Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws will lock an exclusive mission featuring Jabba the Hutt behind the Season Pass. While Star Wars fans were excited about the concept of an open world title set in A Galaxy Far Far Away, the latest information revealed for Outlaws has been controversial. Star Wars Outlaws takes place before Return of the Jedi, and places its players in the role of Kay Vess, an ambitious scoundrel and thief from Cantonica. However, despite being an entirely single-player experience, Ubisoft has designed Star Wars Outlaws as an always-online title, with a Season Pass that will offer players access to exclusive content.
While this decision has been unpopular with fans, the price tag for the special editions of Star Wars Outlaws hasn't helped either. In order to enjoy the full breadth of content in Outlaws, Ubisoft expects players to pay either $109.99 for the Gold Edition of the game, or $129.99 for the Ultimate Edition, which also comes with two cosmetic bundles and a digital art book of Star Wars Outlaws. The Gold Edition and Ultimate Edition come with the Season Pass, which will allow players to continue Kay Vess' story through the exclusive Jabba's Gambit mission and two additional story expansions once they release.
Details on the Season Pass can now be read on the official Star Wars Outlaws website, with the Gold and Ultimate Edition also allowing customers to play Star Wars Outlaws sooner with a 3-Day Early Access period. Given that Jabba the Hutt played a prominent role in the game's marketing, with Ubisoft claiming that Kay Vess could either betray or ally with Jabba, some players will no doubt be disappointed that the content will be locked behind the Season Pass at launch.
The full release of Star Wars Outlaws is August 27, 2024, as it will launch on the PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. While Ubisoft's open world formula has caught some critique in the past couple of years, Star Wars Outlaws will offer the developers a chance to breathe new life into an old format. Kay Vess will be able to traverse the planets in Star Wars Outlaws on her customizable speeder, and will similarly be able to hop across different planets via the Trailblazer, a light freighter that serves as her ship and base of operations.
An important thing to note is that Ubisoft will allow players to enjoy all the bonus content coming with the Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws by subscribing to Ubisoft+ for $17.99. While many Star Wars fans would prefer to subscribe for a month or two and enjoy Outlaws at an affordable price, Ubisoft's goal with Ubisoft+ is for its customers to become comfortable with not owning the video games they play – a direction that has been met with considerable backlash.
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Since unveiling the eye-watering $130 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws last week, Ubisoft has been under fire from fans furious a full-priced single-player game would even warrant a Season Pass in the first place. Worse, acquiring the Season Pass is the only way to «play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit mission at launch».
Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are promising an expansive open world experience with the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws, which is being billed as the ultimate scoundrel fantasy, and though that will involve a lot of juggling of different criminal syndicates and maintaining your reputation with each different faction, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to find the time to sit down and, say, play some cards.
The classic card game Sabacc will finally be playable in Star Wars Outlaws, as revealed by the game’s ESRB rating. Ubisoft and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora developer Massive Entertainment announced that they were working on an open-world Star Wars game back in 2021, but it wasn’t until last June’s Xbox Games showcase that fans learned what it was going to be about. Star Wars Outlaws will put players in the role of Kay Vess, an aspiring outlaw looking to make her mark on the criminal underworld by pulling a massive heist against the rising Zerek Besh organization.
A spokesperson for Ubisoft addressed concerns over Star Wars Outlaws' controversial Jabba the Hutt DLC mission. Fans of a galaxy far, far away have rallied against the publisher for the price point of its Star Wars Outlaws special edition packages, which come with price tags ranging from $109.99 to $129.99. The community was particularly displeased with the reveal of an exclusive DLC mission for Jabba the Hutt, which will only be playable for users who purchased one of the special bundles or the season pass.
The ESRB rating for Star Wars Outlaws has arrived, and while it's largely what you'd expect from an action game in the sci-fi franchise, it has revealed one notable detail: Sabacc is finally going to be playable in a Star Wars video game.
Ubisoft confirms that buying the expensive Star Wars Outlaws special editions will not be the only way to experience Jabba the Hutt missions in the upcoming game.
Following a mild-to-moderate outcry, Ubisoft have clarified that queasy worm gangster Jabba The Hutt isn't, in fact, a Star Wars Outlaws special edition or season pass exclusive. The apparently much-beloved star slug will appear in every edition of the game, but if you scrape together the credits for the Gold or Ultimate Editions, you'll get access to a Jabba's Gambit mission as part of the game's season pass.
Ubisoft has commented on the controversy surrounding Star Wars Outlaws after it was revealed that one of its missions will be behind a paywall from day one. Ubisoft argues that the mission in question, Jabba's Gambit, is "optional", defending the decision to lock it to a season pass.
Ubisoft has responded to the ongoing backlash against the Star Wars Outlaws season pass, insisting Jabba the Hutt is part of the experience for all players.
Since its latest story trailer debuted, Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws has received some interesting reactions. However, several have spoken out against the Jabba’s Gambit mission, which is playable at launch but only for those who own the Season Pass. The only way to get it is by paying $129.99 for the Ultimate Edition.
Ubisoft has responded to the outcry over Star Wars Outlaws' Jabba the Hutt mission, which will be available at the game's launch only to owners of the game's pricey Gold or Ultimate Editions.