AC: Valhalla Fans Frustrated with Payments and Lack of Free DLC

Fans of the latest installment of Assassin's Creed are not happy with Ubisoft's primary focus on introducing new paid items.

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Fans are disappointed with the microtransaction policy in the latest installment of the Assassin's Creed series;
One fan pointed out on Reddit that Ubisoft favors players who spend extra money to buy items.

The topic of microtransactions has returned once again, this time on the occasion of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. Back in November, Ubisoft announced the importance of the Season Pass, as the players who purchase it will be able to take advantage of two future expansions. It was not a complete novelty, because Ubisoft applied a similar policy in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. However, in contrast to the previous installment, which received a lot of free content and a large selection of weapons after the release, the players of Valhalla have only 9 sets of equipment to acquire. What's more, to complete them, we need a lot of hours spent in Norway or England. Meanwhile, as many sets can be purchased in the shop at the moment as there are in the basic version of the game. Of course, the items available for purchase with real money are much better than those found in the game.

Fans of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla are not happy with the direction Ubisoft has taken. One Reddit user named Zuazzer expressed his outrage. He criticized the aggressive microtransaction policy and the lack of meaningful add-ons for the players not interested in acquiring virtual currency.

"Now half of the armors available in the game are exclusive only to people who are willing to spend money on extremely overpriced microtransactions. Us other players, even those among us who spent over a hundred dollars on the collector's edition, have gotten very little content over these last few months. Like, all we've really gotten is a nice but kind of lackluster event, and a bunch of bugfixes.

Meanwhile Ubi just keeps adding and adding ridiculous shit to the microtransaction store, just milking the whales of their money with content that only a very small percentage of players will actually get to enjoy. On top of that, it is not only cosmetic stuff but it actually affects gameplay and is in some cases rather overpowered. […]

Why isn't everybody talking about this? Only a few years ago, people would have raised hell if a games company did shit like this. This is not okay, especially not for a game that costs sixty goddamn bucks."

The statement got nearly 5,000 likes and widespread praise. Some are comparing the situation to the controversy that surrounded the release of Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Eventually, the publisher of the game, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, removed all controversial microtransactions. Ubisoft has so far not addressed any comments about its microtransaction policy.