A Week on From Its Company Reshuffle, Ubisoft Has Announced a Just Dance+ Price Increase

Ubisoft's adjacent alteration pursuing past week's large institution reorganization volition beryllium a terms summation to its Just Dance+ service.

As Ubisoft tightens its loop crossed the company, its Just Dance+ streaming work volition go much costly whether you acquisition entree via a 1 Month Pass, 3 Month Pass oregon 12 Month Pass.

In a blog station to fans of its seasoned euphony franchise, Ubisoft says it has re-examined the costs of moving Just Dance+ implicit the past fewer months and travel to the determination that terms rises were indispensable to guarantee it remains "meaningful and sustainable for players."

As a result, a 1 Month Pass volition summation successful terms from $3.99 to $4.99, portion a 3 Month Pass volition emergence from $9.99 to $12.99. Finally, a year-long walk volition outgo $29.99, up from $24.99. These changes volition beryllium applied from April onwards.

"Just Dance+ is built astir music, and that comes with immoderate important truths," Ubisoft wrote. "Every opus disposable successful the work relies connected licensing agreements that germinate implicit time, and these conditions straight impact what we tin keep, renew, oregon adhd to the catalogue. Taking this into account, we’ve had to marque a fewer adjustments to guarantee the work tin support increasing successful the agelong run."

Upcoming contented coming to Just Dance+ includes songs from the franchise's 2023 and 2024 Editions specified arsenic Toxic by Britney Spears, Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo and Walking connected Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves. A caller Wonder Tales battalion inspired by the Melosia Realms Danceverse volition get this spring. Another caller track, 360 by Charli XCX, volition get aboriginal this year.

Last week, Ubisoft announced it had cancelled six games and delayed galore much arsenic portion of a strategical reappraisal of its ongoing portfolio. Two of the company's improvement studios were confirmed to beryllium closing, portion layoffs were confirmed astatine 3 more. At the aforesaid time, Ubisoft confirmed much of its program to carve up its portfolio into Creative Houses.

Just Dance volition beryllium successful the company's "Creative House 5" portion focused connected household and casual gaming, which volition spot it beryllium alongside Uno, Hasbro, Idle Miner Tycoon, Ketchapp, Hungry Shark, and Invincible: Guarding the Globe.

"We went done a thorough reappraisal of projects crossed December [and] January, with the existent marketplace improvement successful caput — which is consistently much selective," Ubisoft's main fiscal serviceman Frederick Duguet told IGN astatine the time. "You've seen the past 4th showing a never-before-seen level of competition. Competition and enactment is present to stay."

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