Rainbow Six Siege X is now suffering from some terrible free currency drought. Ubisoft engineered this to ensure people who got hooked to the game start spending lots of cash in it, this is further proven right when they decide to drop one of the most expensive skins in the game. Those who know about Ubisoft are familiar with their schemes and how they operate, and when it comes to live service games Ubisoft is the king of taking every hard earned cent from your wallet. Live service games often exists as a way to siphon the most amount of cash out of people, and we at Infinite Start will show you the evidence.
Rainbow Six Siege X got greedy
In around 10 years of the game being out, Ubisoft opted to do quite the bold move to say the least, dropping a skin that costs $50 dollars. This is $50 dollars you are wasting on a virtual item that is bound to be deleted when the service goes down. I will never understand why people waste money on things like that, aside from the obvious FOMO tactics that Ubisoft loves to enact upon their playerbase. $50 can actually buy you a ton of cool indie games that are on a big discount, and you actually get to keep those too or at the very least cherish the good times that they brought to you.
After many attempts of companies trying to hold up the dying live service standard, its refreshing to see that many projects are actually getting rightfully punished. Rainbow Six Siege X is currently suffering from mixed reviews on Steam, and it will probably devolve in a review bombing scenario, which I agree with of course. Ubisoft has told us many times that we shouldn’t be comfortable owning our games, so Rainbow Six Siege X does not deserve our cash and neither Ubisoft.