COKTOE said:
Whaa reallllly? Are you pulling my leg sir? I threw the "Uplay account mandatory" thing in there because as far as I know, it is always required for any online play with Ubisoft games. Now, this won't apply to Immortals, but I think on Steam, Ubisoft is even more oppressive in regards to Uplay implementation than it is on consoles, where you need an account for any game, regardless if it has an online component or not. Could be wrong on that, but the point is, Uplay is absolute trash, and only benefits Ubisoft and the ghouls they sell the player's information to, and not the player. As for AC...I did a quick look at Odyssey. 7 different pages of microtransactions, ( skins, weapons, maps, ships, mounts, ect ) one of which is a page dedicated to the "time saving" microtransactions I mentioned, that the player can buy to fix the intentionally bad grind. Tacky DLC cross-promotion with Totino's Pizza Rolls. I think SIX different special editions. This is among the least intrusive monetization scheme of any AAA game in recent memory? It was worse than this? Yikes. Just greedy. Terrible. Also, choice use of the word "scheme". I'll just drop this here in case you or anyone else is interested. I got some of the info from the second paragraph of this post from this video, as well as the following, which would be an awesome pull-quote to slap on a custom-made case for the game: "A Jaw Dropping Display Of Avarice" - Jim Sterling |
UPlay is definitely annoying, though I just created an account with fake info to get around that.
While there certainly are ways to spend money in Ass Creed, the reality is that they are not presented to you in-game *at all*. You must deliberately navigate to the "page" to engage in microtransactions. There are no "req packs", drops that force you to go to the mtx vendor, or anything else like that. I never once even noticed the stuff in either game until I went out of my way to find the mtx store (out of curiosity).
