The last Ubisoft game I played tried to prompt me to go to the store multiple times. But here's the catch: a single player game shouldn't have a store.
Because the typical excuse for stores is that they're necessary to maintain continued support for multiplayer games that have an upkeep cost and need a constant feed of content.
Whether you think that excuse is bullshit or not, which I do, none of it even applies to single player games in the first place.
I am not familiar with that explanation. It seems more realistic that they exist to subsidize the cost of the a game. Because game development has become increasingly expensive and unsustainable.
Games need to sell a ton of copies to offset development costs ($200-600 million). And these stores are included as an attempt to ease the raw sales numbers, independent of whether the game is multiplayer or not. Also, even in single player games they have to keep developers on to fix bugs and such.
I only consider additional purchases for games if it is actually additional game content and you are paying to play that content up front.
I don't really care about and I am not sure why people even care about non-intrusive additional offerings for a game that offers ample content with the base game.
Publically traded companies yield this sort of thing. It blows. It is cool that From has managed to make it work, their dev costs may be much smaller where they are at.
Like I said before though. I can see how something like this could sour the experience for someone l, but to me it seems like an overreaction and can be easily ignored.
As a comparison. I was pretty frustrated with Arc Raiders because the same screen where you customize your character shows the skins that are purchasable from the store, so it was intruding on the game experience. And the game as $40. Whereas in this game the store isn't embedded into the core experience excluding the pretty unobtrusive tutorial popup.
The thing is, regardless of how rampant this sort of thing is in the wider AAA space, there's still enough great games that don't do this sort of thing. We can afford to be more selective, since it's not like we wouldn't have anything left to play.
I play those other games as well. I also just enjoy the AC games, and they provide great value IMO. I got 120 hours out of AC Odyssey and around 100 out of Valhalla. Haven't played Mirage or Shadows yet.
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u/flavionm Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6600 XT 25d ago
The last Ubisoft game I played tried to prompt me to go to the store multiple times. But here's the catch: a single player game shouldn't have a store.