I don’t really buy games much these days. I was trying to see what games would work on Mac and was pleased to see a new Assassin’s Creed game is coming out on Mac natively. I was pretty stoked with this news, I’ve never played any of the AC games but they’ve always looked good.
I thought I’d check the Apple App Store to see if there were any other AC games that might already be out and there was only one option (actually on some ‘App Store Preview’ thing not the actual app store), called Assassin’s Creed Mirage. It was listed as free to play with in-app-purchases. I’m really just not participating in that, can’t stand that shit. I don’t think I’ve actually bought any Ubisoft games since the Nintendo 64, are they all like this or is that just some unfortunate anomaly? I noticed also that it’d listed them collecting data about me, which, WTF?
Keen to wait till November for AC Shadows but not if it’s going to be any of that nonsense.
I’m not entirely sure, but I think Mirage on the App Store is a trial version with the ability to buy the full version, which is why it’s listed as free to play with micro transaction.
Yeah, Mirage is not a free to play game. Must be a trial version, with option to buy the full game.
Ubisoft says they make AAAA games now, so probably at least $70 for the base game standard edition.
A word to the wise, as you say you don’t normally buy games - do double check whether your Mac is new enough for the game. I don’t know exactly how specs work on mac, but I would hazard a guess that anything older than, say, 2019, won’t be able to play it.
Thanks mate.
I’m a little behind, but I completed AC Odyssey and that was just buy it and that’s it. They had a cash shop for armor sets but it was completely unnecessary and I never even looked at it much less bought anything from it. So provided the releases after that are the same it’s a “there is an MTX shop but the game is balanced without it” situation
The game is free to try and then you unlock it with an in app purchase. You get quite a few hours of gameplay without having to pay up front.
It is a fully fledged game though, not your typical mobile trash.
AC Shadows will likely have a similar model since it’s supposed to play on mobile as well.