‘We don’t see a place for microtransactions in single-player games’, says CD Projekt Red following Dragon’s Dogma 2’s DLC fiasco
‘We don’t see a place for microtransactions in single-player games’, says CD Projekt Red following Dragon’s Dogma 2’s DLC fiasco
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At least cd projekt had that going for them.
Meanwhile, at other AAA publishers: “We’re charging extra for performance mode. If you want to play our game in 60 FPS, it’ll cost you $9.99 or you can unlock it after 50 hours of gameplay.”
Before everyone get’s upset over nothing because people only read headlines like in all the other threads about this rage bait article. It was an investor Q&A and they asked for plans on doing mtx in future games. He simply said no. Nothing wrong with that.
Didn’t Shadow of Mordor do that? I very vaguely recall thinking, “well that’s dumb.”
The DD2 DLC fiasco is a massive misunderstanding, while anyone who has played or assessed the game’s DLC options can tell you that precisely 0 of the items up for offer are even worth buying.
The DLC offerings for DD2 appear to be the product of a company telling a Dev who doesn’t want to do MTX that they have to – so they make MTX that even the dullest actual player can’t possibly perceive as worth the money being asked… and then somehow the internet took it as a serious ask. Literally none of the items on offer are worth half what is being asked for them except maybe the portcrystal — and once you know a couple of things about the game, even that has zero appeal — and just to be clear, the game isn’t selling fast travel for real money – it’s selling a portcrystal, which is a destination for the in-game fast travel, but you can get more than enough in game, and while you might think having them early is an advantage — fast travel items cost so much in game gold that getting one early is literally pointless.
Flame the shit out of this “author’s” Xitter account. Gaming “journalism” at its finest, shilling for CDPR and getting clicks for “MTX bad” when the biggest problem with DD2 launch **is performance related.**
CDPR should never, **ever** get another free pass after the complete fiasco of a launch with CP2077. It had far worse problems than DD2’s performance issues. CDPR over promised and under delivered and years later the game is still not anything special for how much they tried to hype.
The CDPR circlejerk is back with a vengeance, huh? Well, I see y’all when their next game launches, lmao.
good
They also weren’t going to crunch to make Cyberpunk 2077 and we all know how that went, AKA why are people taking anything they say seriously?
lol fiasco
Let’s be real, does anybody actually believe them?
That’s nice and all but don’t believe a single word anyone from CDPR says about the next game.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Fool me once but you’re not going to do that again.
This company is now known for lying through their teeth just to get sales. All the promo shit for 2077 was straight up a lie when the game launched, it only took 2+ years for them to add *some* of the features they promised.
I wholeheartedly agree with CDPR here.
But at the same time I don’t see a place for shipping unfinished single-player games and manipulating the review process either. Guess CDPR and I will have to agree to disagree on those…
There are no such fiasco.
“Fiasco”
Lol
It was just Capcom wanting to sell water to people living next to a spring. The village Idiot might buy it but that’s it
Lmao people blew DD 2 MTX out of proportion, it isn’t even close to the main issue with the game.
The dragons dogma fiasco was anything but. It’s the smallest of deals I’ve seen in a while. The game never sends you to the store and the fast travel tokens are easy to get. Without trying I’m sitting on like 4 of them, and I never use them because the game has fast travel built in with oxcarts. Its such a non issue for a game that is pretty much almost a masterpiece.
“We also don’t like to put out games that are fully tested, but our customers don’t care about that.”
Im taking anything CDP says with a grain of salt. With Cyberpunk they showed they were a pretty shitty studio.
If the shop only offers cheap cosmetics and nothing else I don’t see a problem but unfortunately this is not what most developers do. I don’t want my single player rpg to feel like a mobile game
Didn’t Witcher 3 have microtransactions?
I mean in what world would anyone agree with microtransactions in singleplayer games
“All the room to make a shitty game though”
CDPR had its own “fiasco” with Cyberpunk 2077 with being unpolished at launch
Can’t see it, because there are too many bugs in the way.
CDPR needs to focus on releasing games in a completed state, bro. They have no right to be getting all high and mighty when Cyberpunk released in an alpha state and it took 3 whole fucking years of patches to make it content complete.
Too bad both games are fucking garbage
There are a lot of JRPGs — specifically indies — that offer and have offered micro transactions for single player games for years.
But Capcom is a larger entity (obviously), and much more “worthy” recipient of everyone’s vitriole.
How about releasing an optimized game.
But i see selling broken game and lie to customers.
They prefer more ethical buisness models, like shitting out unfinished games and generously patching it into the state it should have on release
lmfao that´s why they still did not implement the flaming katana and 10000 other features they promised and now try to talk down?
ah ye, some of you fanboys will argue now that the sword is in the DLC…the DLC!!!
Logging this article to “this you?” at CD Projekt Red in the future
Microtransactions in themselves is not a bad concept. It’s what you do with it that matters. People get angry when DLC feels plucked out the main game just to be sold separately for extra profit. Which seems to be the case with Dragon’s Dogma 2. If it the DLC was just extra credits or some stupid skin, I doubt anyone would’ve cared. But when you start selling things that should be a part of the base game that you already payed full price for, people feel scammed.
DLC is better handled as extra content added to the game after release. Games can live for years and I don’t condemn developers that keep putting out new paid content. Free content updates is nice, but I only expect it from games that had horrible launches. Like No Man’s Sky for example.
And Cyberpunk…
I don’t care about the subject in matter, but finished Phantom Liberty couple days ago and goddamn was that ending amazing.
Well now I’m expecting it from one of their future games. They don’t have the best track record in terms of backing their words up.
Yeah that’s true. You know what else sucks? Launching a game in developement for over 8 years in an unplayable bugged state and over promising on game features and not even delivering them after 3 years.
Oh shut up! Release a working game the first time around then comment on other studios😂.
Even though I agree
We’ll see how well this statement will age.
Would still trust Capcom over CDPR in a heartbeat.
Does no one remember that gun you had to sub to people on twitch to get? Does that not count as mtx?
This is gonna age like milk, isn’t it?
I don’t remember asking you
go to your room and be ashamed of the cyberpunk release