Ubisoft is really pushing its Assassin's Creed Shadows launch this week, with the company now offering a massive discount on 12-month signups to its Ubisoft Plus subscription service - where the game will launch on day one.
Live now on Xbox, players can enroll onto a 12-month plan for Ubisoft Plus at a hefty 40% off. This makes the Ubisoft service cost £89.99 here in the UK and $107.99 over in the US, which isn't too far off the price of AC Shadows by itself.
In fact, if you look a little bit deeper into this one, Ubisoft says that the Digital Deluxe version of Assassin's Creed Shadows will be available in the library at launch - which costs a whopping £84.99 / $89.99. So, for just a bit more than the cost of this AC Shadows bundle, you can get an entire 12 months with the game alongside a pretty extensive Ubisoft library.
Of course, the key difference would be that once those 12 months are up, you'd lose access to AC Shadows - but given that that's a pretty generous timeframe to see everything the game has to offer, we still think it's a pretty good deal with the rest of that Ubisoft library factored in.
Anyway, Xbox players have nine days at the time of writing to take advantage of this deal, which of course covers a full year of Ubisoft Plus. At the moment, there's no such discount on the much-shorter one month plan, which is perhaps understandable given how big of a launch AC Shadows could be for the French game maker.
Well, do you think this deal is worth taking advantage of? Talk to us about it down below.
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Is there a trial or "14 days refund" possibility or is 1 year 1 year?
That's actually a pretty amazing deal. It's not one for me as I own pretty much everything Ubisoft has released but for others, that's brilliant.
@Frmknst They sometimes offer trials (unsurprisingly not when AC Shadows is about to launch though), but I don't think there's any kind of refund possibility on this.
It's make or break time now for ubisoft if the new creed game doesn't sell well it could all be over soon!
Probably not a good deal when Ubisoft’s future is uncertain.
They don't have a years worth of games I want to play though.
I may sub up for a month to play Shadows or maybe a sale purchase at some point. Either way it will be much cheaper than the options presented in this article.
The Ubisoft+ service has issues on Xbox. Sometimes it disappears from your account and you cannot access your games for no reason. Relinking accounts, and/or deleting the connection on the Ubi website sometimes fixes it, other times not. Then one day it will appear again for no reason. I would not order this again on Xbox.
Translation: “please subscribe so we can boast of engagement numbers instead of sales numbers like they did for Veilguard if/when this sells like…well, Veilguard!”
@dskatter Sales numbers aren't everything anymore now we have subscriptions. Game pass in particular skews this a lot.
At the end of the day it matters to publishers if the game is profitable whether that's via game sales, subscriptions, dlc, mtx etc.
At that price, might as well buy the game. It's cheaper 🙄
@themightyant glances at Veilguard after EA touted “engagements” instead of “sales”, then glances at all the writers and such from said game having been almost instantly laid off
@dskatter obviously if it has not enough sales AND not enough subscriptions, like Veilguard, then that is a big problem.
But the point is some games on Game Pass won't sell that well compared to games that aren't on it, but will be a success. Sales isn't the only important metric nowadays.
@KayUK this happened to me last year. I ended up getting a full refund but my Ubisoft+ was still active. So I had Ubisoft help desk re link that Ubisoft account to my secondary Xbox account (as my Primary was fully broken for some reason). Now I have been enjoying Ubisoft+ for free since August of last year. It expires this June, enough time to finish Shadows
I’ll just get one month with my Rewards points, basically playing day one for free.
Good deal really. Big releases that mean something to me intend to getting physical though so that's what I'll be doing with this. Ubisoft plus is packed if you like their stuff though.
From my perspective, that's still too much. I don't think I've spent that much on Ubisoft games over a generation, let alone a year. The 'few' Ubisoft games that I have any interest in playing are often on sale within a few months and I can wait until they are very cheap (under £10 - they crop up often at 85-90% off)
Point is, for me, they don't release enough or have enough games I don't already own or want to play in their catalogue for me to justify Subbing. I wouldn't Sub to EA Access if it wasn't part of GPU either but GPU has far more Games and more 'Day 1' releases, works across all my devices and allows me to game Anywhere so it provides enough Value to me to justify that - I on't want to have 'multiple' Subscriptions just to play 1 or 2 games a year I am accustomed to playing....
My opinion is that most game subscription are rarely worth it. Sure initially you get a good collection of games, but after checking out what is actually available, very often you only find a handful of games that are actually worthwhile playing. For most game subscription services the value of remaining subscribed goes down the longer you keep the service as you either finish the game you want or game your interest in leave the service. Of the various game subscriptions I still think game pass is the best option, but keeping it is pricey with the price hikes.
I would sub for a month and try to 100% as many games as possible, but then that would be it for me. lol.
There aren't too many Ubisoft games I like but if someone is a huge Assassin's Creed fan then I think it may be worth it.
I used to like UBISOFT games, but now I am not interested in them. So I don't think it is a good deal.
Just wait a week or two and the game will receive a large discount
The amount of map icons per dollar in this deal is incredible.
@RiverGenie right? They dump game prices super fast in 6-8 weeks and then they show up on GamePass or PS Plus m’s higher tiers.
I subscribe to both and only purchase certain games that I know will take me months or a year to complete.
Assassins Creed series is one. The only games I played for two years in the past was Odyssey and Valhalla due to time and how much fun I was having in them.
@themightyant yup! They want engagement and time played. Those factor in just as much as sales now for a company’s metric on a games success.
(I have a friend at Zenimax who is higher up in marketing so it might be more skewed towards Xbox/Gamepass)
I think like others, the best option is to play all the other AC titles until this one gets patched for series S and gets the inevitable discount. Sound s like Ubisoft is trying to boost engagement to boost its value before the breaking apart of the company… look at us we got X amount of subscribers….
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