Rainbow Six Siege’s new subscription is already a mess

During the weekend, Ubisoft announced that its long-standing success Rainbow Six Headquarters would receive a monthly subscription. Despite the dedicated community the game has built over the past eight and a half years, the reception to this decision has been anything but warm.

Instead, as PC gamer reports, the R6 Membership obtained universally soaked since it was announced during a tournament this weekend. A video included in PC gamerThe article shows a crowd booing Ubisoft, which can be seen here from another angle.

The R6 subscription, which will cost players $10 per month or $80 per year, comes with many of the same optional sub base attributes. By subscribing to the membership, players will have instant access to the current season’s battle pass, receive ten level skips to get ahead, and receive a Bravo Pack, which is SeatThis is the equivalent of loot boxes. Each month, players will also receive ten additional level jumps and another Bravo pack on their renewal date. Finally, people who subscribe to the sub will also receive a cosmetic reward with a legendary item and whatever the Epic pack is on the 28th of each month.

There’s a decent amount of stuff there for die-hard fans of Seatand the rest of the Battle Pass rewards also give unique weapon and operator skins, as well as in-game currency to add value, but the submarine’s timing couldn’t be worse. Seat is in the middle of his ninth year, which would be impressive if the current roadmap for the year hadn’t already disappointed players with its gaping lack of new content.

The roadmap for the next semester includes many overhauls of existing characters and systems, and while it is part of SeatPlans have been going on for a long time, there isn’t a multitude of new additions to keep fans happy. Such redesigns are, at this point, an essential part of maintaining a live service title. These games can’t always just add new cards, characters, and abilities. each season, and at some point this constant growth slows down to account for the imbalances it all creates. Eventually entire systems and sites need to be reworked or completely revised.

The same thing happened to games as big as League of Legends And Apex LegendsHowever, most games don’t work for most of the year with as few additions as Seat filmed in 2024. It added a new character, and Seat will add at least two more over the next few seasons, but the bulk of the “additions” coming for the rest of the year are changes to things that already exist in the game, which is starting to become a point sensitive to the community at the time. And then here’s a bunch of new cosmetics, but they’re stuck behind a new paywall.

To further add fuel to the fire, subscriptions like this are commonplace in games that are otherwise free, like Fortnite, but Seat has remained a premium title over the years. The optics of a subscription containing new goodies in this dearth of content for players who have otherwise already paid are undeniably bad, and you immediately understand why people are upset.

The editors are already calling boycott subscriptionwhile others are simply revel in the chaos. SeatThe upcoming season was detailed alongside the subscription announcement, which has only just been announced. worsened the reception given to the former.

Kotaku has contacted Ubisoft for comment.