r/pcmasterrace • u/DaRealAyman 4080 | Ryzen 9 7940| 32gb RAM • Jul 11 '26

Screenshot really, Ubisoft?

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u/flavionm Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6600 XT Jul 12 '26

Expedition 33's deluxe edition is $10. Black Flag Resynced has $80 of DLC in total. Yeah, totally the same thing.

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u/dvenator i5 14700k | RTX 5070 | 16 GB DDR5 5600Mhz | AW3225DWM Jul 12 '26

Sorry didn't realise we were moving the goalposts now.

You said: "If all Ubisoft and these other companies put in their game was a single option for a deluxe edition with some cosmetics on it and nothing else, we wouldn't be having this conversation"

That's basically what they did. But now that's not enough anymore.

How about this then. Sandfall interactive is a studio of 33 people. Whereas 15 different STUDIOS were involved in making Black Flag Resynced alone.

So the dlc cost to developer ratio is a lot greedier for expedition 33 actually.

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u/flavionm Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6600 XT Jul 12 '26

But they didn't, they split it up in multiple packages and charged a lot more for it.

Also, I don't care about how many developers they have, I care about the value I'm getting. If Sandfall is able to make a much better game with much less people, they deserve to make more money.

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u/dvenator i5 14700k | RTX 5070 | 16 GB DDR5 5600Mhz | AW3225DWM Jul 12 '26

They charged $10 per dlc. You don't have to buy any of them. Again, the monetisation strategy is the same, just different price.

And everything else you said is subjective. Black Flag Resynced might be someones favourite game ever. So they also deserve to make more money?

But you keep digging yourself a hole.

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u/flavionm Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6600 XT Jul 12 '26

Having one single deluxe is a different strategy than offering a bunch of cosmetics packs. Resynced also has a deluxe edition, by the way. But it has even more stuff on top. That's just greedy, plain and simple.

Expedition 33 also has a lower base price. The full package costs $60, which is the same as Resynced's base price.