The pawns of other players do show up and are able to be rented by me. After I finish playing with them, I send them back, and I make sure that I give them varied ratings beyond just 3 stars per category. Then after some more playing time, I check on previously rented pawns, and see no rating at all.

I also do not recieve any indication that my pawn was rented. I have rested at the inn several times with the message of synchronization and have never seen any results of my pawn being rented, even after 30 hours of gameplay, done over a week plus.

On the console version I finished the game and at the end I had over a million rift crystals from my main pawn being summoned. I use the console version for comparison because it shows to me what the game orginally provided, and what the PC version is now unable to do. On the console version I was able to get all those rentals even without purposefully setting up arrangements. They were all done through random summoning, just like I am doing now. That was one of the more unique and enjoyable features of the game; being able to summon random pawns.

I just checked and I still do not see any indication of my pawns being rented, nor any ratings of pawns I did rate, showing up when I go back to re-rent them.

Lol there is definately a bug. My game shows me as the number 1 on the ladders with zero pawn rentals wtf? I have never gotten rift crystals from resting or anything showing my pawn has been rented. Is it on my side? Do I reinstall or something. It feels like the server just isnt updated or something and nothing is going through.

Before I went to bed last night, Marrra (wife) and I decided to do a test after my last reply worked a few times in succession. We did all the steps and as the person getting the rewards, I didn't rest after she did. Now 8 hours later after then, when I rest I got nothing.

This confirmed our belief that time may be an issue and for most that will be huge as they cannot coordinate like her and I are doing.

Aside from the steps we did, the outcome was still the same with both parties resting at the end to receive rewards. I did that with KopiUncle as well as my son, both of whom got no reward from me (or vice versa as son tried with me as well).

I just now entered the rift and checked the top pawns and checked the person in the #2 spot (as apparently my personal rating is #1 yet my pawn is #7) and I don't know if they are a normal player or a QA member but Xenoyia/Lady Maria has hit the level cap with 6.5 million RC required to hire yet only has 1 skill equipped (Thousand Kisses).

Could outside influence be a factor if players have modified saves/characters? I thought I saw mention of this somewhere in the past and no idea how that could affect the system either.

Either way, Marrra and I will try and do some more trial and error anyway when we're not busy today and see what works and what doesn't. Preferably I want to get this to show a sign of life with someone beyond her and I.

Lady Maria is my pawn, I can guarantee that it's completely legit - I just have thousand kisses equipped as that's the only skill I want her to use!

Damnit, you are a machine >.> You have my praise :P

Don't praise me, it's possible I could be banned since I didn't realise something.

I have 200 hours in this game on Steam, all with this one character. When one of my friends got this GOG version on sale I went and bought it too because I thought it'd be fun to play with him - so I transferred my save, and I found that it worked completely fine and my friend could hire Maria as if he was playing the Steam version.

I didn't actually mean to be the top of anything, it just seems unfair now to the people who played exclusively on the GOG version but I honestly didn't think about that, I just wanted to play with a friend.

I'm going to see what the GOG team have to say about this, since the FAQs don't specifically state that save transferring isn't allowed, but that it just won't work - and quite a few threads on here have people also stating they transferred saves from console/steam as well, which lead me to believe it was alright.

I am deeply sorry I messed up the leaderboards this way.. something that might take the edge off is that the character IS completely legitimate with many, many hours of my life put into it. So, when I said that the pawn is legit, I meant that it's never been cheated, hacked or modified. Just transferred. I'm very proud of that character since I put so much time into it!

If the GOG team decide that this isn't alright, I'm happy to create a new character altogether and just start fresh, or even have a happy medium of resetting my RC, pawn hired amount and perhaps gold to 0 to make it a little fairer on the leaderboards. I'll wait and see what they think!

I do have a Firewall and an Antivirus running in the background. For the firewall I made sure to set Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen and GOG Galaxy as trusted applications. They are not being blocked. As for my Antivirus, it hasn't flagged or alterted me that either of the afore mentioned programs are viruses.

In regards to user account rights, I assume you mean do I have administrative access to my computer, then the answer is yes. I am the primary and only user, and I have admin rights.

As for resting? Yes I have done everything I think is right for that. I have rested multiple times and have seen all the signs that should indicate successful uploading of my pawn to the server. I see the "Accessing server" message with the purple rotating ring in the top right hand corner. I also see synchronization message after accessing server, and then see the loading bar. I also have cloud save enabled for GOG Galaxy and always see the successful syncing message there as well.

To me, it looks like I have done everything right on my end. It just seems like the server being used is unable to recognize any uploads, despite all of the successful messages I get on my end.

Out of curiousity, is the server being used a GOG server, or a Capcom server? From what I've read online it seems the Steam version had problems, and they had to go to Capcom for help.

I'm the same with regards to antivirus and firewall. I specifically made sure Dogma wasn't being blocked and made sure it was as open as could be and Avast is not showing up anything and even then it is set to gaming mode.

I'd also like to point out that if you change a pawn's skills/gear before sleeping, when someone else picks them up they are exactly as you set them up. There is no delay or issue there at all. It only is the rating, gifts/equipment and rift crystals that don't reliably come through 100% of the time.

I haven't had any 'connection failed' when on the black screen and accessing server today but I was a bit the last few days.

I did some testing with a friend, and he never receives anything I send - resting seems to just act as if your pawn was never retrieved and no notification shows up.

Just chiming in here, as most of what I would reply already has been said by the others, but on this particular machine, there is only the windows security tools running, with the firewall being open to both Galaxy and the actual game executable.
I'm also the sole user and administrator on this particular machine. And I also did a "clean" reinstall, with no difference to the outcome.

There is another thing. On steam, the "top pawns this month" listing has 100 maximum entries. Here, we get 12 total, with some weird profiles inbetween, and the #1 spot being empty. The game gives my "personal ranking" as 1, which again doesn't make sense, as I never received any rewards or ratings.

I'm sort of glad to find this topic. It means it's bugged and can be fixed. My initial thought was that the game had a very small population on GOG which resulted in nobody renting my pawn.

But no rentals from level 1 to 90 seems implausible to me.

Since my wife and I successfully at one point did the gifting/RC receiving, I've sent both of our updated save files to QA which they will look into that.

Aside from that, I did say I'd try to test more but realised that I'm on autopilot playing now while thinking on the 'how' and 'why' of the issue. I think I need to take a step back and let them handle it now as otherwise I may burn out during play.

Yeah, I've put my playthrough on hold as well after meeting a pawn called Pond again on the streets of Grand Soren. I had her hired when I was low level and am absolutely certain that I left a positive rating. But no rating showed up, which also makes me believe that all the gifts I gave those pawns have just disappeared in the styx of server issues. And of course I rested regularly and even made it a weird habit to rest before entering a riftstone, after entering a riftstone or before and after having any interactions with pawns. All for naught, apparently.

I think I will just make a new character and start fresh as soon as we receive word on whether this is just something we have to deal with in this iteration of Dragon's Dogma and then make it an offline-only character.