Ghost Recon Breakpoint Open Beta Starts Next Week

I was in the closed alpha and beta. I guess I'm legally not allowed to go into the details (signed NDA), so I'll just leave it at this: they've made it into a Division-like loot shooter. If you're into realism, which a lot of GR-fans are to some degree, skip this one. I for sure will.

Okay, I played the beta of it a week or so ago. Then I read the progress won't carry over to the game's release. I will be skipping this open beta because I don't plan on putting any more time into it until my progress saves and carries forward.

The game is OK, but it is very tedious to get around at first. Yes, you can steal a vehicle or fly a helicopter, but enemies seem to be everywhere and so unless you stealth crouch walk across the entire huge country or fight every single checkpoint (and somehow avoid helicopter and drone patrols) you're constantly fighting. I also don't like how you can only "show" up to 3 objectives at a time. i wish there was a way for it to list all of the objectives (or maybe like up to 10), so that I can do multiple objectives while in a particular area.

I had lots of fun with Wildlands, both single player and co-op. This game on the other hand, was not fun at all. So many bugs, tacked on The Division style rpg elements and horrible performance. I think I'll skip this one.

I still wonder how those subscription services can be profitable. If they charge around 10 bucks per month for it and you can cancel it at any time, and you release your newest games on it from the start, then people might very well just pay for a month and then cancel it again until anything else comes out that might interest them. So how could this possibly make up for the loss in profits from people not buying their games at full price anymore? I guess them being able to keep 100% of the profits makes a big difference there, especially if there's any truth to that old claim that retail keeps about half of a game's sale price for itself. But even then that would be $30, which means that you'd have to subscribe to the service for about 3 months just to get to the same profit numbers. And this equation completely disregards all those overpriced super special deluxe editions as well, which seem to have beome a very nice source of additional income for publishers nowadays. There's lots of people willing to pay up to $100, if not more, for one single game. Enough to subscribe to a service like Ubisoft's for almost a year, assuming there's no reduced prices if you do subscribe for a whole year right away.

If it looks/plays anything like the closed beta then my advice is don't bother guys.

What a crappy video player! It always activates out of nowhere... Really annoying