Dragon's Dogma 2 launches to "Mostly Negative" review bombing after microtransactions reveal, and man, what a bummer

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being review bombed
No, it's not. Review bombing is a reaction caused by an extrinsic factor. DD2 is being reviewed negatively because of what's built into the game.
- Yeah, too many “journalists” chuck around the term review bombed to mean when a AAA game gets a load of (deserved) hate.
  
  Good journalists go back, edit their original review to call out the bait and switch of hiding the microtransactions from reviewers, and adjust their score accordingly with microtransactions taken into accout.
  And release a follow up "article" just letting people know what happened and that they've updated the review, so it doesn't fly under people's radar.
  Seriously, reviewers need to stop softballing when this shit happens. It's one thing for review copies to maybe be missing the final coat of polish. It's something completely different to completely leave out a feature known to be contreversial in an attempt to pump up scores, then turn it on after the initial wave of buyers can no longer return their purchase. Not like they spontaneously developed this shit since review copies went out.
  
  It's still a form of review bombing. If the game is good (I have not played it nor seen any review so I don't actually know, but the article is making it sound like the only issues are the mtx) aside from the predatory mtx, does it deserve a mostly negative rating ?
  I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but I can also see reasons to if one thinks that you are not getting a much worse experience by not paying for these micro transactions.
  Also, it's fucking Capcom. They have good studios but they have always been greedy bastards. So I can't say I'm surprised by any of this.
- The problem is that those two things look exactly the same without the added context that you can't fit into an easy title and people won't read the details anyways.
  
  Dragon's Dogma 2 launches to "Mostly Negative" reviews criticising previously hidden microtransactions, and man, what a bummer
  did it for ya
- I've never heard of your definition before. It was "review bombing" when Payday 2 added MTX to the game, which I think was one of the early uses of the term even.
  Review bombing is when people organize and get other people to review a game poorly for something they're opposed to, rather than the product actually being bad as a whole.
  This isn't to say it isn't deserved for DD2. I have seen tons of reviews of bad performance and things like that. Also one where someone got stuck in the floor and had to delete their save to be able to play the game again. The MTX stuff mostly sounds overblown from my experience with DD:DA, but it does suck it's there are all. I can't tell you if it deserves mostly negative or not because I haven't played it.

Imagine putting microtransactions, paid character edit vouchers, Denuvo, and anti-cheat into a $70 single player only game. They know what's happening, they're just trying to shift blame onto the community.
- ...putting microtransactions, paid character edit vouchers, Denuvo, and anti-cheat into a $70 single player only game
  This reads like satire wtf
  
  Think of it as their very shitty solution to mods and cheats that so many dumbasses pay for. "Hey, why let those cheat makers profit off of our games? Let's make the cheats ourselves! But you know, for better profit, let's chop off parts of the game and call them cheats instead."
- Kernel level anti-cheat
  Micro-transactions
  Paid character edit vouchers
  Ouch, I'd be pissed too if my $70 was still not enough to buy all the character models, let alone that I would have to pay to re-customize my character. They 100% deserve this negative criticism.
- Wait, anti-cheat? Wtf?
  
  It has Denuvo Anti-tamper and Denuvo anti-cheat. If they didn't include the latter, you could just bypass the microtransactions entirely.

The very fact it's called a "review bomb" is an attempt at controlling the narrative. Fuck game "journalism".

$70 price point for entry, microtransactions for stupid shit, and launches with severe technical issues.
I'm so sick of your shit Capcom.
- When a game releases with multiple purchases along side it, it just means you chopped up my full price game and are charging me extra for what I should have already gotten
  WWE 2k24 in infuriating like this. If you want the full game on release, it's actually like $150.
  
  Supposedly a lot if not all of these micro transactions are simply faster unlocks to the content/feature, still though not a good look.
  
  Exception to this is actual extras, like the game's soundtrack or access to concept art.

Thanks for letting us know. Removed from my wishlist.
Things you can buy for the single player ARPG include fast travel points
What in the fuck.
- Wowwwww that is noxious. Maybe I'll check it out in 5 years, but for now this is a hard pass.
  I was so hyped for this game too. The original had something special if a little underdeveloped. I was excited to see if they could make it bloom.
  Guess not anyway
  
  "Pay us more money to spend less time in the game we made" Yeah I think I'll just pass on the whole game actually
- LOL THEY MANAGED TO MAKE THE FAST TRAVEL WORSE THAN IN THE FIRST GAME?! HOW?!
  
  Not defending the mx in Dragons Dogma 2 but at least in the first one I think the way fast travel works was kinda good. It's cumbersome and not very flexible but it fits the kind of game it is and you have to actually think about where you want to go instead of zipping around the map. Imo
- I don't know exactly how true this is, but I read in another thread that you can't even delete your save and start over
  
  I've read that you can start over. But not in any kind of sensible in game way.
  You have to completely delete all of the game's files off your computer and steam cloud
  You have to start from a fresh install every time
  
  That's another dlc coming once it's been out for a week.
- FWIW the items to do this are also available in game. I haven't played yet so I don't know how reasonable it is to get these in game.
  
  I get that, but they're really exploiting their customers with impulse control issues. This is all designed to fleece whales and I think it's a pretty disgusting practice that's becoming too normalized

lol. First it had denuvo and now microtransacrions? pathetic
- There is a pidcast that i like and they both praised the game and got sponsored by Capcom. I think i have to sit out the next episode, because i kinda don't want to hear them vwing apologetic towards capcom.
  
  Nobody knew about the micro transactions until right before launch, to be fair

Something was off with the way fast travel worked but I didn't expect they'd try to fucking sell it.
- From my understanding, it works exactly like the first game (though prior to Dark Arizen which gave an infinite teleport item). You can get teleport crystals you can place and spend a consumable to teleport to them, just in 2 you can pay real money to get more. 1 also didn't have the carts that 2 has to travel to different places. I'm not sure how those work, but I assume it's cheaper than teleporting, and you don't need a crystal there.
  
  Kind of, yeah.
  The difference is that the first game has a reusable ferrystone that you are given for free (patched in post launch) and you couldn't buy them with real money.
  DD2 has a much bigger map but you are still only allowed to teleport to the 2 big cities by default, fast travel is a lot more important than in the first game.
  It looks like it was done on purpose to sell MTX rather than to make the game better, they knew ferrystones were a problem in the first game since they fixed it and still went ahead with this.

"we won't have fast travel.."
FOR FREE.
- They do have fast travel for free. It's the same as the first game. You can get the fast travel crystals in game and the consumable to teleport to them in game. The MTX is just a different option for them. There's also carts that let you travel in some form, I assume between cities.
  I haven't played the game yet, but I wish people would stop lying about the MTX. They're bad enough that we don't need to make things up like the only way to fast travel being the MTX.
  Edit: Yeah, sure. Downvote my comment without actually saying how it's wrong (because I only stated factually correct things). I don't understand you people. You'd rather be lied to so you can hate a thing more than have the truth and dislike it for the real reasons.
  
  You are being downvoted for defending this shit. Fact is you can buy fast travel options with real money. I dont care if you can unlock it for free too. The fact that a single player rpg has mtx is terrible and completely destroys all immersion when you csn open a shop to pay with real money.
  
  The article states that in a complete playthrough, he found exactly 2 fast travel crystals; in the second, he got one. those are definitely artificially limited to make sure someone drops some cash. if you read the article, you wouldn't get downvoted man.
  
  I don't understand how letting players pay money to avoid grinding for items isn't a douchy move. It either means they think you will have less fun if you pay less (otherwise people wouldn't be motivated to buy shortcuts) or that they are making you pay extra for an easy mode.

They almost got me with preorder last night, but I was like nah I'll just wait and see in the morning. I love how i've been reading for weeks that "it's good they made fast travel hard", like preparing us for a fast travel MTX. Or it's the greatest character creator of all time, but to edit after you have to spend more money - the game is basically $100 canadian. Absurd.
- Don't forget the performance. One review was saying it's so bad that a dragon was speaking before his animation started playing.
- Fuck, really? I mean, I'm not like a die-hard fan of the game(s) or anything, but the first one is still pretty enjoyable. And it's $5 on steam.
  And it's a totally complete game, with an in-game barber/character customizer. You can't change your character's body type though, only the hair and skin colors/styles.
  
  You can buy the MTX items InGame at the vendors. Still shitty to have the MTX but yea...
  
  totally complete
  Nah m8, they had circumstances that forced them to release it before they wanted to. There is a bunch of cut content and other not fully realized features. People just don't notice them much because the game is phenomenal as is.
- Never pre-order. Learned that long ago. Even games I have waited on for a long time, i'll still wait. Starfield was most recent example of that.
  I think I will break the rule though for the factorio DLC, if they do a preorder.
  
  Just curious on what you think the benefit of pre-ordering a factorio dlc would be instead of buying after release?
- I learnt my lesson from Starfield; the most expensive video game I ever purchased.... I pre-ordered that tripe and suffered the consequences. Never again.
  I am so glad I learnt my lesson and decided to wait for the reviews for Dragon's Dogma 2. Pretty sad that this is the outcome, but I am glad that I decided to wait and see.
  
  Starfield got me and I should know better by now than to pre-order. I just figured it'd be the usual 'Bethesda puts out crap that modders quickly sort' but the it ended up being 'fast travel, the game' which seems hard to fix.
  Thank god for BG3, though - rock solid game.
- Fast travel worked almost identically in 1 with no MTX. This isnt why it's like that, but it was an opportunity they say that they could sell.
- Lack of simple fast travel is what made the first game horrible

This is why we don’t pre-order :/

Stop buying this shit, and they'll stop doing it.
- They won't stop doing it. Think of how many live service games have failed. Are the investors going to stop drooling over that Fortnight $$? AAA game are made to please investors, not players.
  Boiling everything down to econ101 serves to absolve the bad behavior or games companies as "rational actors" while placing the blame for shitty games practices on "stupid" gamers.
  
  If enough people are buying it, they'll keep doing it whether you like it or not. So why waste your energy getting mad about it?
  You already lost the fight when you start talking about "bad behavior" and "blame." Just accept the fact that you're not the target audience for shitty modern AAA games, and move on.
  It's OK. I'm not the target audience either. I'm not the target audience for Taylor Swift concerts, either. Does that make it "bad behavior" if I don't like her ticket prices?
  Stop getting mad about companies making money. That's literally their purpose. There are plenty of other products out there to buy.
- The ones who buy items in-game are the ones who buy the games. Those are the customers they want to appease the most.
- You not buying the game is 1 vote, someone that pays for micro transactions get multiple votes everytime they buy, you lost, they paid for your copy.

Damn... I was really close to pre-ordering this one and I held off basically just because I wanted to wait for information about the Steam Deck compatibility. So glad I didn't pre-order. I figured all of the glowing reviews that came out earlier this week would have mentioned secret microtransactions, but it seems like this was a very nefarious bait and switch. I like to give the benefit of the doubt and apply Hanlon's Razor, but it really feels like this was a deliberate and sinister act.
- There's rarely any reason to preorder a digital thing. They don't run out of stock.
  The preorder "bonuses" are rarely worth it.
  You made the right choice.
- Reviewers often get a free copy of the game, the DLC and unlimited consumables so most pre release reviews are far from honest.
  
  Not really, they just hide the micro transactions during the review period, Activision did the same with CTR.
- Never, ever pre-order.
  The only "advantage" is that you can play the game a few hours, maybe a day earlier, which makes no difference whatsoever in terms of the fun you get from the game, and to get that "benefit" you run a huge risk of not only wasting your money but also of getting to experience the actual feeling of having been scammed.
  I can understand that most people lack the impulse control to wait 6 months or more (by then getting it cheaper and with most bugs fixed) and just "have to have it right now", but in the digital download era pre-ordering might at best get the game in your hands a few hours earlier than just buying it when it comes out.

How's dragons dogma 2? ... To shreds you say... And how about the community... To shreds you say ...

Cant wait to play the next Monster Hunter and buy hunting permits at $2.99 for each hunt.
- You mean the series that has been selling a character edit voucher since World?
- I've been a fan of Monster Hunter since the PSP and somehow completely forgot that it was made by Capcom. I was already a bit peeved that they moved G-rank behind a paywall and a year of waiting but now I'm nervous that you may not be super far off. People already think that the game has a desire senser and with AI being what it is today it wouldn't be very hard to sell a 'premium carving knife' with charges on it to get that Gem or Plate you need to finish your set.
  
  Theyll turn the elder melder into the elder lootbox store
  
  G-rank was always dlc, but physical on another version called 3U, 4U or XX, or frontier united.
- Digital safari is a pricey venture.
- They did so well with World and Rise... I'm cautiously hoping they learn from the backlash here.

I'm going to be angry about microtransaction once the game actually runs. A 5800X3D and 7900XT should not be getting 20 - 40 FPS with medium settings at 1440p.
- I got it refunded. I'll play it in a couple years after all of the patches and when I have a new gpu

Seems like it's just being accurately reviewed. How else are companies supposed to learn this is not okay?

For the character thing, as long as you don't care about restarting you can delete your save and force steam to overwrite your cloud save.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2054970/discussions/0/4289188517340869363/
The rest is absolute bullshit and I hope Capcom gets shredded for this travesty... I'm the type to give a game a chance, and I will play this, but holy shit the greed is disgustingggg
- Or you can also play the game and buy the item ingame for 500RC, it's not that big of a deal.
  
  The availability of the item in-game doesn't matter. If anything it's availability in-game being "not that big of a deal" just showcases further the scumminess of it all being that purchasable item exists only to scam people by tricking them into thinking any modicum of money is worth a one use item.
  And even then, if nobody complains about it, then they'll still continue on as they will. They'll do so regardless, of course, but at least you can say that there was pushback of some kind.
  
  Cool, so if I'm your landlord you have no problem with me charging you $1 every time you use a light switch?

Capcom really saw the positive hype they got with this previously niche tittle and decided to go all RE4 weeks after release on it day 1. There's not even a new game option, I feel bad for Itsuno but it's deserved imo.
You can get all items in-game but cheats shouldn't ever be a paid feature, I criticized Saints Row 4 back then, I'll criticize Dragon's Dogma 2 today.

Man, that's some scummy behaviour right there.
It was getting really good reviews as well. All they had to do was fling the doors open and count the money.
Activision did it the other year for Crash Team Racing Remastered as well, only they at least had the good sense to wait a few weeks after release. At least here you can cancel your order and request a refund.

Publishers at the slightest inconvenience: We are getting review bombed.

Capcom can join Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft & Frontier Developments on my "Never Buy" list.
- I've been living under a rock.. What has frontier developments done?
  
  Way back when Elite: Dangerous was being Kickstarted it was shilled as bascially a 3D Neverwinter Nights in space with players having access to a toolset & being able to create their own private servers. This was the only reason I was interested in yet another space sim game.
  A while after the Kickstarter was over, they completely changed the premises of what they wanted to make into what you see on Steam now. And were absolute assholes about it.
  The change was so egregious, that I was able to charge-back my Visa several months after the original donation.
  I'm sure the game is nice, but it wasn't what I was sold on.
  (And don't bother giving me any crap about Kickstarter, I've had a good experience using it, even with the few campaigns that I donated to that still haven't delivered yet, looking at you Witchmarsh)
  
  Well, I would say that boy needs therapy. It's psychosomatic
  Oh wait. I'm thinking of the song Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches
- Why didn't they join that list when they had the exact same system with mtx in place in the first game? Or are you just saying it now because you want to be part of the angry internet mob about the current thing?
  
  Fuck off, fan boy.

It's sad that Japanese developers (and Japanese people in general) have no idea what is going on in the outside world, and are therefore always 10-20 years behind societal development. I remember going there when Pasmo (rechargeable card instead of buying ticket stubs from machines for the subway) was relatively new and having a very proud Japanese person explain to me that Japan was the most convenient place in the world to live because of this. This was in 2011. Fuckers still go to 7/11 to pay their bills.
- Not saying you're wrong, but this seems about equal to the shit Western developers pull on their game releases nowadays
  
  Yeah, for years there Capcom was trying to be the next Activision
- And for some reason you still can't charge transport cards online or with a credit/debit card if you don't have a japanese phone. Think that's coming in 2035 at this rate? 🤣
  
  You can use your phone or other smart devices as transport card, but it uses a specific wireless tech that is not included in western phones as far as I know.
  
  Yeah for years now (since 2019) in Sydney you can just tap on and off to travel directly with a debit or credit card. You don't need the middleman opal card anymore.
- In which other country can you use the same transportation card in so many different cities, as well as a mean of payment in shops? Also, you can pay your bills online too nowadays.
  
  The Netherlands lets you use your bank card for all public transport now (OVpay)

Is this an always online game? If not, im sure wemod will have cheats for it soon enough to give you these items.
- it is not online only but has drnuvo so you have to connectto the ibternrt reghlarly
  
  Ermahgerd that’s herrbl.
  
  Are you okay?
  
  Start Wandows Ngrmadly?
- Your character is stored online because of the online functionality, so I think so
  
  Only if you want to get online pawns. You can play offline.
  
  I believe your character is stored locally. Some people assume it's online because they're dumb and are confused by Steam Cloud (which can be disabled) bringing their save back after they delete it, but your game files are only backed up by Steam, not Capcom.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
As I write this, Capcom's new ARPG Dragon's Dogma 2 is now officially playable on PC through Steam, with the game slated to go live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles in just a few hours.
"Then, after pre-purchasing the Deluxe Edition, I went to install it today and saw a whole page dedicated to it's Micro Transactions in the store," wrote player Superius.
The former monetizes the ability to fast travel wherever you want in the game world — Portcrystals are extremely rare to find in gameplay — while the latter's random nature essentially turns changing your Pawn's inclination into a slot machine you can spend $2 to "re-roll."
We've only been able to find two Art of Metamorphosis tomes for sale at a single NPC's shop despite finishing the game, for example, which suggests that there may be a limit on the number of times you can change your appearance unless you're prepared to fork over some cheddar.
In the past I've received review guides that included developer explanations with PR language that I felt might be designed to try influence my opinion of a game.
It's a slippery slope to ex-EA's John Riccitiello and his infamous "I want to sell bullets in Battlefield" microtransaction quip of yesteryear.
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The disappointment matches the excitement I felt when it got announced
- Nothing

Only legislation will stop this.
This abuse is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

I was watching Suzi's video on this and I was watching if she was gonna blink twice like she was in trouble.
Capcom's dick move with mods already poisoned the well, this is just salting the earth.
- She (and other reviewers too ) should post a follow-up, it's the right thing to do IMHO. She's being called shill among other things in the comments although it's obvious she didn't know.

Damn what a shame looked bad ass. Oh well was not going to pick it up until I finished the first one (if I do since I dropped it within a couple hours....)
- The first one takes a bit to get into, but once you're on it it's pretty fun and addicting.
  If at least to see where the story goes.
  
  All the playing I did, around 10 hours, I still couldn't find a storyline to follow.
  
  Yea I definitely plan on returning to it at some point. I started it then got addicted to BG3 and just have not gone around to it again.

Seeing this fuckery from Capcom has given me sight closure and a bit happy that MegaMan is dead
- happy that MegaMan is dead
  Oh, but it isn't! They keep releasing collections to test the waters. Also, there's a Megaman gacha game! A fucking gacha!
  For my part, I'll never forgive them for Megaman X 6 and beyond. The story was clearly written to end with Megaman X 5, then transition into the Zero series of games, but Capcom was too greedy to leave it alone.
  
  For my part, I’ll never forgive them for Megaman X 6 and beyond. The story was clearly written to end with Megaman X 5, then transition into the Zero series of games, but Capcom was too greedy to leave it alone.
  Oh man, I got so many Vietnam flashbacks with Gears of War 4 and beyond. Microsoft really massacred my favorite video game saga :c

Yeah I get it, I would never pay for microtransactions. I'm enjoying the game so far. I used mods to get all 999 of the items they sell so I don't have to be bothered. It runs well enough on my system so imma keep enjoying it. I'll leave a negative review for yall
- I'm glad you can still mod it.i thought it being always online precluded that

How disappointing... At one time Capcom was my all time favourite video game developer, I grew up playing the Breath of Fire series and it remains one of my all time favourite video games. Such a shame that they turned into such short-sighted idiots.
I was looking forward to this game and I would have 100% purchased this if it lacked micro-transactions and the Denuvo bloatware/malware. In their attempt to make more money, they at least received less money from me.

Man the update sure made the author look chastened huh? I wonder if they were pressured at all?
Anyway, new topic:
Following its launch, Dragon's Dogma 2's rating on Steam has slowly but steadily improved. At the time of writing this update, it has risen to "Mixed," with 42% of all reviews giving it a positive score
I would be interested in whether the steam rating is being "review (what do you call the opposite of bombed? Review bumped?) bombed" in a ⏫ direction. Anyone read those positive reviews? How do they seem?

I'm going to be downvoted to hell, but I'm loving the game, and all the mtx and complaints about the easy to travel and such are from people that didn't play the original, honestly. This game is like the original but better, maintaining the spirit of the original.
Yes, you could buy revival stones in the original too.
The legit complains are the performance issues and crashes, but anything else... Idk what to tell you, they knew that the slow gameplay that is expected of the player would not be well received but wanted to conserve the original feel, so if you want to bypass the original feel go for it. I won't.
- I think you're missing the point.
  The fact that these microtransactions were sort of hidden by reviewers and then added just a day before launch is shitty.
  And if the game was designed to not have easy fast travel, they should have stuck to that vision and not introduced mtx to get over it. Offering these things to players shows a lack of adherence to their own design principles and instead shows their greed.
  The negative reviews are well deserved.
- i hate microtransactions, but as they go, this implementation is fairly benign.

Well. We, the gamers, get what we deserve. Did we purchase shit like this before? Yes.
Did we buy Skyrim's horse-armour and started it all? Yes.
Do we now pay for cheat-codes in a 70-moneyz single-player-game? Also Yes.
Obviously, or companies would stop to come up with such turds coz it wouldn't sell.
I will wait for a crack even though i couldn't await this game. But this? Nooooo. It hurts my fefes.
- I will die on the hill of "Oblivion's horse armor DLC was not the beginning of micro transactions"
  Because it wasn't. There were micro transactions for games long before the hore armor thing. Also, horse armor was a one-time purchase for that mechanic.
  
  I think Double Dragon 3 unlocked certain moves depending on how many quarters you've put into the arcade machine. Also some of those cryptic NES games would have hint hotlines that would cost a ton of money, this stuff is old as hell.
  
  It also had literally no game impact. It was purely cosmetic. There are far more egregious examples.
  
  The first game I remember seeing MTX in was gunbound, a game that was like worms Armageddon. You could earn in game currency to buy equipment or you could spend a bit of real world money on them. And before that, gold farmers and their buyers would get banned in waves on WoW. I knew instantly when seeing the gunbound system that it would make money.
  Personally, I always had contempt for anyone who would pay money to gain an advantage in a game, but the fact that they kept banning more farmers and buyers in WoW told me the demand was there even when it was risky, so when the game itself was selling that shit, it would do even better.
  Though I can also thank Turok for N64 for teaching me that using cheats just increases the rate at which the game stops being fun. Paying to win would do the same thing, only it costs you money to ruin the game.
  
  But it was the "beginning" with the most exposure to the average gamer. Everyone hated it, nobody wanted it, yet seemingly more than enough still bought it, which ultimately lead us here.
  Yet, which game exactly started it, isn't important for my point being. It somewhere started, and we still purchased and decided with our moneyz if such practices are fine with us. And obviously it was fine or else this thread Wouldn't be there.
  
  Oblivion's Horse Armor was probably the start of DLC though, maybe. At least with consoles?
- Do we now pay for cheat-codes in a 70-moneyz single-player-game? Also Yes.
  Speak for yourself. I don't buy any games with pay-to-win elements at all, And there are developers out there who are giving the correct example. Larian, for one. And Arrowhead is killing it with Helldivers II as well, which is another game that puts the player firstl and doesn't try to nickle & dime you to death.
  
  Lion king for super nes was kiiiiinda microtransactional (not really) cuz Disney made the game exceptionally hard on purpose so you had to rent it many times
  
  Helldivers is as p2w as dragons dogma 2. Both currencies are earned in-game.

- Right? How else would this free-to-play game make its money?
  
  Uh...it's not free to play it's $70. So ostensibly it can make its money off its upfront $70 entry fee.
- Gotta admit its a really bad look to launch with 20 microtransaction DLC's on a singleplayer game though.
- While I understand that, I'm kinda sick of game companies trying to sell cheat codes in an already full priced game. It incentives creating a frustrating gameplay loop which can be bypassed for money.
  If the game was a live service game, where there is expected updates (and thus development cost/server cost) then it could maybe be okay, but it is walking the line between full priced game and free to play game and I'm still figuring out if I'm okay with that or not.
- Naw they hid the micro transactions in the developer notes so reviewers wouldn't find them. They knew what they were up to and capcom had been pretty bad about their games and monetisation. This is scuzzy and i hope they get reamed for their underhandedness

So these are just speed up purchases that you can get in game? Seems scumy but not a deal breaker. There were what 3 or 4 easy port crystals in the first game, and to get the the max you had to keep restarting the game or playing it over and over. And once you knew where you were going and had some port crystals in good spots, you could get through main story in less then an hour. You have the chance to easily get multiple of any item. If its the same or similar in the sequel, why waste money, unless you have limited time to play games or maybe you're just not into sinking dozens of hours into anything. Honestly its stupid, but as long as no one is blocked from getting the items in game this is such a non issue.
- It's a 70$ single player game mate. There is zero reason for this.
- Found the employee
- Copium
- It's still a bullshit move, and I'm gonna get some hate here, but you're not wrong. I don't think most of the folks commenting played the first game. Fast travel is kinda defeating the purpose of a lot of the design too.
  Again, still a silly move for them and ZERO excuse for the character edit vouchers.
- It will always be an issue to sell cheats, they even put denuvo anticheat to stop cheat engine use.
  Don't know if it works since I won't buy it now, but Capcom already said that mods are an issue for them, not something they like.