Star Wars Outlaws Ultimate Edition for $130 continues an industry trend of paying lofty sums for early access, and players don’t like it: “Why is everything monetized”
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Star Wars Outlawshas an expensive $109.99 ‘Gold Edition’ offering three-day early access, and single-player game fans aren’t best pleased.
Yesterday, a brand newStar Wars Outlaws story trailer revealed an August 30 release dateforUbisoft’s new shooter - just hours after the release date leaked online. Ubisoft also unveiled the $109.99 Gold Edition of the new game, and the $129.99 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws alongside the story-centric trailer and release date.
The Gold Edition offers three-day early access on August 27 as well as the game’s Season Pass for DLC, while the Ultimate Edition includes all that as well as the Sabacc Shark and Rogue Infiltrator Bundles in-game item bundles, plus a digital art book for good measure. It’s these two editions that have drawn the ire of some fans on social media.
“Sigh. Why is everything monetized… I want a single-player game. One-time payment and I am good…” writes oneTwitteruser. “Getting sick of these monetized barriers,” anotherTwitteruser added. Others, meanwhile, are just poking fun at the high price tags for both premium editions of Star Wars Outlaws, in addition to the base version retailing for $70.
“Anytime I see charts like these it just makes me think: ‘I can’t wait to buy the full game for $20 years later,'” wrote anotherTwitteruser, referencing the fact that Ubisoft games are nearly always regularly on digital storefront sales like thePlayStation Networkroughly a year later.
Read our bigStar Wars Outlaws interviewto see how the game tells a “tight story” set across “strong, thriving underworlds.”
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