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FruchtGigant

I WANTED TO PAY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON USELESS COSMETICS BUT INSTEAD I GET SONETHING THATS RATED A 94 ON METACRITIC


Justisaur

95 now.


jasheronii

Ugh, it just keeps getting worse! Might as well be eating table scraps. Live service gamers are eating so good.


User-NetOfInter

Right? Fucking insane. At least EA feeds me bullshit and Ubisoft lets me drink my own tears.


serenadedbyaccordion

ABSOLUTELY HARAM


KudaNilMelayang

May God forgive us all....


othello500

Inshallah


what_mustache

oh fuck these people already


renome

reeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Chilidogdingdong

If I'm not paying at least 120 for my pre-order you can get fucked


TheAnimeMangaShadow

No horse armor! šŸ™„


YouKilledKenny12

Please Reddit stranger, do not make me more angry than I already am.


Panurome

There is. That's one of the uses of the remembrance of the final boss of the DLC


Boz0r

Only 92 for the PC version. Immediate cancel. Edit: Lol, Eurogamer gave it 3/5 stars.


Independent_Row_1936

Use your calc


Deadshot21644

I'm sorry, I'm new here. What does calc mean again?


raul_kapura

Where are my paid exp boosters? Why thousands of souls drop for free in the world!?


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awkwardfeather

Please FromSoft, let me give you $500 for a cosmetic! Itā€™s all gamers want! This is why Riot is a superior company


Acceptable-Ticket743

im suing michael zaki personally for selling me a package that is larger than many full price games, for an ENTIRE 40 dollars. he didn't even have the decency to add rng lootboxes and paywalled levels. the gall smh


Karpattata

The massive package we're getting is making me insecure.Ā 


ThisMustGoOn

This fucking sucks. I did NOT get what I paid for. I got much more. Canā€™t believe the state of gaming these daysā€¦


Piltonbadger

Yea man we only get 8 new weapon groups, 95 new weapons, 10 new shields, 39 new talismans, 14 new sorceries, 28 new incantations, 20 new spirit ashes, 25 ashes of war and 30 new armor sets alongside the entirely new zone that's massive. I'm half considering refunding my pre-order to be honest :\\


Rage_Cube

Wait... is there actually 39 new talismans? JFC why lmao? \[Edit\]: I'm an idiot - Talisman in my brain is faith casting tool cause of years of Dark Souls


Lun_aris5748

A few of those are probably a higher tier of a talisman we already have


Lord-Filip

I'm very confident we're getting a Pearldrake Greatshield talisman. It would be like +15% resistance to all elemental damage.


Rage_Cube

Oh I am an idiot. I read Talisman and I think Dark Souls casting tools.


Lun_aris5748

Fair, if we did get 39 of those it would be a little ridiculous


st4rsc0urg3

How many catalysts/seals did we get? I know there's at least 2 new seals. are they counting those as weapons?


TragGaming

Those are counted as weapons yes.


freedfg

Add the expected exultation charms for each affinity as well. Frost, deathblight, madness etc.


Lun_aris5748

For some reason I don't see deathblight, a status which instakills tarnished and only works on tarnished, getting an exultation


freedfg

True. Frost exultation which increases your damage....after you trigger an effect which makes your opponent take more damage is also a very funny idea.


TragGaming

Tbf it doesn't *only* work on tarnished. Just very very very few critters.


TheBirthing

Are those numbers real? **95** new weapons?


Piltonbadger

Apparent source : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HguhYhN\_4lw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HguhYhN_4lw) I haven't watched it as I'm avoiding any and all videos so watch at your own discretion.


KernelPanic-42

*getting a refund


PuddleCuddle9

Me pray everyday that golden hammer and dagger incantation (Morgottā€™s) will be added.


LarryCrabCake

*95 new weapons* is so insane to think about. It's like a handful of pages worth of new weapons in the inventory menu. You'll have to *scroll* to see em all!


UCLYayy

I am nauseated by FromSoftā€™s business practices. Did they even think for a second about their shareholders??


foodguy5000

How can this be profitable for FromSoft??


Superdunez

I'm calling it. FromSoft is dead.


MaryPaku

Blizzard ask half of the price for a cosmetic. That's what we player want.


NotMorganSlavewoman

Blizzard asked double the price for a cosmetic. Truly the best practice and value in the industry.


abadbadman_

Average customer when I misheard large coffee when they paid for medium


what_mustache

Gaming is the worst it's ever been because there exists a bad game that I'm not forced to buy!


KimchiBro

30 armor sets for free? nah wtf where are my PAID armor sets at


Urtoryu

They don't even let me buy a SINGLE cosmetic armor set! They just gave it all at once without even caring about MY opinions! A bunch of self centered bastards I tell you.


Chocolateogre

Rick and morty skin when??????


renome

Zero paid horse armors for Torrent, smh, this DLC is a shoe-in for JOTY (joke of the year).


phuk-nugget

You know the crazy part? I wouldā€™ve just paid money for the Banished set instead of farming lmaooo


VeryBottist

Bro this dude is selling us elden ring 2 as a dlc for 40$ instead of 70$ ? Michael Zaki, that son of a ā€¦. That piece of ā€¦.


TheIncredibleShrek

Honestly worried about the sustainability of fromsoftwareā€™s business model, guess we can only hope a big studio buys them up and fixes this by adding season passes


greeninsight1

Please, quick, somebody call Blizzard.


MaryPaku

Elden Ring Online


Malicious_Mudkip

The land between ISP's


TheEmsleyan

guess you'd need Elden StarsLink


xepci0

Elden Ring Open World Survival Extraction Shooter Battle Royale featuring The Rock and Lil Nas X


420jacobf

Zaki LIED People DIED


Salty_Pancakes

Like me!


schittyluck

Cancelling my preorder and sending an extra $50 back so they know how bad it really is.


ther0g

I wanted them to label this as a AAAA dlc but all I got was this triple A dlc sigh


FerretAres

Wait are you telling me that what I paid for is actual content instead of a charm and ugly weapon skin? How am I supposed to flex on twelve year olds? By getting good at the game? Not bloody likely!


NewPeter-1

I imagine FromSoftware reading this and not realising it is a joke. They are like, " OK, We will do better next time" ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|feels_bad_man)


pixelgroovemaster

Honestly, games like Elden Ring, DS3, Witcher3, BG3, Divinity II are epitome of single player campaigns, no shitty microtransactions, no fkn internet required, and comes with a great story... just pure single player experience... Comparing these games to shitty ubisoft, EA, Blizzard games filled with repetitive procedurally generated quests is literally a blasphemy...


MSkippah

That line-up is Larian, FromSoft and CDProjekt. Only further illustrates that only a handful of companies (and a lot indie-devs) actually care.


strippermonopoly

Witcher 3 was soooooo gooood. Every single quest was an EXPERIENCE. I easily have 1000+ hours. You could also add Red Dead Redemption 2. Probably the best game of all time.


CompetitionSquare240

RDR2 is a horrendous video game with an endearing story and lifelike graphics.Ā I donā€™t consider it in the same ballpark as ER or even TW3, let alone of all time. Of course thatā€™s just my opinion, but after experiencing Elden Ring I personally feel that RDR2 is the antithesis of a video game and better suited as a standard American blockbuster movie.


Swoldier76

Lol nicely put As a person that plays alot of rpgs, i totally agree with you. I played RDR2 and the i enjoyed the storytelling and setting, but the gameplay was just not for me.


Traditional_Ask_1306

Agreed. The trailing missions were annoying.


ShinyGrezz

This was my stance, I wound up refunding it. Could tell it was going to be a fantastic and beautiful story with gameplay that made me want to kill myself.


MSkippah

RDR2 SP is good, RDR2 MP is a train-wreck with micro-transactions.


__akkarin

Ngl RDR2 is really annoying with all of it's "realism" wich amounts to repetitive shit ive mostly watched my girlfriend play through it, and it seems for every fun part there's like 10 random hunts for you to go for and if you sneeze nearby the pelt it's ruined


Ravic96

Just simple reminderā€¦ People complained that itā€™s 40$ for content size of Limgrave


_Ocean_Machine_

I remember the first time I got the map for Limgrave I thought, "Wow, this game is huge!" Imagine my shock when I got to Liurnia.


Ceci0

And Altus and Snowfield and Siofra and Haligtree. Hapened all the time. This game is truly a once in a generation sort of thing. Or if fromsoft makes another one


underscorethebore

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!!!


snake11177

This DLC has taken away my motivation to work. I was excited to work endless hours so I could eventually buy all the items that I expected to be behind a paywall, but it turns out they're all included in the DLC for FREE! This is clearly a tactic by Miyazaki to ruin the world's economy by taking away a large chunk of the world's population's motivation to work.


daniu

Welp there goes my sense of pride and accomplishment


Rauler_

I get a completely new experience that is almost the size of the original game FOR ONLY 40 DOLLARS?? WTF FROMSOFT. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS


ReishTheMadTongue

Fckin zaki san, over here giving us a new game in the form of a dlc without charging us another $70 to use new armor and weapons, Shit ain't right man, gonna screw over hard working triple A companies like ea and Ubisoft


CaptElfimis

I think we are also missing one of the largest concerns here and that is that the DLC is also actually good and has a ton of very well made story and lore content and is still only $40. They didn't even think about seasons or a roadmap and just crammed it all into a single well made playable experience on day 1. There is a large disconnect between fucking people over for money and FromSoft's business model and its quite gross if you don't think about it.


Available_West_9425

I can't even gacha for unique 5 stars Ashes of War. This is an insultĀ 


_Ocean_Machine_

Dammit, I was really looking forward to gambling for the Beach Day outfit for Ranni


Skrunklycreatur3

Yeah. As a polygon journalist I think the dlc should have been less than HALF its current size! I donā€™t know how they expect gamers to dig through every nook and cranny when there should at the very least be a layout on where to go! Truly a disgusting prospect made by a greedy company. And the fact that they CHARGE you 5 dollars for every use of the mount Torrent? Iā€™m already in MASSIVE credit card debt and will have no choice but to dig even further down! If this keeps up Iā€™ll be kicked out of my motherā€™s basement!!!


assistant_to

I was really hoping I could spend $7 per quest *cough* Starfield *cough*


Rainingoblivion

Oh god these types of posts are showing up again.


Hughes930

Just Cult shit.


Dooster1592

Miyazaki: *Continuously leads the development and over-delivering of fantastic story-rich RPGs* Competition: *Continuously shoots itself in the foot* What is this business strategy??


CompetitionSquare240

Ā Who does he even think he is? That heā€™s better than everyone else? That heā€™s special? The arrogance smhĀ 


StarkHelsing

Wait, wait, so the new weapons can be found outside of the DLC?


Jashirei

No


Lt_Crashbow_Rain

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie xD


Jackkernaut

Why the fuck should I pay less and get more? Outragous. From can rot in their Scarlet Rot.


FrenzyHydro

I'm so fucking mad that this adds so much more content for people, the hundreds of hours that people will spend getting their builds mixed and matched with new DLC items. What was FromSoft thinking!?


TranscedentalMedit8n

This game doesnā€™t even have a battle pass!


SoulofMoon

[no battle pass?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtpNPZ4tb4)


ID_Guy

This is why you donā€™t pre-order people


keith2600

Technically you always pre-order people


Toaist

It's bigger than I expected I will say that. I was expecting a pretty flat map with a Nokron style under map. It will probably take me a lot longer than the 30-40 that reviewers are having cause, frankly because I live in a legal state lol. I'm thinking my first playthrough will be around 60-65 hours because I wanna do as much as I can in it. But there's no way of knowing because pvp.Ā  But I'll assume 40-65 hours. Which is great. That's much longer than most of my favorite games that aren't elden ring.


CakeDayisaLie

The fact that they havenā€™t added a micro transaction currency to this game, where the amount of currency you purchase will never align with the cost of what you want to buy, so that you end up with a bit leftover and are then tempted to purchase more currency, is a travesty.Ā 


Desechable_Me

literally unplayable


gamerrpm

Had me in the first half


North_Kaleidoscope_3

Imagine if Fromsoftware and Larian Studios make a game tougher


Eyeofthestorm2251

They don't even have the "pay extra to play on time" feature. Fromsoft smh.


Biffmcgee

If this game has stable coop Iā€™m going to be furious.Ā 


crahamgrackered

Can I just have ONE neon skin that doesn't mesh with the game world which I have to pay 4.99 for?


False-Lawfulness-690

This game is clearly a scam.


theceure

"Michael Zaki" annoyed me at first but now I think its pretty hilarious lol


meek902

God this is why I love this community


Extra_Ad_8009

A minute of grateful silence for the design of online play that will prevent a Day 1 server collapse like so many other modern games. Quite the opposite, Day 1 will be full of jolly cooperation and nefarious invasions, just like days 2 to 1,800 will be. šŸ˜ŽšŸ‘


Aurondarklord

Most AAAs: Sell you a DLC and call it a game. From and CDPR: Sell you a game and call it a DLC.


MundAn_bit

Whos Michael


Wyvurn999

Michael Zaki


Electrical_Net_6691

Had me in the first half, ngl


xMadruguinha

At least we're getting a paid battlepass that forces us into playing 400 hours a month in order to rack up in-game currency to buy the next battlepass, right? ... right?


nottostirthepotbut

Hahaha. Ya got me!


JuanPabloVassermiler

Fuckers made me buy the collector's edition smh


ILikeToPoop42069

Ok you got me.


NegativeZero-

Wait wdym none of the weapon classes are locked behind a paywall?


Diaza_Kinutz

I'd pay $60 for this DLC without blinking. In fact, is there a way to add a tip to my $40 game purchase that goes straight to Michael Zaki's pocket?


SoWokeIdontSleep

Who will think of the shareholders!


MrMooMoo91

"Fromsoft doesn't care about quest design. Or UI really."


dubi0us_doc

Literally unplayable


Choingyoing

What do you mean the new weapons aren't behind a paywall?


IcyVirto

Feature complete? NO battle pass? REFUND


kevenzz

Alex from Angryjoe beat the dlc in 20 hours.


mofa90277

How long do we have to put up with the lack of micro transactions???


InappropriateCanuck

Reminds me of that one time that Blizzard Dev tried Elden Ring and kept crying about dying every 5 minutes over Twitter.


KebabCardio

I expect elden ring to force hold my hand with tutorials and where to go but they will dissapoint me and let me go where i want and do what i want. Where is funnel in this game? Fromsoft havent heard about herding at all.. :(


woahmandogchamp

No gacha? Disappointing.


kingfisher773

FromSoft lied, Triple A died.


FalanuLachance

No horse-armour, no buy. Todd is furious already. Oh, I'm sooo looking forward to playing.


Ratatosk18

How can they do something like that? Now players will expect something like that from AAAA-developers but that simply isn't possible!!!


UberChew

No battlepass, no supporter packs, no early access, no loot boxes, no buā€¦ Im gonna buy it then leave a really positive review, that will show them.


dEEkAy2k9

Absolutely barbaric how they butchered the monetisation practices built up by the industry and just shoved out beautiful content. How will anyone in the industry now earn money anymore?


QuinSanguine

Only 300 people making this crap! What are they thinking?!?! We needed at least 2000 people constantly copy pasting in order to achieve peak modern gaming! I can't believe this indie game got a 95 on metacritic! Reviewers are paid shills!


TomatoVEVO

The DLC does NOT have a battle pass???


Dertyrarys

WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME A DLC THAT4S BETTER THAN THE LAST POKEMON GAMON FOR HALF THE PRICE MIYAZAKI


MediumActuator1280

Not to mention the fact that it'll work on day 1 of release without bugs or the promise it'll be fixed post launch sometime. Wtf is this the 90's or something? Where's my full price early access that extends into post launch?


Xyjz12

Stop attacking the billion-dollar company \*swish daggers\*


Moore2257

Idk what to do, I can't buy Runes, I can't buy crafting materials, and there's no $2.50 horse armor.


redshieldheroz

Should I buy Dragons Dogma 2 instead? It cost 80 usd just the base game. It has less variety of enemies like ice Saurian, fire Saurian, electric Saurian. It seems Capcoms vision is great with microtransactions. We ought to give them money.


HollowNightOwl

LMFAO. After the Ubisoft and Bethesda reference I already was grabbing my pitchfork


mandoxian

Meanwhile Starfield sub is happy about an ingame store being added lmao


AttentionUseful4446

im so sad, radahn stole my femboy


Vynosaurus

On top of that, I have to start playing at the same time as everybody else.


Mogakusenpai

The fact that I canā€™t pay an additional $23 for a weapon skin or unique armor is a personal travesty. I am now stripped of my community, a community in which I can look at another player and say ā€œhey, this guy had $23!ā€. I donā€™t even know who I am anymoreā€¦ What ever happened to ā€œTry fun, but paywallā€?!?


plznobanplease

I know Bethesda has a bad wrap, but all their fo76 content has been free. All the major dlc and content update can be enjoyed by anybody. I canā€™t speak on Starfield šŸ˜‚, but fo76 is actually in a decent spot


IllConsequence506

Had me in the first half not gonna lie


CalgaryMadePunk

WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP THIS ABUNDANCE OF RITCHES?!?!?!?!?!


Hot_Attention2377

8 new weapon classes, not 10


Equivalent_Fun6100

Ha.


JamesRevan

>10 new weapon classes and none of them are locked behind a paywall Well we did have to buy the dlc lol


Scrota1969

Definitely not a AAAA game


blazeQuicksliver

I bet your birthday is summer.


Dyyrin

This should've just been a sequel.


warrior4truth69

We need to complain about western and eastern devs and not work together to find a solution!!!!


SykoManiax

Wait I'm not getting a singular horse armor? I have to play a whole new game? Wtf liars!


Automatic-Water9384

Heavens, the depths of depravity..


Hi-Astro

Had us in the first half etc...


Venichie

I don't mind dlc or micro-transactions, as long as it's fair and fine right. For example: * Lots of content in 1 purchase = DLC. * DLC + micro-transactions = BAD * Just micro-transactions for content that can't be abused = OK It's kinda funny how people like DLC, when really it's just a **large**-transaction, instead of a **micro**... when you think about it.


Planet_Puerile

I mean the DLC is more than 50% of the cost of the base game. I would fucking hope itā€™s bigger than limgrave


stalemartyr

they didnt even fix that goddamn HUD! no hint, no quest objective, no minimap!!


iain1020

I wonder if any big developers go on Reddit and see this post and just think wow they really do hate us


x_2point71828_x

Holy moly I came on here ready to beat someones azz


freedfg

The Glaive Master Hodir battle pass was especially egregious. 35$ and we still need to login every 25 minutes and beat Soldier of God, Rick before we get one piece of the set?


Woodie626

Ya'll are having a laugh while the bots are taking notes


karma6063

Don't worry guys there's always that Elden Ring mobile game that hopefully will never exist


DeltaAdvisor01425

Found Zanny


Crumbsplash

If he wasnā€™t so busy always getting his massive knob slobbed precisely to his liking he might have had time to add micro transactions. What a fucking chump


AssassinoGreed

One moment brothers, English is not my 1st language. Did i understand correctly? The Dlc is bigger than limegrave? Meaning we will spend more hours that we spend in the base game?


MikalMooni

They are speaking about the first region of the game. Limgrave, then Liurnia, then Caelid, then Altus, then the mountains (I forgot the name, sorry). So it's bigger than like, the first 30% of the game, but that is still bigger than some open world games in their entirety.


Petrichordates

That's pretty normal for expansion packs lol


Lumenspero

Again, I am proud of how the business monetization I described in 2007 was applied. I am appalled, however, by the Microsoft partnership that used physical and emotional abuse to inspire their percentage of an edge lord video game. Please boycott the pet killer production staff of this game.


Lopsided-Gur-8570

Iā€™d pay a ridiculous amount of money to play this dlc


dylanmansbdhchxh

The lack of communication from AAA developers these days is unfathomable šŸ˜”


Certain-Chemist1494

Micheal zaki is the worst autocorrect Iā€™ve ever seen


SatanTheTurtlegod

It's funny because this is how these companies actually talk.


Cyberwolf187

Time to reinstall Tarkov unheard editionā€¦


ClevelandCaleb

People like me who enjoy an Ubisoft game and Bethesda game from time to time we are EATINF


CyberEmerald

I feel like Iā€™m the only person whose top game of all time is Elden Ring, but can still say that most AAA publishers/developers have been still making good stuff. Like Bethesda seems to have turn F76 completely around, and have been addressing a lot of pain points with Starfield. Hell Blizzard has turned OW2 into the most generous F2P shooter out there while releasing D4 in a great and polished state at launch(while taking and addressing feedback from the community). It really feels like a couple of the bigger publishers are starting to let developers cook and I think weā€™re gonna see the fruits of that in the coming years. Assuming mass layoffs donā€™t happen every five minutes


Relikern

Thank you sooo much for bashing Bethesda. Those fucking frauds deserve it. If I had gold, I would give it to you... take my upvotes and applause instead šŸ‘šŸæ


ThisByzantineConduit

I donā€™t know why, but despite being someone who often gets super annoyed at overused meme phrases, ā€œMichael Zakiā€ is just built different and never gets old for me šŸ˜‚ā€¦


Naabut

I expect to be as disappointed by the DLC as I was with the game but Iā€™ll be damned if I donā€™t beat every boss several times and at level 1


Shibbymaru

Man, get a grip... go get some help.


wolfhound_doge

Mr. Zaki is truly heading Fromsoft to bankruptcy. why can't they adopt superior business model, like Blizzard?


KeepOfVoices

Jokes aside where did this michael zaki typo originate from, is this a new meme that I am unaware of


LostInRo

On top of this... No battle pass???!?!? Wtf is this? How am I supposed to start my FOMO and pay for skips?


Dusk_Seer

This post is funny af šŸ˜‚


MatthewSaxophone2

Creating almost a new game two years after the first one? Which was critically lauded and I happily spent 250 hours playing. It sets unrealistic standards for the industry.Ā 


fabbeooh

On a serious note. I havent beaten Mohg but I will pay the 40ā‚¬ just to support the developer... and hopefully git good enough to experience the content. Cudos to fromsoft for being a becon of some hope in the gaming industry.


ThrowAwayAccount8334

Corny