Ubisoft thinks you should pay $120 for Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition even though it didn't win...

[Cal Jeffrey]

WTF?! Far Cry 6 Game of the Year (GOTY) Edition launches on Friday as an inexplicably strange bundle and costs $120. Several things make this version of the game weird, which I will touch on, but the main takeaway should be: Don't buy it. We don't want to encourage this type of marketing.

I've observed that game-of-the-year editions usually have a few things in common. They typically come out around a year after the title's initial release. Far Cry 6 turns one year old on Friday.

More often than not, the GOTY version includes Some or all of the already released DLC. Far Cry 6 GOTY bundle consists of all currently available DLC, the upcoming Lost Between Worlds expansion, and strangely, the 2013 Far Cry 3 expansion, Blood Dragon. It is also throwing in three cosmetic/weapon packs. These special edition bundles are often at or below the game's original MSRP.

Finally, GOTY editions, at least those I have purchased, actually won a Game of the Year award at some show or expo, be it BAFTA, Dice, The Game Awards Show, or other well-recognized organizations. Far Cry 6 does not share this distinction.

Now don't get me wrong. Far Cry 6 is not a bad game. It mostly follows the franchise's winning formula. However, it was nowhere close to my favorite game of 2021, and its award wins reflect that.

It was nominated for Best Music at BAFTA but lost to Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. It earned three nominations at The Game Awards but didn't take home a trophy. The National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) gave it a bunch of nominations. However, it only won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama for Giancarlo Esposito's portrayal of dictator Anton Castillo and Outstanding Graphics/Technical. NAVGTR was the only organization to nominate it for a GOTY, but it lost to Deathloop.

The bottom line is that while FC6 was a good game, it was up against some stiff competition and never won Game of the Year. So Ubisoft is only using the designation as a marketing gimmick to drum up interest in a game that has seen its sales dip considerably since release. It seems a bit shady to me.

You're better off skipping this bundle, and here's why. Weapon packs are worthless, in my opinion. They are mainly cosmetic and don't add value to the game, so let's leave them out of the big picture.

The three DLCs — Collapse, Control, and Insanity are worth the fun and go for $15 each or $40 if you buy the Season Pass. Coupled with the game, that's $100, the exact price and content of the Gold Edition. Blood Dragon is another $15, the same price as when released in 2013. Ubisoft has not announced how much Lost Between Worlds will go for, but based on the GOTY bundle, you'd be getting it for $5, which is good.

However, the three DLC are overpriced, in my opinion. Remember, I said they were "worth the fun," not "worth the price." You'd be better off waiting for these to go on sale and picking them up then. Blood Dragon is also asking a lot at $15 for a title that is almost a decade old and takes about two days to complete with a 100 percent trophy.

Wait. Let me rephrase that. Blood Dragon is worth its normal $15 price tag because of its hilarious one-liners and 1980s retro vibe. But it frequently goes on sale. I recently bought it for $8 and today it is on sale for $7.50 on the PlayStation Store.

Speaking of PlayStation owners, all three DLC and Blood Dragon are marked down 50 percent. That price is $10 less than the Season Pass and throws in BD for free. Unfortunately, Epic isn't running a sale, and the game is unavailable on Steam, so if you want a discount for PC, you'll have to be patient.

I'll close out by saying that the FarCry 6 GOTY Edition is disguised as a good value. Indeed, it is the best deal you can get right now if you are in a hurry. However, the bundle currently can be picked up for cheaper on PlayStation by individual purchases, and it probably won't be long until Epic has a similar sale.

The other thing is that buying a game of the year edition for a title that did not win a GOTY encourages developers to grant themselves awards or use obscure publications to justify giving their titles GOTY status just to boost flagging sales. Not something I would like to see become a trend.

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[ZedRM]

Ubisoft thinks you should pay $120 for Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition

Ladies, Gentlemen and everyone else, you want evidence that the leaders at Ubisoft are out of their minds and COMPLETELY out of touch with reality? Here you go.

Seriously? It's like "The Twilight Zone" got together with "The Three Stooges" tripped hard on some funky acid and then had kids..

@ Ubisoft
Just a heads up there peeps, FarCry6 is well named as it is a far cry from the greatness of the first title in the series and it certainly isn't worth $6, let alone $119.99. Also, quit lying to the public. Farcry6 has NOT won any Game of the Year awards. You people need to quit drinking Drano...

Edited to add information.

 

[Dimitriid]

[HEADING=2]Ubisoft thinks you should pay $120 for Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition even though it didn't win...[/HEADING]

I'll give you guys $12 and that is my final offer given how derivative this stuff is, otherwise I'll just pick 1 or 2 indie games instead: offer is on the table until my next paycheck so you got less than 2 weeks.

 

[Prosercunus]

They could offer it for free and I would still be up in the air on rather or not I want to use the disk space for it.

 

[Eldritch]

GOTY :
Greediness Of The Year Edition.
or
Got Out of Touch Years ago Edition.

 

[DSirius]

Ubisoft got it wrong again. Rather they have to pay us 120$ just to play their game.
Last years Ubisoft become famous for their toxic working culure instead of great games.
After they stopped supporting their own games I stopped buying any of their game.

 

[ZedRM]

Rather they have to pay us 120$ just to play their game.

Oh no thank you. They could not pay me enough to use their crap game client!

 

[RudyBob]

I think they should send me a free copy for review

 

[Neatfeatguy]

No Far Cry game should ever cost that, especially with how well they F'ed up Far Cry 2....3 was a slight improvement and it was all downhill after that.

I have more fun playing FarCry and that game is old, March, 2004. Still have my physical copy of the game, plus all the necessary patch files to install with it. I find the game more fun than any other Far Crap game.

 

[brucek]

Dudes at least throw in a NFT for me, I mean c'mon...

 

[Mr Majestyk]

I'll pay $10 tops in a STEAM sale in about 2 years if I can be bothered. $120 is literally taking the p!ss.

 

[ZedRM]

Far Cry 2....3 was a slight improvement and it was all downhill after that.

To be fair, Blood Dragon was very good.

 

[0dium]

To be fair, Blood Dragon was very good.

Agree. Was fun to play. Too bad it's really short

 

[Eldritch]

To be fair, Blood Dragon was very good.

True, equally true that it was released almost a decade ago (2013).

 

[pcnthuziast]

The very first game is underrated af. 2004 was a big year so it had a lot to compete with, but Far Cry is a sick game that all the sequels are a stark departure from and not even related to really.

 

[blueace]

Lmao GOTY edition mean you pay standard game price and you get all the DLC/Season Pass with it. Otherwise you're just buying the game and the season pass its not a GOTY edition.

 

[ZedRM]

True, equally true that it was released almost a decade ago (2013).

Yeah, that was part of my above points..

 

[hahahanoobs]

"Does this mean I can declare myself Employee of the Month?"

lol I think it does.

 

[Nobina]

This game was so average with a horrible storyline even though I pirated it I just after a few hours I got bored and wiped it off my disk. It's worth nothing.

 

[Kam7r]

Ppl are paying this lot for ubi's games ? all of them are the same copy-pasta mediocre open worlds with a different skin be it an AC or FC etc...

 

[SirDigby]

I played Far Cre 6 on the free weekend, I've historically really liked the FC series despite how uninspired and repetitive it had become. The main thing that's put me off for FC6 and FC5 ND is the whole health bar mechanic, I just hate health bars in shooters, especially FC6 as it tries to be somewhat grounded. They work for Borderlands because that gameplay style is a core mechanic and not some tacked on afterthought. ugh.

 

[Bobbydpue]

If the game was really good I could justify the price, but it sucked. Why does it take three shots with a shot gun to the head to kill a dog that's attacking my character? Why do I have to shoot baddies in the head twice with a .50 caliber weapon? Very few, if any, militaries choose between AP and hollow point ammunition on a mission to mission basis.

 

[Geralt]

I never had a better reason to crack a game.

 

[trgz]

I'll give you guys $12 and that is my final offer given how derivative this stuff is, otherwise I'll just pick 1 or 2 indie games instead: offer is on the table until my next paycheck so you got less than 2 weeks.

TBH I've played it twice during the free weekends and it's not worth $12

 

[Neatfeatguy]

TBH I've played it twice during the free weekneds and it's not worth $12

My brother purchased FarCry 4 and 5 for me when they were on sales. Not much money spent.

We never played FC4 together, but we did play through FC5 and I wish we hadn't. The forced cut scenes if one of you enters the area the cut scene triggers, both of you are pulled into the cut scene even though the other player was all the way across the map doing something else...and that's just one of the irritating things about the game....what a shotty game, I didn't enjoy any of my time playing it.

As for FC4, according to Uplay I've put around 10 hours into FC4. I do not remember ever, ever, playing FC4. Just goes to show you how unforgettable the game is.