The game will come with day 1 dlc, a 'complete' game with all the add ons will be $130 dollars and they are even offering a $18 dollar a month subscription service to play the game.
When you say subscription service, do you mean separate from the existing Ubisoft subscription service? They’ve offered a monthly fee to access all their games for quite a long time; is this exempted from that?
Honestly? If you like Ubisoft games, I think it’s probably not a bad deal. They make what, 2-3 big releases a year (plus the smaller games like Trials, or I think Anno is theirs too?), that consistently follow the same formula, and each cost about 60-70 bucks for the base game. The subscription gets you DLC and add-ons too, so as long as you haven’t grown sick of their formula or their wokeness or have some ethical complaint about them, you will play each release for a few months, finish it, and end up paying less overall than if you bought each title outright.
Of course, that’s quite conditional. If you do have any ethical issues about Ubisoft, or have grown sick of Far Cry/Watch Dogs/AC/Ghost Recon… you’re not going to be happy with it.
But there’s probably a decent chunk of “normie” gamers who do okay with it.
Wait, what do you mean 'pricing strategy'?
The game will come with day 1 dlc, a 'complete' game with all the add ons will be $130 dollars and they are even offering a $18 dollar a month subscription service to play the game.
When you say subscription service, do you mean separate from the existing Ubisoft subscription service? They’ve offered a monthly fee to access all their games for quite a long time; is this exempted from that?
Looks like its part of that, I stopped playing Ubisoft games so long ago that I didn't know that was a thing.
Also why are people signed up to that, even Amazon prime or Xbox/PSN is cheaper than that plus more chance to get games worth playing.
Honestly? If you like Ubisoft games, I think it’s probably not a bad deal. They make what, 2-3 big releases a year (plus the smaller games like Trials, or I think Anno is theirs too?), that consistently follow the same formula, and each cost about 60-70 bucks for the base game. The subscription gets you DLC and add-ons too, so as long as you haven’t grown sick of their formula or their wokeness or have some ethical complaint about them, you will play each release for a few months, finish it, and end up paying less overall than if you bought each title outright.
Of course, that’s quite conditional. If you do have any ethical issues about Ubisoft, or have grown sick of Far Cry/Watch Dogs/AC/Ghost Recon… you’re not going to be happy with it.
But there’s probably a decent chunk of “normie” gamers who do okay with it.