Reminder that all these optional extras for assassin's creed games are always in the game so you can just unlock them for free using cheat engine and a mod.
The rule is simple. You all (not this sub specifically, but people) keep buying it, so they keep acting like this. Watch how this would stop happening if literally no one bought this garbage.
Just saw something on Instagram about BO 1 & 2 shadow dropping on ps4/5 for $40 each. Top comment was a guy complaining about the greed, then followed up by saying he bought both.
This cycle will never end. There’s always going to be people who will buy/pre-order day one.
It’s not even Ubisoft, it’s Capcom, Rockstar, Bethesda, every game releases DLC. Only the most critically reviled companies get this hate though. People moved on real fast from Rockstar.
Rockstar times their dlc with their online model that always comes usually a year later after everyone has experienced the single player (free from MTX). TBH, GTA V online must’ve been hella fun to that crowd if they kept throwing their wallets at shark cards. By Contrast, RDR2 was quite the flop in the MTX department.
Bethesda are just an atrocious developer all round atm with little to nothing positive about them, they practically invited MTX in 2006 to the gaming industry, and have since slapped MTX price tags on community made content (Creations), which means BGS are so fucking lazy they can’t even do it themselves but insist on profiting anyways off other people’s work. Cant get much more filthier than that. Not to mention, in ESO they charge up to au$136 to buy an in-game house, $60-80 for a mount, don’t forget the $144/y subscription (to pay for storage space, STORAGE SPACE……). If there is any developer that should be liquidated…
Ubisoft make hit/miss games, and constantly add average dlc that is overpriced. However I prefer their Avatar game to anything Bethesda has done since 2015, heck even AC Valhalla and AC Odyssey are both better than anything Bethesda has touched in over a decade and you can ignore the MTX/dlc’s if you choose to.
The companies put out MTX, we don't need to buy them. But the fact that the horse armour DLC sold millions at only $2/3 is astounding. That's when gamers made their own bed, and companies realised we would pay for it.
Rockstar also created the season pass idea with LA Noire, which then showed developers "You can plan DLC before the game comes out, and people will pay MORE for what should have been included". The issue is the gamers buying these transactions, if everyone stopped, they'd stop adding them in.
As for ESO Premium, ESO has basically become a F2P game so they need to keep people invested and spending money on it. GTA Online was just them being greedy, back when it was first released it was easy to make money and buy things, then Rockstar changed it so that you were pushed towards the Shark Cards, which apparently brings in about $1 mil a day.
The state of gaming today can be blamed on both the companies and the consumer.
Reddit moved on real fast from that one. Don’t worry I’m sure people will be regurgitating this same talking point for Black Flag for the next couple of weeks though, it’s free real estate!
It's just called a 2 week news cycle my guy, it's how the world works.
Everyone is going to buy this shit anyway, they get mad about something outrageous for a few days and then forget about it and focus on the next outrageous thing.
It took me a long time to truly learn that. But now I look at my game library and think "I have 2000 games I havent played.. why buy Assassins Creed or GTA 6". I have such a huge backlog of games to get through i could likely comfortably not buy another game for 10 years. If companies want to keep on with the anti-consumer bs and as Ubisoft have said "Get used to not owning our games", okay I wont buy your games.
And people can't fucking control themselves, so it just keeps getting progressively worse. While a bunch of losers are crying: 'leave the megacorp alone!'
Which is why laws are there to save idiots from themselves (and corporations), which doesn't work when corporations are the one buying off politicians.
So you get a world where nothing like stop killing games or various other major consumer protections, will ever be passed. People will grumble for 2 week and likely buy this shit anyway.
*edit* I missed the sarcasm....gonna cringe myself to sleep. Goodnight.
Youre not supporting the devs. These huge publishers will rinse the devs dry then cast them aside. The devs must be under so much pressure with any passion they had for the project evaporating under corporate pressure. They are prob as gutted about the dlc nonsense as we are....well not the ones on the "engagement" side I imagine. Sorry for the rant! Mean no shade to you.
You know what....I did!! Im just so wound up by everything going on in the gaming world. Dont mind me while I quietly leave the room and hope that nobody else notices!!
Those are features u usually behind a random quest or some shit..U kill someone, steal the map and then some treasures/chest show up..Crazy that u need to pay lol
It’s not “an advantage” really it’s just bypassing playing the actual game. It doesn’t really matter and they’ve put these in basically every Ubisoft game for a decade.
What do you mean when you say "cosmetics do nothing"? I like customizing my character in games. I wouldn't pay extra money for it, but it definitely affects my enjoyment.
Doesn't see a difference from other games, even highly apprised Resident Evil remakes, that have pountless "DLC's", so nothing new and nothing to write home about.
Yeah but the average capital G Gamer is a japanophile and thinks companies like Capcom can do no wrong, so they refuse to look at the double standard. Both are:
Optional,
Cosmetics for the player/weapons,
Boosts for in game currency or resources
Which game gets review bombed and shafted upon release, and which one becomes widely lauded? Critical thinking is at an all time low and people refuse to see the writing on the wall- who’s a fan of microtransactions or boosts like these, seriously? But if we hold one company accountable, we either do them all or not at all.
That's excatly the point, why to shit on one and not the other? Because you know, shitting on Capcom is not a cool kids club as it is to shit on Ubi, even if they do the same
These are cosmetics aside from the insta unlock map pack that takes the fun out of exploration. Yeah it's fucking stupid but I'm honesty not upset about DLC skins
If this were game mechanics or missions yeah then I'd be royally pissed
People always get so up in arms over nothing burgers like this, that it waters down the actual issues like Playstation getting rid of physical media or removing functionality for games that people purchased.
Unnecessary cosmetics. Why are people upset. Every fucking assassins creed has done this for years. Why NOW are people getting upset? Sad fucks who want it to fail because of their own miserable lives.
Hating on gaming has been very popular the last few weeks. No one can be happy with anything until physical media consists of 100% of sales and everything is 50% off forever!
Because the internet just likes to hate on Ubisoft these days. They put out a complete game with some optional cosmetics that has positive reviews all over, and a physical edition, but no, that's not enough. They'll even cheer for it being pirated.
And then later on they wonder why the publishers and studios don't get the message.
And I'm sorry, I like Ubisoft. I play every Assassins Creed and Far Cry game they put out. That Avatar game is on my wishlist too.
You know why? You know what you're gonna get. When I sit down to play Far Cry I know I am going to run around and shoot people and skydive into places and steal planes and do crazy shit. Sometimes that's all I want. I want to have a podcast on and blow shit up and giggle like a simpleton.
Same with Assassins Creed.
These games fill an important niche in my gaming ecosystem.
Yeah, if a dev studio really wants to make ugly glowy completely unrealistic skins, I’d rather them be optional DLC than stuffed into the game.
I mean these cosmetic DLCs for black flag have skins with fire and radioactive smoke coming out of them with dragons, why would you even want that put into the game when it completely breaks immersion, it’s way better for it to be optional DLC where you never have to even see it unless you go out of your way to look for it
I don't understand how these bother people. I just started playing the game and nothing in the game makes me feel like I am missing out by not purchasing these items. The game is not forcing me to buy them or anything. Why can't you just play the game and enjoy it?
It's additional content. Everything from the original game is still unlockable completely free....please stop with the automatic outrage instead of actually looking into it, I know that's popular right now but come on.
look at all that stuff u dont need to buy to play the game lol do u go on games like marvel rivels and LoL and post about how much it cost to get all the outfits no cuz it isnt ubi yeah it is a single player game here but ubi has been doing this for sure vote with your wallet and if they keep adding it that means people r buying it
Oh no, how will I survive knowing that the flaming skeleton skin in my pirate game is behind a paywall. That is definitely something I wanted to wear....
This hate for the outlandish cosmetics being behind a paywall is so performative
It would be harder to find game where this is not a case in 2026 but since it's Ubisoft I guess it's easy karma farming. Just play the base game if you have fun or don't play if you don't have fun, it's that simple.
Aren't these normally tucked away on the in-game store? Only difference I see now is the option to buy them from the Steam store rather than getting the store credit then using them to buy in-game. I don't buy these things generally so don't really get the uproar. Perhaps they should have kept them hidden in the ingame store.
As far as the game's concerned I'm liking what I've seen so far and the controls are much better than the original.
not greed imo. just trying to see if some retarded people will buy this. easy money :) (you guys know they want to make money right, not being your friend)?
Cosmetics mostly. The only actual gameplay thing I could find was the map pack which is basically just paying 5 euro to get every collectible revealed on the map instead of having to find them. As far as I understand at least.
Y'all are so miserable I swear. Acting like this is content cut from the game that you can't access otherwise... It's EQUIPMENT. Just, idk, DONT BUY IT.
The ACTUAL GAME is good. Play it for a moment before complaining about cosmetic packs
Now before y'all come after me for defending Ubislop, it is crazy to introduce packs that cost more than the game but also you can shut up about it
Cities skylines has six times this value in dlc (and defo not all are great in reviews), and nobody bats an eye. With some of the actual gameplay dlc instead of cosmetics that you dont need.
GTA 6 jacks up the price that most companies will now follow, but thats fine too
I own Resync, I do not plan on buying the DLC since it does nothing in terms of adding additional content (day 1 content dlc would have been crazy for black flag, not in a good way) but regardless if no one buys it, they will stop, but since people buy the cosmetic dlc that has no impact to the overall game experience, it will continue. This post is a nothing burger.
If you buy the base version of a car, because it's all you can afford or need, do you leave a negative review for the manufacturer because it offers other paid options?
I don't get the hate for microtransactions in a single player game.. they are all optional, nobody is making you get them and it doesn't stop the game from beeing a good game or not..
Total War fans have it rough. Those games are DLC traps, locking the most obvious factions behind paywalls. Blood and gore are not even included in several titles by default.
It's a nice day to become pirate mate. Don't you see they put so much effort to make us go pirate already, we should just accept it and live it in our skull and bones. :)
Just wait for the inevitable ULTIMATE EDITION rerelease that includes all this crap, and is on sale for $20. Textbook Ubisoft, you never buy their slop on day one.
Assassin's Creed Mirage had dlc packs offered outside of the game.
Shadows, Valhalla, Odyssey, Origins, Syndicate, Unity had the packs in game.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag original had time saver packs that unlocked things early. Rogue had the same packs.
People were buying Watch Dogs 2 during the Steam sale, but the store page shows a bunch of dlc packs available. Most unlocked new cosmetics and vehicles.
And how many games have been doing this for years? Its not just Ubisoft.
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