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[H . R . 2]

Assassin’s Creed Infinity Won’t be Free-to-Play, Ubisoft Confirms

gamingbolt.com

“It’s going to be a very innovative game but it will have what players already have in all the Assassin’s Creed games,
all the elements that they love to get in them right from the start,” Guillemot says.
“It’s going to be a huge game but with lots of elements that already exist in the games that we published in the past.”



I am certain it will be a new low unless Ubisoft decides to turn things around by listening to the fans instead of focusing on slaughtering their own IPs with MTX and GaaS

P.S.
get a load of this

"[Blockchain] will enable more play-to-earn that will enable more players to actually earn content, own content,
and we think it's going to grow the industry quite a lot," Duguet said. "We've been working with lots of small companies going on blockchain
and we're starting to have a good know-how on how it can impact the industry, and we want to be one of the key players here."

Ubisoft Plans to Create its Own Blockchain Games to 'Enable More Play-to-Earn' - IGN

Ubisoft just concluded its Q2 earnings call, and one element of it that seemed to make both Ubisoft and investors happy was the discussion of blockchain.

www.ign.com

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[Nester99]

In other news, Water is Wet.

 

[Larxia]

So it will be a full price game, with Season Passes, Battle Passes, Premium Subscription, Micro Transactions and such.

 

[Laptop1991]

I won't be getting the game, first AC i won't play, it will cost a fortune to not! finish it. i hope this fails so they go back to making the better ones. open world or stealth based AC.

 

[TrueLegend]

Ubisoft has chose the konami path. Well prepare to see Ezio and Sam on a Pachinko machine.

 

[TheGodfather07]

It could be pay me to play and I still wouldn't play it.

 

[ripeavocado]

Yes, let me guess: first you have to pay $80 for it, then enjoy the GaaS by buying passes, micro transactions an maybe even enjoying some ad in game.

 

[ANDS]

Am I missing something - has AC:I released any information on what it exactly is that people are already confident it sucks?

 

[Topher]

Play to earn?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

This sounds like an entire game of the menu clutter I've ignored since Brotherhood to click on the tiny STORY MODE option tucked in the corner behind the Usuck shop and the multi-player and the PSN store and all the DLC they want me to buy instead of playing their game.

Fuck this noise. Or, rather, if this noise makes the single player games more free of this bullshit and puts it all into this product, I'm down. But it won't. Let's be honest here. A man with a suit made of stitched up dollar bills isn't happy, he wants a tie made of the same thing.

 

[HellforLeather]

So it will be a full price game, with Season Passes, Battle Passes, Premium Subscription, Micro Transactions and such.

My thoughts exactly. Why go FTP, when you can get dumbasses to pay full price and still shell out for microtransactions.

 

[Spaceman292]

Assassin’s Creed Infinity Won’t be Free-to-Play, Ubisoft Confirms

gamingbolt.com

“It’s going to be a very innovative game but it will have what players already have in all the Assassin’s Creed games,
all the elements that they love to get in them right from the start,” Guillemot says.
“It’s going to be a huge game but with lots of elements that already exist in the games that we published in the past.”



I am certain it will be a new low unless Ubisoft decides to turn things around by listening to the fans instead of focusing on slaughtering their own IPs with MTX and GaaS

P.S.
get a load of this

"[Blockchain] will enable more play-to-earn that will enable more players to actually earn content, own content,
and we think it's going to grow the industry quite a lot," Duguet said. "We've been working with lots of small companies going on blockchain
and we're starting to have a good know-how on how it can impact the industry, and we want to be one of the key players here."

Ubisoft Plans to Create its Own Blockchain Games to 'Enable More Play-to-Earn' - IGN

Ubisoft just concluded its Q2 earnings call, and one element of it that seemed to make both Ubisoft and investors happy was the discussion of blockchain.

www.ign.com

​

The word "innovative" is always bad news.

 

[akaFullmetal]

 

[The_Mike]

Why make it f2p with heavy microtransactions when you can make it b2p with heavy microtransactions

 

[Saber]

And why people though it would be?

Because of heavy monetization?

 

[Sleepwalker]

You dont need to create a new blockchain for this trash ubi

 

[Fake]

So it will be a full price game, with Season Passes, Battle Passes, Premium Subscription, Micro Transactions and such.

Don't forget GAAS, Multiplayer action, Metroidvania souls game.

 

[EDMIX]

Don't forget GAAS, Multiplayer action, Metroidvania souls game.

Id market it like "A game so hard, even the developer hasn't beaten it themselves"

 

[Strider Highwind]

So it will be a full price game, with Season Passes, Battle Passes, Premium Subscription, Micro Transactions and such.

Don't forget GAAS, Multiplayer action, Metroidvania souls game.

Special Mention for the XP Boost for a few more dollars to put on top of all that Ubi Gooey madness

 

[Larxia]

Special Mention for the XP Boost for a few more dollars to put on top of all that Ubi Gooey madness

30$ special outfit crossover with watch dogs, with invisibility cloak so you can take out ennemies by doing stealth right in front of them.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Which ac games have gotten a 60 fps patch on ps5?

 

[Shmunter]

Curious…

 

[kingfey]

This means gamepass day1.

No way, Ubisoft will release this as paid 2 play, without putting it on gamepass.

It will be another disaster for them.

 

[BaneIsPain]

Are they going to add NFT for the lol? anyway, thanks for making me stick not to touch this game.

 

[Shmunter]

Which ac games have gotten a 60 fps patch on ps5?

Odyssey is 60 in bc mode. Valhalla is 60 native PS5.

 

[Codes 208]

So it will be a full price game, with Season Passes, Battle Passes, Premium Subscription, Micro Transactions and such.

The good ol’ CoD/Destiny/Battlefield approach.

 

[H . R . 2]

They need to write a book on how to run a company into the ground and a manifest on alienating the fan base

 

[hemo memo]

It worked with Destiny and Overwatch so why not Assassin’s Creed.

 

[Hydroxy]

Pay to play and then pay again to keep playing.

 

[H . R . 2]

Pay to play and then pay again to keep playing.

despite all the tech developments and innovations, the future of gaming looks darker than ever

 

[Shmunter]

despite all the tech developments and innovations, the future of gaming looks darker than ever

But then we get Guardians of The Galaxy and harmony in the Universe is restored

 

[H . R . 2]

But then we get Guardians of The Galaxy and harmony in the Universe is restored

that game is decent but is just a mere make-up for the mtx-fest that was Avengers. also that game and that genre is not everyone's cup of tea

 

[Flyingpanther]

This will be the first ac I will not play. Totally not interested In this online service idea

 

[kyussman]

I've always enjoyed Assassin's Creed.....more for the historical tourism than anything tbh.They weren't the greatest games or anything but I always liked the worlds they created.Now it will become another online service it's easy for me to say goodbye to it......it was a good run,I had fun.

 

[SJRB]

Lmao surely no one actually expected an Assassin’s Creed game to be F2P?

 

[Aion002]

Lmao surely no one actually expected an Assassin’s Creed game to be F2P?

That would be like.... expecting Ubi to have good sense.

 

[Shubh_C63]

I really thought it would be and it was wise that they addressed it.

Also with the blockchain integration with their games a F2P title made sense to me from their perspective.

 

[H . R . 2]

Lmao surely no one actually expected an Assassin’s Creed game to be F2P?

have they made ANY rational decisions recently?
if your response is YES then you are a shareholder, not a fan

 

[yurinka]

have they made ANY rational decisions recently?
if your response is YES then you are a shareholder, not a fan

Their fans seem to continue buying their games, and more than ever. So I assume they make rational decisions.

 

[VN1X]

I'm so over this "Infinite" or "Infinity" naming scheme when it comes to products like these.

It's the new "Requiem".

 

[ToTTenTranz]

I'm mostly bothered by the fact that they managed to launch no less than 12 main-series games plus 12 spin-offs throughout the course of 13 years, all while avoiding making a game set in feudal Japan with Ninjas which is what fans have been asking since day one.
And now they're going to nuke the series into oblivion with the GaaS easy cash grab attempt, all while never giving us a Ninka Assassin's Creed.

Screw this Alex Hutchinson guy, really.
Hey Alex, I'm so sorry that people had the boring idea of having a historical group of assassins in Japan play as assassins in Assassin's Creed.
Maybe it would allow us to do a complete change of scenery, but obviously you know so much better by launching the following 5 Assassin's Creed games in western civilizations. Wow, such imagination Alex. Much diversity of scenery, Alex.

 

[SSfox]

Ah Ubisoft, a company that used to make great games. But now it's more like Ubishit than anything.

 

[Sybrix]

These games are so boring and mundane, i struggle to understand why they are still so popular.

Ubisoft have done a remarkable job really grinding these games into dust.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Play to earn?

It's Black Mirror Season 1, Episode 2.

 

[OrochiJR]

No F2P is good, as long as they present a complete game where they tack the inevitable GAAS stuff on.

My fear would be that it will basically be a barebones basic experience for which we pay a €60 entrance fee and afterwards more for additional season passes, MTX etc. Basically like the last few AC games have been but with a never ending stream of overpriced content and a very lackluster experience with the base game.

 

[H . R . 2]

Their fans seem to continue buying their games, and more than ever. So I assume they make rational decisions.

their fans are the people who have played their games for a decade
the majority of those sales figures come from the casuals who got acquainted with gaming during Coivd or teenagers who have very low standards for games so you can keep feeding them the same thing time and again and they won't complain because they have no preconceived notions of what defines a great game . They think ACOrigins is an "RPG" game because they have never played ME1,2
they are not trying to capture a wider audience, they are replacing their fans with a new generation of teenagers who are willing to squander their money mindlessly on frivolous things that don't matter.
this new audience is low-maintenance and more lucrative so unload the skins and operators and keep crapping out the F2Ps

 

[yurinka]

their fans are the people who have played their games for a decade
the majority of those sales figures come from the casuals who got acquainted with gaming during Coivd or teenagers who have very low standards for games so you can keep feeding them the same thing time and again and they won't complain because they have no preconceived notions of what defines a great game . They think ACOrigins is an "RPG" game because they have never played ME1,2
they are not trying to capture a wider audience, they are replacing their fans with a new generation of teenagers who are willing to squander their money mindlessly on frivolous things that don't matter.
this new audience is low-maintenance and more lucrative so unload the skins and operators and keep crapping out the F2Ps

You can say exactly the same from all the other big publishers. Excluding the RPG part, since doesn't make sense to require a game to be like ME to consider it an RPG.

 

[FunkMiller]

Seriously, folks.

Stop buying Ubisoft games.

It's not worth it.

 

[H . R . 2]

You can say exactly the same from all the other big publishers. Excluding the RPG part, since doesn't make sense to require a game to be like ME to consider it an RPG.

ME was the epitome of RPG so yes it can and should be used as a role model
they wanted to incorporate MTX and found that by throwing in some stats and bulletsponge enemies they can turn their titles into RPGs

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Late teenager/college student: It's so unfair and impossible to stay afloat! Crippling student debt and wages that force me to live paycheck to paycheck!

Same person: I'm gonna pay 15 dollars a month to play Assassin's Creed and buy Saint's Row, a full priced game that reflects my struggles!

Me, still getting a kick out of GBA games: lololololol