No Portcrystal in Battahl - but this is how Pay-for-Convenience works

[Vince]

I've been making a case that these microtransactions are a bane, but for a different reason than you hear most.

There's generally 2 groups: 1.) the people that think it's scummy that Capcom sells this crap in an already expensive singleplayer game and 2.) the people who defend Capcom by saying you can "just ignore" the store because the items can either be acquired ingame or are worthless anyway.

I'm in group 3: No matter how trivial the content of the store looks, I argued that we can never know how much more inconvenient Capcom made the game for players who don't use the store.
Until I reached the main city of Battahl.

Now I have perfect ammunition against these f'ing microtransactions, because it is 100% obvious that Capcom DELIBERATELY removed the Portcrystal from Bakbattahl. That's right, for those who haven't gone there yet: the main city doesn't have a portcrystal. To me, this is the #1 argument against the store because this is how Pay-for-Convenience works: it simply makes the main game INconvenient on purpose.

WARNING: If we don't collectively fight this trend, our future PC games will be "free to play" where crafting a weapon takes 8 hours unless you use some currency that costs real life money. I hope you enjoy your mobile games, because that's what this industry will turn into unless we have some f'ing dignity and don't give in to these shenanigans.

/rant

[アゼム]

Just like... drop one there bro
You get several
My bottleneck is ferrystones by FAR, not portcrystals

[MartyMcSpray]

How about playing the f***ing game? If you progress the story enough you get to bathal naturaly and get a portcrystal.

[Zerfyx]

Portcrystals are super cheap in-game. They cost a total of 20 WLC.

[Mechanique]

Originally posted by MartyMcSpray:

How about playing the f***ing game? If you progress the story enough you get to bathal naturaly and get a portcrystal.

Who needs to play when you can spend time complaining about non-existent issues instead

[Vince]

Originally posted by アゼム:

Just like... drop one there bro
You get several
My bottleneck is ferrystones by FAR, not portcrystals

I get what you're saying, but I beieve I shouldn't drop a portcrystal there to begin with. I only have 2 (maybe if I look up guides I can find more but w/e). I have one in the Elven village and one at the Sphinx already...

Don't get me wrong though アゼム, I'm not saying that this is so incredibly inconvenient I can't for the life of me get over this. I'm just saying that it's an inconvenience obviously injected by Capcom for the purpose of seling the DLC Portcrystal. And that's a cancer growth we have to burn away.

[Vince]

Originally posted by Mechanique:

Originally posted by MartyMcSpray:

How about playing the f***ing game? If you progress the story enough you get to bathal naturaly and get a portcrystal.

Who needs to play when you can spend time complaining about non-existent issues instead

Firstly, I'm at work so I can't play anyway and it's a slow afternoon.
Secondly, just read my reply to アゼム.

[RollClassic]

What is this zoomer skyrim mentality? I've found plenty of port crystals for completely free. I end up not even using them a lot of the time so I can hunt enemies and work on medals for my pawn.

[LethalLegendK]

im pretty sure if you play through the story, the captain gives you a portcrystal right before he tells you to go to bakbattahl.

[ZermondDaggmask]

I just got to Battahl and I have 4 port crystals, . What are you even complaining about, try playing the game instead of complaning

[CondeDrako]

no matter how much portcrystas you buy for real money, only 10 can be placed at the same time... and i'm sure you can get all those for free in-game.

[ZermondDaggmask]

Originally posted by CondeDrako:

no matter how much portcrystas you buy for real money, only 10 can be placed at the same time... and i'm sure you can get all those for free in-game.

Yes you can but OP doesn't want to play the game and explore the possiblities

[Taiji]

Originally posted by Vince:

Originally posted by アゼム:

Just like... drop one there bro
You get several
My bottleneck is ferrystones by FAR, not portcrystals

I get what you're saying, but I beieve I shouldn't drop a portcrystal there to begin with. I only have 2 (maybe if I look up guides I can find more but w/e). I have one in the Elven village and one at the Sphinx already...

Don't get me wrong though アゼム, I'm not saying that this is so incredibly inconvenient I can't for the life of me get over this. I'm just saying that it's an inconvenience obviously injected by Capcom for the purpose of seling the DLC Portcrystal. And that's a cancer growth we have to burn away.

So by your own admission, you do not know how many portcrystals you can get by playing the game, but you chose to assume the situation you found yourself in is due to DLC.

Does this mean that, when you find out you can get more port crystals by playing the game, you will need to find something else to blame on the DLC?

It seems like that is what you are setting out to do.

[Rats Offtoya]

Dragon's Dogma 1 is what got me into playing games with no fast travel, and I don't regret it.

This guy's just on some Pepe Silvia ♥♥♥♥.

[Vince]

Originally posted by RollClassic:

What is this zoomer skyrim mentality? I've found plenty of port crystals for completely free. I end up not even using them a lot of the time so I can hunt enemies and work on medals for my pawn.

Vernworth has a Portcrystal. Even the village consisting of less than 10 cabins has a Portcrystal relatively nearby Vernworth.

If you want to trigger players to give in and buy a Portcrystal in the store... what is the ONE PLACE you'd not put a Portcrystal? I'd argue that's exactly the major city seperated from the nearest oxcart location by 20 minutes of hiking. And that's my point. It's not the end of the world and I bet I can get a Portcrystal somewhere that I shouldn't have to plays in Bakbattahl but will. It's just a clear example of "Pay-for-Convenience". It's how it started in the mobile gaming industry as well. Baby steps.

But this line of thinking requires a bit of nuance. So maybe don't reply to my post if all you can do is think in binary ideas or just want to do is antagonize.

[ZermondDaggmask]

Originally posted by Taiji:

Originally posted by Vince:

I get what you're saying, but I beieve I shouldn't drop a portcrystal there to begin with. I only have 2 (maybe if I look up guides I can find more but w/e). I have one in the Elven village and one at the Sphinx already...

Don't get me wrong though アゼム, I'm not saying that this is so incredibly inconvenient I can't for the life of me get over this. I'm just saying that it's an inconvenience obviously injected by Capcom for the purpose of seling the DLC Portcrystal. And that's a cancer growth we have to burn away.

So by your own admission, you do not know how many portcrystals you can get by playing the game, but you chose to assume the situation you found yourself in is due to DLC.

Does this mean that, when you find out you can get more port crystals by playing the game, you will need to find something else to blame on the DLC?

It seems like that is what you are setting out to do.

He's obviously a hard working man with a normal job and doesn't have time and needs something to rant about all the time, have some respect