take the time to have a polished release and watch how many sales you get. Compare that to how much you lose for an unfinished launch. Now add in all those DLC sales that you will get because the game succeeded on word of mouth from that good launch. Do you see now bottom line addicts?
People who defend microtransactions by saying "oh you know it's not needed and it doesn't cause any harm" are the reason Publishers keeping injecting microtransactions in thier games.
It's not needed and doesn't cause any harm. It hasn't for any previous Capcom game, doesn't for this one, and won't for future ones. Other companies continually ramp the MTX bullshit injection, but Capcom has stayed consistent with the exact same player-friendly, win-win MTX that checks the suits boxes while not having a single effect on the player experience for the past decade+.
Helldivers 2 does the same exact strategy (selling a currency you can already earn in-game easily for cheap, and doesn't force FOMO or any other incentive to actually spend) and everyone praises their monetization. DD2 does it for the 10th time in a row for Capcom games, and everyone loses their fucking minds.
In this case, if you read the items, you actually get a lesser version of what you can get in game, so there is no point in getting anything from the cash shop unless you desperatly needed to, its like they added them just to please investors that dont even play the game
Just don't buy them, cause it's literally not needed. You complain over optional shit. Ignore it and move on.
@@tanklike4413 helldiver's is a very different kind of game though to be fair and different types of games have different micro transaction expectations
Also the fact that they do it over and over again doesn't make it okay. It just means they do the same bad thing over and over again.
Imagine if the community had common sense ignored it to a point it was just removed from game because no one got micro transactions. Just a stupid thought by a stupid guy.
My big problem with DD2 and the reason I won't buy it. Microtransactions in a single player rpg. That means danuvo to protect their microtransactions which creates poor performance and instability. This is a known fact. That also means no mods. Company wants to protect their additional cash flow of mtx so they cannot allow any modding of the game. This is not multi-player or live service. So much potential wasted.
You could try playing the game, then you'd realize the MTX are _actually_ optional, since Japanese game development has for a long time designed their games expecting certain regions to not even have the ability to buy them.
@@SherrifOfNottingham You could just grow some self-respect and not support shitty abhorrent practices of having MTX in a SINGLE-PLAYER game but of course that would be straight up impossible for your FOMO addiction 🙄
I don't care about the MTX but the Denuvo thing is killing it for me. Its clear as day performance is suffering on any system in main cities and without Denuvo you would see allot stable FPS.
@SherrifOfNottingham you don't understand. The instability, poor performance, lack of mods....all are because of the mtx, indirectly. Without mtx there would be no reason for Danuvo which is almost certainly causing all the problems. I guarantee when a cracked version appears it will be better performing and more stable than the paid version. That is the way of DRP software.
You do know the game is modded to heck already. There's a mod selling the appearance change book for a couple golds in the first town. There's a mod unlocking smaller characters to make. There's cheatting mods all over the place. Infinite stamina, increased vocation XP gain etc...
And the performance has problems on console too. I doubt they put Denuvo on those in the first place.
I played DD to prepare for DD2... but I can't abide greed. I guess I just wait for Elden Ring DLC... guaranteed satisfaction there...
Larian studios head basically said there’s an endless loop we have to break if only there was an experience in a video game where you have to break an eternal loop and endure and succeed in the world that comes after
Thank you for laying it out so factually eloquently. Bad practices need to be called out.
I'm a complete game dev pleb but like - how did games as old as GTAV solve the whole CPU processing mass amounts of NPCs problem 11 years ago but Capcom can barely get a medieval/fantasy world with a fraction of the NPC population running at a steady 60 fps? If the RE Engine couldn't do open world then maybe they shouldn't have used the RE Engine?
I’m not defending them but this is there first open world game on the re engine, they obviously didn’t know what they were getting themselves into
Apparently the tried to make the NPC more life like but it's not worth how taxing it is on the system
I'm only slightly less of a gamedev pleb but there are several things that contribute to the processing cost of NPCs. There's the obvious stuff like their models having a lot more detail which increases the GPU cost to render them whenever they're in your line of sight, but there's also subtler stuff like the complexity of their AI behaviors and HOW those behaviors are implemented. For example if the NPC AI has to read through a huge list of behaviors every time they do something, and every NPC that's spawned in is doing this, it can massively balloon the processing cost at the CPU end.
If you implement ways to narrow down the number of behaviors certain NPCs need to sift through then you can greatly cut down the processing cycles it will take for them to do anything, and you can further cut the cost down by perhaps making it so that NPCs don't engage in processing-heavy behaviors unless the player is actually nearby them, that way you wouldn't have say NPCs halfway across the city map still soaking up as much processing power as NPCs standing right in front of the player.
@@youtubeisapublisher6407 This was a very well-written comment, I actually learned a bit from reading it. Cheers for that.
check out this interview: "digital foundry kingmakers"
they show how they offloaded much of the work done on cpu to the gpu. clearly, that wasn't done here.
Denuvo is the biggest issue with deagons dogma 2 performance issues. With some minor patch and removing Denuvo performance would be mostly fine.
There's something odd about the performance though. In Vermund, FPS tanks, NPCs pop in etc. But in the post-game, there's a new "city" that is equally populated, if not more populated, than any other place. Yet, the FPS remains as high as it does outside - but the NPCs still pop in! This leads me to suspect that it's not the NPCs at all that make the game chug, it's something about the cities themselves.
@@Jairion It's not odd. Not really.
Decryption of data tends to be a CPU task. The more CPU bound your game, the more additional CPU load (like Decrypting files) will negatively impact the performance of the game. When you have a pile of unique assets being loaded in - that is going to require a pile of new data to be loaded up and decrypted, and if it's not being done pre-emptively, you are going to see visual artifacting like this. And what is worse - it's likely done intentionally to reduce the speed at which the game will end up being cracked.
My guess is: Give it a month, Denuvo will be cracked out of the game, and Capcom will basically have to issue a patch that rips out Denuvo. It will probably be burried in the patch notes, if it is mentioned at all, and it will just be a "We fixed performance issues in regards to NPC model pop in, and some stutter issues on less powerful machines. The game should be more stable.".
The only way we get rid of Denuvo is if we the community literally just stop buying games with it incorporated. Just point to Baldur's Gate 3 and say "See, popular game, sells well, doesn't have BS DRM to contend with". But publicly traded companies are stuck being ran by people who were trained and taught in the 60's and 70's as to how to run a company and... they still haven't figured out that "Stock market number go up" doesn't mean crap all if people stop buying their product. And yes: We should stop buying from some of these companies.
@@formes2388 more likely 80s and 90s. People who went to college in the 60s and 70s would largely be retired at this point in time.
After watching this, I think I'll wait a while before I buy the game
Thank you for the information, and for your always calm and well-argued videos
I've been a subscriber for a long time (mostly lurking). I'm glad that your channel is growing so fast
Keep up the very good work
Same thing happened with Hogwarts Legacy, Denuvo was in there and the CPU usage was waaay over the roof when the game released. Cracked version of the game proved that Denuvo was the main issue for the game because the FPS would be raised by 25 in my case, which is not a small number.
Thanks for the warning. I'll put DD2 on my steam wish list and buy it when its 90% off in a quarterly sale in about 3 years.
Absolutely phenomenal video, great dialogue. Your verbiage is superb. All this had to be said, the elephant in the room per se. I agree with you completely. Earned my sub.
Nahhh… couple of creators have admitted to knowing, before release, the list of micro transactions
The micro transactions in the game were public knowledge before the game even was available for pre-order.
At least one of them also shared that it was so inconsequential that they didn't see a point in mentioning it- not defending the micros, but the reviewers weren't maliciously or unfairly leaving out information
@@witch.y If you know, you speak about it. Hiding it is hiding the cockroaches.
You have very similar concerns about the DLCs/microtransactions that I have, it motivates the developer to make the game worse to motivate us to buy items for real money to make the game good again.
Except that capcom has been doing this for over 15 years and this has never been an issue with their games. The original game that people loved literally had the same kinds of MTX, most people didn't notice or remember this, because they design the game around certain regions not having MTX available.
@@SherrifOfNottingham Love the copypasta. Keep up that very tough work.
Thanks for summarizing exactly how I feel. The questions I have for people who defend these practices is "when will the MTX be too much for you? Are you will to accept people that will defend that?"
CoD MW2 had map packs, I see the same people that are craping on DD2, openly say they were fine with map packs. Map packs literally pay wall content. DD2, all items within an hour, are acquirable naturally. Ignorant masses.
@@Buttz2Buttz what's funny is that map packs were literally designed to fragment the community at the end of the game's lifecycle so people would buy the new game. Where as DD2's microtransactions are literally designed around the Japanese audience (because of their work culture) of people WANTING 5-10 minute time saver purchases, despite the game being so playable without them that they have previously released games in the west without the ability to purchase those microtransactions.
MHW is an amazing game despite it's 500 dollars of DLC (and thats without including the iceborn expansion)
@@SherrifOfNottingham Yep, considering the western market, and their inability to focus for long, you'd think they would be happy. I mean, people in the west complained Elden RIng didn't have the ability to buy souls, so they started a market to sell and buy themselves. Like what? I don't understand people anymore.
i wish capcom lock ferrystone and port crystal exclusive to mtx and you can't get in the game normally so you have to buy it to fast travel so the hater can cry about it legitimately instead of crying about something like this nonsense LOL@@Buttz2Buttz
it’ll be too much when the games are bad and have MTX. (ubisoft games) or when stuff arent easily acquirable
the combat and story is what makes me hooked, I remember lifting my shield to springboard and my pawn archer, straight up jump up and shot a minitour in the eye!
I love this review because ur just being so honest about your opinion of the game itself and still addressing the actual problems. I myself haven't had an issue with the game crashing but have experienced the lag in vermund. My pc isn't anything crazy but its good to know that mine isn't just pos or something. To charge extra for a game and not release it 100% finished is becoming all to common, but im glad that i can still experience and enjoy the game (unlike cyberpunk which i preordered on my Xbox one s)
Feels like a "must ship 1st quarter based on economy reasons..." release.
End of fourth quarter actually, but with the amount of ignorance around the game that's present, it's hard to expect people to understand the Japanese fiscal year.
The game had potential. but the fact one can't unbind specific letters or the arrow keys for movement-.- is stupid. the game needs optimization too.
Can’t even turn off shit like bloom or motion blur on console either…
They will hopefully ditch denuvo to improve performance, at this point there is no excuse for ruining performance for the sake of having that on it. I don't care about the microtransactions because, like in RE remake games, I just ignore them. As long as the games don't start to feel grindy for the sake of pushing mtx sales, that's what I will continue to do, just ignore them.
I have a 7800x3d with an overkill cooling solution and even my performane in town is abysmal. My question is what chip did they test this on and where can i buy it?
Id absolutely love if they implement a first person camera mode ( like the beginning cutscene ) for out of combat exploration.
Steam wouldn't even let me leave a review yesterday. Just no option. I could read them, but no making one.
Sounds like you don't own the game. Gotta own it on Steam to leave a review
@@ImpendingApotheosis no I owned and played it. Check the store page and the Library page, where it usually is. Nada. Then I refunded it. Maybe I'll snag it on sale but not for $90…with one save file, and the other issues.
No it is not a bitter pill.
i just didnt take the pill at all. for 60/70$ you simply cant have any microtransactions nor release it unpolish.
automatically skipped. once the game is Fixed and around 30$ is when i will buy it. if they wanted me to buy it full price then it should have been polished and without microtransactions day 1. You have to earn that 60$ price tag let alone the 70 mark. its a Game... not something that is needed.
In the age of Larian (BG3) and Arrowhead (Helldivers 2), these kinds of anti-consumer / pro-business practices look particularly egregious. I’m happy that capcom’s end of quarter is in March. I want them to see their bottom line take a hit while reading about games adopting pro-consumer stances. Maybe then they’ll finally realize the paradigm shift and choose to either get with it, or take their proper place as a footnote in some grad student’s case study on how large gaming companies fell from grace by failing to adapt…
*Helldivers 2:*
- Have microtransactions for equipment that affects gameplay which can be sidestepped with sufficient gametime
- Woot! Consumer friendly! Go team!
*Dragon's Dogma 2:*
- Have microtransactions for items that hardly affect gameplay which don't even need to be sidestepped because they are easily accrued in the course of the game
- Evil! Bad! Burn the anti-consumer witch!
Pick a lane. Or call me a bootlicker. Your choice.
The performance gripes are valid. The MTX gripes are not.
@@drakeford4860- There's no need for microtransactions in single-player games.
@@drakeford4860 rarely does anyone buy that helldivers armor for the stats which can be found on non-mtx armor. It just becomes cosmetic at that point. If anything it stops people from buying them because they might have bad stats. Doesn't mean they should be there, but at least the game is $40 and they're adding new free content. DD2 is not the type of game to add any form of content because the story is already complete.
@@Shamshirotheir is no need for a lot of stuff their is no need to hell divers to nerf stuff because that’s similar to every other live service game nerfing stuff to make the experience last longer shits annoying but doesn’t seem relevant at all
After you accept harmless micro transactions, harmful ones will definitely follow. Which means there are no harmless micro transactions. As a principle we should never support such games. Let the blood suckers drown in their own blood, not ours.
To people that buy the microtransactions in this game, please kindly find your local cartel and ask for a face lift, because you deserve such a wonderful service
Do you guys remember that CEO that said he would charge players money to reload their weapons?
that was ex-CEO of EA.
Of course, his bonuses depend on meeting short term targets based around share price and dividends. Workers, customers, and the long term health of the company, (and wider economy), be damned.
It was EA. What does it have to do with Capcom, that are having the same useless MTs no one cares about for years.
In Dragons Dogma 1 original release players are given 1 port crystal per Game run. Every time you finished the game and went New game+ you could find an extra port crystal.
And ferry stones were rare as hell. These kids also don't understand the mtx is literally just the deluxe preorder bonus items.
@@metaempiricist yea that is Capcom mistake, the only reason i can think of is they want to sell it one by one for ppl who dont want to buy the full package
@@Tenma295 They should have tagged them all as preorder bonus items in the store so misunderstandings like this don't result in a bunch of morons reeeing like an antifa rally.
Going from Helldivers 2 to this is such a fucking shellshock of a change.
hd2 isnt any better💀
@@Innocent64_. Load game, get put right into the fight. It runs well and smooth. Some quirks with controls but it ran and ran well.
DD2 on the other hand? Most aren't able to even PLAY the game. It crashes in the character creator. Other fall into a rock in the first 5 minutes and are stuck. No delete or restarting of game without going into the files manually.
You need to be objective and not a brand sucker.
not most....@@Nempo13
and again, dd2 is my first game from capcom, its just too good for it to be misunderstood@@Nempo13
@@Innocent64_. It is actually. Everything in Helldivrs 2 can be gotten without money. In fact you GET free silver credits in gameplay. It's completely different. And once something is unlocked it remains unlocked. It's not like buying and using single items at all. DD2 defeats the whole POINT of limited items in the game.
so on point. amen sir
yep, we are back. After Hell divers 2 and Baldur's gate 3.
"jUsT dOnT BuY tEh mICroS DoyYyyyYY!"
i wont, and i was never going to
and ill just give the game a maximum low score review and not buy part 3 until its on sale and stop respecting capcom after 30+ years of gaming, buying all the megamansm residnete vils , street fighters, marvel vs capcoms, monster hunters, dragons dogma, okami and whatever else they made i forgot. devil may cry and probably more. lol
Lmao they're just the deluxe preorder edition items sold individually and you can't even buy them more than once.
@@metaempiricist you can buy rc unlimited times. the fact you cant buy camping kits in game with gold until you buy the microtransaction with real money that also makes them weigh less is also more grimey greed trying to manipulate ppl into spending real money
@@THaB4DGuY You CAN buy camping kits in game with gold without buying some mtx camping kit thing...who told you that? I've been buying them the whole time without any mtx at all. The fact that they're selling weight lowering mtx is trashy though. Also rift crystal purchases is something people asked for from the first game. Those people were wrong, but lazy people usually are.
@@metaempiricist apparently the dlc camping kit is the low weight one that you cant buy in game unless you buy in store with real money. im not buying any mtx but its annoying knowing my basic low quality camp set weighs more than a full warrior armor set, but i guess you get what you pay for, and $70 isnt enough to get the good lightweight camping set lol
@@THaB4DGuY You gotta understand. They're selling you the easy way out. If you want to buy it go ahead. But you don't need it. You shouldn't even want it.
I keep getting the “just don’t buy it” argument whenever I brought the mtx aspect up
I mean, fair point. Just don't buy the game at all. These microtransactions are made to monetize for your inconvenience. I don't play games to be inconveined so I buy a fun game instead.
@@MatzeMB85 Kinda disappointed because I was really looking forward to playing this game. I'll just wait for sale.
If your not playing this game cos of MTX your overreaccing to rage bait youtuber idiots. Iv played like almost 30 hours and didnt even know there was a cash shop till I saw people mad about it online. The PC performance is an issue, the MTX thing is just lol that people are actually mad about or skipping the game because of it. The MTX lets you buy a useless currency that you get 10000s of within a few hours anyway.
not really? they dont inconvenience, all the mtx are just pre-order bonus.... @@MatzeMB85
TBH...it is a good argument... if a game as mtx I look at it and think.... can I play and have a good time without using them? if yes, that's what I do and never buy them... if not, I don't buy the game.
Having said that, if I REALLY (and I mean REALLY) like the game, sometimes I can buy some cool skins. I dislike them a lot more when it comes to competitive / multi player games, in those I think it should only be cosmetic.
I'm not sure if I'll buy the game or not, I'll wait a month to get all the reviews. Either way...vote with your wallet and decide what matters to you... I for one NEVER buy game I really want without a physical copy.
I think what people like me find frustrating is I’ve been COMPLAINKMG ABOUT THIS FOR A DECADE, and NOW - NOW PEOPLE WANT TO JUMP ON BOARD.
be happy it happened. Don't keep complaining or we'll all assume you complained for a decade because you like complaining.
@@DandelionMonkWhat? Lol
@@DandelionMonk you can assume whatever the hell you want, asshole
@@DandelionMonk and we will assume you made this asinine comment because you like hearing the sound of the keyboard tapping. Like honestly, who makes a comment such as yours. I’m not the one rage baiting for views and clicks. I swear, the gaming community deserves a collapse of the industry.
@@canaanstuart3331 you say you find it frustrating that suddenly everyone see things the same way as you. Only a negative person would find it frustrating. Anyone that wasn't complaining for the sake of complaining wouldn't complain about it for sure. Be happy the world has finally come around to seeing sense.
Capcom is probably going to release a performance patch in the Online Store for 5.99. Probably released it unoptimized and laggy just so they can sell you the fix later. CEO said he wants 100 dollars a game, and this is probably one of the many microtransaction ways they'll probably do it, just like making you pay real world money to change your appearance. Money to start a new game, money to delete your save file. I'm surprised they even allow us to uninstall the game without having to pay a microtransaction first. Also I'm pretty sure I've heard the port crystals you can find in game are limited, so you have to buy more with real money. It's likely other items you can find in the game will be limited as well, just to make you buy them with real money. Also, I really wish I knew they had Denuvo before I bought it. Denuvo is a hot mess, and not in any sort of good way. Denuvo has also been reporting people for piracy and getting their accounts suspended, if they manually delete their save file so they can start a new game without paying the microtransaction for permission to play a new game first.
Luckily I upgraded to the best hardware 4090 and 13900 k with fast Gen 4 storage and 64 gigs of ddr5 and my 48 inch 4k monitor runs at 120 HZ and it stays maxed out through the whole game and doesn't even use 90% of the GPU. I uncapped it just to see what kind of frame rate I could get and it was going all the way up to like 180 but since my monitor can't run it I locked it at 120. Still if I hadn't upgraded I would be pissed because it would run like dog crap on the 2070 super I had before that..
I never pirate games, but this game i sure will.
Gonna say this everytime this topic comes up. Monster Hunter World, 200 microtransactions in it. Most of the items there you can't earn in-game. Costs 10 dollars to redesign your character in that game. Still has a very positive rating on steam.
Yes but monster Hunter world has THREE save slots and they give you one free pass to customize your character which is nice. DD2 has none of that right now.
@PowerDragon999 why people keep bringing up character customization when they already debunked it. You can edit your character. infinitely, same with pawn. Just not the race.
@@heatherdeep8367You forgot "for free."
I'm all for tackling anti-consumer crap, and I'm perfectly on-board for folks being irritated with the PC performance, but I'm done listening to people talk out their ass about how "horrendous" the DD2 MTXs are.
5:40 they did know about the microtransactions, they just decided not to mention it.
Just because capcom hide the statement into the bloody game guide? And on the word of a mindless simp youtuber? LOL.
@Jinkypigs its their job
The best part? They got a version that didn't have denuvo. To try and hide some of the performance issues.
Denuvo and microtransactions are a bitter pill to swallow.
People could've overlooked the performance-issues if it wasn't for the other 2 problems.
And according to "FightinCowboy" some reviewers actually knew about the microtransactions(him included) but for some inexplicable reason chose not to mention them in their reviews.
As a developer who has worked at companies similar to Capcom I can say that if you want to defend this game, you should bring up these issues. The vast majority of devs just want to make the best game possible, and we disagree with these sort of self destructive decisions, but those disagreements are silenced by upper management and or greedy investors UNLESS the audience speaks out about it.
Capcom is saying their looking into fixing a lot of these issues now, but I'm nearly 100% certain that these issues were all brought up by devs ahead of time. They were just ignored until people like you, the target audience, spoke up.
I don't like that people keep bringing up the quote of "traveling isn't boring", as if he himself put the microtransactions in. Capcom has been doing this with all their games, and if you'd seen this guy talking about his games, you know he's in it for the game itself.
It feels like there was also no communication on what they would be, because the microtransactions are completely pointless and easily earnable in game. It's like playing Minecraft and purchasing stone tools. They aren't that good and you can get them quick anyway.
Point being the devs didn't make things inconvenient so you would purchase them. with that said, they definitely shouldn't be in the game at all, and it's definitely bull shit. I just don't like some of the insinuations that have been occurring
People are misinformed. It's actually just natural to read a title and agree with the mob . Anyway, I don't agree with the MTX, but they are 100% pointless, the most expensive one at 4.50 usd, I had that within an hour, the appearance changer everyone said you have to pay $2 for, earned in 10 mins in game.
I agree after buying and playing the only true issue is performance. The micro’s while harmless here, let the mob lose their mind on this one. This was so silly, wait a month for god sake if you must do something you KNOW is going to piss off people and prevent them from purchasing.
The point I was making is that regardless of the necessity, regardless of the fact you can get it all by playing the game, Capcom decision to monetize specifically port crystals and RC is antithetical to the purpose of those systems in the first place.
I can love the game and appreciate the teams work and vision while disparaging Capcom for undermining that hard work and the vision of the team to hopefully take advantage of vulnerable consumers.
Instead of saying, "It shouldn't be there , but..." Let's just say "it shouldn't be there. "
@@LegendaryDrops Capcom has been doing this for over 15 years now, considering the Japanese audience (thanks to their work culture) actually appreciates 5-10 minute time saver purchases, which is why capcom games have had MTX like these for so long. And if you understood their history you'd realize that Capcom has actually removed the ability to purchase such MTX in western versions of the game in the past, and have always designed their games to function and be complete without them because of MTX not being available in certain regions.
But understanding a company and doing research on it is too hard, but we understand that negativity creates better engagement so you're gonna pump out misinformed hate videos about the game because you'll get an army of people cheering you on for hating the game. And because misinformation creates more engagement as people take the time to call you out for your bullshit.
I thought the channel might be promising when it said its piece about helldivers, but it turns out you're just a toxic-tuber that puts out blatant misinformation and complaint videos.
I don't mind real criticisms of the game, not having a start over button is crazy, but easily fixable. The character creator's limits are pretty restrictive compared to the first game, and some of the settings hit the morph bounds long before the edge of the slider, and denuvo sucks and kills performance.
Talking about real issues is fine, but harping on non-issues is needless negativity for an otherwise great game. Why do you think gaming executives don't listen to you? It's because this video is a hit piece, all of the valid criticisms get invalidated by the inclusion of fabricated problems.
The best camping kit in the game is only available by mtx ... @@matthewadams8294
* It's an amazing game
* The technical problems can and will be largely fixed
* Microtransactions in single player open world is really really bad
* Microtransactions can be totally ignored without you knowing they are/were there
A voice of reason.
when they let me have as many save files as I want, and as many characters I want without paying for them in a single player game. Then I’ll buy the game
Do you realise how stupid that sound? How can you support such a bad company
@@TheMedianGam3r the sarcasm was, they won’t do it. I’ll never buy it.
Spawn Wave brought up an interesting point in his DD2 video. He questioned if the performance issues are due to a limitation of the RE Engine? Prior to DD2 we have only seen the engine in relatively small, closed world, controlled action set piece games. Capcom probably didn't have the resources/time/or want, to refine the engine to make it optimal for open world games.
Well, Bethesda gets destroyed every time their engine is mentioned (and rightfully so) and CDPR switched to UE5 because their engine was lacking, so I'm not going to give Capcom a pass on it either.
Limitations of the engine don't exist when you're using your own engine...
That's literally why you use your own engine, so you can change it whenever you want to get rid of any such limitations. Bethesda gets shit on because they use engine limitations as an excuse for not doing better.
If you're using unreal, engine limitations exist because you can't tinker with the engine to get it to do what you want. There's more to making your own engine than not paying epic/unity licensing fees. If the engine can't handle large cities, then the real limitation is their engineers that made the engine.
Amazing and needed to have voices of people who love the game pointing out what is wrong. Glad to have ya.
I can’t wait to sail the high seas for this one. 🏴☠️
absolutely having fun with this game im sorry some of yall not 😂😂
Most of them just lie or over exaggerated.
I hope they charge you more money to continue playing, I really do.
@TheHarrisontemple And I hope you keep crying about things you can't change. If you don't like the game, don't buy It . It was only $70 And most of the things you can get by playing the game .
@@og.gamer5756 it's funny that you think I actually care about dragon's dogma, the game always sucked to me I just can't stand idiots that allow microtransactions to become so commonplace.
@TheHarrisontemple then why or you here on this post and Responding to me in a beginning about the game or what there doing bro? Make this makes sense. Don't get upset because someone else is enjoying The game Go play minecraft or go buy $30 dollars skin on call of duty or something. People like you be trying to destroy the gaming community.
The whole "you can earn microtransactions in game" is such a bullshit line because they control and design how accessible a resource it is. People are absolutely delusional if they believe the corporates suits didn't figured out with help of psychologists the perfect drop rate to make people feel they need to purchase them. It reminds me of Diablo 3s RMAH, they said it was being implemented just to stop RMT for the game on shady websites, etc and then we found out they made good items much rarer to push people to use the RMAH. Never trust a corporation has good intentions if they have shareholders to answer to.
One of them is camping gear. 4 hours in and I’ve come across 20 camping gear to pick up.
Not to mention it’s not really that big of a grind to acquire all the others as well.
@@gregc.9313 People seem to be activley ignoring people like us, who can easily prove them wrong. Quite irritating actually, This game pushed boundaries other companies said impossible, and its catching crap for no reason. The devs made a truley open world game. Every building, dungeon, and town, can be walked in and out of freely, no load screen. Thats crazy, they did what gamers have been asking to do for YEARS. And this this what they get? They give you an optional purchase just like RE did, which no one cryed about, same as MHW, which no one cried about, but this guy gets hell? ITs a sad day in gameing. I havent felt bad for a dev in a long time, but Itsuno, he dosent deserve this.
@@Buttz2ButtzKeep licking that corporate boot. You disgust me.
@@Buttz2Buttz MHW has like 500 dollars worth of MTX, and the amount of western players I know that think it doesn't have any really paints a picture of how little people actually pay attention to the details.
It's like the people complaining about Overwatch lootboxes, the battle pass system they swapped to is far worse for consumers, but people are so simple minded that they'd rather fight the term lootbox and think they've won when the company makes the system fundamentally worse.
@@SherrifOfNottingham Right? It astounds me. And dear god did they butcher Overwatch, and people still played it, like you say they would rather fight the terminology than the practices companies employ. I saw people complaining about not being able to use all 5 of each chars they made in demo. Yet the demo tells you first thing, you can only port one of each. And they are acting like that never happened, like what? I loved MHW, just ignored the MTX, and you're right, alot of people don't seem to know they ever existed. I bet if all the info about DD2 was packed into a 15 sec TikTok, they would have known what the deal was from jump lol. I feel like this is one big episode of Pranked, but no one has said cut yet.
D4 and Cyberpunk taught me a valuable lesson with prepurchasing titles... and then being broke. I will wait to purchase this after they fix the performance... We do deserve better from this company, and hopefully people learn...
I purchased Dragonsand Dogma #1, and am enjoying that for the first time.
I absolutely love this game. I did have a spawn stuck in an animation and created an issue where it created my entire squad to fail. I even tried to force them into combat. I did not enjoy that experience.
The performance is crazy bad who thought the game was ready to launch
the shitty executives who pushed mtx into it probably
And yet all those steamers who had early access never said a word about it until now. Suspicion all around.
Can't speak to PC, but the console experience (at least on PS5) is pretty smooth.
Capcom doesn't usually simul-launch their PC titles. I wonder if it was an experience/staffing issue.
there is no reason for Capcom to allow micro transactions in a pay to play single player game for example NieR: Automata is a single player game that has zero micro transactions...at the end of the day Capcom is one of many greedy corporate companies yikes 😞
The problem I have with the microtransaction fiasco are those two points.
1. RC is not instrumental to the pawn system. It only costs RC to hire pawns of a higher level, or rather OP pawns that can carry you through and not be fun. Pawns that are your level or belong to a friend are free to hire.
2. You can have ten port crystals in the game regardless of whether you buy that one or not. What's more is that the portcrystals are only half of the game's fast travel system. Can't use em without Ferrystones, which aren't a microtransaction.
I get that people dislike microtransactions and agree that they have no place in a singleplayer game, but I feel it is being blown out of proportion unfairly for DD2. We were fucking lucky to get this game, and now it will have a bad reputation for something that no one who made it had anything to do with.
It is so sad, its being blown out of proportion like a game of telephone, people really think you need a single thing in the shop. I read someone thought you can buy a character slot with money. It’s eclipsing the real issue, performance
@@djbootymeatlive1484someone was spreading misinfo that you need a week to gather enough RC to buy art of metamorphosis. The game hasnt even been out for a week and people believe this 💀
Blown out of proportion? For adding microtransaction in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME! no, the flame ain't even big enough for the transgression. This is the 1st horse armor all over again and your blasé attitude are one key contribution in allowing company to get away with it .. and then the fat cat in the company can use the metric to crush any opposition to further microtransaction.
I am an old timer fan of dragon dogma but I rather this game burn and crash than to allow such attempt to bring microtransaction in SINGLE PLAYER GANE into the PC discs to unchallenged
@@Jinkypigs You can spread your sermon about MTX being bad without spreading misinformation. It’ll probably get more people on your side.
@@JinkypigsAll they've done is given you the option to buy pieces of the Deluxe Edition, stoopid.
To quote Josh strife "make the problem, sell the solution "
This was the first large games company AAA game ive purchased in a long time close/at release (since Skyrim Legendary edition) and i was so excited for it too after finishing the main story in the first DD game… but now after amongst all this controversy and hours spent in crash screens just to get into my save… I realize now im better off just playing indie and finding big games in smaller places - monetization is the death of art, and games are not just a non-exception… they are the easiest exploitation
Monetization is fine.... but it must be secondary to passion. They should try to make the best game possible while having some profit, instead of the most profit while having some game.
@@ricardokojin7 I agree - I just use that idiom at the end to further push the fact that when money is involved in order to gain profit, margins are shrunk, corners are cut, and people are screwed over, both consumers and developers. In those scenarios, the only ones who win are the company owners, managers, and stakeholders - literally the people who's only passion is to milk our money.
smaller companies are less likely to do this because their teams dont have extensive management trees, they work together to passionately work on their project and are kept accountable - having gone from a small tech company to a national lab, I can see this in my everyday - its the same shit just different toilet.
When the Inside Games guys basically played quarterback for Capcom and said that it's unfair to get mad at this game if you didn't at other Capcom games baffled me and a lot of people. How the mighty fall when they have to cover for their sponsors.
Should have known better than to sign any contract that required that... unless they did it on their own and then? Well, you can't fix stupid.
Literally everyone on steam should ask for a refund at this point.
Why would I? The game is everything I could have asked for and more.
I got my refund last night I'll come back when it's 50% off and I can play more than one character.
@@jaimeperry7326 Very good.
When Monster Hunter Wilds releases and has microtansactions in it, that when I know Capcom players truly have no integrity.
Seeing players defend the microtransactions just because it always existed before frustrates me to no end because it shows me that these players are USED TO IT.
Very grateful for your thoughts man. I’ve been debating what to play next and this was high on the list, but i’m comfortable to leave this one for later. Maybe once bleeding edge features like, “New Game” are introduced, or the game’s balance with its monetised elements has been shown to genuinely be a non issue...
Death’s Door it is!
man, all the points in this were so absolutely valid, i was getting hyped at around the 10min marker like i’m a soldier about to go to war lmaooo
Did you know that MTX in this game is a "one time" purchase. That's why some are labeled as A B C... Also they are one time use. Also there are enough in the game to have the max amount.
Only maximum of 10 port markers can be used, which means the "spare" one bought as MTX is useless if you find 10 in the game. Basically it is for impatient players.
Even the camping tent is not the lightest in the game(there is an "Elite Camping Kit" which is 4KG).
It's the fact that it's even there to begin with. Don't defend this.
@@sebastianprice1528
Not defending, as many others that just share facts. You can do whatever you want with that info. Context is important as much as avoiding fallacy(logical).
@@sebastianprice1528he’s not defending the practice the problem is people are lying about the microtransactions and spreading misinformation people are actually going around telling others that you have to buy new game plus it’s bad that they’re in the game but people lying about them is even worse
@@sebastianprice1528It's literally the same shit that's in the deluxe edition 😂
Now go protest against the deluxe editions offered by nearly every single game.
Can we get this man more subs? Spread his voice and get it heard. Anytime I want game info this is where I go. Keep up the good fight my man!
Lol, the amount of Capcum guzzling going on throughout the internet right now is pretty top tier.
Fantastic video and I agree. The way that I look at it is this, I have realistic expectations of value when purchasing a video game. These companies are fully able to meet and most certainly exceed my expectations. Where I get pissed is when they fail to even meet the bare minimum of my, and the communities, expectations. They over promise, over charge, and under deliver on quality; for that is a demonstrated recipe for disaster. I wish more people would simply stop feeding into the system that smacks us in the face each and every time.
Well put video! I haven't seen more reviews tackling the topic of MTX in Dragon's Dogma 2 and how some of the playerbase shrugging it off.
At least on a PR perspective, CAPCOM really failed to read the room, especially with the perception of MTX and performance optimizations.
Uhhh you shouldn't be using RC to get pawns. You can get pawns that are your level, like the first one. DD2 has problems, but that ain't one.
The issue I have is precedent. One publisher presses an issue and it opens the floodgates to predatory behavior. If they get away with it other AAA will do it and make it worse.
You really deserve so many more subs. Your commentary is superb.
As a veteran of the first game since the PS3 days, someone who has bought the PS3 Dark arisen, the PC Dark Arisen and PS4 Dark Arisen, someone who has been dreaming of this sequel for 12 years my heart goes out to Itsuno more than anything, imagine how he feels having the first game gutted midway through development, then finally getting to complete his dream only to have the scumbag executive shit all over his efforts and cause a shitstorm on release. Honestly, my heart is breaking for him. If you can look beneath the Crapcom BS the game is amazing and truly everything I had dreamed of and it is so sad to see it's brilliance overshadowed by greed like this.
How about we keep DD2's review's negative permanently? Let the whole world forever remember this bullshit.