Disney Dreamlight Valley Review (➖ M E S S I Λ H ➖)
Disney Dreamlight Valley is a very promising Disney game, which is loosely inspired by Animal Crossing.
Living in your own decorated Valley and hangout with your favorite Disney characters.
It sounded so fun right, but is it really?
I've bought the ultimate edition for 70,00€ which is the most expensive version of the game.
This version gives you many items and also 20,000 Moonstones which is in game currency.
Moonstones is the currency that can bought with real money, or you can claim 50 moonstones a day when you login.
This game will go free2play and it was no secret that eventually after the game released we would get a premium shop so they would make money.
We also have a Starpath Battlepass which cost moonstones too.
I'd like to quote what they have stated on their own website.
Microtransactions will be limited and will focus on cosmetic items. Core gameplay mechanics will not be monetized, and the base game will not require additional purchases to be enjoyed as intended. After Early Access, we have plans to add paid expansions that will add significant content to the game, but this will not impact the original full game experience offered at launch.
Please note: At the start of Early Access, monetization mechanics will not be fully implemented. To ensure the game is meeting player expectations, we will leverage community feedback to implement these systems to ensure Disney Dreamlight Valley is polished and fun.
Well, that's a effing lie now is it?
They started with promises and made it seem like they were listening to the community and giving us gifts.
But slowly Gameloft is showing their true colors by creating content behind paywalls like the WALL-E quest and a premium shop with skins that cost around 15,00€ each which are crazy prices.
To buy all their content every week cost around 40-50€... So understand that if you want to collect everything the game will eventually cost you hundreds!!!!!
I don't mind spending a bit of money, but these prices for a singleplayer game are INSANEEEEE!!!!
On top of everything, they are breaking promises, for example organizing events that end on a certain date and suddenly they end it early while people were working so hard to enter the contest.
They also pretend you can win cool prizes but the last time we won a teapot which was copy paste resized item.
A summer event was coming where the rewards were 2 skins for 2 characters, people were so excited for this and as soon as they realized that they have put those in the premium shop too.
Where is our Heroic Clothing Set? or our Walt Disney & Mickey Statue? Things that were promised with the Community challenge.
All they do right now is implement more and more ways to ask you for money while the game is in early access and buggy AF.
Those bugs don't get patched fast, if there is a problem it will be fixed with the next update which is weeks later!
Everybody is complaining on Twitter and IG about it, but they aren't responding on any of it.
The game is going down hill pretty fast right now and it isn't even released yet.