Assassin's Creed Unity will let players "fast track" unlocks with microtransactions wtf ?

Honestly, that's the sort of microtransactions that I don't mind as long as it's for single player modes only and stuff that people can indeed obtain via normal gameplay. No one has to buy such things but they can be ideal for people who have more limited time to be able to play the game.

Hey man, 95% of us pirate it anyways, might as well let them charge us.

Isn't this basically what happened with Dead Space 3? Look how well that went for those guys.

Eh, didn;t even get Black Flag yet, don't care really...

That Ubisoft. Sometimes I wish we could rewind back 10-15 years and escape the micro-transactions and DLC altogether. I miss simple and straightforward expansion packs.

I assume it'll just be like the previous game where you can buy the multiplayer iunlocks early. Wasn't much of a problem in black flag.

Are those unlocks for mp or sp?
If mp that would make P2W, if sp, why would you play the game in the 1st place when you could just see a movie?

I mind that there will be micro transactions.
FFS. It is almost like this AAA big budget title that has been in development for a long time suddenly decided to go the way of mobile games you find on the app store. "PAY US THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY SO YOU CAN SKIP THIS LEVEL." WOW. SHELLING OUT MORE MONEY SO I DON'T HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME I BOUGHT TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME. JEEZ.

Yes. I needed it to be in caps. Imagine me yelling my lungs out on that one.
It is almost like they want us to hate them.

My biggest concern would be game length and balancing, otherwise, if people want to mess up their own single-player experience, it's toally up to them.

Not a problem for me as long as it really doesn't impact gameplay.
Nothing tells us that the game is no different from if it didn't have micro-transactions.
I fear as usual that the unlocks would become harder to reach than with a game without micro-transactions, just for the sake of making those appealing, now matter how small the grin is.

Where is the surprise ? They did it in Assassin's Creed 4 and Watch Dogs already..

EA has been doing stuff like this for years. Burnout Paradise and all of their sports franchises come to mind. You pay to unlock things that you can earn otherwise, through skill or luck.

Assassin's Greed Memes! GO!

Solution: Stop supporting Ubisoft by buying their games.

Assassin's Creed Unity is not interesting me really, overpriced, useless expensive Season Pass as usually in games latest years, location is Europe again, I'm really tired of seeing Europe in Assassin's Creed games, even AC 3 was Europe related, it's just getting boring, they also released 2 non story related AC games this year, to make franchise dying sooner seems, by this way AC franchise gonna die, when Ubisoft decides to make something "new"(stupid) like they did with Prince Of Persia "4" and the franchise just went to hell.

Ubisoft might not be popular, but they are catching onto the market. For better or worse, the PC gaming money is in micro-transactions. However, most of those games are (theoretically) free to play. A lot of them are hobbleled to unplayability unless you pay, but that's neither here nor there.

In this case, the Ubisoft's problem is they're basically trying to charge people twice for the same content.

Now this Ubisoft criticizing LoL for monetization is even more funny. Yeah Ubisoft is a "good" example of what is correct.

I see so many stupid comments that I want to vomit... First of all, what's the connection between DLCs and Microtransactions? Just he fact that you relate them (the ones that do that) show that you are not really smart. And since you are getting ridiculous, let me explain you something. Do you remember the time you had to buy a game for 40 Euros, and then an expansion for another 40 Euros? Now you pay a game for 40 - 60 Euros and you pay 30 - 40 Euros for the Season Pass, aka expansion, which can be bought in pieces. If you call Unity overpriced, then you are calling EVERY AAA overpriced... And don't tell me that 60 Euros for The Witcher 3 is not overpowered, but for Unity it is, because you'll get even more ridiculous. Also, do you remember the good old times when you could buy a game without the need of a serial key, but if a new edition of the game came out (director's cut, for example), you had to buy it again? Yup, now all you have to do is buy a damn DLC. Oh, and when you buy a game that has a serial key, you own what the key provides, not what the CD has. The CD is just a mass-produced CD that has all the content available on Day 1 for install. Whether you own these content is up to the key provided for the game. Otherwise you could download the game, burn it on a CD and whine that you can't play the game even though the CD has the content of the game.

Now for the microtransactions. They weren't bad in Black Flag. The worst thing possible to happen was someone that unlocked every ability by level 1. I'm not sure if you could craft them for money, but it doesn't matter. Disguise, Smoke, Bodyguard, and some other useful abilities and perks could be already unlocked by level 20, if you didn't buy any costumes, or if you bought the packs that unlocked abilities and perks as well. As for the time savers, why would anybody be bothered by that? It's like getting bothered that someone can download a 50 level save for Skyrim... So, as long as the microtransactions DON'T provide stuff you can't get, OR provide stuff you can't get but are purely cosmetic, then it's a proven fact that it WON'T affect you damn game by a single bit. Also, do you freakin' forget there's no multiplayer? There's only CO-OP... So yeah, we already know that microtransactions WON'T be a problem.

TL:DR No multiplayer this year, only CO-OP. Don't bother about things that don't affect you.

I'm gonna buy the game, but i won't get any DLC or microtransactioned stuff.
I usually likes to enjoy the game, step by step, at my rhytmth and receive rewards from my own playing.

2 assassin's creed per year + season pass for each + micro-transaction
Also Far cry have jumped from 2-3 years dev to become yearly release.
Ubisoft FTW

This is sad. Micro transactions for singleplayer? Ever heard of cheat engine or mods?!

So far Ubisoft has called us dirty pirates, said Riot was being too nice to the people putting food on their table, releasing PC games that don't run on the PC and then putting micro-transactions in AAA title. Did I mention that the gold edition's description on steam says you get the full experience when you buy it? Wait I thought paying $60 for the game gets me the whole experience. So now I have I pay $80 or more for a game that has little to no replay value, will most likely not run on any computer and be asked to pay more money for stuff already in the game? Honestly go fuck yourselves. You have no right to publish or create video games. Ubisoft is scum end of story.

Here's the thing:

Why would I care if it didn't affect me anyways? Ubisoft is just trying to integrate f2p tactics to their game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending them, but what doesn't affect shouldn't bother me.

Fast tracking is already integrated in the previous AC iterations, get a map to view all chests, feathers, and etc by buying it on special shops.
Hell, they could even sell animus hacks a.k.a. cheats, outfits, hats, swag, etc.

And if they did make AC more grindy, then that is actually a plus since they are bringing difficulty back! Notice that you can buy the strongest sword in the game before half the storyline if you roam around? Notice that you rack up thousand of unusuable currency because you are just waiting for upgrades to be unlocked in stores by progressing in storyline?

Finally, If you think that you got turned off on Assassin's Creed because of Microtransactions, then I'm sure that you're one of the people that won't be buying the game anyways in the first place.