Capcom Says Dragon's Dogma 2 Has Now Sold 4 Million Copies, Loyal Fans Call for Dark Arisen-Style Expansion

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has sold 4 cardinal copies, Capcom has confirmed — and present fans privation quality connected DLC.

Capcom’s enactment RPG came retired successful March 2024 and was well-received with reviewers, but well-documented method issues hampered its launch. Indeed, Steam idiosyncratic reviews stay ‘mixed’ now, implicit a year-and-a-half later.

Still, loyal fans who person stuck with the crippled are desperately hoping that Capcom hasn’t abandoned Dragon’s Dogma 2 (the past meaningful rubric update came retired successful January) and so the franchise. And portion it seems excessively aboriginal for a sequel announcement, fans are hoping for a important DLC reveal.

Indeed, immoderate are pointing to the palmy merchandise of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, an expanded mentation of the archetypal Dragon’s Dogma that included caller content, arsenic the template Capcom should usage for a Dragon’s Dogma 2 re-release of sorts.

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Others are little hopeful. With Hideaki Itsuno, manager of Dragon’s Dogma and Dragon’s Dogma 2, having near Capcom aft moving astatine the institution for implicit 30 years, the franchise present lacks a public-facing leader. Some are hoping Kento Kinoshita, who directed Dark Arisen, volition spearhead Dragon's Dogma 2 Dark Arisen, but there’s nary denotation yet from Capcom that specified a task exists.

In an interrogation with VGC successful August, Itsuno said helium wasn’t amazed that Dragon’s Dogma 2 failed to person cosmopolitan entreaty due to the fact that helium designed it that way.

“I made the crippled not similar a Nintendo 1 to beryllium liked by each the people, but for a definite benignant of audience, truthful it’s mean if immoderate radical extracurricular that people assemblage don’t similar the game,” helium said. “However, radical who enjoyed the crippled truly loved it, appreciated the details and work. I’m precise arrogant of it.”

Upcoming Capcom games see Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection.

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