Dragon's Dogma Online

[SkeeSilentT]

Did anyone else have the pleasure of playing Dragon's Dogma Online between the first game and this 2nd title? Most Dragon's Dogma fans I know are woefully unaware of its existence. If you lived outside of Japan, you needed to use a VPN to access the server network.

I really hope the success of Dragon's Dogma 2 shows Capcom what a serious money maker they threw away when they shut the servers down. I am certain it was expensive to run, but Western audiences would have paid tens if not hundreds of millions for a multiplayer co-op Dragon's Dogma experience.

Hoping for DDON2 at some point in the near future!

[Usagi-chan]

I hope there is never a Dragon's Dogma Online anymore, ever

[Razorblade]

Dragon's Dogma wasn't even that popular in the West. If DDO couldn't survive in Japan, where consumers tolerate much more exploititive micro transaction policies, it sure as hell isn't going to work in the West.

Moreover, they could just add small scale multiplayer to DD2 if the demand was that intense. They don't have to make a whole ass expensive MMO.

MMOs are kind of a dying genre. If you look at successful modern MMOs, they largely let you play alone / with a few friends, and players largely do so. The aspect most people seem to like is not the social apsect, but rather the frequent content updates and playing with friends.

[H3llF!r3]

dunnow if its good, sega did the same with PSO2 and utterly destroyed the IP, with their greed and their weirds logic.

but we can hope for a good game...

[Kroye]

I did for a few hours, had to use a VPN. Game was nostalgic and pretty OK. Best part honestly was playing it with a few friends, but it was just too unstable because of the VPN.

I honestly hope Dragons Dogma gets more popular enough in the West to maybe see something like that. But I'll continue to enjoy playing singleplayer

[SkeeSilentT]

Originally posted by H3llF!r3:

dunnow if its good, sega did the same with PSO2 and utterly destroyed the IP, with their greed and their weirds logic.

but we can hope for a good game...

DDON was incredibly non-predatory with its monetization model. Not P2W at all in any way honestly. That's probably why it couldn't stay afloat, ironically. Cost of the servers, etc.