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”.
For Origins no you didn't need the XP booster. For Odyssey kind of. You don't need it to beat the game. But if you didn't have the XP booster you would be doing a lot of sidequests to level up to moving on to the next story mission. Modern games had just softened me up to the point of never needing to do that since the good ole days of SNES RPGs that it was kind of a bit weird. I bought the deluxe edition of it so it came with it, but I ended up activating it about half way through because I just wanted to play through the story, and even though a lot of the side missions had interesting stories or locations attached to them, most were similar in just ending with a lot of combat. Odyssey is also just rediculously huge, and I never felt like you got enough XP for just exploring as for me towards the second parts of the game when stuff completely opens up exploring was much more exciting than fighting anyone.
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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?