<br>The upcoming **Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora ** is releasing surprisingly soon, and despite a teaser trailer, there’s still not a lot known about the pricing of the game. Ubisoft has been developing Frontiers of Pandora for some time, has showcased the world of the Na’vi, and has explained the basic premise of the game. Players will play as one of the Na’vi protecting their homeland from the Resources Development Administration (RDA for short), and while it might seem like microtransactions run counter to Avatar 's themes, Ubisoft’s recent controversies with pricing show that there’s a large chance paid content will be introduced into the g<br><br> <br>Ubisoft hasn’t recently allowed players to pay for XP boosts, but it is a tactic that could be used to speed up progression in Frontiers of Pandora. The scope of the game has yet to be revealed, but it’s reasonable to expect a large open world with several side quests from Ubisoft’s past work with Immortals Fenyx Rising and Far Cry . One tactic Ubisoft could use to justify XP boosts is making XP hard to find in the expansive overworld, thus incentivizing players to simply buy it and save time leveling up their charac<br><br> <br>Ubisoft has been aggressively ramping up its microtransactions over the past ten years, and the Assassin's Creed franchise is a prime example of this. Assassin's Creed releases following Assassin's Creed: Unity have had some of the most egregious microtransactions in a single-player game. While AC Valhalla 's armory might get fans playing again , this same loot-centric game design and increasingly MMO-style progression systems are underpinned by in-game purchases of cosmetics and gear. Perhaps the worst in-game purchases, however, come in the form of XP boosters, which have a direct impact on the glacial pace of base-game leveling and upgrad<br><br> <br>One of the best parts about Assassin's Creed is the fact that it transports players to exciting historical settings. While seeing these unique time periods and locations is an at-times thrilling novelty, the games simply don't have the narrative chops to serve interesting stories in these settings. This is to say nothing of the overarching, long-running Assassin's Creed story , which is confusing and boring at best and nonsensical at wo<br><br> <br>Waiting for technology to catch up is another part of the series though. The Avatar movie waited for years for technology to be able to handle its vision and with the new generation of consoles and PC hardware where it is now is probably the best time to start the franchise’s series of games. It might mean waiting a bit longer for some fans but the best result possible comes from the game being on the hardware it needs when Frontiers of Pandora releases in 20<br><br> <br>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a game with lots of potential despite only having one film’s worth of mythology to work with so far. Capturing the years of world-building that James Cameron and the production team have created is no small task but given time the game could end up having a unique and unexplored alien world to discover. At the end of the day, it’s up to Ubisoft to decide whether microtransactions are right for **Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora ** , and hopefully, the game’s world won’t suffer from<br><br> <br>All that's been revealed about the story so far is that the Na'vi are engaged in a war against humans, who intend on colonizing and industrializing the planet. That's basically the same conflict in the film, but the journey the player takes to stop them is a standalone story. The Avatar game was announced in 2017 but this is the first glimpse fans have seen of the game. There's a lot to unpack from the trailer and lots of exciting possibilities for both story and gameplay, but the most exciting thing showcased in the trailer is the confirmation of flying Bansh<br> <br>Analyzing the reveal trailer, it seems that Frontiers of Pandora will be about exploring the planet as an Avatar and won't be about following the RDA. Without guns to play with, the best possible comparison is most likely Far Cry Primal , which actually didn’t have any microtransactions and only one DLC pack. Still, the Ubisoft title had opportunities to monetize with weapons and clothing cosmetics - it might just have seemed out of place in the prehistoric sett<br><br> <br>As complex as these details are, they still look to be tightly and neatly stacked next to one another. While many gamers may be used to open-world adventures where the densely populated areas and open wilderness feel like, they are lacking something the other has Frontiers of Pandora may have a true balance between them. In environments where animal and humanoid NPCs are all part of the ecosystem, it is hard to think of a way where their interconnected nature will not be present on the ground and in the skies. The proper execution of this could be incredibly important for the game and the future Avatar Frontiers of Pandora guide seque<br><br> <br>The content related to and based on the world of The Way of Water may end up being sold separately as a result. There’s no information about what areas will be available at launch, but given the production cycle, the team at Ubisoft has probably had less time to work on water-based exploration. Everything related to the film’s sequel releasing later this year might have to be DLC or map packs due to its departure from the first film’s source mater<br>
