Assassin's Creed Valhalla becomes first AC game to make over $1 billion in revenue

[midian182]

In brief: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of the best entries in the AC franchise. It’s also received an absolute ton of post-launch content and extras, which has helped the game set a record for the series: the first to generate over $1 billion in revenue.

Axios reports that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s record-breaking revenue during a call with investors yesterday.

Valhalla was always going to make Ubisoft a lot of money. As with other Assassin’s Creed games, there is an entire DLC marketplace worth of items such as weapons, armor, mounts, etc. that can be purchased by players.

It helps that the game is gigantic, requiring well over 100 hours if you want to see and do pretty much everything. There are also the free additions, such as season festivals and the recent crossover missions with Odyssey, ensuring players stick around.

Many of those billion dollars will have come from the game’s two enormous expansions: Wrath of the Druids and The Siege of Paris. They are part of the Season Pass and can also be bought separately, adding many more hours and ways of spending money to the game.

Next month, Ubisoft will see another boost to its AC Valhalla profits when the Dawn of Ragnarök add-on is released. The 40-hour expansion will bring a lot more to the game than its two predecessors, including being able to steal abilities from enemies, allowing a player to, for example, turn into a raven or become immune to an elemental effect.

Ubisoft also announced some stats for its other big games. In the case of Far Cry 6, players spent 45% more time on average in the game than they did with Far Cry 5, while the average playing time for Ubisoft Annecy’s Riders Republic was up 60% compared to the studio’s previous game. Both titles’ player recurring investment (PRI), which is the amount someone spends beyond the initial purchase price, rose. In the case of FC6 vs. FC5, PRI was up 30%.

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[scavengerspc]

It is the only AC game good enough to make that much.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

Perhaps this AC is different than the other past....10/11 entries in the story?

However, after Ubisoft kept regurgitating the same stuff after the first 4 games I found the series to be old and stale. I'm really surprised the series has stayed on as long as it has.

I enjoyed the first one - it was different, not terribly exciting, but different.
Then ACII improved upon things and it was fun.
Then you had brotherhood and revelations - they didn't really offer anything new and the games started getting stale. The storyline was decent enough on them to keep me playing, but even that was wearing thing.
Then you get ACIII - I think this one brought the naval warfare, but I didn't find it entertaining. I stopped paying for Assassin's Creed games after that.

I was gifted a copy of AC: Rogue, I did play through it, but it was just the same stuff over and over again from the first games. That was the last AC game I played and never thought about it again.

 

[redhat]

Ubisoft has good ideas but the implementation is terrible (repeating missions infinitely)

 

[axiomatic13]

I really missed the naval combat in Valhalla. I thought Odyssey was a superior game.

 

[Sausagemeat]

I thought Valhalla was boring af. It’s a game with no soul. Every ingredient is right, it has tonnes of content, nords, longboats, massive open world, fluid combat etc etc. Yet it lacks character. I didn’t finish it or Odyssey and I won’t buy the next one.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

AC Odyssey is excellent. Sure some minor missions get repetitive, but the atmosphere and mythology is excellent. Haven't tried Valhalla yet, but I'll be doing Origins next.

 

[RudyBob]

None of my crypto

 

[Ben1978]

Perhaps this AC is different than the other past....10/11 entries in the story?

However, after Ubisoft kept regurgitating the same stuff after the first 4 games I found the series to be old and stale. I'm really surprised the series has stayed on as long as it has.

I enjoyed the first one - it was different, not terribly exciting, but different.
Then ACII improved upon things and it was fun.
Then you had brotherhood and revelations - they didn't really offer anything new and the games started getting stale. The storyline was decent enough on them to keep me playing, but even that was wearing thing.
Then you get ACIII - I think this one brought the naval warfare, but I didn't find it entertaining. I stopped paying for Assassin's Creed games after that.

I was gifted a copy of AC: Rogue, I did play through it, but it was just the same stuff over and over again from the first games. That was the last AC game I played and never thought about it again.

Origins and odyssey are both excellent. Really refined versions of what came before. But I only finished origins cos Odyssey is a true Odyssey. I can imagine Valhalla being the same: just overly long and overly stuffed. Can fully understand why the series does so well though, cos it is polished and serious value for money.