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Cash shop in a single player game.
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Contains Denuvo and requires a Ubisoft account to use their shitty launcher.
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Has adverts in-game.
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Launched with $85 of DLC.
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Immediately started laying off workers after launch.
Fuck Ubisoft, and if you bought this game, fuck you too.
Honestly the “laying people off after launch” speaks volumes of the teams that do the same; can you not work multiple projects and shift people to the other one until it’s complete?
The layoffs seem more like “line must go up’” than any kind of “we can no longer afford you now the job is done”.
I’m probably preaching to the choir.
Yeah, totally.
I really dislike the dishonesty. If you’re always going to lay-off/downsize/insert-capitalist-euphemism-here after each project is done then stop hiring people as staff and hire them as contractors instead. Make it clear from the start it’s not a permanent position.
But that’s more expensive, as people demand 50-100% more salary as a contractor; Line must go up faster
Yup, exactly 👍
The layoffs seem more like “line must go up’”
This is literally always the case
It’s self-cannibalizing also. Layoffs are now the only way for them to maximize profits enough for their shareholders to get their ROI, and in the future even that won’t be enough. They will be drained of every ounce of value that can be extracted of them and then discarded. Such is the fate of every company that gets in bed with wall street.
- Immediately started laying off workers after launch.
Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.
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Sea shanties now cost $0.50 per word sung.
Why, are they generated by AI and you have to pay for the tokens? /s
Stop giving them ideas…jfc
That would be more expensive.
Ubi was a dev that I paid dearly,
Wey-hey bully in the alley,
And if they could they’d charge us all yearly,
Bully down on Shinbone Al’!
The comments online are nuts. “The original had it so it’s a nothing burger”.
Wtf are you smoking to think it’s okay to accept micro transaction on a single player game that’s a remake from a decade ago?
Have you see the cash shop items though?
If you want to spend an extra $12 to parade through the pirate game with flaming armour and a molten skin for your boat be my guest I guess.
This is a nothing burger. It’s had this shit for years, and nobody with taste is going to buy it, so fuck it, let the fools be separated from their cash.
You can… Not just have it as a micro transaction.
Or do like every other fucking remake in the past decade and include it in the game.
I mean the microtransactions are one thing but the headline is also making it seem like the original was a perfectly ethical game which it absolutely wasn’t.
I remember the original being pretty mid. Am I remembering wrong? Like it was interesting for a few days and then I don’t remember ever playing it again…
It was the best asscreed game. Which are pretty mid
if ye buy from the cash shop ye a landlubber not a captain
Remember when it came out in 2020 that Ubisoft had an internal sex ring in which the upper management were preying on the women in the development staff?
I haven’t played an Ubisoft game since, including some favorites.
Somehow I had memory holed this. Just generally hate Ubisoft. But jesus fucking christ I remember this coming out. Yea fuck Ubisoft.
Holy shit that was wilder than I expected
Patrux bullied and harassed others by violence and setting a colleague’s beard on fire.
Glad I had zero hopes for this from the start. Just gonna wait for Windrose to 1.0 for my pirate fix instead of bothering with this.
Same. At this point the only thing Ubisoft could possibly convince me to buy is another VR assassins creed but they already announced that they’re done with VR because they hate fun.
Looks like I’ll just wait to pirate this pirate game. :D
It leaked a few days before launch
This is the way
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
Eh? The original had a cash shop too, and some stuff locked behind a mobile companion app AFAIK
Pretty sure there were weekly challenges as well. It would tell you global stats of how many ships destroyed or whatever.
I don’t buy Ubisoft garbage.
Fuck Ubisoft.
Ohhhhh noooooo, they are selling skins. THOSE MONSTERS!
Y’all just want to bitch 🤣
You’re not wanted here
Too bad, you’re in a public space. Aged thanks to the fediverse there is literally nothing you can do. Aren’t IPs and anonymity the best?
Doesn’t change the fact you’re a douche canoe.
I’m lovely. Permanently online gamers who just can’t enjoy themselves deserve to be educated and bullied.
OH GOD THEY SOLD A MORON A SKIN, REEEEEEEEEEEE
I could literally block you big dawg tf do you mean there’s nothing I can do
But if I did block you I couldn’t enjoy seeing you downvoted to the depths of hell
Lol, lmao even, keep going, i might even follow you for entertainment
You could, but id be right back on another account.
You are honestly better off tagging, although it’s going to get tossed eventually.
I kind of agree.
Yeah it’s annoying, but literally nobody is making you interact with it
This kind of circle jerking hate behaviour is kinda the norm here unfortunately. People here wanna say they’re nothing like reddit but msot of us came here from reddit and what did they expect?
And off the wishlist, it goes.
Not defending this, but it did remind me of how nuts the monetization was on the original. I had a modded 360 at the time, and there used to be an old school forum style website that curated all available DLC. This game had exclusive content for GameStop, Walmart, Target, and I think a 4th and 5th retailer too. Not to mention the pre-order bonuses and other exclusives. I wanna say there were around 25 different pieces of content and to get 100% of what was available, youd’ve had to buy 5 retail copies of the same game… or have a modded 360 and an internet connection. Even unlocking the content was more of a hassle than most DLCs. You had to move your user profile to a USB stick, connect it to your PC, inject the entitlements to the exclusive costumes into your profile, then move the profile back to your console.
Black Flag is 13 years old?! Now I feel old.
