Ubisoft Rage Advertising and The Pricing Model - Rant
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- After Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed Shadows would be following the Star Wars Outlaws pricing model, outrage has grabbed the internet again!
Putting my tinfoil hat on, as I think there's more to Ubisoft's pricing model, than just trying to sell a subscription service.
We've also had Blizzard jump in on the tier models for games, because of course they had to!
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I don't even bother pirating these games anymore, they're crap anyway and I wouldn't want them for free.
I feel like with most of Ubisoft, Like A Dragon hurt, I was looking forward to that, but that price was just outrageous. The Star Wars fan boy in me is screaming for me to turn a blind eye, because I'll admit the kid in me wants a open world Star Wars game.
Assassin's Creed...I think I'm in the majority camp, loved Black Flag, everything else has just been meh...
Funny.. because Madden and NCAA has multiple tiers of "releases" and they are doing the "early access"
I haven't bought a game Day #1 since BioShock Infinite
Honestly' you're doing the smart thing, never buy day 1 and never pay at full price
@@Welshie1 the steam deck is amazing because I can emulate all of the great games from the past. No need to buy skull and bones ever
Blizzard has always had shitty different "editions" of each expansion, basically since MoP (I believe)
Not sure myself, I dipped outta WoW after Cata and then dipped the toe back in for Warlords. Honestly, I think I'm getting numb to the whole thing XD
@@Welshie1 around MoP it became a daily treadmill. You didn't miss much
Oh man, that's so sad to hear...least I left on a high note I suppose, looking at it from a glass half full sorta way.
@Welshie1 Yeah, this is a common model we've seen for ages in mmos. It used to be normal, digital premium and colectors edition. Usually mounts and cosmetics for the middle and physical merch for the collectors. Eventually they stared making a digital collectors edition with more cosmetics and mounts. Diablo 3 used this model too. So did 4. This has been around a long time. I feel like the first game I remember doing this which had early access was the Warhammer MMO.
@@Welshie1Far a personal reality check I looked at the WoW one, the only difference between this one and the last is the up shifted the 3 days of early access to tier 3. The High tier also includes a 30 day sub. It's always been a terrible model but it doesnt fit here since you have to buy a wow expansion and sub.
In the wow model the highest tier is usually only a bit more expensive if you deduct the free sub month. In Canada the difference minus the sub you pay anyway is $8. For the extra days and other stuff it more the middle tier that's the trap. Your giving up so much lure items and benifits to save 8 dollars. If you can't spend the eight dollars you may as well just dump the mount and cosmetics and grab the basic one and save 20 bucks.
Edit :Looking back this has been the case for Ubisoft games for a long time, its industry standard to offer 3 editions. The big strange here is the inflation robbery were the price increase for the other editions is huge. The sub thing is not new either, most sub models give you the "best" version of the game. Just looking up Assasin's Creex the last 4 games used the three price point structure. The sickness has been around a long time it just inflation showing how shifty it always was.
Sucks. Vote with your dollars
Hope everyone does!