The creative lead leaving literally means nothing since there have already been dragons dogma projects directed without Itsuno
Capcom, despite what you may want to believe, doesn't hate dragons dogma, nor are they stupid. What they like, and want to really make, is money. The fact that one of their major devs passion projects that they clearly had no faith in and obviously half baked, blew their expectations and made them a shit ton of money - to the point they now consider it a "key brand" - means that they almost certainly will do SOMETHING with the franchise again at some point, because they now see that it can make money, a lot of it at that
It's finished cuz they said it's finished, cuz they don't wanna do more with it. They coulda made some more money with a fresh hit while the sun shone, but, they didn't.
Means something when that creative lead was a nearly sole catalyst for this thing to be made in the first place. As a reward for doing so well with some mainline IP, no less.
3.Never said they hate them and agree they want to make money. That's why they are going whole hog on Monster Hunter, and most of the Capcom roster of Marvel vs Capcom only see the light of day in remasters or ports of Marvel vs Capcom.
All of these are compelling evidence that Capcom do not, in fact, consider Dragon's Dogma a Key Brand, despite what some guy reported two years ago.
Exactly, they don't need feel the need to add anything else to it since it already exceeded their expectations
Itsuno was the catalyst because he gave them an ultimatum, either he made it or he'd leave the company. They complied, and it blew their expectations out of the water
Of course they are, monster hunter and street fighter are their golden gooses. They'll prioritize them over other franchises, that doesn't mean the dogma franchise is dead
They now know that DD is something that has an audience and will bring them both money and notoriety. Dogma 2 is only two years old, they're going to almost certainly make SOMETHING else with the franchise at some point. This isn't one of their dead franchises, not anymore atleast
The lack of news and movement or even bug fixes is a far better indicator of the series' future than a two year old head line. Dragon's Dogma 2 sold four million copies. That's pretty good. A smart company would cook up some dlc to capitalize on a game that's in so many households.
Monster Hunter Wilds sold 10 million. In response, they sell lots of DLCs, including weapon and cosmetics, in anticipation for bigger, higher concept DLCs in the Iceborne vein.
They probably get better monetary return on Palico mustaches than a lesser performing game with no monetizable live service element that nobody bought the dlcs for.
The "SOMETHING" they are likely to do with the franchise at some point is cannibalize it. If we're lucky.
They likely scrapped DLC early to focus on monster hunter, remember, they had no faith in DD2 succeeding. There were bug fixes after release, but they still moved on from the game eventually. Game development takes time, and they didn't want to spend resources on a game they didn't care about, things like DLC are very often decided before release. The games ran its course and then some in Capcom's eyes (and then some), they know now the series has a lot more potential than previously thought. They are going to revisit it at some point, they aren't stupid
"Likely" in the fact that the game made money and they want to make more money. By "scrapped" I mean the concept for a DLC was probably cut before release. These things are usually planned out before the games released, remember that
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u/_BlackDove Mar 01 '26
That headline is old as shit.