Ubisoft's greed know no bound, AC shadows to have Battle pass? Avatar paywalls base game with DLC

Ubiflop leeks suggest Assassins Creed shadows will have a paid battle pass with daily grinding, because without microtransactions what else will they do? Similarly, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has for the last four months been paywalling the base game from people who own the game by locking all save files until you buy the 15 dollar DLC