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Dragons Dogma 2: To Dragon's Dogma 2 players on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 8 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No the "point" is that in any given game, fast travel is a system that is either there or it isn't. Particularly in a single player games experience. That's a feature that's expected, and locking it behind a paywall, even if it's listed as a feature only added by dlc, feels shitty.

It would be like releasing a game, and charging for a pause menu. Some games don't pause, some do. To lock that basic feature behind a payment is silly, greedy, wrong.

I feel the same way when I go to some gas stations here. Everywhere has the lowest grade on the left. Then you get this shady AF shell station or something, and the high grade is the left most one. You KNOW they're doing that to catch people unaware. Is it illegal? No. Does it instill any confidence in your business? Hell no.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 8 months ago

Your argument is ill informed. The fast travel stuff is all in the game, nothing is pay-walled. And anyone tell you such is feeding you misinformation. It seems a large number of people haven't even played the game but are ready to get out the pitchforks over stuff they aren't even informed about.

I also would love to see people that don't own the game label their post as such so we could see how many here are just going by hearsay from some random information they have read in the past couple of days. I'm guessing the overwhelming majority never even bought the game and have no become a vessel for misinformation white knighting a talking point that doesn't even make sense.