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.
Holy shit that was wilder than I expected
Patrux bullied and harassed others by violence and setting a colleague’s beard on fire.
Somehow I had memory holed this. Just generally hate Ubisoft. But jesus fucking christ I remember this coming out. Yea fuck Ubisoft.
Looks like I’ll just wait to pirate this pirate game. :D
It leaked a few days before launch
This is the way
I don’t buy Ubisoft garbage.
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.
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.
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
God damnit Ubisoft you had ONE more opportunity where you could have redeemed yourself and you just. Can’t. Fucking. Stop.
Ok they can have one more chance and they better not ef it up this time. Jk fuck Ubisoft and all their ancestors
Fuck Ubisoft.
And off the wishlist, it goes.
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.
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?
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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