Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans are outraged by the game’s current state after a new discovery on the game’s Reddit page. As the Reddit post – which quickly shot to the top of the page – points out, there are currently nine different armor sets in the game’s store, locked behind microtransactions, meaning there are about as many armor sets locked behind microtransactions as there are in the whole base game. In a free-to-play game or even a long-tailed multiplayer game, this is nothing special, but this is the case with a premium single-player game, and it’s enough to have fans furious.
The problem is compounded by the fact that all of this happened before Ubisoft added any DLC or meaningful content to the game, according to the Reddit post. Now, Valhalla gets DLC just like Origin and Odyssey – the most recent previous entries in the series – did. And both Origin and Odyssey had similar microtransactions but it looks and sounds like Valhalla is a bit more blatant in this regard.
Unfortunately for Ubisoft, the Reddit post didn’t just shoot to the top of the game’s Reddit page. It has also been shared on other larger Reddit pages and is now being picked up by the media. Despite this, Ubisoft still hasn’t addressed the feedback. And at this point it doesn’t look like it will happen. If so, we’ll be sure to update this story with whatever is on offer, salient or not.
This is not the first time Assassin’s Creed has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, but from the moment of disclosure until now, it’s been pretty smooth Valhalla.
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