Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans are expressing their frustrations with the way Ubisoft prioritized microtransactions over DLCs and post-launch updates.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players are not happy with the way Ubisoft has addressed monetization and post-launch content so far, and is publicizing its complaints online. Before the title’s release in November 2020, Ubisoft unveiled a roadmap filled with paid content plans. Compared to AC Odyssey, said the plans did not include as much free DLC details. Add to that Valhalla’s aggressive microtransactions and there is the perfect recipe for adverse reactions.
To like Odyssey before that, Valhalla released with a number of in-game towing purchase options. Instead Odysseyhowever, Ubisoft did little to address the issue in its most recent release. And the problems are many. Players who want beautiful armor with decent stats bonuses should buy them from the in-game store, for example. Meanwhile, the armor sets available in the game are difficult to unlock or do not appear until much later in the experience. It is far from Odyssey, which had an exorbitant amount of equipment for players to choose from.
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Fans began to question Ubisoft’s Valhallarelated priorities earlier this week after a viral post on Reddit by user Zuazzer. The post, which to date had about 4,800 likes, notes that Valhalla’s The game store is selling nine sets of armor, the same number of sets available in the base game. It didn’t help that Ubisoft continued to prioritize the distribution of more monetized content, rather than releasing additional updates to improve the game. Zuazzer also identifies monetized cosmetics as a concern, as they affect gameplay and are often expensive. A list of responses to Redditor strongly agrees, with many fans reminiscing how WBIE was forced to remove Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s microtransactions due to the inflexible reaction of critics and players.
It’s really worrying that a lot of Ubisoft’s focus seems to center on microtransactions. The fact that the editor is now under fire for such practices also deserves attention. Are in-game purchases so prevalent that they now get no response when companies like Ubisoft overemphasize them? Or perhaps this particular conversation has been overshadowed by the controversy surrounding Cyberpunk 2077, which was released just a month later AC Valhalla?
Whatever the case, Ubisoft has not yet responded to the hot water in which it is now submerged. How the publisher will resolve the matter, if it decides to do so, currently remains a mystery. But I hope the fans have their concerns resolved before AC Valhalla’s first batch of paid DLC is deployed this spring.
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Source: Zuazzer
