Ubisoft raised money for a good cause with a special cosmetic bundle for the tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. The bundle was available for a limited time only – now there is a first overview.
What are these cosmetics? The first “Sixth Guardian” bundle included a special skin for the defender Doc and consisted of a white-yellow armor, a baseball cap with an OP mask, as well as a special skin for the MP5 and a weapon charm.
The bundle was available in Season 4 of Year 5 for 1,200 credits (about 10 €) as part of the eponymous “Sixth Defender” program that Ubisoft launched in November 2020. All proceeds from the packages went to a good cause, with at least $6 per package (via Ubisoft).
With the start of Season 1 of Year 6, the bundle is no longer available, but it apparently paid off well for the campaign.
Where did the money go? Ubisoft raised money for AbleGamers with the bundle. This is a US organization that has made it its goal since 2004 to make gaming accessible to everyone. The focus is on enabling gamers with disabilities to play without barriers.
With special hardware like mouth and eye tracking or specially adapted controllers, even gamers who cannot use regular gamepads, mouse, or keyboard can play. Something similar is aimed at by the Xbox Adaptive Controller .
AbleGamers pays special attention to addressing the specific needs of each gamer and tailoring access. You can find out more about the project on the official website (via AbleGamers.org).
For the organization, Ubisoft has already raised $171,183 with the first bundle – equivalent to about €142,643.
Rainbow Six aims to raise even more
The skin bundle for Doc was just the first of many that Ubisoft wants to introduce into the game. In the tweet, the developers have already revealed that “next season” another bundle will be released for the “Sixth Guardian” project. However, there are no further details about it yet.
At the moment, however, Rainbow Six has also recently received new content with another bundle. However, this has little to do with charity and donations.
In collaboration with Adult Swim, there are now “Rick & Morty” bundles for the operators Smoke and Sledge. With these, you can run around as a pickle or as a bug alien with matching skins.
However, the two bundles are also more expensive than the Doc bundle for AbleGamers. With 2,160 credits per bundle (or 4,080 for the complete package) you pay almost double to look quite ridiculous:
One of the most annoying operators in Rainbow Six now looks really ridiculous
