Ubisoft Defends $85 Day-One DLC After AC Black Flag Resynced Gets Review-Bombed
Ubisoft said the add-ons are optional and the standard edition includes the full game after players criticized the launch pricing.
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched yesterday to critical acclaim, selling 2 million copies, but $85 worth of day-one DLC triggered review bombing on Steam, dragging the game's rating from Mostly Positive to Mostly Negative.
- Ubisoft has faced controversy over microtransactions for years, with practices dating back to the 2017 Origins release; the company previously defended additions in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, claiming they were designed for players who "value their time."
- Criticism focused on items offering a "paid gameplay advantage," with Steam user LittleFire131 calling the map pack "money hungry" for gating minimap icons behind a paywall for protagonist Edward Kenway.
- Responding to the outcry, Ubisoft clarified that the standard edition of Black Flag Resynced provides the "full, complete experience," stating that all additional DLCs are optional extras and never a requirement to complete the game.
- Activision previously drew fire for charging $1 for an "Open Dot" reticle in Black Ops, while unlike Rockstar Games with Grand Theft Auto, Ubisoft points out that nothing is gated behind paid upgrades.
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Though it launched to generally positive reviews across the globe (except for China, because that seems to be the norm for Steam these days), Black Flag Resynced has been receiving a good chunk of negative feedback due to the game’s excessive DLCs and microtransactions that are shoved in your face from the moment you get to the main menu. And Ubisoft is actually going into the Steam review section for its game and responding to most of the top-r…
Ubisoft defends $85 day-one DLC after AC Black Flag Resynced gets review-bombed
Black Flag Resynced currently has a Mostly Positive rating on Steam, but the huge amount of launch-day DLC resulted in the game being review-bombed into a Mostly Negative rating, with many noting that buying all the day-one extra content cost more than the game itself.Read Entire Article
"No thanks!" - Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake Resynced being review bombed on Steam for single-player microtransactions
The remake of Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Resynced, is off to a flying start. Before it even launched, the game was already on track to out-perform,Assassin's Creed Shadows, pulling in "roughly $14m in gross revenue" for publisher Ubisoft. Not bad!
News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced came as the expected remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, but its premiere was not as quiet as Ubisoft expected. The game debuted on July 9 on Steam and consoles, with visual improvements and some gameplay changes. Still, much of the conversation was marked by negative reviews, bugs, expensive DLC and cinematics limited to 30 FPS…
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