14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft has talked a bit more about its recently announced Far Cry 4 and revealed that the open world shooter will have more multiplayer content and even microtransactions, in order to generate a bigger profit.
Far Cry 4 was unveiled earlier this month right before Ubisoft's financial earnings call, confirming that it takes place in the Himalayas and that players will once again embark on an epic single-player campaign, not to mention different multiplayer experiences.
During its financial briefing, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot pledged that Far Cry 4 would have a lot more multiplayer content, and even hinted that microtransactions and more DLC would appear for the online portion.
"We are working on launching games that will be played for a longer time," Guillemot said, via GameSpot. "This will allow us to do more DLC [and] item-based sales in those games."
Ubisoft's Chief Financial Officer, Alain Martinez, also explained that it's a tricky goal to achieve but other rivals have shown this to be a successful strategy.
"We are moving to make games that are extended over longer periods, so in those games, we not only want to sell more [units], but we want to sell more items, more content," Martinez said. "That's one of the challenges of course, but that's what we're seeing some other players have successfully done."
Far Cry 3 had a competitive multiplayer and a cooperative campaign separate from the single-player one. It received a few DLC add-ons and the standalone Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon expansion.