It's been less than a year since Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the 12th game in the massive franchise, hit the market. Ubisoft has claimed that the Viking based action-RPG is the company's second-largest profit-generating game in its 35-years history.
These impressive results were provided as part of the company's second-quarter earnings report. Unfortunately, Ubisoft didn't go into further detail about the exact sales numbers for the title. Previously the company revealed that AC Valhalla's sales set a record for the franchise, selling over 1.8 million copies in its first week.
In addition to its strong performance of premium sales across all platforms, Valhalla's story DLC was a big success, too. The company stated that the latest Siege of Paris expansion "delivered record engagement" for the players and the game had higher daily average revenue per user figures than Assassin's Creed Odyssey. This included the additional profit from the microtransactions available via the in-game marketplace.
For the record, we don't know which Ubisoft game is currently number one on the list, as the company didn't clarify that as of now. But let's be honest, it's 100% Ghost Recon Breakpoint, right?
With such great success and impressive engagement levels, it's no surprise that the publisher intends to support Assassin's Creed Valhalla with new content, notably "in the second half of the current fiscal year" — ending on March 31, 2022. According to the recent datamine, the upcoming third DLC will be called Dawn of Ragnarok and will send Eivor to Svartalfheim.
What's more, Ubisoft says it plans to release paid content for the Assassin's Creed series each year — whatever that means. It's unclear whether the company refers to paid DLC expansions or new games annually. This is a bit strange, as the publisher earlier noted that there will be no new Assassin's Creed game in 2022.
The ambitious Assassin's Creed Infinity project is still in the early stages of development. According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, it won't be free-to-play but a huge premium innovative project with "a lot of narrative elements."