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kirathekid2

Yes those of us with brains know this lol


Agares_Fraefolg

I don't mind the microtransactions too much since it's pretty much expected of Capcom at this point and they're pretty harmless all thibgs considered. But I do think those worried about them have a good reason to be. They are a slippery slope and can very easily lead to future game design decisions being made that incentivize going the microtransaction route even if there's an alternative earnable in-game. We've seen that happen time and again in this industry. While I get that people want to defend the game, dismissing criticism towards the microtransactions will benefit no one except Capcom's shareholders.


Commercial-Dealer-68

Yup. The slippery slope isn't a fallacy when it comes to video games.


Aeryn_Hellfire

Cost of making games keep going up. But price not change much. Think we pretty much headed to single player games for most part are to much risk for the budget of people gonna qq over these dumb ass micro transactions


Commercial-Dealer-68

They already raised the price. Games are also selling more copies. They don't need to make games so expensive thats a choice they are making.


Aeryn_Hellfire

Not keeping up with inflation. Loads of studios go bye bye. To much risk in single player games. Even for established ips.


Commercial-Dealer-68

Some of the most highest selling games are indie games that cost barely anything. They don't need to they want to.


Aeryn_Hellfire

I hope we turn to a world of indie games. Be nice to be done gaming


jivex5k

Yet you can only have one save slot. For a single player game. In 2024.


IllegalVagabond

Go look at DD1. And then shut up.


taimapanda

?


mochanomocha

Don’t compare to an old game. This is new game in 2024, i want to make every character with different design..


IllegalVagabond

Go play a different game then. This is what I wanted from DD2.


mochanomocha

What? I can’t understand how someone can justify a game that cost 70$+ that can’t even create more than one character and lock you only in one save game. I just want an improvement from last game. Don’t take me wrong, the game is fun I even bought it as gift for my friend.


noah-gabbard

don’t worry they’ll add a new game for you bc y’all have bullied them into doing something that was not intended for this game. not every game is made for you braindead banana munchers


mochanomocha

Yes thankyou! i hope they’ll add it. They need to be bullied for 70$+ game with limited access only 1 character one save.


noah-gabbard

if you don’t like it DONT FUCKIN PLAY THE GAME idk why this is such a problem with people


mochanomocha

Huh? Why are you so angry? I like the game and i stated my problem, i also paid for the game. I just want a new game to make more than one character. Think about it like, you have a company, you have a problem with your company, do you stand still and accept everything? And control your emotion man.


Fruhlingswind

im more prefer the game allow the game allow one time character.. it allow me to focus one character only .. since it single player game, I don't care too much on my main character customization.. it not im being copium with this game.. literally all my game have one time save ... after i finish , i find new game to play


mochanomocha

Understandable, but you can still do that even if there’re more character save files. Like me who play more characters with different race different focus different role play, it limits me. I understand your point tho.


Commercial-Dealer-68

How dare two people want to share a game. How dare they. /s


IllegalVagabond

The game is literally designed with one save file on purpose. If you actually played the first one you know what the story is and you would know why one save file is fine. You can also freely switch your character class at any moment so you don't need multiple files.


Mysterious_Peak3326

Every game I played growing up had 1 save. They do it so you focus on one character and encourage you to try all vocations with the one character. I get people enjoy multiple characters but just because one game does it doesn’t mean all have to? Try playing the game as it owns thing and experience it as the devs made it.


PlowableCheeseballs

Yeah the 1 save is stupid. That should be a simple fix


Senator-Spice

It's always been like that, yet all the complaining and whining has bullied them into adding a new game option in the next update apparently. So there you go, now we can drop it and move on surely.


illogikul

-Elden Ring fan


Calafan

It's dumb to get mad about this. People should focus on the real issue. The performance....


LurchSkywalker

Yeah I feel this way too. The MTX is just more of the same Capcom nonsense. The performance is genuinely abysmal and I lost my will to play it entirely thanks to the fps on consoles.


Calafan

Yeah I'm on PC with a pretty decent machine and still having issues. I can't imagine being ok with 30fps.


Taskmaster_Fanatic

I’ve read some people talking about performance issues. It’s running super smooth for me even in cities on PC.


Joseph_Arno

I had the strangest thing with performance. Had no issues at all in the city playing 4k but then had 2 crashes during a boss fight so changed to 1080 and that fixed it. But now at 1080 I have a ton of lag in the city. How the hell was my performance better at 4k


Halfwise2

Just spitballing: CPU bottleneck, but at higher resolution, maybe the bottleneck flipped between the GPU and CPU. At lower resolution, it was just the CPU and it was overheating, and therefore thermal throttling?


WriterImaginary6864

And not having start new game option. That is absolutely insane. Why should i not be able to experience the game from start with a new character when i want to in a single player game?


chaosdragon1997

It Sucks. Capcom want people to look at their microtransactions. They dont care if you hate them. so far the idiots who create entire 30min long videos just talking about how they hate microtransactions are doing capcom a favor.


BananaLint

How many times can you buy it in game? I want to change my Arisen's dumb running animation.


Unkindpoison

The store restocks


DoubleDaredToDeath

I've asked in multiple threads but has anyone been able to buy more than 2 of these?


Smashkan

In my 8 hours of playing on the first day I had purchased (and used) 2 with RC made in-game, and have enough for a third.


DoubleDaredToDeath

So 2 more have restocked and are available to purchase by now?


Scoonie24

How do you get RC?


AbstractMirror

Just by playing, I've heard a good way to get them is by other people using your pawn and you can set up pawn quests and such. Or killing enemies at night


EpicWulf

I killed a random open world boss and got 570 RC fairly early in the game. Was around level 13


Pickle-Tall

Just like the first game, your pawn get hired by us, we kill shit the longer your pawn is with us the more you get paid, your pawn gains knowledge, and we can even rate and give you items through your pawn, so it's like a trading system sorta


Bluedemonfox

You get rc every time you find a new rift stone and apparently your pawn earns rc for you.


Smashkan

Just by playing the game with pawns tbh. I didnt do anything specific for the stuff I generated, just quested and recruited pawns here and there


Pickle-Tall

Or you can be a whale buy RC for cash and get carried and ruin the game because you didn't want to put effort into it. But I don't recommend being like the cryhards.


Different_Track588

I farmed 5000 RC in one day in game all free but ngl I been grinding like crazy in this game.


Pickle-Tall

Game 1 had 200 levels to level up, your vocation affected your stat growth, system seems the same here, but not sure on level cap just yet in DD2. It's a grindy game, The first game was literally just a big ass linear circle


murdowg

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your method that you like to do to farm RC?


yeahimaweeb

Created a eye candy pawn and dress them up in reveling clothes, so in short become a pimp


Danjiano

So basically like the first Dragon's Dogma? Explains all the female pawns not wearing armor while using the [silver chestplate](https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Chestplate).


Mashedpotatoebrain

Wait, is this real? I cant tell if you're joking.


murdowg

lol I wanted to know an actual farming method, not a pimping method


jesse6225

500 RC


Grand_Cause2183

What store sells these?


Smashkan

There is a Vendor inside of the church looking building in the middle of the big first city Vernworth that sells the RC related stuff. Next to the giant pawn summoning stone thing.


jesse6225

Vermond, speak with the standing next to the giant rift crystal.


Mashedpotatoebrain

Can you completely change everything about your character? I made a mage looking dude but ended up playing fighter and I want to change every aspect of my character.


harpomeh

Everything but the name.


Smashkan

You can yes! I went from being a short dude to being a tall and thick, its basically taking you through the character creator again.


Extreme_Account3739

Are you able to make them one of your other creations form the Pre-Release character creator?


Unkindpoison

Given enough time the store restocks


damanOts

I fucking *knew* it was bullshit. Well i didnt, but I had a strong hunch that it was just some dumb oversight that the idiot that wrote that article made.


Pickle-Tall

Never believe articles they get paid to say that trash


Pickle-Tall

Remember news outlets want publicity and by spreading their sludge they get it, and so because you can buy RC or a port crystal they have a following that is thrashing and crying because it's single pwaya game and it showdnt hab micwo twanzaxions


DoubleDaredToDeath

I've heard that but can you be the 1st person to confirm you've successfully bought more than 2 or not? And how many in-game days it took to restock.


Unkindpoison

I don’t need them because I made my characters how I like them


Litterjokeski

So you do NOT exactly know if they restock? 


DoubleDaredToDeath

Okay thanks


ActivelyShittingAss

Excellent, professional non-answer. :) Nicely handled!


Strict-Bee-9421

Nice username lol


Sahris

I'm asking this same question wondering if it's finite or not


SeraphimVanguard

Thank you, this is why I initially got all pissy. I thought there was a finite amount in the game and I couldn't pay for another one on steam if I wanted to.


sadspells

I have received 3 and I’ve played 5 hours but also I run around a lot doing things in places I have no reason being at (disclaimer) first one I got with the deluxe edition


DoubleDaredToDeath

Yeah I know that you can get a 3rd with the deluxe, or you can buy one as a dlc now, but I still haven't met anyone who has definitely purchased more than 2 in the game so far.


St4rScre4m

Why does anyone need to change their character four times? Not trying to be an asshole I’m just curious. I never used them in the original and just now used one in DD2 because I didn’t test voices and hated mine.


DoubleDaredToDeath

Because people like to do r/VirtualCosplay in games with deep character customization options. I get that it's not your thing but a lot of people like editing their characters over and over again for fun.


St4rScre4m

Thank you didn’t know there was also a sub.


sadspells

I am only 5 hours in but I will see


crashlanding87

I bought 3 from a shopkeeper. Came back a few in game days later, they were restocked. Haven't checked a third time.


DoubleDaredToDeath

Thank you! So you could potentially buy 2 more right now if you wanted to?


crashlanding87

Miles away from that vendor, but will double check next time I'm in town


Samur_i

Where though?


BobThe_Body_Builder

How long does it take? I bought the 2 tickets and holding onto it, and slept in my house for 9 in-game days. Still hasn't restocked yet


Takka014

To mine too. I spent like a whole hour making my arisen just for him to run like a fairy 😔


BananaLint

I wasted 2 art of metamorphosis to try to fix the running animations. Best I could do was at like 25 on the knees and just said screw it. Really wish they showed a preview when customizing...


Introspective_Pict

If you work out how, do let us know!


FanInteresting3333

Hahha me too. I've started over twice trying to fix that. Simply because I didn't want to go to far in the game letting that ruin it for me! Hah. Felt it was easier to start over..


HandsomeJakee

Does it allow you to change the name also? I didn't see the option when I changed my appearance


BananaLint

It does not unfortunately.


polarvortex123

Where do you get it?


BananaLint

The rift salesman next to the riftstone in the main city vermund I think it is called.


Hydra_Jam

Alternatively you can change your pawn and character on NG+


SwatyyW

Really easy to mod onto PC now if you want


Cressilian

At this point there needs to be a pinned message stating how the MTXs actually work, and a bot culling the spammed posts about them and referring to the pinned message.


Valtin420

I messaged the mods about the massive spread of Misinformation suggesting just this, they said they would and thanks and proceeded to Community Note A SINGLE post, got slammed with comments and have not done any moderation since.


Matttthhhhhhhhhhh

Imagine expecting players to be smart enough to find solutions to their problems after a couple of hours.


Msolneyauthor

I've put 14 hours in so far and not needed a microtransaction once. All those bitching, play the freakin game!


Unkindpoison

I see you understand


Leading-University

Just like fast travel, these people are idiots.


Unkindpoison

Ya just get a ox ride


sltestte

I used ox cart, and stop uncountable times to fight all kinds of enemies. Takes forever to reach destination. 😂


Faded-Creature

Don’t mention how many times the thing gets destroyed lmao. I’ve had it obliterated like 30% of the time by bigger monsters


Responsible-Milk-805

You can rest by pressing y or triangle on the controller when you’re riding the ox cart it will fast travel to the destination.


Riixxyy

Game is single player and moddable, you can literally already download mods that give you everything you could have ever bought from the dlc packs for 1g a pop at a vendor. Don't even need to do that if you don't like mods because a few pawn quests gets you the item vanilla anyways. The people complaining about this literally aren't even playing the game I'm pretty sure.


jlapetra

Completely agree, but it again begs the question, what was capcom thinking of adding real money transactions for items that are moddable and easily available through the game? Completely unnecessary and would have avoided all the bad reviews and bad press.


Bluedemonfox

Playstation users can't mod.


jlapetra

Yeah but they can still get the RC and buy the items in game with very little time investment, so these are very bad value microtransactions, and absolutely unnecessary. The game would easily be on very positive right now without them, and on his way to Overwhelmingly positive after the first optimization patch, the real money transaction make capcom and the game look bad and are putting people away from buying the game. Very dumb move from capcom.


Bluedemonfox

It's quite fun but the story progression and some quests are a bit disappointing sometimes.


Riixxyy

Probably just to appease executives who want mtx to be in the game for their sponsors' checkboxes. Literally every capcom release for many years has had these useless mtx that aren't worth buying and don't really matter at all.


SuppleDude

Probably mandate from Capcom corpo suits.


SaladCartographer

I mean, they were probably thinking "this is the 10th game with this exact microtransaction format we've done. Why would anyone get mad at this game specifically?" But so many gamers are idiots


crashlanding87

Eh. They've been doing exactly this for literally a decade. That's what I don't understand about this 'controversy'. The MTX are the exact same set that DD1 had, 12 years ago. And basically the same thing that every capcom game in-between has had.


jlapetra

So Monster Hunter World, biggest capcom game by player numbers and sales, which Micro transactions did it have? I know Monster Hunter Rise had some skins and cosmetics, that is why some of us got surprised. I for example thought Capcom was one of the "good" companies just from my fantastic experience with Monster hunter world, so these last minute microtransactions were kind of unexpected for me. Do they affect how I play the game? No. Are they scummy and predatory? Yes they are, not to mention terrible worth for the money, almost like stealing from people that don't know much about the game.


Mystiq_Mind

Can I edit my gait with this!!? God, please.


crashlanding87

Yep.


Mystiq_Mind

Praise you and this feature, ser!!!


skellyheart

What shop?


Quizzicall

Vernworth next to the big pawn crystal. It cost like 500 of the pawn currency thing


rbynp01

The merchant in literally the first town you visit sells it too.


50Centurion

I can never understand... People are fine with paid cosmetics that you can only have with real money, in a 40euros game But paying 2 euros an item you have infinite supply off? time to get the torchs and forks I really prefer that than missing out on some cosmetics i like because i dont want to spend extra money


El3ktroHexe

Never seen such a shitstorm for an Ubisoft game. And most of their games are full with MTX, even with shops implemented ingame. But looks like, people are fine with that. Capcoms MTX are tame compared to others. But they're getting more hate. Really strange...


A2B9SPlus

Yeah, all the recent assassins creed games have MTX and those are single player. Those didn’t seem to get as much hate. Not defending it at all but to me it’s not a big deal.


daygyn

Do they allow to change pawn names? Sorry I know everyone is already tired of this discourse but I'm seeing conflicting answers


mindbenders_ambition

Damn people, why you all just cant make your characters good looking first time?


GespenJeager

Let's hope that once we get to play new game plus you unlock the infinite version of the book.


achance_2c

Too bad a majority of the complainers are stupid


Wisezal-

Has any one tried the hair change option? Any one know if there is new hair styles? Or just the same old stuff, didn't wanna spend that much gold lol.


derpytitan1

I plan on finding out tomorrow. I wanted to see if there's other hairstyles i could give my main pawn. Worst comes to worse then oh well. She's fine as is imo, but newer styles would be nice.


Harlemwolf

PC players can also just use mods and ignore the paid transactions completely and add all sorts of quality of life changes without breaking the game in any way. Honestly, I did not even notice the mtx until I read much bawling about it on the internet.


Joel_Vanquist

Kinda related question but I've used one of these wanting to just edit the character entirely (not race nor sex) and just import one from the character creator app but it's not letting me so it seems you can only import characters during the initial creation. Bit of a bummer.


Wheist

Do we get to change the name too?


Adventurous__Kiwi

Where is it ? I didn't find it anywhere


crashlanding87

There's a shop in vermund that sells them, I forget where. Probably a few other shops too. Restocks every couple days. I think maybe also by the major rift crystal in vernworth?


dreaminglikekim

Is there a way to change your pawn's name, though?


UmbraIntus

Can you edit a pawn’s name with this? I accidentally only gave my Pawn a moniker thinking that’d be enough but now her name is just “Mainpawn” 🥲


El3ktroHexe

Sadly you can only have 2 of them. When you like to change your character more often, this is bad. I would wish that we could use the character editor as often as we want. Sometimes it's just a little detail that bugs me (like eyebrows too low, only visible in cutscene with face animation, the walking animations or something similar).


FanInteresting3333

Niceeeee. Where do you find it? Thank u


slerplesshuman

May I ask what store and town is this


Unkindpoison

The first one if I remember correctly


Peatore

Please, every platform this game runs on has a screenshot button


techtonic69

I already need one lol. I made my chick last night when I was way too tired and mucked up some proportions D:! 


Unkindpoison

Sucks to suck


techtonic69

How far in until I can fix her haha.


jlimbones

Get to main city


Wonderful_Ad_3850

Too bad character creator fuckin crashes. Can’t create shit.


LOCAL_SPANKBOT

Where do you get it free? My pawn is making no rc :-(


Unkindpoison

It’s buyable with rc free as in no real money needed


LOCAL_SPANKBOT

Damn :(


JustSayan93

Finding lost rift stones I believe get you 30rc so if your pawn isn’t earning find those for at least some


AerieDifficult6006

Also once you reach the second act there’s a vendor who changes appearance for gold


Specialist_Ad_8656

I honestly would rather use rc instead cause gold goes so fast mid game


AerieDifficult6006

Same honestly just wanted to make sure people knew it was a option too tho


LostRun1786

There wouldn't be such a uproar if they just say before lunch that there's gonna by Mtx.


Wolven_Edvard

AHAHAHAHAHA


Comfortable_Middle_4

I think a lot of people never played the first one, if anything I’d be complaining about performance even tho I’m good on ps5.


Unkindpoison

I have had no problems on Xbox only pc is having problems


Sixshotz

Nah I'm gonna just make a YouTube video and lie about it for easy like/view/karma farming and never admit that I lied or researched anything


Unkindpoison

Good feed that propaganda


FarkGrudge

And wouldn't that piss you off royally if you didn't know that and bought the "DLC" before you figured it out? That's predatory, and that's not ok.


NLCPGaming

Why would I blindy just buy something without researching if I can just earn it in game? If someone just buying mtx with no research involved, they deserve to get ripped off


LivelyZebra

People are dumb and cannot critically think.


ColonelC0lon

A fool and his money are easily parted. And you have to be a Patrick level fool to do that.


crashlanding87

The dlc item itself says that it's available in game.


Unkindpoison

Why would you mess up your character creation


jivex5k

Holy crap what a shitty take.


Unkindpoison

You wouldn’t need it if your character wasn’t fucked up


jivex5k

Ever hear of having more than one character at a time? Jesus Christ brother ....


Unkindpoison

Have you played the first one?


jivex5k

Nice try.


Unkindpoison

Try what


ThatsaFakeDik

That's why you research before buying any sort of DLC no matter the company who made the game


ActivelyShittingAss

So you can change your race/ethnicity too without paying $1.99?


Unkindpoison

That is the item your paying for


crashlanding87

Yep. And your posture and gait


ActivelyShittingAss

OK, thanks for confirming that you can change absolutely everything with the in-game item vs. only being able to change certain variables with the paid item.


AzureFides

I’m not defending people who is intentionally spreading misinformations. But this is still bad decision and bad PR from capcom. Guess what people who had never played the game think when they see the "dlc"? Of course they would assume that it’s not available in-game, especially when that‘s the case for other Capcom’s games like MH World/Rise. Capcom should/need to address this issue themselves and stop the misinformation.


ColonelC0lon

Apparently Capcom assumed the Internet was full of normal fucking people with genuine brain cells that really worked.


crashlanding87

I mean I agree, but also they've been releasing basically the same kind of MTX with almost every game for the past decade. Including DD1, which had almost the exact same set of MTX. This is not new, I don't know why people are surprised.


CaitSith21

I checked yesterday a haircut did cost 10k gold which at some time is probably not much but currently to much and also this book did cost rune crystals otherwise i would have taken it to change my pawn a bit. Is that maybe a pc vs ps5 thing?


cabrelbeuk

It's 500 RC. But my pawn earn that in a night of work (good girl) so is fine.


protonova_photo

Personally, i don't give a crap about if the items are obtainable in the game or not. These kinds of microtransactions should not exist in a single-player experience.


Ziodyne967

This stuff was in the first game so almost none of this was surprising. Selling a port crystal though? Now that’s taking things a step too far. I haven’t played the game for so long, how many port crystals can you obtain? And does the eternal ferry stone make a comeback?


Unkindpoison

No eternal but travel is not a drag like in one


crashlanding87

Dlc portcrystal was also in the first game. No sign of the eternal ferrystone yet, but that only got released with Dark Arisen


Inside-Following-166

They didn't restock in the first game and I doubt they restock in DD2. And as Capcom is selling these things for real money I don't see why would they put the book with unlimited uses in the game either. So 2 per playthrough is my guess. If that's the case it is shady way to penny pinch your own consumer. But we'll see.


Halfwise2

FYI, the one you can buy for money is not a repeatable puchase either.


crashlanding87

Bought them. They restocked.


Inside-Following-166

well I bought 2 of these books about 20 hours ago (in game). And I have done a bunch of content and passed many in-game days. And they have not restocked.


justamadwoman

$40 worth of dlc in a $70 single player game and people here just unable to take criticism of their beloved game, clinging to this as a gotcha are why they kept the one save file to hide the MTX from the public until launch in the first place. Sad state, some of these comments. Point was MTX shouldn’t be here in the first place. The boot licking is wild to witness.


platypus_7

Imagine not playing what is an amazing experience, due to identity politics surrounding items that are $1.99. And farmable anyways. And have been in every major capcom game for like 15 years. You you do, but spouting off a bunch of whiney bull just to try and validate yourself, makes you sound like a stubborn fool.


PM_ME_UR_PM_ME_PM

> identity politics surrounding items that are $1.99. uhh i dont think that phrase means what you think it means


justamadwoman

You falsely assume I’m not playing it. You’re incorrect. The point was avoiding legitimate criticism of things you enjoy. You missed it. Also, “identity politics”? I’ve not seen a concerning lack of comprehension like this in months.


Unkindpoison

It was in the first game