• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      “You can just have a significantly worse experience”

      People paid $80 or more for this game, basic QoL improvements should not cost 42 real life dollars

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        Exactly right! And each time we give a company a free pass with this bullshit, they’ll take it as a win to do worse next time.

        Can’t stand the copium some people have with this, its bullshit they added it, they should be called out on it. Plain and simple.

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        It’s the same experience that was in the first game. It’s not worse, it’s the intended experience.

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          Yeah this should be the standard right here

          This echo 64 guy really understands what gamers want. The same fucking system from the last game.

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            The last game didn’t even have camping, you could just use items to heal past white health instead.

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            The same system that had the majority of players begging for fast travel. They can blame the players all they want, but the fact remains that the game would be better if I didn’t have to trek from one town to the next again and again and again and again and again. The main story of the first game takes about 32 hours to beat. How many of those hours are spent walking through areas you’ve already been through?

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          The “intended experience” is worse than the Super Deluxe Golden Platinum Edition experience. Do you really believe they didn’t design this game to incentivise these purchases? For one example, do you really think the fact that they sell rift crystals for real life actual dollars had no impact on their decisions for the cost of hiring pawns? Do you honestly believe that the fact that they sell lighter camping equipment had no impact on how much they made the base game camping equipment weigh? If they think it’s worth a couple dollars to get slightly lighter camping equipment, why didn’t they just reduce the weight of camping equipment?

          Do you think that maybe the decision to have one save file per player and the decision to sell a single use character redesign item might be related?

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            It’s the same system as the first game. They designed the same system. I don’t know what is so hard to understand about this. They added skips for idiots that want to pay extra, but for the rest of us it’s the same damn thing as it was last time.

            Honestly, I can’t take the outrage culture of lemmy anymore. It’s made this place unbearable.

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              Thanks for confirming this, all the rage around this game is exhausting. I loved the first game, would probably place it in my top ten of all time. I have no complaints about omg actually having to traverse the world. It’s the way the game is designed to play. If there are paid workarounds to play it a different way it doesn’t affect me or anybody else who loves this kind of game.

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              They designed the same system, which people complained about the first time around. Like I already said, they added skips for idiots that want to skip the boring parts. If you know that part of your $70 game is so boring that people are willing to pay extra to skip it, just don’t include those parts.

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        It’s not significantly worse, the tent is the only item in the mtx that even has any benefit over the shit available in game. Even the fast travel item you can get the maximum number in-game and need to use a consumable that isn’t even in the mtx every time you want to fast travel to it. This game and it’s devs aren’t the actual issue, it’s the people running Capcom that insist on putting bullshit mtx in every game since the first dragons dogma.

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          In the case of the tent, the devs are actually the issue. They knew that they were going to sell a lighter tent when they released the game. If you don’t think the existence of a lighter tent that you can pay real life money for had any impact on how much the base game tents weigh, then I have a bridge to sell you.

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            I did say the tent was the only item with benefit over items in game tbf. That is a shitty mtx yes, but I think Capcom pressures their devs to include mtx in every game which is why you see it in things like Resident Evil and Devil May Cry over the years

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      Or companies could stop fleecing basic gameplay features that have been a staple of games for many years behind a completely unnecessary pay wall. Somebody wants to use fast travel, give it to them. If they don’t, keep the option available for those who want it.

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        The fast travel is in the game, the mtx is a placable fast travel point of which you have a limit of 10. All 10 are findable in game and require you to use a limited consumable item that isn’t in the mtx store every time you want to fast travel to it. The mtx are actually comically stupid decision from Capcom because they’re unironically useless if you just play the base game and serve only to drag the games reputation through the mud.

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        You can buy the ferrystones for gold or loot them. They cost 10k gold. I had over 30k at level 10. Buying them is literally nothing mid to late game. You can also fast travel with carts that let you snooze or fight monsters. They are actually more interesting than ferry stones cause you get exp and loot.

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          And there’s still no good reason to let that be something you can get with real life money. That’s basically saying “Hey, you just gave us $70 to play our game, but if you think our game is too long for your patience, you can give us more money to play less game.”

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        You literally can, fast travel is a part of the game. And just like in the first game it’s limited behind an item. It’s is the exact same system the series has had for a decade. Just they let rich idiots skip the system.

        Again, it’s the same exact system that was in the first game

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          That doesn’t make it any better. That’s effectively just making people pay to access developer and cheat codes. I can do that for free in Starfield with the press of a button and a short command.

          It’d be like Mortal Kombat coming out and letting people pay real life money to do an easy fatality.

          Oh wait.

          There’s no point for them to do this beyond simple greed. Nothing more.

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          They just let rich idiots skip the boring part, you mean. The main story in the first game takes about 32 hours to beat. How many of those hours are spent trekking through areas you’ve already been through before?

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            Who cares? If that’s what people enjoy who are you to judge. The way travel works is IDENTICAL to the first game. And now you’re outraged because why? You didn’t know what dragon’s dogma was? Sounds like you pre ordered a game and you didn’t even bother to check what it was.

            I wouldn’t touch this shit with a 10 foor pole, but that’s because I knew the first game did the exact same bullshit. Your outrage is cringe.

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              I mean it’s clearly not what people enjoy given how many people asked for fast travel. Point remains, a good chunk of the amount of time it takes to play the game is just replaying the same areas you’ve been through before. I’m not stupid, I didn’t pre-order the game. I was just hoping they made the one change literally 99% of the people who played the first game asked for.

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                I don’t think you know what literally means. It’s something that set the game apart in a more hardcore way. It might be a big deal to you and other gamers with the attention span of a goldfish. That ruined a lot of franchises btw

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                  Man, can you at least acknowledge that it’s a valid position to not want to have to replay content that I’ve already played multiple times? I don’t mind spending a long time on a game. I spent like 70 hours on Nier Automata, but I wouldn’t have spent 70 hours on that if 30 of those hours were just replaying the same fighs over and over and over again.

                  What franchises have been ruined by taking the boring parts out?

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                    I’m not saying it isn’t. What I am saying that it’s also completely valid to acknowledge that this game isn’t for you then. Good games usually don’t appeal to everyone, it’s that simple.

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      Bet those ingame items would be easier to get if there weren’t MTX.