Far Cry 5 has microtransactions, but they're cosmetic or 'time-saving' only
Well the good news is I get to keep uplay off my computer.
ubi has had micro transactions in all their games for 3-4 years now and it really is just not a big deal, it gives you random ass weapons and armor that there is zero point in buying and stuff like extra resources that'd take you all of like 5 mins to go farm. its really whale bait and you never need to buy any of it. maybe FC5 will be different but i doubt it'll be any different from the stuff in all the assassins creed, far cry 4, primal, Division, etc.
But dude. Montana.That's fine, and I haven't gotten any of those games. If i'm paying $60 for a game I want access to everything in it. Everything. Lower the price to 20 bucks or less and we can talk about cosmetics and "time savers".
Except now they're in bed with Tencent, and even at a 5% stake nothing good (for us) can come from that.For lack of a better place to put this, Vivendi's hostile takeover attempt of Ubisoft has ended. Vivendi has sold all Ubisoft shares.
UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT : Ubisoft reaches agreement with Vivendi for its full exit from Ubisoft's share capital
It looks like Tencent owns pieces of several companies. I haven't read enough to know much about them.Except now they're in bed with Tencent, and even at a 5% stake nothing good (for us) can come from that.
Tencent's 5% stake in Ubisoft will be joining a portfolio that's already full of some of the biggest names in games. A rough bit of accounting suggests that the firm owns a little under 5% of Activision Blizzard (also acquired from Vivendi, back in 2013), just under half of Epic Games, around 15% of Glu Mobile, 20% of Pocket Gems, an unspecified minority stake in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds publisher Bluehole, and 9% of Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier Developments. Additionally, it's the outright owner of Clash of Clans developer Supercell and League of Legends creator Riot Games, alongside its own substantial (but almost entirely China-focused) development and publishing operations.