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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.
Running AC4 on my modified Xbox console. 0 issues, 0 bucks paid for the game, 0 fucks given.
Ubisoft ruined one too many games. My beloved Rocksmith now is a useless microtransaction shell of its former power. I won’t buy a single ubisoft game in the future. Time to lay rest to the cancer they brought into gaming.
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.
The layoffs seem more like “line must go up’”
This is literally always the case
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 👍
- 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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Ohhhhh noooooo, they are selling skins. THOSE MONSTERS!
Y’all just want to bitch 🤣
I kind of agree.
Yeah it’s annoying, but literally nobody is making you interact with it
+1
It’s annoying that it’s there, but it seems ignorable. The level of outrage here is disproportionate.
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
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
if ye buy from the cash shop ye a landlubber not a captain
Sea shanties now cost $0.50 per word sung.
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’!
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.
I’ve played about 8 hours of resynced. The game is good. I replayed the original last year, and everything looks and feels better.
While there is a cash shop now, I’m pretty sure the original had that stupid animus store where you could spend cash to buy credits to buy stuff. Personally, I’d rather they just put a price on it. I can’t even really fault them for putting the time saver shit in for an extra cost. If you only have a limited amount of time available to play paying a few bucks to reduce the friction and make it more fun can be worth it. I’d be upset if it was included by default. I want to go follow the wind and see what adventures I find.
My only complaints so far are that a bunch of shit that looks climeable isn’t, and the ship upgrades are really locked behind story. I want to pillage now.
Did paying a few bucks in the cash shop give you a sense of pride and accomplishment?
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I can’t even really fault them for putting the time saver shit in for an extra cost. If you only have a limited amount of time available to play paying a few bucks to reduce the friction and make it more fun can be worth it. I’d be upset if it was included by default. I want to go follow the wind and see what adventures I find.
The problem with this opinion is that the friction exists in the game because of the cash shop. If they had decided not to have a cash shop at the design stage then they also wouldn’t have implemented the friction that you get to skip by paying money.
So you can either pay money to make it more fun like you said, or Ubisoft could make a proper game and have it be fun without you having to pay for the game more than once.
I want that friction. I want to have to explore to find stuff. I don’t want to just be chasing markers on a map. I don’t currently have any constraints on my time, so randomly swimming to an island to see if there’s anything there is part of the charm.
On the flip side, I totally get if you only have a few hours a week to play, and don’t want to waste it doing shit that doesn’t pay off.
But what about the poor shareholders?
Given how Ubislop stocks fell in recent years, they are properly poor and that’s good.
The original did have a cash shop as well. Having not played the remake, I understand that the cash shop now includes cosmetics, which the original did not iirc. The original cash shop had in game resources and bonuses.
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.
Glad I had zero hopes for this from the start. Just gonna wait for Windrose to 1.0 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.
The original holds up quite well, at least on PC with highest settings and resolution you can get. I never finished the game to be honest and thought to myself to revisit it to finally get the job done. But then waited for the Remake and it looks like its not a must have.
About the cash shop, one could just ignore it, right?
