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Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX (beehaw.org)
submitted 7 months ago by AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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So there's obviously been a lot of existing discourse on DD2's micro transactions, and I'm curious to get the thoughts of people here.

I haven't played the game yet, but the consensus I've gotten is that the MTXs are largely meaningless because they're so easy to get in-game, but if they weren't so easy to get they would be outrageous. It seems there's some amount of counter-backlash defending the game saying that those who are upset just don't understand how easy it is to get those things in-game.

Personally, I don't think Capcom is dumb; my money would be that they wanted to test the waters to see what player response would be to these types of transactions, or that they would want to (quietly) adjust how easy they are to get in-game later on.

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[โ€“] Poopfeast420@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As far as I've heard, previous Capcom games already feature these types of mostly meaningless DLC. So it's not a first test, and so far the older games haven't been adjusted to make the microtransactions more appealing.

I agree, Capcom aren't dumb, it's probably just a minimal amount of work, and if they can get even a few buyers they make money. Although, who knows if the hit to their reputations negates all of this.

[โ€“] Varyag@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, all of their games in the past few years or so have DLCs like that. What I'm actually worried about is some of their games the MTX aren't irrelevant like these. Monster Hunter has been getting more and more of these with each new release since World and I'm scared of what they'll do with Wilds.