The Division 2's Year 1 Content Is Free, But the Season Pass Supposedly Lets You Get It Early

Seems like a good approach to GaaS in my opinion. Really looking forward to jumping back in in a few days!

Loved the early beta for pre-orders. And will be jumping in the Open one also.

I stop Reading at "is free" (I'll stick with that)... if people want to pay for early access - that is fine also.

so hold on.
they offer all the year 1 content for free but still want to have people bite their wallets by offering that same content early but for a price resulting in a pay to have a advantage situation...

told you this early access stuff would get worse and worse.

but hey i'm just a whining old crack so what do i know...

I think... Paying for free stuff so that you can play it early is kind of like showing your support for the game, if that makes sense. You pay because you like the game and you're happy to put money down for extra stuff. If you're not willing to spend, you just wait a week until it's free. So I get where this is coming from, to some extent.

However, the fact that Ubisoft has always said "everything will be free!" for the longest time, before quietly adding this, is questionable — at least in my opinion. It's a bit of a bait and switch.

@ShogunRok not really a bait and switch, the early access for the Year One pass has been known for a while now. It's not breaking news now. And like you said it's all still free so not a huge deal.

technically you are paying for free content, the only difference is that you are paying to get it early, who would really pay for this?

The open beta is available to download on the store now. I doubt the servers are up yet, though.

No biggie. Dont see the need to pay. Too bad that it sounds missions are exclusive to the season buyers

Why don't they just include a monthly fee - say £3 to support the game which automatically comes from your wallet and you get the stuff a week early. I hate the fact you are paying for something you have no idea about or even if you will still be playing in 6 months time. A micro subscription you can cancel at any time takes away all these stupid practices the big publishers keep throwing at us.

They got my money. Sorry not sorry. Give me more Div asap please.

I don't like it, but I understand. But if its only just a week.... its not too egregious.

@ShogunRok "I think... Paying for free stuff so that you can play it early is kind of like showing your support for the game"

Forking over your hard-earned £55/$60 is showing your support for the game.

If they want to let people who enjoy it show "further appreciation", set up a PayPal and ask people to donate whatever they think it's worth.

@Paranoimia Yeah but if this was good quality DLC or expansions at a premium, there'd be no conversation. Assuming that these content drops are of a high quality, the fact we're getting them for free is great. And if you want to play early you pay a bit more. I'm just saying it makes some kind of sense, but not entirely.

I kind of get the idea but it'd have to be a lot longer than a week in advance to be worth any money. I mean that's just ridiculous but there'll be plenty of people who are easily parted with their money

@themcnoisy This makes more sense and is kind of how I use gamepass to play the likes of Sea of Thieves amongst other things. Games like this I tend to jump in and out of and when big single player games come out I'll likely drop altogether

So you'll get the Year 1 Pass contents for free a week later if you don't purchase the more expensive editions?

@ShogunRok Ill wait Ubisoft isnt that honest its the evil trio Activision Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft (maybe 4 with Warner Bros).

Plus paying for something which you dont even know what it is. 🤢🤮

It's just another transaction. If you want it pay up. If you don't, don't. Me, I'd just wait as the only reason to get it early is if you're playing online in the period there's other players and generally I avoid multiplayer in most games.

@Flaming_Kaiser I'd list THQ Nordic before Ubisoft and cringe with how they'll monetize all recent acquisitions. But def EA and Activision. 😁

@Cycologist But Warner Bros started with lootboxes / microtransactions in a singleplayer game.

@Flaming_Kaiser maybe but I don't have many WB games except Arkham Knight (probably the one you're talking about) 😀

THQ appears like they'd microtransaction a whole game if they could. I gave no examples but just my impression.

@Cycologist Lord of the Rings game the Mordor game the last one. But they took them out you might think. Just trying to look good on a game that everyone has bought already. 😜

all the dlc they try to sell you are just exlusive skins and early unlocks you dont need at all. but the year 1 pass have one thing you need. 8 exlusive classified assignments which will provide more story behind the events leading to your arrival in dc. so basically all you need to have is the 1 year pass to experience the full game story, since they put some of it behind a paywall. all this screams for is wait for a sale, and not buy day one.... and guess what today (18.09.2019) there is a sale on the psn, the gold edition goes for £34.99 (59% off), and there is black friday, xmas and new year sales coming up to so it might even go cheaper... buying ubisoft games day one is idiocy.