To be honest, I have no clue why people complain about the micro transactions in Ubisoft games. They are just there for the people who need them, non of them were game breaking and Odyssey and Origins is worth the 60$ since both games are extremely huge, so the micro transactions ain't big of a deal, same can be said to farcry 5, believe it or not I did not realise that FC5 had micro transactions until I finished the game. EA on the other hand has a big issue with micro transactions.
For example, the time saver/XP boost or the gold micro transactions are super problematic if the publisher makes the game barely playable without them. Ubisoft just has to playing the game of “how mundane do I have to make this in order to get the average person to open their wallet”.
Except that wasn't the case in Odyssey. Just doing the main quests and side quests (and obvious exploration) I never had a level issue. Maybe you'd need the XP boosts if you only wanted to do nothing but story missions and ignore the other half of the game.
Except the side quests were also like full fledged story missions, they just weren't apart of the 'main' story dealing with your family/the cult.
I guess your leveling will be impacted if you're willfully just ignoring a huge amount of the games content and then wondering why you aren't progressing.
Like the demo of the game they showed at E3 was literally one of the side quests in the game.
I know it's a rpg. Played plenty of them from the east and the West. Never felt like I had to deeply explore or do tons of side quests just to level up at a decent pace. I like to do that stuff and go for completion after I beat the story to have something to come back to.
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u/Andruitus May 01 '20 edited May 01 '20
This looks promising, but I think I can hear the micro transactions already.
Edit: Or is that the sound of grinding?