As we told you some time ago, it was obvious that Ubisoft was going to expand its subscription service to all possible territories once its mainstay Stadia shut down for good last January. However, it seems that the French did not want to adapt their strategy to the place they were going to visit. In this case Xbox.
Lots of games, but not that many
Ubisoft+ is the subscription service through which the French company makes available to all players its large catalog of games and that it has some really spectacular names, with sagas that are bestsellers year after year and that have served to earns him a place among the greats (although now walking with turbulence and serious problems).
Now, after the closure of Stadia, Ubisoft has used the PlayStation as a refuge, offering users the possibility of joining their subscription and it has only been a few hours since the French announced their arrival on Xbox consoles. Now well,What are the advantages and disadvantages of the new offer? What are they putting on the table to add more games to our private collection?
To start, we are going to highlight some good news for those who like to play on more than one system because – although most of the most recent titles have already been -, from Ubisoft they warn that they allow you to do cross saveIt is we will have the chance to play Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on PC and continue on an Xbox Series X no problem, the same way it happens with Game Pass and its ecosystem on consoles and computers.
A very complete advantage
Aside from that cross save which is fine, or the versions available from day one, Ubisoft+ decided at the time that the versions of the games present in your subscription would not be limited to the standard editions, as is the case with the Xbox Game Pass in many of its developments, but it is about top content, with all season passes, DLCs, extensions and more extras that are released for each of them.
This means that in cases like Assassin’s Creed ValhallaFor example, we will have access to all additional missions that are released after November 2020 as well as the season pass and the last great pack of expansion which meant Dawn of Ragnarok. The same thing happens with far cry 6 and all other members of this new subscription.
A (very) obvious problem
Now, all of the above, which looks extraordinarily good, has a downside for many players and that is the price: Ubisoft+ has a cost of almost 18 dollars which is a spike compared to, for example, Xbox Game Passes, which are around 13. Do you think it’s worth paying around five dollars more for 60 games than it is for almost 500?
Ubisoft+ has already set this same price on Stadia, but if it made sense, it was because it offered the ability to play in the cloud and nothing similar existed on the Google platform. But within Xbox, with Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming, who is going to want to add that amount to the monthly spend we already make on video games? It seems complicated to make it work but, surely, time will take away our sanity. You do not think ?
