On March 22, the game Dragon's Dogma 2 from Capcom was released. It's a story-driven, single-player action role-playing game that can be personalized to suit your own preferences.
On the first day of release, the game attracted the attention of players. According to Steamdb, the number of concurrent users has already approached the level of 200 thousand. At the time of writing, 199,850 concurrent players were recorded, and during the weekend, most likely, this figure will be exceeded. By comparison, the original Dragon's Dogma boasted a peak of 27,368 concurrent players. This figure was also higher than the number of concurrent players in other Capcom single-player games, breaking the records of Resident Evil 4 and Village.
At the same time, Dragon's Dogma 2 has mostly negative reviews from players on Steam. At the time of writing, players left more than 11 thousand reviews, and only 39% of them are positive. There are two complaints:
Poor performance (even on high-performance systems) Microtransactions.
Players complain that the game is too demanding on the system and produces low frame rates even on top-end components. Users also complain about freezes, problems with textures and sounds, long resource caching, frequent crashes, and the like.
But even more players are annoyed by the built-in microtransactions, which require almost every sneeze. On day one, 21 separate microtransactions were rolled out to players, ranging from $0.99 to $4.99. Their total cost is $41.79 (1407 UAH). This would be fine for a free game. But the price of Dragon's Dogma 2 itself is $70 (2199 UAH).
To be fair, most of the features that microtransactions offer in the game can be obtained without them. Although this will require a large investment of game currency or a waste of time.
For example, the role-playing game Dragon's Dogma 2 offers a character editor for a fee. The $1.99 Art of Metamorphosis allows players to edit the appearance of their character or pawn. It can only be used once during a visit to the hairdresser. The $0.99 Jail Key allows you to escape from prison, but breaks after one use. To quickly move around the game world, you need expensive and rare Ferrystones, which allow you to teleport to certain Portcrystals, which cost $2.99. They also sell the Explorer's Camping Kit for $2.99, crystals, and Wakestones for $0.99.
And separately, some players were upset by the fact that in the game, in fact, only one save is available. It is impossible to start a new playthrough with a different character without deleting the previous save.
The developers apologized to the players for the technical problems and promised to fix them. There are several fixes in the works that should improve the situation. Capcom is looking for ways to improve performance and add the ability to start a new game. There will also be bug fixes in the “near future.”
Source: ign, insider-gaming
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