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.

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.

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.

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.

lol. First it had denuvo and now microtransacrions? pathetic

Something was off with the way fast travel worked but I didn't expect they'd try to fucking sell it.

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.

"we won't have fast travel.."

FOR FREE.

Stop buying this shit, and they'll stop doing it.

This is why we don’t pre-order :/

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.