WHY I WILL NEVER BUY DRAGON'S DOGMA 2!
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- WHY I WILL NEVER BUY DRAGON'S DOGMA 2! Because I have principles. I will not give many to people practice bad behavior, make bad games and only care about money. DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 has very aggressive very Insidious microtransactions. And I will not stand for it games should be good and this game is not!
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Dude the mental gymnastics I’ve had to go through watching this video is insane! Only thing I agree with you is micro transactions are anti-consumer, that’s it.
By the title it sounds like you’re giving a review of the game but its just a opinion post about your feelings towards micro transactions
Dragons Dogma is a game you need to experience, not watch on youtube. At its core, it's a game with shit story and chaotic but easy combat. But, most of all, it's a player driven exploration simulator.
It ain't perfect, but it's a good experience imo.
You know what I look for in an informative source? Someone who hasn’t actually done his research. Super trustworthy.
Since a lot of people don’t actually go into detail about the micro transactions I’m gonna.
TLDR: Like a lot of others have said they are not bad and will not affect your gameplay, no pop ups or anything just a bunch of borderline worthless items available to purchase.
You can get 5 wakestones total. You use these to revive dead npcs, you get these like candy in the normal game and I cannot ponder why they’re even in the store. Only 5 when you can find a limitless number in game.
Art of metamorphosis, gaol key, rift incense, are items you can buy 1 of. 1st is an appearance changer (they’re cheap as shit in the game and you can get 99 from each vendor who sells them) 2nd is a jail key (you can get a limitless version a few hours into the game and you hardly get arrested) 3rd changes what your follower does, (again buy them in game for cheap)
1 portcrystal to set a fast travel place, you find maybe 7 in the game on a run and can only place 10 so I guess this one almost makes sense, still need an item you can only get in game to use.
Harpy snare… lures harpies… why would you pay to lure them there is almost always a group in sight.
Pendant and camp kit are visually appealing versions of things you can get easily (bundle of flowers, and any other camping kit)
And rift crystals, the most egregious of the bunch. You use them to hire followers of a higher level than you to make the game easier, you get thousands of these in game and can continue to grind them out. You also use them to buy many of the other dlc items in game. Also funny glasses. Rift crystals were in the first game to a lot of peoples displeasure but did not come anywhere near to ruining the game much like this.
In the end I guess do what you will. There are far worse games with even more predatory practices that just get pushed to the side like CoD which ships at the same price with waaaaay worse monetization or gatcha games which use the guise of “free” to get away with charging hundreds to get game changing characters and gear. This game is amazing and worth playing even if you wait for a sale or denuvo being removed or whatever issue vexes you personally.
They trying to recover from the online loss and after closing it down and admitted their mistake of only have it in Japan Not outher countries that would dump time and money into it that a lot of dragon Dogma fans they throw like trash to the wind and say sucker's now after dragon Dogma 2 came out but they will never recover the time and money they loss from the online game
3:35 you shouldn't be dissapointed. If you love the game it's natural that you want to support the devs and enjoy the game even more with cool hats. I have about hundreds of hours in Let it Die, and have bought stuff to support the devs cuz they make a ton of weird games on the side that are a breath of fresh air in a dying medium. There's nothing wrong with supporting what you enjoy.
Totally agree! "Buyer beware" not only means be careful of what you're buying but be careful of putting up with shoddy goods and bad service as that will become The New Normal. A little jank is fine (hey, I still love Skyrim). Paying cash for a fancy hat is acceptable (I play -Fashion Wars 2-, er, I mean Guild Wars 2). But paying AAA price for anti-cheat in a single player game with a cash shop selling fast travel? Absolutely not. As a great man once said (again and again), "Hey. You're finally awake..."
In gw2 you can buy gold to get the legendary item requirements as well as for ascended gear. Hell, you can get some legendaries off the market. So....yea. Just saying ;P
They also don't sell fast travel. They sell fast travel destinations. Anyone who has played the game for more than a few hours will tell you how useless it is to have one more port location. There is plenty of fast travel in the game with oxcarts and like 7 port locations in total in the base game without buying the ONE extra you can get by spending 2$.
Good job showing off you dont know what the fuck you're talking about
They don't sell fast travel, and you thinking that shows how you and most likely everyone else complaining about that just doesn't understand the first thing about the game lmao.
not a minute in and already I just hear "i'm on a hype train for views give me the views daddy algorithm."
Listen, I was like you before today shitting on this game and hating on it massively. I finally succumbed to the hype and I took the plunge and bought the game. I’m so glad I did, the graphics are great, performance has greatly improved on PS5 due the option added to turn off RT. The combat is visceral and great and the story is very good so far. Stop being a hater like I was and take the leap of faith. You won’t regret it.
You're missing out my friend. I would even pay $100.00 for a videogame that provides 100 hours+ of awesome gaming experience. Thats a dollar an hour of fun!
Who cares sbout the microtransactions!? Capcom always does it. Monster Hunter did it. Resident evil did it. Hell even street fighter did it! Nobody was bitching then. Now that the bandwagon has been so popular lately, everyone wants to take the "moral high ground" and boycott this amazing gem of a game...
I personally refuse to let trivial matters ruin my gaming experience. There arent many good games these days that provide the dopamine hit I get from exploring in dragons dogma 2. Not since witcher 3, breath of the wild, skyrim, or elden ring. That says alot to me.
It's absolutely absurd to miss out on one of the best games to date simply because of microtransactions. Its sitting at an 87% on metacritic! Thats higher than some of the most beloved games in the industry.
Don't let the review bombs fool you. And don't let these justice warriors convince you to miss out on this fantastic adventure!!!
And just an FYI, the microtransactions do not impact the game. You can purchase ferrystones but so what? You cant use them unless you have a port crystal! Thats like selling the keys without the car that goes with them.
Gimme a break...
I know I'm missing out I really want to play this game. First of the Capcom i have wanted to play.
"87%on metacritic" - 85% now by critics, and 6.3/10 user score
@@domisPL_01 "critics" are not worth slat these day sad to say. but 6.3/10 oof that's not a great score. not the worse. not bad. but not great.
@@lorthorn i will spend my money on other games instead 👍
I don't trust the critics nor users. I might buy the game since the microtransaction are non-intrusive, and like above post mentioned, capcom has been practicing this weak type of microtransaction. I am watching out though, cause we've all seen microtransaction at it's worse, ahem EA..Star...capcom...my eye is on you.
Dont blame the devs blame the publisher. Whilst i get the idear of not buying a game for the reasons you mentioned it wont effect the publisher it usually effect the devs. Anyhow the mtx dont effect the gameplay in any way nor do you need to buy them to enjoy the game
40 seconds into the video and you're complaining the game is too expensive. When 90% of AAA games cost the exact same lol
no they dont.
@@libor2010 what do you mean no they don't? Almost all AAA games cost between 60-70 dollars US
@@josephtawa709 so lets start wih bg3,Horizon Forbidden West,Last epoch those are NOT 70 usd games sir.
(i havent watched the full vid yet but im just gonna comment my reason for not buying the game)
its too expensive for a game that launched with microtransactions, even tho it looks like something id like im not about to throw down all the savings i currently have on a game thats probably gonna be so frustrating that im gonna wanna buy the shit that shouldnt be locked behind a paywall anyway
If it helps at all, at over 40 hours in I haven't been inclined at all to even look at the store. You can only access it from the title screen, no way to get there from in game.
It's literally there to separate idiots from their money, you don't ever need anything they sell and you can find plenty of them in the world just by playing the game.
The game is awesome to play, the only real issue is the super heavy CPU load the game has, hopefully they'll fix that soon with a patch though. That being said, I'm still playing it on a laptop that has a old ass GTX 1050 and 9th Gen i5 so don't let people tell you they can't run it on $3000 rigs either.
@@SuperFizzah i was never really planning on buying it on pc cause the combat to me seems very controller oriented but ive grown sceptical of games that release at above full price with microtransactions since most of those games tend to become worse over time and im very scared of spending 65-70 dollars on a game that i might not even enjoy
"I have principles, I will not reward bad behaviour..." You using a computer? You using a phone?
Congrats you reward bad behavior.
I mean I guess, but even if you are aware that to some degree everything has some bad involved in it doesn't mean you can't hold principles to at least what you can control, what you can influence. And even then you still have agency over which computer, which phone, they might all have some bad in them, but you can still seek out the lesser of the evils.
No game is perfect, everyone needs to make money at the end of the day, everyone has to deal with the suits in one way or another, that does not mean that you shouldn't try to make better decisions when the ability becomes available.
The micro transactions aren’t anything that isn’t easily accessible in the game using in game currency. You never even have to look at them and you’ll be fine. Also there is severs that need to maintained for the pawn system. In my opinion, you’re way off.
You failed to understand the point here.
Even if they are not a huge problem now, what's to say they won't try to make them just a little more aggressive next time? I mean people tolerated them last time, why can't they tolerate a little more inconvenience? Just a little extra time wasted, just a bit more pushing to spend?
@@Phunny1 I know. Anyone with a different opinion “fails to understand the point”
@@beesolow25 I mean sure, your "opinion" is that if you ignore MTX in games because they allow you to earn whatever item it is that you can buy by playing then nothing bad will happen, everyone is happy.
Problem being, my point is not my opinion, we do already have the data on that, they slowly make games grindier to incentivize buying grind skippers, they add more things to buy, they normalize buying, then they require buying.
@@Phunny1 have you looked at the micro transaction? None of it is anything that you really have to grind for. Maybe the port crystals. But they are useless without ferry crystals and you can’t buy ferry crystals with micro transactions. You’ll always have way more port crystals than ferry crystals. Everything in store comes easily in game.
The store is actually incredibly useless, even if you wanted to spend the money to skip grinding.
@@beesolow25 I can not claim to be any sort of expert on DD2 or really any recent Capcom game, I can't speak to how useful or not any given thing is, and honestly I'm not rooting for your thing to be ethically fucked. Based on what I've seen on the game the items seem like a bit of a noob trap, which is highly uncool. I do not think the devs wanted this, and it'd be silly to think they wouldn't be the one's getting punished if this game were to fail. It's basically a no sum game where the real bad guy is up in a tower somewhere while the dummies who actually have any real stake in all this fight amongst themselves.
I don't know what the real solution is, this is just the line I have decided not to cross, this is just the only thing that seems to do anything at all.
You may have a different outlook, that's okay, I'm not your enemy really :)
Possibly dumb question but why is Denuvo another con to it? I've never heard of Denuvo before so I assume it's some kind of tracker?
it's a Anti cheat anti tamper software that makes the game harder to mod for certain kinds of mod. it also use your computer resources. Has been know to be the cause of lower fps in games becuse it's to active. it likes to check online things to make sure your not up to any thing so if you play in a remote area offline and it can't speak to it's severs it might shut down your game. also there is a concern that if the denuvo server one day ends stops being run then all denuvo games will die. the main reason it is used is to stop pirating of a game but it has a lot of draw backs. also it does not really do it job will of stopping hackers just eats up a bit of there time. My main dislike of it is it makes things always online.
Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you for educating! @@lorthorn
I think it's a bit too late to draw a line in the sand now. Microtransactions in singleplayer games have been a thing for a while now. Shadow of War had lootboxes in 2017 (Even if they later removed them) and Ubisoft titles have had MTX since I wanna say AC: Odyssey. Even Capcom themselves put them into their games since at least RE2 Remake.
I guess late is better than never. My question for you is that since you say you will never buy it and you mentioned being excited for it in the comments, have you thought about *other means* of aquiring the game?
i forgot about shadow of war bleh... why has it come to this. I gave up on AC long ago for other reason but that's more nails in it's coffin. As to the question legally i say no. I may play it if a friend has it or in 15 years time when it's free on Abandonware or something like that. honestly I don't like going to the sea for lumber. other things going on boat trips is sometimes the only option if you live on a place with out any options. but sailing for "other mean" is not in what I do.
Pwople with these takes clearly are just jumping on the hate train without actually understanding what they are talking about.
Not going to bother me if you dont play an awesome game just because you take the word of frothy neck beards from Reddit as gospel 🤷♂️
You cancelled yourself, congratulations. This has the same impact as a random civilian walking to a politicial and saying "I'm not going to vote on you!". Do you in any regard think it will affect the politician, or the percentage of votes he/she gets?
Just play the game it's fun, the paid content is entirely irrelevant to the game experience
Imagine not experiencing Oblivion out of principle because of the Horse Armour DLC, you're the only one losing in this situation
DD2 is one of the rare few games that actually seems to have been made with genuine love and care with developers that actually care about making a fun experience
If I could have taken back my purchase of oblivion, rest assured I still would. Even without the horse armor, bur especially with.
And before you sag anything, 150+ hours, does not change my statement
@@Phunny1 Okay so you don't like Oblivion, which makes what I said about Oblivion irrelevant to you
I DID like oblivion, that's my whole point, I still have fond memories of it now. But with the benefit of hindsight I can see how clearly the decisions that were tolerated in oblivion directly led to the fucking travesty that was Starfield.
Even in the days of oblivion Bethseda decided to focus more on ugly high fidelity graphics, motion capture, copy paste content, and ridiculous NPC control systems that basically have the same gameplay as a scripted NPC, just worse and more annoying. They also added level scaling and gear scaling, two systems which to this day are about the worst thing you can add to any game. And then they decided a final battle where you stand 100ft away and watch the character you stopped giving a fuck about as soon as you left the tutorial become a kaiju and do a power rangers fight scene.
There is a lot of fun to be had with oblivion, provided you work around the games obvious and glaring flaws, and what that basically led to is Bethseda doubling down on all those flaws. @@DanielAPSama
@@Phunny1 I never played Starfield so I can't really speak on that, It does seemed very uninspired though, I can only hope they re-assess how they approach big games like that for ES6.
But forget about Bethesda, have you played Dragons Dogma? 1 or 2? What are your thoughts?
IMO DD2 is the SO much fun and the most immersive open world RPG that's come out in recent times, it's the best and it's not even close. It's getting a lot of people hate farming online and review bombing for unjustified reasons, and mostly from people who haven't even played.
@@DanielAPSama I decided to opt out of bethseda games after fallout 4, so I have not played starfield either, just done a lot of research and seen a fair amount of the game via playthrough, I do not think that devalues my criticisms, but there are some people who would disagree.
In regards to your other question, I have not played DD 1 or 2, I heard good things about 1, never got around to it. Was somewhat interested in 2 until I saw the system requirements (not a total deal breaker but I don't like games that demand really high end machines), performance issues (I have tolerated games that have them before, but I am picky and expect fairly quick fixes, I will also not typically buy on launch if there's any news of this kind of thing), then I saw the price point (around $120 for me) which would normally mean I pick it up on sale if it seemed good enough, but add in MTX in a non online, non multiplayer game and I'm basically out for good. Add to that it's asking real money for consumables to boot, and it's an absolute noob trap as well and I probably wouldn't play the game if it was gifted to me tbh.
I can understand that people would think I'm missing out, or being too picky or whatever, but from my perspective there are so many amazing games on offer that don't require massive moral compromise or mental gymnastics to justify that even if this game is a literal blowjob machine I just don't think I want much to do with it.
I don't agree with people just jumping on the hate train because it's the in thing to do so, but I do think the game does deserve a lot of the criticism it's gotten, even in spite of it's high quality immersive gameplay for pretty much the exact reasons I went over in my oblivion comments.
Thanks for listening :)
So I'm not understanding why you're upset with the game at all anymore. The micro transactions shouldn't be an issue because the currency is earned completely free and the items have no impact on the game at all. Personally i think it's dumb, but it's not enough to sway someone from buying the game. Just say the game is too expensive and stop using micro transactions as a scapegoat. For 16 whole minutes you complained about micro transactions and even justified it to some degree with f2p games when they're way more predatory about the transactions. Why is it wrong for dragons dogma 2 to have Micro transactions, but it's ok for f2p games that prey off peoples addictions with flashy cosmetics and rng chest for potentially top tier characters or loot. Also this video really showed that you haven't played any type of capcom game because they always have some form of micro transactions in their game and it has literally no affect on the overall experience of any game they produce. I could understand your plea if you said the optimization was the main issue alone, but in all honesty the game is fine besides the poor performance. If its too expensive then do either 2 things
A: don't buy the game
B: wait for it to go on sale
It's truly saddening for people to downplay this game over something so trivial like micro transactions.
The game is completely fine and fun. The micro-transactions don't effect anyone except yourself, and you don't at all need to purchase anything to enjoy the game fully. Shallow review mirroring the angry masses. Take my downvote.
cry cry not what i want cry cry
It is my new favourite over MHW and ER, and I can feel that this game made with heart from players to players and the micro t. isn't there idea. You punishing developers for their managers choice. Gj. Bye
No one cares dude we out here enjoying the shit of it.
first 2 seconds and i hate this guy already.
The microtransactions literally make the game worse and everything is dirt-cheap in the game when you play it so there's absolutely no need to buy these. They're almost a punishment for people stupid enough to buy them lol I think they're amazing.
i love how unique this take is
@@lorthorn, it's not unique. It has been there since the whole existence of capcom
@@user-zj1qp5um7e first time I heard it.
@@lorthorn, have you ever wondered why devil may cry has all these skulls on sale?...
@@user-zj1qp5um7e never played the game.
Huh, never knew it was almost $100 in Canada. Demographic and Marketing sucks, don't blame the game though for that. As for the MTX, they've been in previous single player games in the past for years now and as far as I've experienced... they're never needed. You can enjoy the game without it.
Surprisingly, the minority of complaints compared to everything else is literally just MTX, but I'm going to assume that the same people complaining about this are the same people who just looked at the game at face value --- or have no idea what Dragon's Dogma is and can't grab a spectacle of what the game is like from the inside out.
95 dollars Canadian is 70 dollars US. This game costs the same as 90% of AAA games nowadays
It's fine, don't buy it. You don't have to justify it. I bought it on both PS5 and PC and I'm having a blast for over 160h+ now and I'm not even close to completion. The performance is fine for me and I play it on a Lenovo Legion laptop with 3060 "mobile" (the special weak crap for laptops). I travel a lot and I can't take my PS5 with me, so having it on a laptop is great. On PS5 it is just perfect for me. I do prefer to play it on PS5 but that's not possible when I'm not home. Not a single crash, no low bothersome framerate, everything is just nice. I do have complaints about the game, but I'm having shit tons of fun with it. My "highest price" that I would pay for a game is 2$/hour of fun, this game is was worth the money weeks ago already and I can see miself playing it for the next couple of years in between other games.
The game is absolutely solid. Those micro transactions aren't anything new btw. Original game had the same. But they're not p2w at all. Not even close. And at no point I felt like they were forcing me to buy them. In the meantime we have ubishaft, a studio that shoves the store in your face on start up..
These Capcom mtx are a publisher thing.
not buying the game with microtransactions, better get ready to never buy a game again.
if that is what it takes.
This is a video I felt I should make myself, glad to see someone is already doing it.
I came out of a 5 year live service hiatus to support helldivers 2 because I saw that it was doing something unique, and daring, in a way that I found fair and reasonable, I'm enjoying it immensely and would probably love a continuation of the franchise. But, the same second I see dogma 2 shit hit anything I love, Dark souls, Elden ring, helldivers, Valhiem, Hollow Knight, I resolve to be out, and to ward off as many people as I can on my way. We've already seen what letting the line slip does. We have no choice but to be firm, patient, and exacting customers with strong principles if we ever want things to improve.
Congrats nobody cares.
All these self righteous idiots crying about capcom and all of this stuff without even playing the game...
I can run it at 50+ FPS with an RTX 2060 and i7 on high settings
All of the microtransactions are stuff you can get in-game already, very easily, too. People are so stupid.
Good for you
What is this guy yapping aboot
this is why you only have 10 thousand subscribers. dragons dogma is not a true single player game. your pawn gets stored on a capcom server and people can play with your pawn and send you items. capcom has been doing this in every game for over a decade and you just now decide to get upset. the first dragons dogma which came out 12 years ago also has micro transactions. you have no clue what youre talking about and you dont know anything about the game. your life must be exhausting.
lol. You are so far off the mark. Your whataboutism is pathetic. Dragon's Dogma 2 is way out of line. It's wrong. It's a test to see what they can get away with. And any gamer who buys into Dragon's Dogma 2 is the kind of human trash that enables crooked corporations to get away with far too much. The same kind of people who allow corruption to fester and take over.
that's so bad there so many game work like that adventure game and other bro this video was amazing
thanks
@@lorthorn your welcome always make amazing content