Dragon's DLC 2

[kane_magus]

In addition to the ignominious Denuvo infestation, here is another huge reason not to buy Dragon's Dogma 2 right now. I'll be waiting for a "complete" version, with all the DLC included, Denuvo removed, and for that to hit a $12 sale ($12 being what I paid for the original game+all DLC). If that takes five to ten years, then so be it. (And, maybe, by then I will have a computer beefy enough to actually play it, too.)

Also, I normally hate "joke" reviews for games on Steam, but in this case, I will make an exception. I love that that is the current "most helpful" review.

Of course, none of that is going to matter, the game's going to sell like gangbusters, and video game consumers are going to once again prove that they're blithely willing to attach their lips to the sewer pipe and consume whatever the modern video game industry shits into their willing mouths.

Comments

[kane_magus]

Heh...

"There's already a Dragon's Dogma 2 mod to get 99 copies of the 'change appearance' item Capcom is selling for real money"

Good, because fuck Capcom. I hope mods pop up for the other shit Capcum is trying to sell, too.

There are a few things about this.

1. This is all well and good until Capcom pulls a Nintendo and sues the modders because "bAwWwW iT cOsT uS rEvEnUe!1!1!" or some dumb bullshit like that.
2. Boy, I bet Capcom wishes that they'd shelled out extra for the Denuvo Anti-Cheat trash for their singleplayer game now, rather than just the Anti-Tamper garbage.
3. A bunch of idiot comments under the article are all like "Meh, the mod is pointlesss. All that stuff is available in the game." I.e. the same sort of people who were saying things under the other articles like "Hargle bargle, the MTX is fine, Capcom's just providing a convenience, there's nothing wrong with this, other games are way worse, hurrrr durrrr."

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Anyway, to actually reply to your comment, what you've said there, with which I agree fully, is sort of the same thing I've seen some people saying in some of the comments under the previous articles...

...except that those imbecilic asshats were actually twisting it around and saying it, ludicrously, as a defense of the microtransaction DLC, rather than as a condemnation of it the way you did. I.e. they were saying ridiculous dumbshit like "Capcom cArEfUlLy cRaFtEd the game so that these things are intentionally rare... ...so it mAkEs SeNsE that Cacpom would be selling the DLC aS a CoNvEnIeNcE to players who simply don't care enough to go to the effort to get that stuff in game themselves by actually, you know, playing the game. YoU dOn'T hAvE tO bUy It, it's just there for people who do want to buy it. It'S fInE. iT's ToTaLlY oPtIoNaL."

Seriously, this kind of dumbfucking asininity that people spew to try to justify the unjustifiable is shit that would make me tempted to rip my hair out in frustration if I had hair long enough to grab and rip out.

You know what games used to do to make rare shit like that easier to get? They put in cheat codes. But once the modern video game industry realized that they could make players pay real money for the equivalent of cheat codes, that's when all this fucking microtransaction DLC bullshit starting appearing.

"Keep dying in Contra? Buy the 'start the game with 30 lives' (consumable) DLC for only $1.99!"

Or, perhaps more relevantly since we're talking about Capcock here, it's like all those passwords in Mega Man X you could use to start with energy tanks and upgrades already unlocked... you just know Capcum would be parceling that shit out and selling it as DLC these days, rather than simply letting it exist as passwords. (Yes, yes, I know that those passwords were "intended" for people who actually played the game and didn't want to have to redo everything if they had to turn the game off, but those passwords are all over the Internet now essentially for people who want to use them as, yes, cheat codes. And we can't have cheat codes for free anymore, if there's money to be made from that shit, y'know?)