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Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions (www.downtimebros.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's why steam reviews are better with it being from actual people who aren't scared of being blacklisted from future access. Even with joke reviews it's still actually more informative. These review outlets call it review bombing, but I call it review awareness with it highlighting and bringing attention to things paid reviewers neglect and ignore.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't blame the reviewers for reviewing the product they were given. I blame Capcom for the bait and switch, and the editors who won't edit the review to reflect the current reality

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (33 children)

Spoilers: they won't.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Oh good, one more AAA I can auto-skip over.

Did you know you can block publishers on Steam?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Refunded as soon as I saw... thanks for saving me $70, Dragon's Dogshit II devs! Shame, game looks amazing, but nah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Why skip when you can pirate it for free? Everything is pirateable these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I sure can't. They just show back up with "Blocked" on the cover

That's not blocking them. That's just modifying the cover art

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Completely agree. Block means don't see in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

ITT: Mental Gymnastics competition to see how well one can defend corporate greed

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Nobody wants to admit they've been taken for a ride.

Mark Twain said it best: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

Useful idiot is the norm for this generation.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (18 children)

From the comments here I can see we learned nothing from Horse Armour.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Lots was learned. They learned they can continue to move the goalposts simply forever it seems.

Wait for the rage over this particular round to die down. Release a game with similar but slightly dialed back bullshit. Tell everyone how much better you are than them.

Repeat until people pay $99 for the right to rent the game for $10 a month plus pay to win MTX.

Sure DD2 is a corpse, but a new game will come growing from its corpse.

Soon the poors won't be able to play games anyway as that will be forbidden by their owners

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (12 children)

"[...]these micotransactions grant more frequent access to features many gamers deem essential for any action RPG. This includes fast travel and character customisation."

Wait, what? Seriously devs?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Jeez Capcom, leave some evil for the rest of us!" - Satan probably

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At this point I think it's safe to say that if Satan was real, he's the biggest shareholder of every tech company in the world, including those that make video games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Nah, he's just consulting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Gran Turismo 7 pulled the same shit. I'm still pissed about that one. Plus the lack of single player content basically means I haven't even played the game since shortly after launch. The grind without mtx is crazy boring.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Aside from the controversy, why does every medieval game look as ugly as oblivion?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Because they're old-tymey. Everything was sepia tinted and muddy back then, and they didn't have fancy dyes or expensive rendering software to make many polygons.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We tried this already - getting ethics in game journalism.

It didn't work so well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Can't tell if you're joking or not, but gamergate was absolutely not about "ethics in game journalism."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's not going to change much.

It's crazy dumb they created the controversy but the game is fully complete and excellent.

It's insane they didn't see this blowing up in their faces 🤦‍♂️.

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