[STEAM] No, Assassin's Creed Shadows Isn't Getting a Battle Pass

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Ubisoft has clarified that

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isn't getting a battle pass amid rumors that the Animus Hub, the rebranded *********'s Creed Infinity set to house all future games in the franchise, will feature paid content.

The Animus Hub team

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to correct leaks claiming the hub would contain paid rewards for *********'s Creed Shadows, leading many to believe a battle pass style system was being implemented.

"It has come to our attention that inaccurate rumors have been circulating online regarding the upcoming Animus Hub (ex-codename Infinity)," Ubisoft said. "We wanted to take this occasion to clarify that all the rewards available in the Animus Hub will be entirely free."

The post went on to clarify "there are no paid subscriptions or paid battle passes featured in the Animus Hub" and "players will have access to regular content and missions at no extra cost." More details will be revealed closer to the launch of *********'s Creed Shadows, which

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Ubisoft is also ditching its main paid content model of releasing a Season Pass with two main, paid expansion drops in the year after launch.

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that sees publishers charge players more to play on the actual release date instead of three days later has also been scrapped.

Releasing myriad pieces of downloadable content for free will perhaps bring some *********'s Creed fans back on-side in what's otherwise been a particularly rough pre-launch campaign for Ubisoft.

Issues began as some fans expressed frustration with inaccuracies in the game's depiction of Japan,

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and say the game is not intended to be a factual representation of history but instead "a compelling, historical fiction." This despite art director Thierry Dansereau telling IGN that

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just two months prior.

Concern was also raised when

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in artwork for *********'s Creed Shadows without permission. Ubisoft apologized for doing so but refused to remove the artwork from the aforementioned and presumably already printed artbook available in the Collector's Edition. The historical re-enactment group said

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, but Ubisoft hasn't publicly acknowledged it since.

Yet another controversy came as

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over its "insensitive" design.

All this comes as fans are already frustrated by the delay to the game, which puts *********'s Creed Shadows in more direct competition with

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. This is also expected in 2025 and is another open-world action adventure game set in Feudal Japan.

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, however. "There's a lot of space for very high-quality games, and those two games can sell very well," he said in the company's latest earnings call. "The focus is to really make sure that we deliver a fantastic experience with this dual protagonist approach and two different and complimentary gameplays."

Assassins Creed Shadows indeed features two protagonists,

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and

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. The game's story will weave between the two but players can otherwise switch between them at will as they explore Ubisoft's open-world take on Japan.

It will also begin a new modern day story, perhaps linked to the Animus Hub, as

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in recent years.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

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