Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions

That's why steam reviews are better with it being from actual people who aren't scared of being blacklisted from future access. Even with joke reviews it's still actually more informative. These review outlets call it review bombing, but I call it review awareness with it highlighting and bringing attention to things paid reviewers neglect and ignore.

Spoilers: they won't.

Oh good, one more AAA I can auto-skip over.

Did you know you can block publishers on Steam?

ITT: Mental Gymnastics competition to see how well one can defend corporate greed

From the comments here I can see we learned nothing from Horse Armour.

"[...]these micotransactions grant more frequent access to features many gamers deem essential for any action RPG. This includes fast travel and character customisation."

Wait, what? Seriously devs?

"Jeez Capcom, leave some evil for the rest of us!" - Satan probably

Gran Turismo 7 pulled the same shit. I'm still pissed about that one. Plus the lack of single player content basically means I haven't even played the game since shortly after launch. The grind without mtx is crazy boring.

Aside from the controversy, why does every medieval game look as ugly as oblivion?

We tried this already - getting ethics in game journalism.

It didn't work so well.

It's not going to change much.

It's crazy dumb they created the controversy but the game is fully complete and excellent.

It's insane they didn't see this blowing up in their faces 🤦‍♂️.

Which basic features? Almost everything people are complaining about can be obtained in game. I understand the dissatisfaction with the performance issues, but I am failing to understand this current discourse considering that capcom has been doing this in all their previous games.

They say in the article that reviewers were told about the microtransactions. Then they mention that one reviewer said he didn't read the notes that were sent by Capcom. Why would this reviewer need to go back and rescore the game? If he enjoyed it without knowing about the microtransactions, they clearly don't matter to the gameplay.

Mixed feelings about that - it sounds like you can still access those features so I don't think it really affects the base game at all. From what I remember about the first game, you had to be sparing on the waystones to start with, and it required a bit of work to get the item necessary to redo your character - so not much has really changed there. On the other hand, adding these microtransactions in the first place is a stupid idea and the publishers are shooting themselves in the foot by adding them. Should that really change the reviews of the base game though?