My Thoughts on Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX

Shields up iron Breakers how's everybody doing today hope you're all doing good hopefully you can improve on that with some more Dragon's Dogma 2 Adventures but before we get to that there's clearly some stuff that we got to talk about I've been messaged multiple times a lot of people have been leaving me a bunch of comments in my YouTube content so obviously we're going to have to talk about the whole microtransaction situation in Dragon's Dogma 2 as well as a couple more things that were pointed out to me that I thought were uh interesting so I'm going to tell you guys my thoughts about this whole situation so first and foremost I've had a bunch of people tell me that I've been hiding the performance situation of this game this is just something that want to bring up before we even get to the microtransactions people just straight up calling me uh like a liar and saying oh you've been hiding this from us blah blah blah and let's make one thing perfectly clear I've revealed what the frame rate the game was running at on PlayStation 5 the moment the Embargo lifted as well as the resolution at which I played the game does anybody have any questions about this I'm just pointing it out like literally embargo lifted I was like okay guys here's the frame rate right from the get-go here's what I experienced and how much does it bother me right from the fraking get-go okay so let's make this perfectly clear then people saying you glanced over it in your review excuse me [ __ ] I glanced over it there's a decent chunk of my it's not really review because I didn't finish the game when I wrote that it was just what I had played of the game up until that point there's a decent chunk of that where I go over like okay listen my CPU is is good my Ram is good my drives are good this is the GPU that I'm using this is the performance that I'm getting this is what I've done this is how I feel about I spent the decent chunk of time talking about the performance stuff in this game and in the final thoughts portion I even said if you are somebody who is particularly sensitive about performance you should maybe hold off until they patch the game so this is just to talk about all of these performance accusations that people are pulling out of their ass for some strange reason like I've been completely ignoring that the game has performance issues issues no I haven't this is a blatant lie so just putting that out there now let's go on to the microtransactions people are saying you hid this you shill you did these terrible things you didn't tell us that these microtransactions were in the game guess what I didn't know and I highly doubt anybody else did you think I would didn't bring this up in my videos had I known I did not know I was not aware that the game was going to receive these microtransactions otherwise I would have talked about them I still don't understand why people think that I will not speak my mind I always speak my mind on things I'm the guy that talked about the what are they called The Lost Code weapons in monsant Rise sunbreak didn't I make like a whole video dedicated about that it's specifically explaining why I didn't agree with it and so many people gave me crap over it and me I'm the guy who's gonna defend microtransactions and hide them and shy away from talking about them I swear to God that like so many people just jump into my comment sections randomly have no idea what I do or what my stance is on anything if you think that I wouldn't speak about microtransactions this is complete completely absolutely ridiculous okay you can find God knows how many videos of me talking about microtransactions in my channel I will never shy away from that topic I will tackle it hat on as I've always done but anyway regardless of all that first and foremost are people right about being upset about microtransactions yes of course they are because none of us were expecting it of course you should be upset about the microtransactions because it's not okay now let me tell you guys why I don't think it's okay the fact that we have to have this conversation is ridiculous and shows the state of our society uh Ron is not the blame it's like guys listen I I'm I don't need you guys to tell me that I'm not to blame I know exactly where i' stand I'm just making my statement so that people understand exactly where I'm coming from anyway I said at the beginning at the end of last year that I'm done kind of fighting this fight because I've seen that so many video games are going to be doing this that if I basically take a principled stance I'm not going to be able to play most of the games that I want to play so it is what it is but that's not going to stop me from voicing my opinion so let's talk about it so here's the microtransactions all of the microtransactions that were posted for the game number one which is going to be in everybody's mind ruon are these microtransactions pay to win yes yeah like why why shy away from it yeah they are just like I also said the same thing about the microtransactions and Hell divers too they're also pay to win it's just a matter of are they pay to win enough to a point where it bothers me and in this case it bothers me but it's not enough we in like oh my God you can get such a massive advantage and we're going to be going over every single one of the items now to me the moment that a microtransaction can have any type of in-game effect uh that gives you any kind of an advantage to me I consider that pay to win and as you guys can see we have wake stones in here for those of you that don't know what wake stones are wake Stones is something that when you die you can use a wake Stone and it resurrects your character so that's clearly an in-game advantage it's basically like giving you a whole new health pool not for free for 99 cents or whatever right so that to me is where I draw the line with beta win either something is pay to win or it has absolutely no gameplay effect that's that's how I look at things which is why with the hell divers 2 situation it's like hey you can buy armor armor has in-game stats it's not just cosmetic therefore also pay to win to me it's that simple like a lot of people they like to move the goal posts and blah blah oh but this is not pay to win because of this and this is not pay to win because of that is like no no don't there's no moving of the gold posts if it has an in-game effect if it can give you any kind of Advantage it's pay to win so yes it is now is it necessary and more importantly is the game balanced around it no so in a lot of ways I would actually say that these microtransactions that you have right here are a crutch they're a crutch for losers that don't know how to play the game people who get skill checked by the game they can come in here and they can buy some of these crutches to help them out in their experience if that's something that you want to do you do whatever you want now me I have no intention on buying any of these you guys are free to do however you want now let's talk more about this one of the things is I don't actually know how microtransactions work on Steam because I don't usually buy any of this crap okay and this this at this point is actually a problem because I don't actually know how things work but looking at this we have 1 2 3 4 five wake Stones this is the same item and it is labeled a b CDE e what this tells me is you can only buy five wakestones so you can't like infinitely keep buying them because if that was the case it would make no sense that they were labeled a b CDE e so I'm going to assume that everything that is in here are one-time purchases so this reduces things a little bit it's still not good but it does reduce them a little bit because it limits how many things you can actually get so you can buy yourself five resurrections which like I said you know if you don't know how to play the game if you're getting skill checked sure go ahead buy five resurrections whatever I wish you didn't because that would obviously send a message that hey we don't actually want any of this stuff but you know whatever Explorer's camping kit so you can buy camping kits in game I don't think this is a big deal the thing is it says here efficient without being unduly weighty I wish I knew what the weight is on the Explorers camping kit because I don't actually know and I don't think they clarify here how much it weighs they don't say how much it weighs they just say that it's light because weight is something that you need to consider at the beginning of the game it is actually the reason why both me and my Pawn started as Fighters so that we can get a vocation augment that uh gives us additional weight uh so that we can carry more things so this is one of the things that I wish I knew exact 5.5 kilos okay so people in chat are telling me this is 5.5 kilos okay I already bought something in the game that's 6 kilos it cost me 3,000 gold so 5.5 kilos who cares this is more of a cosmetic than anything else now Dragon's Dogma music and sound collection this has no ingame benefits I'm not against this one this particular microtransaction I think it's fine you can get music from the original Dragon Dogma however it better include dongan into free I doubt it will because it don't have the license for it anymore but that would be really cool so this one I don't care about Harpy snare smoke beacons again such a stupid thing you can craft this in game you can craft this in game you can find this in game you can buy this in game you don't need this for anything heartfelt pendant this is again a skill item in case uh oh I don't know how to manage relationships in the game at least that's what I'm assuming I'm assuming this is like something that you give to a character that you like and it will increase the the thing right let me see what the description is obtain a pendant overflowing with tender affection when offered as a gift deepens the bond between giver and receiver yep like I said this is something for you to improve relationships in the game again like I said at the start of this it is a crutch it's very much a crutch if you don't know how to play the game if you're getting skill checked on how to manage relationships a crutch ambivalent Rift incense change Pawn inclinations this one's actually really funny for me so this costs €1.99 and this basically changes the inclination of your Pawn to a random one so number one it is a terrible item to begin with okay this is a terrible item I would definitely not recommend anybody to get the ambivalent Rift incense but on top of it on top of it we actually have the game open right here you can just come over here and homeboy on have a look sells you nine of them for 500 Rift crystals so that's another pretty worthless item like I said this is not good value even so you can just go in there you can buy it for 500 Rift crystals Rift crystals are not too hard to get currently I have 570 from 8 hours of gameplay but it was mostly 8 hours where I was just like farting around I didn't even do that much if you're actually Min maxing and playing efficiently you'll get a lot more so whatever makeshift jail key you can buy this I've actually seen this for sale in the game I don't I think it cost like 3,000 gold or 6,000 gold something like that in case you guys are wondering oh but how hard is it to get gold uh right now many thanks after about eight hours of gameplay I have 15,000 but the only reason I have 15,000 gold is because at the end of the last session we spent like 50,000 gold or something like that buying new gear for my Pawn so technically speaking I had closer to 70,000 gold uh so yeah buying a makeshift jail key is super easy on top of it I'm not justifying anything V Rock sit down I'm not justifying anything I already said this shouldn't be in the game I'm explain explaining what each of these items does so that people understand how this affects them in the game I already said at the start I don't agree with these microtransactions I don't think these microtransactions will be in the game I'm not justifying this I am telling you why you shouldn't buy it understand so sit down now as I was saying on top of it you probably don't even need the jail key to escape from jail I've already been into the jail uh in my previous save file and there's like a wall that you can just break and you can leave you just break a wall and leave at least that was my understanding from it but usually there are other ways of escaping jail without a key there's plenty of ways of escaping jail without a key you can also pay your way out of jail you can bribe you can bribe the guards so this is another item that you definitely shouldn't get it's a waste of money art of metamorphosis character editor so this one is important because a lot of people at least I think a lot of people believe that this item lets you have a new save slot which is weird because let me tell you there's no way to get a new safe slot you can't buy a new safe slot so I don't know why people are thinking that you can get a new safe slot I don't I I don't know if it's this item but also if this is the item you're concerned about again this is the first city that this is the first main city that you come to and over here as you can see once again art of metamorphosis same thing as the ambivalent Rift incense costs 500 Rift crystals and dude sells two of them and we already have 500 Rift crystals that's another waste of your money you shouldn't you shouldn't buy that and it's right there and this also doesn't give you a new save slot if anybody can tell me why people think that they can buy a new safe slot that's actually something that I'm interested in understanding because that would be something to that would be something for me to talk about that would be something that would be important but as far as I'm aware no you can't buy a new save slot as a matter of fact what I had to do is I had to delete my save file in order to be able to start a FL a fresh playthrough I had to go through like the steam folders and by the way let me tell you something can we get some some [ __ ] standardization on Steam bro like no joke I I usually don't have to mess around with my save files in most games because I just I don't I don't go and edit save files or make backups or whatever it's like the save file goes wherever it goes and I don't really care most of the time but this one time that I had to go and delete a save file good Lord it was a miserable experience I had to like sort files through the date that they had been addited inside a bunch of different steam folders before I came across my Dragon's Dogma 2 save file okay we could use some standardizer like like listen you guys ever you guys ever deleted a save file on a PlayStation so much you just go to the settings save games it's right there for all the games we should really have a standardization when it comes to this but anyway that's besides the point as far as I'm aware you cannot get a new save file and the character editor I already show what you can get it I would not recommend now this one right here is one of the biggest offenders this is one of the biggest Defenders because it straight up goes against what the game director said so in a lot of ways I actually think that whoever was responsible in the monetization department for uh for the microtransactions and stuff uh probably didn't even consult with the game director because the philosophy of the game is go wherever you want but traveling is an essential part of the game you have to travel you have to actually do do the journey and that's what makes the game special so allowing you to buy a port Crystal fundamentally flies in the face of that now again I'm assuming because of the other items that you can only buy one of these so you can only buy one port Crystal you don't need to buy a port Crystal I've seen people tout this as as like oh they're selling you uh fast travel this is not fast travel this is you setting a location that you can teleport to you still have to buy the Fairy Stones Fairy Stones cost 10,000 gold in a game to teleport you don't just get a port Crystal and then teleport yourself the port crystal is the Waypoint you can Place Port crystals anywhere that you want in the world and then you can teleport to them but you still need the Fairy Stones to travel to the port Crystal so this is not free fast travel this is something that you buy you place in the world and then you teleport to it and this just lets you buy one additional one according to boy you get like five or six of them per cycle because the game then has new game plus and stuff so you're going to get like five or six of them throughout the game and again I really don't like this item this item actually bothers me more than pretty much anything else that is on here uh and yeah I think this is just bad and goes against the philosophy of the game so they shouldn't have done this one 100% but you know it is what it is as far as I'm considered they shouldn't have done any of them to begin with but whatever finally we have wake stones again already explained what these are resurrections I have a bunch of them already like let me actually see how many I have pleasure doing business let me just see how many I have I usually keep them in my storage cuz I don't want to waste them but we can check really quick how many wake Stones we have in 8 hours of game you will soon forget the fatigue of a long journey withdraw where's my wake Stones we have three wake Stones I already have three of them I only played for like eight hours and I'm already on my way to my number fourth you don't need to buy those it's a waste of money it's it's a ter it's again it's terrible value it's just bad value and it's a bad idea to do it's just a bad idea so I wouldn't get that and then finally Rift crystals this is another one that I think is really dumb this is something that they did back in the original Dragons Dogma they also sold Rift crystals in the original Dragons Dogma so you get Rift crystals by uh sending out your your Pawn so whenever people hire your Pawn you get Rift crystals cuz somebody hired your Pawn uh whenever you are just playing the game killing monsters looting stuff you can get Rift crystals this is just one of the currencies of the game and I think it's a terrible idea to sell it's just bad it's just bad but on top of it this isn't even good value like to give you guys an idea on the original Dragon's Dogma and I was I was a much smaller content creator back then but a lot of people took my Pawn because I made a really good Pawn so a lot of people would take my Pawn I had millions of Rift crystals by the time I was close to endgame so you shouldn't get this but anyway fundamentally I just wanted to explain what each of the items is because there's a lot of misconceptions out there of people saying oh they're selling fast travel they're selling save slots no they're not doesn't make it any better still bad not to mention that it's a needless L for Capcom to even have those things in the game I don't understand why you would do that give me just a second let me pause the game here I don't understand why you would do that I think it's fundamentally a bad idea to engage in these types of cuz it's it's just you don't need it you don't need it it's not even something that gives players good value and on top of it the pr hit that you're going to take from this with so many people already just like slamming the game down you know and it's their prerogative it it's just needless you didn't to do any of this it was a waste of time and you know everybody's mad at you now and the thing to me is a lot of people are boycotting the game and it's like hey look it is what it is you don't like the microtransactions boycott the game you got to do what you got to do I just think it really sucks for the people that actually developed this game uh ituno team and whatnot cuz they've developed something that I think is really special they developed something that is a unique open world EXP experience it's a ton of fun I love playing it I'm going to keep playing it and it sucks because some guy in a suit decided like he let's put all these micr it's going to be great and it's like no no you you [ __ ] it up good job but the rest of the people on the team it's not their fault you know that's the part that really [ __ ] sucks the microtransactions are relevant if you can earn everything in game so I don't know why people are crying because it shouldn't be there to begin with I completely understand that point that's the thing

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Length: 22min 34sec (1354 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 22 2024