Ubisoft Spring Sale

a) You don't have to play the try hard ranked mode, casual is a perfectly fine multiplayer experience.
b) Disagree
c) A quick well placed headshot will always beat a random spraying headshot, how you begin the encounter is just as important as what you do in the encounter
d) They fixed peeker's advantage a long time ago

The cash shop is completely optional, all you have to do is buy the base game to have a good experience. Cosmetic skins, weapon skins, charms for your gun? Those don't matter to me at all. And you can easily get 25K renown using challenges and winning matches to unlock the DLC operators for free, which is really awesome, and always give you goals to unlock new things in the future.

I would recommend viewing it as a 'fun multiplayer game', not a 'competitive FPS'.

Virtually all FPS after, say, Quake 3 have had too much in terms of engine issues, network latency issues, murky gameplay, unbalanced weapons / maps etc to be truly 'competitive'. I would definitely label Siege the most fun FPS I have played in years, but never the most competitive.

P.S.: In your higher ranks, do people actually use the drones then instead of mindlessly 'peeking'?

Yeah, I try to do the same and wait for Complete and GOTY Editions, just wanted to point it out in all fairness.
Guess 60% off is an ok-ish deal for the Gold Edition, I havent been monitoring prices closely but the prices in general seem a little worse than at the 30 Anniversary sale they had about half a year ago.

i do the exact opposite. i almost never care about any extras anyway. i never understood why people always want to buy deluxe editions on release. in 99% of the cases those have no real value. they just include artbooks and maybe a few useless skins most of the time. but they cost like 10€ more. no thanks. ^^

i recently had one exception. that was For Honor. but in that case i only had to pay 1 csgo key extra. and the deluxe edition included 3 days championship status, which is a xp boost and other things, so it was worth it. at least more than a fucking artbook. ;)

i also generally ignore DLC. there are exceptions, but in almost all cases i am done with a game anyway after the main campaign and don't want to play any more of it. so buying DLC upfront is useless to me (which means, even a year after release i probably would prefer the base game - if still available - over the complete edition). and there are only extremely few cases where i want to play more after beating a game. DmC was such a game. after beating it i bought that DLC with a 2 hour campaign. but i think that's the only game in all of 2016 i played a DLC of (if i don't forget anything).

LOL thanks for the correction :D It was just late, and I don't really use origin, or uplay clients so I tend to mix them, and it didn't help that Alice ran from Steam :)

Or Steam ;p