{"id":28560,"date":"2025-09-05T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2129551"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:00:49","slug":"a-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-starts-selling-xp-boosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-starts-selling-xp-boosts\/","title":{"rendered":"A month after launch, Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla starts selling XP boosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/a-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-starts-selling-xp-boosts.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla launched in November with a shop selling cosmetic extras for real money, but to the surprise of many, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-11-10-assassins-creed-valhalla-doesnt-sell-xp-boosts-like-odyssey\">the XP boost packs sold in Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey were conspicuously absent<\/a>. Not to worry, everyone: the controversial microtransactions have now arrived. <\/p>\n<p>A recent update from Ubisoft has introduced the XP boosts to Valhalla&#8217;s Helix store. The boost grants a 50 per cent increase to XP progression and can be used across all save files. It&#8217;ll cost you, though: the boost can be bought for 1000 Helix credits, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.ubi.com\/uk\/assassin-s-creed-valhalla-helix-credits-small-pack\/5f6c99d80d253c2228fda46d.html\">equivalent to \u00a38.58<\/a>. A similar pack can be bought to earn 50 per cent more silver, while a pack combining both the silver and XP boosts will cost you 1500 Helix credits (or \u00a312.88 if you buy the 500 and 1050 packs). <\/p>\n<p>The XP boost was controversial in Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey, not only because players felt microtransactions didn&#8217;t belong in a full-price single-player title, but due to Odyssey&#8217;s slow levelling process and level gates. This led some fans to claim the grind was there to deliberately encourage players to buy boost packs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-17-one-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-has-started-selling-xp-boosts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-17-one-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-has-started-selling-xp-boosts\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla launched in November with a shop selling cosmetic extras for real money, but to the surprise of many, the XP boost packs sold in Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey were conspicuously absent. Not to worry, everyone: the controversial microtransactions have now arrived. A recent update from Ubisoft has introduced the XP boosts to Valhalla&#8217;s Helix store. The boost grants a 50 per cent increase to XP progression and can be used across all save files. It&#8217;ll cost you, though: the boost can be bought for 1000 Helix credits, equivalent to \u00a38.58. A similar pack can be bought to earn 50 per cent more silver, while a pack combining both the silver and XP boosts will cost you 1500 Helix credits (or \u00a312.88 if you&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-month-after-launch-assassins-creed-valhalla-starts-selling-xp-boosts\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A month after launch, Assassin&#039;s Creed Valhalla starts selling XP boosts | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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