The last section is kinda how cloud saves are supposed to work. If you could delete your local save and it synced then whaf would be the point. Overwritting a cloud save means you need to launch the game via steam offline mode then when back online you can select to upload the local save file. Although yes its stupid there's no new game option in the actual game.
The rest is aggregious tho. There was a time when you didn't have to pay for cheats in a game you just had them. I wonder if this is why capcom went big on anti modding recently cos they wanna charge for mods basically.
I wonder if this is why capcom went big on anti modding recently cos they wanna charge for mods basically.
walked so Capcom could runNothing like a corrupted cloud save bricking a video game because you are not allowed to see your cloud saves and delete them when there's a problem... or when you just want to start a fresh play through.
Most games let you delete cloud saves. When I delete a local save file in most games, it will sync and remove that game file. This game was not designed for multiple game files so there's no way to tell it to delete the file because the space that the saves are stored is immutable.
I just wish there was more manual management of cloud saves. Let us keep a few, switch between them, and delete them if we want.
I was looking forward to this
on the upside I can't afford it right now so hopefully our piracy comrades will pull throughAlright I'll die on this hill.
Absolutely nothing being sold can't be acquired in game for a pittance.
The character edit costs 20k gold. I earned this before I even reached the capital city. For reference on how much that costs a night in the inn costs 2k gold and you're essentially forced to do that every single day.
You earn this so damn easily.
Equipment is all stuff you can easily acquire too.
Nothing feels like it has affected gameplay. None of these prices feel like they increased the in-game cost in order to force you to pay money. They feel like they're just there for the sake of the chance some shmucks might buy them for no reason. I genuinely don't know why "pay to win" is even being mentioned, it's a singleplayer game who gives a fuck? It's not multiplayer, it's not an mmo, it's not pvp, it's not multiplayer pve, it's a singleplayer game. "P2W" is literally irrelevant. Rift Crystals are currency for purchasing pawns (companions) and only applies to ones that are 5+ levels above your character, it's a limitation to prevent people ruining the game for themselves by getting overlevelled companions that trivialise the content. If people pay money for the Rift Crystals they're literally ruining the game for themselves. The last part about not being able to delete cloud saves to make a new character just seems like a lie.
The review bombing over this is unwarranted.
The game is good. The optimisation is bad, that criticism is warranted, it's a cpu issue related to physics people think, graphics settings do nothing to change it, Denuvo is probably making it much worse.
I recommend the game if you want real time combat that makes you feel like a DnD party. The game is somewhere in between Fable's goofyness and DnD with a hint of influence from the Lord of the Rings battle in the Moria mines vs the goblin and cave troll.
I'll die charging the hill.
So you can "earn" the stuff in-game: so what? That doesn't excuse it at all and I don't know why people repeat this. They aren't mad the item can be earned, they are mad it is sold. These seem like the same issue but they are not. Conflating them as the same issue is a poor attempt to deflect the justified frustration of the people who paid for this game. Their frustration is a basic part of human psychology. It is why we do not allow steroids in sports. It is why we separate boxing matches by weight. There is a fundamental understanding of "fairness" that every leftist should understand and this encroaches on that understanding. As a leftist you should understand how this is indicative of a greater inequity between what is accessible to those with wealth and those without in our society and you should be upset that it has not only consumed our working lives but now consumes our leisure as well.
In so far as your comments on the Rift companions being gated; I'm afraid you've put the cart before the horse. They are selling the solution to a problem they designed. This is the exact kind of toxic gameplay elements that people criticize the very existence of cash shops for. We aren't talking about some cosmetics here. The fact that you are trying to pass that off as a good thing shows just how lost in the sauce you are.
All these systems that must be interacted with in this way are things that must be programmed and tested. It hurts to see a game get blasted for performance issues when those same programmers may have been working on this garbage instead. Would their time have been better spent making sure the game ran nicely? Absolutely. But hey, at least they got the rift crystals and character editor token working right in the cash shop and isn't that what really matters?
You mentioned that it's not a big deal to have pay-2-win in a single player game. "Who cares," you say? Well, uh, a load of people. Why attempt to invalidate their concerns? Very toxic behavior in service to the greedy corporation, comrade. Do better.
Sports are irrelevant here. It is a singleplayer game. Enjoy it how you like.
All this amounts to is putting cheatcodes behind a paywall. And cheatcodes have been gone for decades. If we're really going to split hairs about this nobody ever complained about the Nintendo Hotline or the various other premium-cost official cheat hotlines in the back of the manuals back in the glory-days people imagine.
You mentioned that it's not a big deal to have pay-2-win in a single player game.
You misunderstand.
This isn't your average pay2win situation where you can totally earn your way to the important stuff. This is as if the Publisher told the Development team to put the cheapest healing potions from the first shop in the village ALSO for sale on the RMT shop. It's in bad taste, it's exploitative, but it's also hilariously irrational all things considered.
The reason why this became a PR loss is because they also removed the Start New Game button after your begin the game. So that lead to a belief that you gotta buy Art of Metamorphosis for 1,99. All in all it leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouths in the pettiest, least lucrative way possible.
I'll die reinforcing the flank of this (ant)hill (or whatever).
First of all I'm not trying to defend Capcom here, these microtransactions are obviously stupid as fuck. But they are nothing but additions made by out-of-touch executives at the last possible minute. In comparison to the predatory design found in 90% of videogames made today it barely even registers on the scale of bullshit. It's so half-assed they don't even allow you to buy the packs that give you in-game currency more than one time. The game was clearly not designed with this in mind and at no point does it feel like any of its design was altered so you'd be inclined to spend money on the microtransactions.
Every single live-service game that works on the users FOMO is a hundred times more predatory than this. Cosmetics in multiplayer games are a hundred times more predatory than this (sure they don't "affect gameplay" but they are most often the only way to make your character be in any way unique compared to the other players and always function as displays of wealth to an audience of literal children). I'd even argue that shit games like the lauded "Vampire Survivors", which is five bucks and doesn't feature any microtransactions is more predatory since it's from the ground up designed to hit your dopamine receptors just the right amount with no other apparent goal in mind other than to lobotomize you for half an hour whenever you play it.
Every single fucking mobile game is literally eating peoples brains as they play them and this is the shit people get mad about? This is at least still a videogame designed and made by people who have some goals besides brainwashing its users into becoming whales. Yeah it fucking sucks that there's barely any devs left who are completely free from this bullshit, but I'd gladly take this bullshit over the other 99% of games that are designed to be microtransaction-machines first.
I do maintain that they refrained from placing a New Game button there for a reason and that that reason is very stupid, likely predatory.
That said, a lot of people are straight up lying about art of metamorphosis yes.
You know some fuckery is happening when developers strip you of basic functionality (like, literally, creating another character??) and then give you an option to restore that functionality for real money, irrespective of whether this can be achieved in game.
This makes it more acceptable to implement such practices in the future, and to either make it microtransaction-only or to enable insane levels of grind going forward to stimulate players to take an easy route...with cash.
That's not to mention that singleplayer/co-op games should never have microtransactions in the first place. You bought it, you are free to enjoy it whichever way you like. Yes, even "ruining your game with OP stuff" and cheating. Whatever strikes your fancy.
"Absolutely nothing being sold can't be acquired in game for a pittance." so was the case in battlefront. no p2w shit should be allowed
Creating an unfavorable situation and then charging money for it isn't great, and warrants negative reviews.
Taking advantage of "schmucks" also isn't great.
They could've made different choices. They are being reviewed based on the choices they made.
You don't understand what level of schmuck you'd have to be to buy this stuff in this game. This is like, 2 or 3 hours in and you won't have to think about it ever again kind of investment into gameplay you're skipping with money.
Not that it's a 2 hour grind for each thing. Just that once your about that far into the game the actual rewards from the game make it so everything in that micro transaction list is trivial
I have no idea who it is for, because it appears to be for people who are not playing the video game
I won't buy a denuvo game or a game that forces online to play.
I was about to re-buy (since I still have my ps1 discs) the original ff7. Like a 25 year old game, but they require you to be online to start playing. Fuck that. No damned reason for it. I was going to buy it for my steam deck. Now I'm just going to pirate it instead. I hear it runs better emulated than the PC port runs without modding it.
Pirate then when available
I'm not trying to convince people to pay, just that the review bombing over this bullshit is misrepresenting a game that I think is actually pretty good. Genuinely do not care if people pay for it or not, capcom aren't poor lmao. Shame it won't be cracked though with denuvo, i'm pretty sure no denuvo crackers are left.
The issues.are not neccesarily about the game being fun or not.
First, and most obviously, this is obviously about setting the discourse to then escalate at a later time. It is meant to create Gamers™ who will make pushing back on MTX exhausting, so that people will be less.willing to push back later as these MTX start paywalling more significant aspects of the game. This was done with lootboxes, battlepasses, horse armor, and most successfully MMO's - every online game's monetization is exploitative except mine, you wouldn't need the premium store if you got gud. Deliberately cultivated fandom toxicity.
Second, the shape of the game is being altered to accomodate this MTX. Save data being intentionally limited to make the MTX seem like it has a point has a negative impact on the game overall.
Third, felony contempt of business model. These kinds of MTX can be used to frame modding and cheats as circumvention of DRM with monetary damages. For now, I think Capcom knows better than to push this, but the DMCA is broad and modding amd cheats are a direct competitor to this monetization model; it is inevitable this will be persued at some point, after previous escalations like bans. It puts DMCA takedowns of mods that do the same thing as in their interest to make ppssible.
I turned off steam cloud and deleted my local saves, restarted game and made character, then reenabled cloud and told it to use my local when booting
I wouldn't trust this person, the review embargo was like one and a half days before release, and the character editor for example is pretty trivial to get in-game
It's purchasable in-game for chump change ya dinguses.
Oh good*, that's how it was in the first game. I was worried because they did do paid vouchers with no ways to gain them in Monster Hunter Rise.
*Not exactly good as it feels like someone somewhere is getting exploited still but there is relief
RuneScape has a makeover mage for 2k gold (you get 10k for learning about account safety right after the tutorial). Not to be confused with the barber and clothier who also exist and function similarly.
I don't think being unable to delete characters or start new games is permissable though. I only have this post for context though
59 people found this review funny.
Its well over 60 people now.
This is every single Capcom release since before and including the first dragons dogma.
I have no idea why this is the time people are noticing lmao. Also all of it is really easy to get in game, it doesn't matter at all.
They've been doing this for years
Don't worry they'll "fix" this in 6 months and be praised by gamers for the rest of time.
damn another dogshit capcom game? im shocked
dragon's dogshit
I wasn't looking forward to this at all because I never played the originals and after BG3 I felt like any other similar games would be a step back and I don't want to waste my time, but this shit is not okay.
It's not really comparable to BG3 imo, the original was all about the action gameplay with the story being so bad it may as well not have existed in the first place. Much closer to a dark souls.
You should be able to delete what data is in your cloud on Steam. I’m fairly certain you can. However, it is rather ridiculous that there’s no way to just delete the save in game. That’s gotta be getting overlooked by this person, right? Or does it seriously not have a save deletion button?
If this person spent $70 on a game without a free trial then he is a cuck and he will suffer the consequences.
Sitting in the corner weeping as my wife plays video games right in front of me
what if you could pay to edit someone else's character?
I can't recall a capcom game I've ever liked on pc
