‘Ghost Recon Breakpoint’ Has A Hilarious Amount Of Microtransactions

Ghost Recon Breakpoint has a frankly astonishing amount of microtransactions, even if it's avoided loot boxes.

[-Foxtrot]

It's disgusting and the worst part is it looks like a buggy mess that comes off no different to Wildlands, another reskin of a game with a lacking soul

People really need to wake up and stop buying their titles, the same is going to happen with WatchDogs 3 but it seems people just don't want to learn.

[isarai]

Worst than that it's not even as good as wildlands. It literally feels like they modded the division to be like wildlands. The whole game is a joke, and seriously ridiculous how many things they convoluted the hell out of everything so they can nickle and dime you 3 times befire you actually get what you were going for. I f$#king hate most AAA games these days.

[SkatterBrain]

As Soon as I Heard it Was gonna be Always Online , it Dropped off my Radar

[RacerX]

You know why the micro transactions are getting worse? Because people are buying them. Disgusting what a whore the gaming industry has become.

[Nodoze]

Who is buying this stuff? Somebody is or else to the points made, they would not be in the game. I for one have a firm ZERO tolerance for this crap. I do not, will not under any circumstance purchase these offerings. This is a stupid tax. The troubling trend of late is that the poison of the freeware/shovelware of mobile games is maing it's way into full priced offerings. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Either release a full priced game, or release a free game with MT.

For the mindless morons that continue to buy this crap, thanks for DESTROYING the hobby.

[indysurfn]

F Ubisoft, just as hard as EA. Forget forget em all.

[Cmv38]

Wildlands was fun....I played this beta....hard pass.

[JackBNimble]

I played the beta, it was trash!

[smolinsk]

You can't stop people bying games no matter how many microtransactions or loot boxes it has, it's like smoking, everyone knows it is bad for you but it's just too addictive to stop. It's all about getting rules and making it illegal to have in games...

[harmny]

It's not that they don't want to learn. People don't care. just forum gamers

[Godmars290]

Its hard to "wake up" and not buy bad products when the pre-order culture is a thing.

[UltraNova]

Pre orders are the end result of a smart PR machine doing its work through ads, puff pieces from far reaching outlets and the latest trend streamers/influencers. Things are not that simple now. This corporate machine is far to efficient and "silent" in its job for most to "wake up" from.

Edit
I don't want to sound so doom and gloom but the things I read and hear all day from fellow gamers are so unbelievable that i can't help but see a bleak future for gaming...

[Psychotica]

I haven't seen any bugs yet and it's much different than Wildlands. How can it be a reskin? Wildlands didn't have:
Drones spotting you then deploying forces to attack you
Injuries that can get you killed
Four different classes of characters etc etc.

Sure there are similarities since it's a sequel but you have to give them some credit. I have only played a few hours but's a lot of fun.

[sevilha82]

i tried the beta ,played like two days and got bored,pretty eye candy,and that´s it.

[xTonyMontana]

From everything I've been reading, this game sucks anyway with some of my long time Ghost Recon buddies hating the demo thinking it's largely inferior to Wildlands. Maybe this will be the sacrifice Watch Dogs 3 needs to humble Ubi and have them scale back on the MTs so that Watch Dogs 3 can be a success.

[ABizzel1]

Those who complain are the vocal minority, even if they are right in the message. There are millions of people who buy annual/bi-annual franchised games simply because it's safe to spend $60 on a game that you already know the expectation of, and even if it's a bit of a let-down you still can enjoy the core mechanics or multiplayer with friends and make what would normally be a mediocre game into a decent game you can spend nearly 100 hours in.

The majority of gamers are completely unaware of what games are considered to be universally reviewed as quality.

[indysurfn]

Minority? The sales of a LOT of games that bit the DUST because of Micro transactions says we are the majority.

[neutralgamer1992]

Ubi as a publisher is just as greedy as Ea and Activision yet they don't get the same amount of hate or attention from gamers

They literally made a game where to enjoy it you have to buy boosters and gaming media out it up for GOTY. I haven't bought a ubi game in a long time and if this continues I won't simple as that. Much rather buy less games with are quality titles than to give money to these greedy publishers

$60 isn't enough and when games do launch they are in beta stage

Look at for honor, wildlands etc yehy all launched with major bugs and look at borderlands 3 technical issues by 2k/gearbox

Now a days it's better to wait a long time before buying games made by these greedy publishers

[indysurfn]

You are right but more and more people are catching on, just like they did with EA. They are building their reputation.

[Profchaos]

Since far cry v I could see ubi pushing harder and hard to get extra $$$ want to refill your chopper ammo that's virtual currency even if E is single player.
Then new dawn just became a joke like a mobile game.

I really do hope wd3 doesn't follow the trend wd2 has some mts but they had no real impact on gameplay I felt like I got my money's worth with it and really enjoyed it but I'm worried for legion

[SlagWolf]

I haven’t bought a Activision, EA,
Ubisoft, MS, 2K game in years. I doubt I ever will again either.

[Xaywhat]

Agreed! Ubisoft games have slowly gotten worse now too. They are so blatant with it now, it’s disturbing. WTF is “Time savers”

[SyntheticForm]

Like most of its kind, it's lazy and predatory as fuck.

[cyber_daemonx]

Stopped buying ubi games ages ago tbh.

[Nyxus]

Imagine my surprise

[badz149]

lemme guess...you're not?

[2pacalypsenow]

Its a Ubisoft game....

No reviews until after release and it full of MT.

This is what gaming has become.

[fiveby9]

Both good reasons to not pre-order games and wait for opinions of people you trust after full game release. I tend to avoid review sites and prefer to talk to friends or watch some streams. At this point, it would appear this is yet another game I just avoid purchasing.

[UltraNova]

What about games that launch without MT's but plan to add them later? How do you combat that?

[fiveby9]

That's a good question. Nothing is full proof. Perhaps go by the reputation of the publisher in previously released games. Games don't need to be purchased day 1. Publishers market games to maximize hype as part of their marketing strategy. We all know this. For example, I was initially looking forward to Anthem. Sure glad I held off from ever purchasing it.

[Tross]

This is what third-rate AAA Western gaming has become. I for one choose not to support BS like this and hope it flops...and lose faith in my fellow “gamers” when it doesn’t. All the more reason to just support proper studios that don’t pull this nonsense and pretend this stuff doesn’t exist. The industry for me now is mostly indie, Japanese or Sony first party, and usually single-player.

[Relientk77]

When I played the beta last weekend, it just seemed like a worse and less fun version of Wildlands, and add tons of microtransactions. Glad I could play a free beta and save myself some money by not not buying this.

[Psychotica]

Just curious how you think it's worse than Wildlands? Seems better in every way to me.

[Hungryalpaca]

AI is worse, gunplay feels worse, drones are bullet sponges, RPG elements do not belong in a ghost recon game, the AI bugs out all the time, the driving is atrocious, the cutscenes are boring as hell with Andromeda level facial animations, levelled guns do not belong in ghost recon, it feels nothing like a ghost recon game but a cheap military themed GTA, etc

[NarooN]

@hungry

I remember when Ghost Recon was basically a lite milsim. Ghost Recon in the early 2000s was legit. This newer stuff is Ghost Recon in name only.

[Artemidorus]

I really would be at breaking point if I had bought the game and seen all of them.

[SoulWarrior]

This is just ubisoft in recent years, absolutely every aspect of their open world copy/paste formula has pay to win monetisation lol

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Ubisoft going to Ubisoft.

Same Sh*t, Different Day.

[Chaosdreams]

It's incredibly easy (sad, sure, but easy) to ignore titles, and even publishers in their entirety as of late. Every now and then there's a bit of a struggle if it's an IP that brings back memories, but once you remind yourself that you're not some numbered whale, but an actual human being, you can step away from this.

If the gaming industry just wants to be a series of games that strip a few hundred thousand people of all their cashflow, so be it. It'll be their own undoing.

[Stanjara]

So basically, this game's micro-transactions enables you to have everything at the beginning of the game, so that you don't even have to to play it? I can do that for free.

[execution17]

Or you can just play it and unlock the stuff the old fashioned way

[PlayableGamez-]

As long time fan of Ghost Recon, Breakpoint is not a Ghost Recon game.

[Psychotica]

or maybe the old ones weren't ghost recon games

[Hungryalpaca]

That doesn’t make any sense. I just replayed GR, Island thunder and 2. This is not a ghost recon game.

[Psychotica]

@Hungryalpaca - Meaning the way it plays now is the way Ghost Recon back then should have been . The current game isn't wrong just because it doesn't play like the old ones.

[Hungryalpaca]

Make it a generic over the top third person Michael bay style GTA game instead of a tactical thought provoking mission based real world situations with planned execution?

Fuck no that sounds awful. You obviously have no idea what ghost recon was. They took it from its own thing and turned it into a generic third person action game.

[Psychotica]

@Hungryalpaca - I used to play the old Ghost Recon. I admit it's been quite a while since I played a game like Ghost Recon 2 so I watched this video (scroll to the 9 min mark), you actually think that's better? Sorry but I don't see anything there that I am missing, it's very plain and bland nothing that reflects modern day technology like drones for example. The audio was annoying, sounded like I was on an artillery range. Breakpoint is superior to that in every way imo. But to each his own, enjoy..
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Soileh]

Psychotica send me whatever you're smoking cause you're out of it lad

[King_Noctis]

Isn’t this supposed to be a premium $60 game?

[Psychotica]

It was obvious how the grinding increased between AC:Origins and AC:Odyssey and the less grinding in AC:Origins made the game better because of it IMO. But I still had a great time with both games, had over 200+ hours in AC:Odyssey and didn't spend any money on microtransactions.

[AnubisG]

Why are we here? We are here in gaming because people buy these things like crazy.

You can't tell them not to or you'll be called all the names.

I blame gamers more for this than publishers. If there was no demand, there would be no supply. Simple as that.

As long as gamers buy them, microtransactions will be there.

[CaptainObvious878]

You're right.

As much as I loathe these publishers, I loathe the stupid casuals that don't know the value if money more. Its because of their immaturity, impatience, lack of self control and complete and selfish disregard of how their spending habbits can destroy my beloved hobby that gaming is in the state its in today.

[Atanasrikard]

And you want to call others immature? I had quite the laugh at that.

[Kornholic]

It also has a hilarious level of input lag on PS4 making it unplayable.

[Surt]

The comments comparing this game to wildlands like if you lads actually liked wildlands. lol The crying from the old GR fans are almost as pathetic as the socom fans. GET OVER IT. Aye, would I prefer a more traditional Socom feel to Ghost recon? Yes. Not a fan of bullet sponges either, but damn the whining gets annoying after awhile.

[Hungryalpaca]

People like you are why we get shit like this.

[Surt]

How long you plan on whining about Micro transactions? You whined as much when racing games had short cuts you can purchase? You whined as much when battlefield had short cuts you can purchase? Looking back now I would damn prefer the short cuts over the damn loot box craze that was pretty much gambling. You remember when Dlc came with games? You mean like ps2 era. So from 2006 to 2019 nothing but whining?

[Hungryalpaca]

What in the fuck are you on about? I’ve always been against micro transactions. All you say is “whine”. Got any evidence of people “whining” or will it just be people pissed the games they buy are being sliced into pieces and being made a complete slog to get through to encourage micro transactions?

By the way, the way you talk makes you sound like a total ass hat. People are upset their hobby is being turned into gambling and being sold as prices rather than a complete game and they’re “whining”.

You’re not too bright I can see.

[Good-Smurf]

I watched the game's cinematic from Angry Joe's beta session and it looked terrible all the characters faces looked worse than what offered in Assassin's Creed from 2007 not to mention he got stuck three times in the waterfall also the 4 vs 4 is a snooze fest.
The latest Yong video on this was just sad he just look so lost and so fed up.

[Ninver]

And I have a hilarious amount of reasons not to buy it. These devs love shooting their foot before the race even begins.

[mezati99]

the beta was a gigantic piece of fucking trash

[xenz]

Alright, it's time to boycot Ubisoft until they fix their shit. Boycot list is starting to fill up now...

[Akira2020]

It's time to boycott all these new games. Hell, I have a monstrous back log from PS3, 360, PS4, Xbone, and PC. I'll have no problem sitting out a few years. :)

[Ascalon94]

Sad to hear. I enjoyed Wildlands for what it was especially the co-op with buddies. Was hoping this game would build on that one, but so far its looking like maybe a bargain bin purchase later down the road.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I'll just torrent the game and play the single player, or just torrent it out of spite and not play it :D Same with COD coming soon, torrent the single player portion. I will show the torrent once it's up to Ubisoft's twitter account and they can't do nothing about it muhahhaa

[glenn1979]

thank you Ubisoft for messing up a good franchise

[lellkay]

Stay well away.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

Ive been a Gost Recon fan since 2003, but I think thats about to come to an end. Just like Rainbow Six, they are making games that I'm no longer interested in. Too bad that there will be plenty of morons out there who will load up on micro transctions.

[AmUnRa]

Did you not know? People are like lemmings, when the first run of a cliff the rest will follow.
And big companies know that, there is always a smal group that will protest but the big heap dont care and they buy that stuff like they cant play without it. Just like lemmings.
And when it sells like hell companies will find a way to milk the hell out of gamers.

[Knightofelemia]

Good way to kill a game before it's out of the gate.

[Rachel_Alucard]

You see even if lootboxes get banned they'll always find a way to screw you harder. Like how Valve just added this X ray scanner to France CSGO that lets you see the item inside the box but you are forced to claim the item to use the scanner again. They'll just keep modifying the original model into the same or worse end result no matter how many laws are passed.

[Sidewinder-]

Remember when Ghost Recon was actually good?

[JSONEHUNDRED]

If you ignore the microtransactions, there are no microtransactions. Then you can just play the game (if it doesnt drop you out to the main menu over and over for 'losing connection to ubisoft servers, mid-fight)

[MatrixxGT]

I always ignore MT but the problem is when the game has been developed in a way that slows down progression just for the sake of buying xp boosters etc.

I miss days where everything was on disc and if you wanted that sweet gun or skin you had to unlock it somehow like beating a certain level on high difficulty or doing something within a certain time. Feeling of accomplishment and bragging rights instead of jut paying your way to the top.

[JSONEHUNDRED]

Indeed, mate

[deno]

Anyone buying this is a shameful person. Cold turkey this game.

[victorMaje]

This is what happens when “gamers” accept the idea of the store in a game like AC Odyssey.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is still the beginning. Do not let this happen for other games. Do not let this become the norm.
Make a pledge, do not buy this game. Do not buy the game after it. Boycott Ubisoft. Even if they go back on this decision. It’s time to act & vote with you’re wallet. It’s the only language they speak.

[VTKC]

if only they were more people like you. sadly its quite the opposite in reality and thats how these companies survive.

[talllpine]

Did anyone else find that it was way to complicated and clunky? Me and my brother were excited to check out the beta but were pretty frustrated just trying to play. Trying to get on the same mission, all the talking to npc's, navigating all the menu tabs, at least compared to wildlands it got very complicated and slow. Anybody else?

[AK91]

Ubisoft made this so I'm not surprised

[Akira2020]

Hey, play Dungeons and Dragons....no loot boxes or micro-transactions there.

[RabbitFly]

well that is not true. There are plenty of ways to spend money to expand your experience in DnD.

[HaVoK308]

It will sell very well. They are paying a lot of YouTubers and Streamers to push it down their low IQ followers throats.

[Flewid638]

As long as teenagers who dont care exist, yall are fucked. They buy everything. lol.

[Soulrakk]

People buy them. THAT is the root of the problem. They're going to do what makes them money. And MT's are a legit gold mine for these companies. The backlash is totally worth it for them.

[william_cade]

looks like crap. Congrats UBI!

[sprinterboy]

I was like, it's a OK (ish) so far in the beta then I came to the hub and was like, delete.
Was it everything has to have a hub, it's boring places with same BS marketplace shite.
Didn't enjoy wildlands so tbh I wa never going to enjoy this either though, but this is a piss poor 3rd party game, glitchy and the gfx look absolute shite.

[VTKC]

and the greed intensifys

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I just find it funny how all of you complain about it. I mean if you have a good enough PC just torrent the single player portion. There will be no Microtransactions or any other BS Ubisoft does or any other game company. COD I'm looking at you to, also Outer Worlds I would indeed buy IF it was on Steam but I will torrent because F the Epic store I only have Steam and nothing else. I don't support any other store I do not need all this crap on my PC. I swear I am going to post a torrent link to Epic Games Twitter account when I see Outer Worlds up, and say to them F you and your store you think I'm going to wait a year for it to be released on Steam? Nope I have it and you Epic Games can't do anything about it. Try to shut down any torrent site I will sit back and laugh :)