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The YouTube video discusses the release of Dragon's Dogma 2, highlighting issues such as poor performance, missing features, and heavy reliance on microtransactions. Players express disappointment with the game's pay-to-win model, limited character creation, and cloud save restrictions. Critiques focus on Capcom's decisions, likening the situation to EA's practices. Concerns include the necessity of additional purchases for basic gameplay elements and the game's server-based character appearance saving. The YouTuber warns against buying the game until significant fixes are implemented, expressing overall disappointment and reluctance towards the current state of Dragon's Dogma 2.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the release of Dragon’s Dogma 2 after a long wait for fans, but highlights that the launch has been plagued with issues. The game is criticized for poor performance, missing quality of life features, and an abundance of microtransactions. Notably, the game restricts players from creating multiple characters, instead offering a character edit pack for purchase. Various microtransactions in the game come under scrutiny, including items like riff crystals, wake stones, fast travel points, and even a key to break out of prison being sold for use in the game. The speaker expresses disappointment in how the game has become a pay-to-win microtransaction hellscape, questioning Capcom’s decisions and likening it to a move by EA.
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In this segment of the video, it is discussed how in Dragon’s Dogma 2, players can now pay $1.99 to purchase consumable incense items to edit their pawns’ battle AI, a departure from the previous method of editing AI. The video highlights performance issues in the game, with a user mentioning their struggle to maintain stable frame rates even on minimal settings, unlike their experience with other demanding titles like Cyberpunk. The negative reviews on Steam often point out the heavy reliance on microtransactions and the lack of optimization in gameplay. Some players express disappointment in the game’s one-character limit and cloud save data, which obstructs the ability to start a new save file without additional payment.
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In this segment of the video, it is highlighted that in a single-player game, after spending $80, character appearance is saved on servers, not locally. Deleting save files or using the Character Creator does not apply, and to start anew, one must turn off Cloud saves and manually delete save data. There are discussions on purchasing good review DLC and character editor packs, critiquing Capcom’s greed and performance issues in Dragon’s Dogma 2. The YouTuber warns against purchasing the game unless fixes are made. The speaker expresses disappointment and reluctance due to the current state of the game.