Game

Divinity: Original Sin 2

2017

Insufficient evidence

We did not find enough credible, independent evidence to publish a numeric cash-grab score. Unrated is more honest than a guess.

What counts as a cash grab?

Commercial extraction prioritized over meaningful consumer or creative value. Profit, popularity, adaptations, sequels, remakes, high budgets, and normal marketing do not count by themselves.

Why?

Divinity: Original Sin 2 (2017) shows no credible evidence of predatory monetization or rushed deceptive release practices. Official storefronts and the developer published free post‑release content and a Definitive Edition updates across platforms. The game won major praise and awards and is widely cited as one of 2017’s top RPGs. Community threads mention trimmed or cut content during development, but available sources do not show that withheld content was sold as paid DLC or that the release was structured primarily to extract money from players.

No sign of microtransactions or pay-to-win systems, developer provided free DLC and updates.
Definitive Edition and post-release content expanded the game rather than fragmenting it.
Widespread critical acclaim and awards indicate substantive creative and production value.

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Score factors

Direction	Factor	Evidence	Impact
Against	Free post-release content and definitive updates	Developer and press reporting document free downloadable content, gift-bag style updates and a Definitive Edition update rather than paid fragmentation.[4][3][1]	-16
Against	Critical acclaim and awards	Contemporary reporting and aggregator summaries list Divinity: Original Sin 2 as highly rated in 2017, winning genre awards and strong Metacritic placement, supporting substantive creative value.[2][1]	-19

Confidence: Low · No source-backed commercial-extraction signal was found. · Researched 2026-07-30

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