New Delhi, June 18 -- a suite of microtransactions that let paying customers skip items the game already gave them for free, sitting in a storefront that had never been mentioned before release.

limited fast travel, sluggish traversal stamina costs, and a cluttered user interface.

Taken together, the moves signal something more deliberate than routine post-launch support. Capcom is not simply maintaining Dragon's Dogma 2. It is scrubbing the game of everything that made it difficult to recommend, before asking players to buy it again.

The items being pulled include Portcrystals, Rift Crystals, Art of Metamorphosis incenses, Makeshift Gaol Keys, and Wakestones - the full inventory of purchasable shortcuts that had drawn the sharpest cri...