Watch Dogs 2 Season Pass is Too Expensive

I recently wrote up an article about Watch Dogs 2's low pre-orders. Ubisoft was really concerned and they thought the game should have had a lot more people waiting in line to buy it. How would you logically follow that up? Probably give the players some cool free content and try to make sure the people are happy, right? Not Ubisoft. They've released the price and content of their season pass, and to me it seems absolutely ridiculous.

The Watch Dogs 2 season pass will give players some cool features, but they're not worth the asking price of $40. Basically, season pass holders will receive 2 day-one packs. They come with some outfits, some cars, some weapons, the usual. It's cool that players will get something right out of the gate, but getting some new outfits and cars really doesn't justify spending 40 bucks to me. Let's see what else we get though!

Later on, the pass will give players access to three "major" downloads. The first is the T-Bone Content Bundle. This presents a new enemy, a Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney outfit, and a T-Bone Truck. It also gives a new co-op difficulty level called Mayhem, and I have a serious problem with this. Why is Ubisoft making a difficulty level cost money to players? Isn't that something that should be, ya know, free?



Don't worry though, it doesn't stop there. No Compromise, the next DLC, gives a new world story revolving around the Russian Mafia and a brand new co-op mode called Showdown. Again. Come on, Ubisoft! The final DLC, Human Conditions, is a bit more reasonable. This gives three world story missions that are at least an hour a piece, a new enemy type, and a currently undetermined amount of elite co-op missions.

If Ubisoft wants people to raise sales, they need to start giving more away for free. Charging players more than normal for a season pass, plus not really giving anything that makes sense, tends to be the wrong road to walk on. This isn't Bethesda we're talking about here. Bethesda might charge a lot for their passes, but you know you're getting hours upon hours of new content. I don't agree with season passes either way, but I think this is ridiculous.

Shame on you, Ubisoft.