Dark Souls 2 Is Being Mass Downvoted On Steam

It seems pc gamers; unlike console gamers, have taken a heroic stance against farcical opportunist cash-grabs.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/dark-souls-2-is-being-mass-downvoted-on-steam/

But despite Bandai Namco’s positioning of the new version as “taking advantage of DirectX 11 PCs”, Steam users aren’t fooled. Their machine was capable of running this new version the first time they bought it, so this “paid upgrade” kind of stings. We reached out to Bandai Namco for information on whether there would be any new boss fights or areas, but none was available.

This has led more than a few people on Steam to vent their frustration through the service’s review function, and although the overall score of the game is still “Very Positive”, anyone visiting the store page would hopefully come across the many people saying they’d might as well wait until April.

It appears that the last-gen and new-gen versions won’t be compatible across save games or online matchmaking, due to them using different servers. Dark Souls 2 owners will receive some of the extra content for free as a large 1.10 update, but PC owners will still have to pay to get the performance their machine was capable of from the beginning.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/dark-souls-2-is-being-mass-downvoted-on-steam/

lol yeah these shitty practices needs to stop.

Great job guys. This whole downgrade thing was done on purpose, so visual update can be released as a DLC. Pathetic.

The simple DX11 upgrade will make barely any difference. ENB+GeDoSaToTool in DX9 will still look better than Playstation 4/XboxOne versions.

Splitting the community is stupid though: probably a marketing target to make people feel as if they are missing out if they don't have the new version.

Meh waste of time.

Down vote the original. People think it's bad. They think it'll be fixed with the new one then. Profit

DLC? This shit is going to be full priced. Quote me on it.

@foxhound_fox:

Then that's even more pathetic.

Good

**** that hard ass game

I mean, contrast this with how CDPR handles updates for its games, and...

Yeah.

it is already said you have to buy it full price and they aren't going to give any discounts to previous owners, this is the lowest of the low, i don't even know if i will buy it i love the game but this goes against my policy of not supporting bs practices like this.

Looks like Souls is going Mainstream.....

Good, Namco are full of shit with this "New" DX 11 version. Rumor has it that it will be full price, include all dlc, and servers will be separate, which is complete horseshit. They at least need to offer a discount or something.

Gooooooood.

Because PC gamers know when developers lying into face but console owners still keeps buying without complaining

how many remaster and hd versions have you bought ?

None... oh wait i bought Zelda Windwacker HD for WiiU and i will get Dark Souls 2 "fullgame edition" for Ps4 (i have not played DS2 yet...)

no last of us or gta v?

Nope, was enough to play them on Ps3

well seems your cow brethren disagree with you since they are buying them like hot bread, which comes to my point, why you point "pc gamers" for not letting devs do this when consolites have already been milked this way for a while?

Honestly, I really don't think this has anything to do with them trying to screw over PC gamers or have a cash grab.

This is likely just another case of Japanese developer ignorance when it comes it the PC platform.

no one is that ignorant, they know pc has the ability to run this upgrade long before the original was even released, the fact that they decided to make a whole other version instead of just releasing an update or even a dlc upgrade can not be seen as anything else than a shameless cash grab and fuk you consumers.

@Krelian-co: Yeah but for PC to get "HD remakes" and have to pay for directX upgrades is something new...

Dark Souls 1 released on PC with 720p resolution, 30 fps cap, and unplayable mouse and keyboard controls. That sort of bad porting for a major game release is completely unheard of these days. Most of the gaming industry over there is focused almost exclusively on handhelds and consoles.

It's totally believable

huge slap in the face..

What the hell is going on with developers and publishers lately, we seriously need a video game market crash to keep these bastards in place

hence why people are mad at this, but yet i don't think consolites have any moral ground to say anything about this to pc gamers when they've been doing it for 2 gens now.

no, the fact that ds1 was a terrible port is because they had an unexperienced team in pc developing, but making this "new version" had to be planned since they were even speaking about an upgrade, no developer in the world would say hey let's just make another game instead of updating the one we already have unless they are doing it for the money,

I would have bought it on sale had people not warned me that a DX11 version will be available soon with ALL of the DLC and if I bought the version out now I would have to rebuy the game to get that DX11 upgrade.

Seriously, why did Namco think that was a good idea?

I'm blaming Square Enix and their constant use of "Definitive Editions".

The game is still playable and people know about DX11 version in the works. I'm guessing downvoting it has little to no effect,

I blame consoles. Consoles gamers are really accustomed to this type of bullshit, pc gamers not. From Software at this point is just taking advantage of their franchise having become trendy lately. Really shameful. When they were a humble studio, they didn't practice this DLCs shit. But now when they are famous, they became greedy as f*ck. Now we have season passes and DirectX 11 edition. Lol

Probably actually good to warn people from buying the game right now

@lostrib: I certainly would appreciate the warning.... glad somebody caught this nice and early.