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Xater · Nov 25, 2014

So I just gave this The Crew open beta a shot. Ignoring me not enjoying this game at all (swimmy controls, looks bad on PS4, bland environment etc.) the microtransactions in this look disgusting.

The very first moment you get to spend money in this game you will notice that there are dollars you can spend on stuff and so called "Crew Credits" (short CC). A secondary currency you can get for real money. You can pay for stuff with these CC EVERYWHERE. From cars, to upgrades, to paint jobs or even perk points.

I know we had a thread about Ubisoft announcing that the game had microtransactions but seeing this in person is just absolutely disgusting. It's basically a F2P title they are selling at full price.

Hamster Plugin · Nov 25, 2014

Does it take a lot of grinding to get the items without paying real money? That was the problem with Forza 5 - before updates it took an incredibly long time to get that $120 car without paying all that money.

Nibel · Nov 25, 2014

The

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Ew

Ubisoft seems to be doing this with every big franchise they have. I don't really want to see how far this goes.

ThoughtsOfSpeaking · Nov 25, 2014

Hence the always online.

Fuck off ubisoft.

TetraGenesis · Nov 25, 2014

Dude. Ubisoft is just so gross lately.

BrettWeir · Nov 25, 2014

Thanks for the heads up. Another game I won't buy.

jpax · Nov 25, 2014

Sounds terrible but was expected, if you buy games with micro transactions, there will be games with micro transactions. Now they are just looking how far they can go.

TheWorthyEdge · Nov 25, 2014

How do you get the beta? Is it on the PSN Store?

vZeroG · Nov 25, 2014

After playing the beta, I felt that the game was mediocre at best. I too noticed the MTXs, which also turned me off to the game. Something with the driving just felt off to me - they did a really good job at modeling the vehicles, but a terrible one IMO with their handling physics.

Vuze · Nov 25, 2014

jpax said:
Sounds terrible but was expected, if you buy games with micro transactions, there will be games with micro transactions. Now they are just looking how far they can go.

This exactly. Absolutely disgusting.

Evo X · Nov 25, 2014

Regardless of micro transactions, the core gameplay of The Crew sucks so much that I doubt it's going to sell much anyway.

NullPointer · Nov 25, 2014

Xater said:
It's basically a F2P title they are selling at full price.

Starting to feel like this is the overall goal of modern gaming monetization efforts.

Xater · Nov 25, 2014

Hamster Plugin said:
Does it take a lot of grinding to get the items without paying real money? That was the problem with Forza 5 - before updates it took an incredibly long time to get that $120 car without paying all that money.

Can't really tell you. I don't like playing the game so I just stopped. Handling is bad and the traffic in this game is hilarious. It doesn't react to anything and barely budges even if you ram into a car. It's like everyone in this world drives a tank that looks like a normal car.

TheWorthyEdge said:
How do you get the beta? Is it on the PSN Store?

Yeah it's just on the PSN store.

system11 · Nov 25, 2014

Xater said:
So I just gave this The Crew open beta a shot. Ignoring me not enjoying this game at all (swimmy controls, looks bad on PS4, bland environment etc.) the microtransactions in this look disgusting.

The very first moment you get to spend money in this game you will notice that there are dollars you can spend on stuff and so called "Crew Credits" (short CC). A secondary currency you can get for real money. You can pay for stuff with these CC EVERYWHERE. From cars, to upgrades, to paint jobs or even perk points.

I know we had a thread about Ubisoft announcing that the game had microtransactions but seeing this in person is just absolutely disgusting. It's basically a F2P title they are selling at full price.

I liked the graphics and the handling can be sorted out quite a bit in the control options.

However, the microtransation model can die in a fire. Luckily I was already skipping this game because of Unity, Ubisoft don't get my money at the moment.

Pai Pai Master · Nov 25, 2014

you put microtransactions in retail games when you don't have faith in them

bigbaldwolf86 · Nov 25, 2014

Evo X said:
Regardless of micro transactions, the core gameplay of The Crew sucks so much that I doubt it's going to sell much anyway.

Pretty much. The gameplay in the beta was awful and coupled with Ubi's ever increasing desire to put microtransactions into games means I'm put off their games more and more.

JaseC · Nov 25, 2014

It's times like this I'm glad I don't buy games to play them.

SocksAndShoes · Nov 25, 2014

I didn't think I could be less interested in this game.

I was wrong.

Ryouji Gunblade · Nov 25, 2014

Full price, microtransactions everywhere, and it's a bad game?

Maybe they'll get the message if it gets poor sales and not do this again.

jonno394 · Nov 25, 2014

Let's all start taking bets at how bad The Division will be

These will probably be purchases for things you can unlock normally just like most micro transactions but they're still a bit naughty.

ThoughtsOfSpeaking · Nov 25, 2014

JaseC said:
It's times like this I'm glad I don't buy games to play them.

So why do you buy them then?

Begaria · Nov 25, 2014

TetraGenesis said:
Dude. Ubisoft is just so gross lately.

Well, at least Far Cry 4 turned out decent.

Interfectum · Nov 25, 2014

Who on gaf is even considering buying this garbage game?

QuantumZebra · Nov 25, 2014

Ubisoft went from a publisher I actually liked a good bit 2 years ago to a company I now cannot stand at all. I like EA more than them, like, much more. It's disturbing.

Kyuur · Nov 25, 2014

I legit thought this game was F2P to begin with.

CouchMaster · Nov 25, 2014

Another Ubi title?

Atlas157 · Nov 25, 2014

Interfectum said:
Who on gaf is even considering buying this garbage game?

I hope this game bombs. Ubisoft deserves a hard kick to the balls right now.

Xater · Nov 25, 2014

jonno394 said:
Let's all start taking bets at how bad The Division will be

These will probably be purchases for things you can unlock normally just like most micro transactions but they're still a bit naughty.

No matter how good The Division turns out I refuse to buy a game that has a model like this. Absolutely unacceptable in the full price game space.

ThoughtsOfSpeaking said:
So why do you buy them then?

It's a joke on mictrotransactions. You basically buy a game so you can put more money into it to not actually play it.

notoccupanther · Nov 25, 2014

They need a kick in the Ubinuts

BadWolf · Nov 25, 2014

Hope it fails.

Shyakugaun · Nov 25, 2014

Wtf is going on over at Ubisoft lmao

fabricated backlash · Nov 25, 2014

NullPointer said:
Starting to feel like this is the overall goal of modern gaming monetization efforts.

It's not like Ubisoft/EA/Activision have ever tried to hide that goal. All of them were very candid about milking their audience to the fullest extend.
It's a logical evolution of their DLC policies, and it's only going to grow larger in scale in the coming years.

TI82 · Nov 25, 2014

Ubisoft is going to Ubishit

CoffeeKillquest · Nov 25, 2014

Ubi gonna Ubi but on a serious note all the full retail games with micro transactions is getting outa hand.

Leafhopper · Nov 25, 2014

SteelAlchemist said:
I hope this game bombs. Ubisoft deserves a hard kick to the balls right now.

I dunno if this would be enough.

JaseC · Nov 25, 2014

ThoughtsOfSpeaking said:
So why do you buy them then?

Gotta catch 'em all.

BruiserBear · Nov 25, 2014

It's all about how it's implemented. As long as the game's progression doesn't feel like it was built to encourage micro transactions like a f2p game, I don't have much of a problem with it.

Uthred · Nov 25, 2014

The fact thats theres microtransaction stuff everywhere is bad, but without context it seems a stretch to decalre it "the most disgusting microtransactions ever". How hard the stuff is to get without paying money has a lot to do with that.

Kouriozan · Nov 25, 2014

Yeah, I think we knew this before.
Well Ubisoft gotta EA.

JayEH · Nov 25, 2014

Ubi no, Ubi please.

QaaQer · Nov 25, 2014

are there gambling mechanics like EA's ultimate team? That's where the money is.

Parsnip · Nov 25, 2014

Xater said:
So I just gave this The Crew open beta a shot. Ignoring me not enjoying this game at all (swimmy controls, looks bad on PS4, bland environment etc.) the microtransactions in this look disgusting.

The very first moment you get to spend money in this game you will notice that there are dollars you can spend on stuff and so called "Crew Credits" (short CC). A secondary currency you can get for real money. You can pay for stuff with these CC EVERYWHERE. From cars, to upgrades, to paint jobs or even perk points.

I know we had a thread about Ubisoft announcing that the game had microtransactions but seeing this in person is just absolutely disgusting. It's basically a F2P title they are selling at full price.

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It's totally subliminal messaging.

| Praxis | · Nov 25, 2014

Can I pay for more Kyuss?

wanders · Nov 25, 2014

Why are people barely realizing how bad Ubi is

The Samsung of videogames

Reallink · Nov 25, 2014

It's a competitive game to boot, so it's double bad.

Nokterian · Nov 25, 2014

And i keep avoiding those games from ubisoft..feels pretty good though!

Xater · Nov 25, 2014

BruiserBear said:
It's all about how it's implemented. As long as the game's progression doesn't feel like it was built to encourage micro transactions like a f2p game, I don't have much of a problem with it.

I think as soon as you introduce something like this your design changes. Everything just takes a little bit longer to achieve. You don't introduce it for shits and giggles. If you had confidence in you design and progression people wouldn't feel the need to boost their progression in the first place, so something like this is not needed.

Reallink said:
It's a competitive game to boot, so it's double bad.

Oh yeah forgot about that. SO yeah you can basically also just buy your way to victory. Amazing.

rBose · Nov 25, 2014

Nibel said:
The

Cr

Ew

Ubisoft seems to be doing this with every big franchise they have. I don't really want to see how far this goes.

The Screw

axisofweevils · Nov 25, 2014

Guess there'll be yet another Ubisoft episode of Jimquisition then.

Braag · Nov 25, 2014

NullPointer said:
Starting to feel like this is the overall goal of modern gaming monetization efforts.

Yeah well, the industry keeps getting greedier as we go.
It started with DLC then season passes and now it's time for microtransactions in full priced games.
I don't even want to know what they will come up with 10 years from now.

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