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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.
I’m so glad I got at least some songs on Rocksmith before they were pulled from the Xbox store. The new version is absolute trash
I should figure out what to do with my modded PS3 before the shop shuts down. I think the modded software pulls from the official store servers for some things like games?
AFAIK any ps3 is able to be Software hardmodded (though some sort of a program, permanent effect). There are a few series that allow to pull games off online for Xbox (some degraded and won’t work anymore) and I bet something like this exists for ps3 too. Check consolemods.org. They have plenty of info there
Ooo thank you, I actually installed CFW on my PS3 already recently! I was lucky that my slim is a model that can be permanently CFW’d. I should do my 360 as well… only issue is, it doesn’t have HDMI so none of my screens work with it unless I get a capture card D:
Quick edit; oh, in my previous comment I was saying I should utilize the CFW to get some things that might not be available as easily when the store closes, which I believe in next year.
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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 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…
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.
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
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.
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.
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.
But what about the poor shareholders?
Given how Ubislop stocks fell in recent years, they are properly poor and that’s good.
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.
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.
Imagine if there existed something like an option to play the game more casually and increase drops/xp so people could play the game at their own pace. We could call them “Gameplay Options” and have the users select them before the game starts (and allow them to change them later too). Revolutionary, I know.
This happened with Shadow of War, they claimed the microtransactions did not affect the game design, but when they removed the microtransactions, they streamlined the end-game to have far less grind.
Did paying a few bucks in the cash shop give you a sense of pride and accomplishment?
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.
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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.
“good luck i’m behind seven proxies” energy projection
I mean, what’s untrue? Instances don’t enforce identity. IPbans are worthless.
I kind of agree.
Yeah it’s annoying, but literally nobody is making you interact with it
Bitching on corporate overlords is good, clean fun.
They updated a classic, and it works well 🤷♂️
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?
Black Flag is 13 years old?! Now I feel old.
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
Windrose exists and is already a bunch of fun!
Was it added in a post-launch update?
Didn’t Ubisoft collapse or something?
Can I join your reality? Seems nice to live somewhere where moronic choices produce tangible consequences to those that made them, but that’s not how it works where I live.
Somehow, despite the scandals and one of the main family members dying, they are still going strong with their bullshit.
