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Wait dragonsplague is new information to me

There's no way to tell if a Pawn has Dragonsplague while in the Rift before hiring them, but once they are hired, the signs start to become apparent. If left unchecked, then eventually resting at an inn will trigger a cutscene where the Pawn in question transforms into a shadowy dragon and nukes an entire city, which can include killing off quest-critical NPCs.

That's, uh, incredibly fucking stupid. Dunno what I expected from a studio that clearly doesn't care about its players' time, but "your pawn can turn into a dragon and nuke an entire town" sure wasn't something I'd anticipate. Even if it can't actually softlock the game, I cannot imagine continuing to play after my pawn decides to turn into a dragon with no actual warning. A bunch of people are defending it saying that there are symptoms you need to watch out for, as if not noticing your pawn's eye color or idle animation is a mistake worthy of a potentially game-ending consequence. But hey, at least you can always start a new save file if yours gets bricked by bad pokerus... Right.

Not mentioning micro transactions there are many other valid complaints to be made. Most vocations (classes) have less skills they can equip, loss of double jump, terrible enemy variety, loss of quality of life features, no end game, locking vocations as means to artificially increase playtime, terrible performance... The list goes on

It is worse than dark arisen in many ways but somehow costs $70

Good, hope gamers get burned by this. It’s easy to avoid buying shit games.

It's more of a Dragon's Dogma 1.5 rather than an actual sequel, they didn't improve on any of the issues the original had while adding some new ones.

I'm very underwhelmed.

My understanding is that the micro transactions can mostly be earned in game for free. That aside I have taken a stance and refuse to play any game that has them. They are cancer for gaming and I don’t want to support it in any form.