(Credit: Capcom)
Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 released yesterday to high praise from review outlets. But the game is now facing a wave of negative reviews from users because it contains over a dozen microtransactions for basic features, including $1.99 to edit your character’s appearance.
“Stay away from this game with a 30 foot pole,” wrote one angry user on Steam, where the game is getting review-bombed. “This is predatory, and horrific to see how far from grace you capitalist pigs have fallen.”
Indeed, Dragon’s Dogma 2 contains 21 DLCs, including a $2.99 charge to essentially fast travel through the RPG. On top of all this, the game itself costs $69.99, an already high sum.
Capcom and other gamers are pushing back against the narrative that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is forcing users to pay for the microtransactions. Capcom published a post on Steam that points out many of the DLC items can be obtained in the game without paying real money, including the character editor and fast travel capability.
To obtain the eligible DLC items, a user simply has to earn the in-game currency. “The people complaining about this clearly never played the original that did something similar,” wrote one Steam reviewer reacting to the backlash. “Most of the items you can buy in store you can earn in less than an hour of gameplay.”
Meanwhile, other gamers are pointing out Capcom has a history of loading its titles with cheap DLC packages. Still, the controversial microtransactions aren’t the only reason for the review-bombing. Other gamers say that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has been poorly optimized for the PC, resulting in low frame rates. Capcom says it’s working to address the problems.
The company added: “A large amount of CPU usage is allocated to each character and calculating the impact of their physical presence in various areas. In certain situations where numerous characters appear simultaneously, the CPU usage can be very high and may affect the frame rate. We are aware that in such situations, settings that reduce GPU load may currently have a limited effect.”