Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Universality Analysis

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Defining Excellence with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege To define excellence is to define consistent perfection. Something that may be excellent in one moment will never reach consistent perfection. But for something that obtains excellence that changes rapidly over time is an amazing feat. Most video games may are considered amazing video games for quite a while until becoming obsolete. Makes you rethink why we have “Game of the Year” awards, rather than, “Game of the Decade” or “Game of the Generation” awards. Though many video games have short lifespans and will never be maintained past 2 years. Ubisoft’s release of “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege” set out to achieve consistent perfection. Rainbow Six: Siege is the best video game to help define excellence. Rainbow Six: Siege is one of the most viewed games on Twitch despite the game being three years old and is considered an excellent game that is thriving daily. When it was released, critics called it a disaster populated with widespread bugs and a weak anti-cheat system. But most importantly, the baffling amount of in-game currency a player would have to “grind” for to buy beneficial attachments for weaponry, discouraged players from picking up the game. To further anger gamers, Ubisoft also implemented an alternate option to buy those attachments with real currency, giving players willing to spend more, an advantage against players who believe a game should come with all its necessities especially for $60. Paying