Dragons dogma 2 controversy over the DLC on steam ( and optimisation and denuvo )

Chet_Awesomelad, 2 months ago

The DLC conversation is such a waste of energy. All the items for sale as DLC are available in-game for free (and it's not like they require a massive time investment to obtain or anything) with the exception of a camping kit cosmetic item. There's nothing predatory about them and they don't negatively impact the game in the slightest.

As for the optimisation: it's a massive fucking problem. The game lags like shit in the main city (15 - 25 fps compared to 60 fps outside the city) and I've experienced a bug several times where the game just drops to like 2-3 frames per second forever and the only way to fix it is to save and reload my game. They need to patch that shit, it's embarrassing.

avater, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

so optimization is shit, denuvo is shit and the mtx are at least questionable but still the discussion is just “overblown” ? LoL…gamers these days.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

For better or for worse capcom is doing this shit in nearly every one of their games so i kinda expected this shit

And if we stop shitting on them for doing it, we let it become normalized.

Denuvo is a cancer

This pretty much sums up the topic.

Optimisation. It is poor apparently. Nothing new really as far as pc games go.

It’s actually a lot worse than that. It’s been a while since I played something that had this level of problems. The fact that it’s CPU-based performance is actually the bigger issue because it doesn’t matter how beefy your graphics card is, you’re still dropping a ton of frames in that city specifically. I can run the game at 144 FPS until I go to that city, then it drops to 40, which is just outrageous. Gaming PC build logic has for a long time been to prioritize a great graphics card over a great processor (assuming you’re building with a budget and not a ‘money is no object’ type build), because that’s what matters for games, but suddenly with this one specific game, the processor is the bottleneck.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

To add to that, the DLC thing really pisses me off particularly because I bought the game last night, and there was no DLC. The DLC didn’t show up until a few hours later, and by that point it was too late to refund it. Kind of felt like a bait and switch, because normally I wouldn’t buy a game at launch if they did that shit.

Cadeillac, 2 months ago

Yeah, I would still fight for a refund personally. Not trying to assume you have the time or energy to go after it, but I feel like this is extenuating circumstances

cottonmon, 2 months ago

There was no mention of this in the reviews right? Feels like this was done deliberately so that it wouldn’t impact scores.

ampersandrew, 2 months ago

Yes, that’s a years-old tactic at this point. It was big in the loot box era.

Nosavingthrow, 2 months ago

Man, this shit is already normalized. MTX isn’t going anywhere. Zero complaints since horse armor have made a difference. At this point, the best I’m hoping for is not being reminded that there is MTX while playing the game.

caut_R, 2 months ago

CPU usage in Monster Hunter World is also quite high and installing the performance boost mod from Nexus doubled the FPS for me. I don‘t think I have a single Japanese PC game that doesn‘t have performance problems.

If you wanna pirate a Denuvo game, you better get comfortable cause those take a long, long while.

Ashtear, 2 months ago

All of Sega’s PC ports I’ve played have been excellent. Nihon Falcom has a top-tier studio handling their PC games as well.