shikamaru317 said:
Zippy6 said:
There's zero chance Ubisoft+ is going to be included with ultimate. EA Play is a $5/month service so a deal could be made to include it with the $15/month Gamepass ultimate and still be financially viable.
Ubisoft+ is $15/month. There's no way Microsoft can get a deal with Ubisoft where this works out.
Best that can be hoped for imo is potentially a cheaper Ubisoft+ subscription for Ultimate members as a perk. So if you are an Ultimate member you can get Ubisoft+ for $10/month instead of $15/month etc.
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Bear in mind that EA Play Pro is $15 a month, same as Ubisoft+. Both EA Play Pro and Ubisoft+ have day one releases for $15 a month, whereas regular EA Play does not have day one releases for it's $5 a month. I see no reason why Xbox couldn't be negotiating with Ubisoft to design a cheaper version of Ubisoft+ which lacks day one Ubisoft releases, a version that works just like EA Play does.
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Ubisoft *could* release a lower-tier of their service. But this doesn't exist at this point and I think them creating it specifically for gamepass seems unlikely. EA had their $5/month sub on xbox long before gamepass.
If Ubisoft wanted a cheap subscription offer they would have created it themselves I don't imagine Microsoft will have any influence in them creating a new tier to their services. If Ubisoft want in on gamepass they'll just do what they're doing with Rainbow Six Extraction, release the odd game on gamepass for some money from MS.
Including a cheaper version with gamepass could also dissuade people from buying their more expensive subscription so this dissuades Ubisoft from wanting to do it. They want people on the $15/month sub, that sub has less value if half of it is in gamepass as default.
It's a nice idea but I think it's a bit of stretch to invent a brand new service to link the dots for Ubisoft+ on gamepass and I don't think it makes sense for Ubisoft.