Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws was treated to a fantastic-looking Story Trailer yesterday along with an August 2024 release date, and although there's plenty of hype around this one, it's also getting a bit of criticism for its price tag.
The standard version is what it is - $70 as expected - but the Gold Edition is $110, and the Ultimate Edition is a whopping $130. The latter two contain three days' worth of early access, along with the Season Pass and various other benefits in the "Ultimate" version specifically.
As it turns out, that top-end edition has been drawing criticism online since yesterday's trailer and pricing info dropped. Some fans aren't particularly happy with how expensive the full-fat version of Star Wars Outlaws is, with the below tweet laying out each version and what's included.
Now, we will say that this pricing structure is very similar to last year's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — also from Ubisoft — alongside lots of other big AAA games these days. Others have also pointed out that this is a fairly standard pricing model now, and even Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Odyssey from 2018 still has a $120 version on the Xbox Store - more than five years after launch.
Anyway, we're more than happy to stick to the standard $70 release in this case, but fans do seem to be taking note of these ever-increasing, bumper-edition game prices these days. Of course, there's also the option of subscribing to Ubisoft+ here - at a rate of $17.99 / £14.99 a month.
What do you make of this Star Wars Outlaws drama? Go ahead and talk about it down below.
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Ubisoft is an odd duck.
Usually, their "gold editions" aka game+season pass (aka that thing people keep saying they want "I'd pay more to get all the content and not buy DLC") are usually cheaper than other companies' ultimate editions (game+dlc) but their own ultimate editions (Game+season+extras) are insane
Think ill just save up my microsoft points from July on and hopefully have enough for a sale price around Christmas. A few bugs could be ironed out by then.
I could see these price-tags being justifiable if either:
1. These games had enough content and depth for someone to spend a year with them, and they were enjoyable enough for people to want to.
2. These games were designed to offer substantial support for a wide variety of mods from the fan community.
The problem is that so many of these games don't really fall into either category, their price-tags are based on hype.
We all remember when Ubisoft games had Deluxe editions for 10$ more the packs we get in the Ult.Ed. But without the season pass but at one point they took those and made them exclusive to the ultimate edition without any mean to buy them separately. Nobody should pay these stupid prices for skin packs.
Good, use your aggressive feelings.
Let the hate flow through you.
Is this actually news or is it another case of "Ubi is the one who did it this time, so it's wrong"?
Is this really news worthy at this point.
You know the best way to combat these practices? Everyone stop buying them and just stick with the base game.
@GamingFan4Lyf that's what I do and I also wait until I can get it used. The clock is ticking on that last part though with everything going digital only.
Ubisoft are you listening? That is Sofa King stupid.
The last time I paid £70-80 for a game was when it included the FULL game, A year Season Pass including ALL DLC and bonus Cosmetics, a steelbook case and/or artbooks...
That was basically 'EVERYTHING' in a one off up front payment when the Game was £45, the Season Pass £40 or each pack £12 - plus 'extras' for buying the 'complete' edition up front...
Now I won't pay more than that for a Complete edition today, about 4/5yrs later because 'next-gen' hardware Tax? It will be on Game Pass or other sub services in a year or two and certainly on sale in a few months, wait long enough and it will be 'pocket money' like all Ubisoft games end up....
£70 doesn’t even get you the full game anymore 😂 I hope more triple A games start to flop, they’ll blame gamers though before looking at their own errors.
I would absolutely have bought the Ultimate edition at a reasonable price. This is not it!
I usually pre-order the top edition of a game, and am very interested in this particular game. However, I am either going to wait for a deep price cut (bearing in mind that Ubisoft usually put their games on sale within a month of release!), or I might subscribe to EA for a single month, and play it there (depending on the reviews). It's not something that I would usually do, but Ubisoft can go whistle at this price!
That said, I do have Game Pass Ultimate, so would I get access to the base game as it stands, @Kezelpaso?
I can’t help but compare it to Stellar Blade. Another sci-fi release but with attractive characters and an interesting world. Outlaws will be typical Ubislop.
When did buying games become so similar to buying a plane ticket?
There's a LOOOOOT more controversy with Outlaws than just the 130$ ultimate edition. I'm betting it's DOA. Even with the franchise name.
Only if it's as good as Skull and Bones.
Ubi ultimate editions we're worth it when it included all story dlc plus a remaster of an older game for like $40. It was a great deal. This? This is poodoo.
yeah ubi needs to let ppl know that this game is coming so thus this article
this game will should have zero return policy so it will punish ppl who preorder maybe that way they will learn
i just fear ppl who preorder will defend this game cuz they paid so in their minds this game cannot be bad...
I'll wait for the massive price drop in a year or so.
It’s Ubisoft. Wait a year and that ultimate edition will be 30 bucks.
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