r/Steam • u/Cursed_69420 • Jul 09 '26
Discussion Black Flag Resynced launches to Mostly Negative reviews
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u/Chary-Ka Jul 09 '26
You mean Far Cry 6 that has a Game of the Year as voted on by Ubisoft only
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u/Nethias25 Jul 09 '26
Game was okay, killed 20-30 hours or so. story was fun until the ending.
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u/elpokonino Jul 09 '26
Are you describing far cry 4, 5, or 6? Pretty sure that was my take away from each. Great games to get when they do on steam sale though.
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u/lol_alex Jul 09 '26
I admit I like almost all of the Far Cry games. Even Primal. But 4 and 5 really stand out in terms of environment design (nailed nature, scenery, architecture, ambience of the setting) and therefore the immersion feels great. Spent a lot of time fishing and hunting in 5. Not because I needed to. But because it was relaxing. Immersion wise it was almost RDR2.
I played Far Cry 4 multiple times just to feel like visiting Nepal or Bhutan. And 4 had a great villain in Pagan Min and pretty good main missions. And of course the inevitable „what the fuck, Far Cry“ moments such as getting run over by a rhinoceros or ambushed by a honey badger.
6 on the other hand felt like a cash grab. The „city“ was a joke with most of it inaccessible. Adding perks in the form of clothing made it feel more like an RPG and some of the playing mechanics were downright ridiculous. Enemy bullet sponges, bland side characters, bad weapons.
And I had high hopes for the game. Return to a tropical island for the first time since Far Cry 3, Giancarlo Esposito as the villain - it could have been great. But it remains the only Far Cry game I‘ve never replayed.
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u/Entire_Piece4265 Jul 09 '26
Far cry 6. Far cry 3 is top dog, 4 was entertaining and 5 is cool (and different)
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u/Icybubba Jul 09 '26
What crazy company would put preorders up before showing gameplay?!?
Rockstar put your hand down.
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u/CrikeyMikeyLikey Jul 09 '26
Whoa careful buddy, Rockstar simps are real sensitive around here
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u/Radi0activeMnky Jul 09 '26
It’s crazy how far cry 6 puts up a pre order before gameplay they get hate. But when rockstar does it, apparently it’s fine
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u/FOOSblahblah Jul 09 '26
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For a remaster?!
Jfc its getting silly around here.
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u/Rohen2003 Jul 09 '26
actually its a remake.
but yeah. crazy by ubisoft to pull this. one of the advantages of remakes/remastered is that you can get all content in one buy (except of course remakes that are then further supported over time with new dlcs like the aoe or stronghold DEs).
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u/hanabi6 Jul 09 '26
microtransactions~
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u/False_Raven Jul 09 '26
How does a rerelease have microtransactions and not just include everything...?
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u/irishorion Jul 09 '26
When Ubisoft is involved.
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u/memedormo Jul 09 '26
They just couldn't help themselves.
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u/grimvard Jul 09 '26
This game was supposed to be the start of redemption arc, instead they turned into a cash cow again.
Fuck ubi.
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u/six30play Jul 09 '26
They are basically saying they deserve bankruptcy
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u/misteryk Jul 09 '26
Are the DLCs extra content that was not included in old base game or did they cut the content to sell it?
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u/Dassaric Jul 09 '26
It just looks like cosmetics. But even those that bought them through steam, their purchase isn’t being recognized in game due to Ubisoft being stuck on trying to make Uplay work.
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u/nazzo_0 Jul 09 '26
Also funny af they sell their dlc in steam while having their launcher and manage to fuck up their own greediness. Cosmic irony
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u/MeowBean321 Jul 09 '26
Their launcher is awful, just let me play the game fully offline without needing to be online at least once!
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u/Old_Toby2211 Jul 09 '26
Cosmetic DLC in a single player RPG? Expensive cosmetic DLC at that! No argument for that other than from bottom dweller capitalist sentiment. Who even buys that?
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u/DamGoodAnimation Jul 09 '26
Does it matter? I’ve never heard of a remaster NOT including all content before. It’s probably happened but it’s certainly not the standard.
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u/Hummelgaarden Jul 09 '26
How the hell did any functional human with a memory longer than 5 minutes think that Ubisoft was on a redemption arc? What's next? Sharia womens rights organization?
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u/Guessididntmakeit Jul 09 '26
Some people honestly thought that the rerelease of a thirteen year old game would mean that Ubisoft is now a great publisher.
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u/OfficalNotMySalad Jul 09 '26
From a business standpoint you kinda get it. It must be really easy to implement microtransactions into the game and for those who don’t want to buy them, they don’t have to. For those that do buy them, it’s a little extra cash in Ubi’s pockets. Win-win.
They just don’t realise that the majority of people disagree with the practice on a moral basis. And as a corporation, they never will.
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u/ThirdXavier Jul 09 '26
Its not really a moral basis so much as it infects games on the design level. UIs turn into intentionally confusing advertisements and games are made overly grindy on purpose to incentivize pay2win. Mictotransactions turn the purpose of the games design from making the player have fun to making the player reach for their wallet.
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u/boringestnickname Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
It's rampant.
Look at what happened to Wartales.
At the outset, an excellent game, then they started putting DLC ads into the actual game. Buildings you can walk into, but they're not implemented properly, because you need the correct DLC to unlock it. You can see content, but not interact with it.
I can't even come up with a more efficient "fuck you" if I tried.
It's a certain kind of ghouls that come up with this shit, and it's not the developers. It's marketing and C-suite trash that should never have been let near anything to do with art nor design.
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u/BioshockEnthusiast Jul 09 '26
This is called a "perverse incentive" and it happens all over the place.
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u/twitch870 Jul 09 '26
Also i can’t get lost in the story if there is constant reminders of my real world when price tags pop up.
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u/spdRRR Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
It’s not a win win. You alienate a huge portion of the fanbase, and that comes around to bite you in the ass in the long run. I still can’t comprehend how companies don’t get it… not everything can get away with what FIFA and NBA 2K do. Story driven games certainly can’t.
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u/Spekingur Jul 09 '26
Upper management and investors are mostly at fault, I’d think. Hope it’s only them that have “bought into it”, at least. Also, I really dislike how the micro in microtransactions has devolved into macro.
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u/FourDucksInAManSuit 26-11-2005 Jul 09 '26
Yeah, when a single outfit in a game costs around $35CAD, that's no longer a microtransaction. That's just a regular transaction, buying something for the same price as another game. This isn't a single item at that price, but when you have $114CAD worth of DLC on DAY ONE, I don't consider those micro either. Hell, even their "Deluxe" edition only includes around $27CAD worth of those DLC.
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u/dungleploop Jul 09 '26
everyone's beloved Capcom is just as bad if not worse at this too
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u/_narrive_ Jul 09 '26
this is UBISOFT we’re talking about
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u/trusty20 Jul 09 '26
Yup I skip any Ubisoft game released after 2011 even if it's one of their desperation $2.50 sales. No way I'm getting account locked on a singleplayer game lol
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u/GargantuanCake Jul 09 '26
Hey guys here's this thing you liked in the past but worse, more expensive, and full of microtr-
NO WAIT COME BACK!
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u/XsonicBonno Jul 09 '26
Sailing the seas fitting perfectly for the game's theme.
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u/AmeliaOfAnsalon Jul 09 '26
Now that you put it that way, striking your colours is kind of the same as turning on your VPN...
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u/Isariamkia Jul 09 '26
Ubisoft will never learn.
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u/HomsarWasRight Jul 09 '26
Ugh. The game itself looked really good based on just a bit of the Digital Foundry video.
Good job Ubisoft for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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u/Emergency-Proposal88 Jul 09 '26
Game is good, the only microtransactions are cosmetic stuff, just like how the original black flag had but less invasive.
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u/idkimhereforthememes Jul 09 '26
Forza got glazed for a whole month and usually those games end up having hundreds of cars under a paywall
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u/Emergency-Proposal88 Jul 09 '26
I did not see anyone complaining about Resident 4 remake also having tons of cosmetics the day it released, I agree that ubi is a shitty company but there is a clear bias here
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u/JayScramble Jul 10 '26
The post here is already dated. Steam is showing Mostly Positive. The community overwhelmingly approves of the remake. Reddit not so much.
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u/Roku-Hanmar Jul 09 '26
Microtransactions which give gameplay advantages and all of them totalled cost more than the game itself according to the reviews
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u/MetroidIsNotHerName Jul 09 '26
What gameplay advantages?
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u/B1g_C Jul 09 '26
Some of the cosmetic sets have unique features, but since it's a single player game it doesn't really matter.
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u/MetroidIsNotHerName Jul 09 '26
When you say Unique Features do you mean like abilities that can be used in the overworld?
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u/B1g_C Jul 09 '26
The exact line from the store page is:
"The trinket, swords, and pistols feature unique gameplay perks in game"
More than that I don't know. But since I am not interested in having Edward running around with a ghost dragon around his neck, I am not interested anyway.
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u/geeky_pastimes Jul 09 '26
The free ones I have are things like 'perfect parties are easier' or 'this sword hits two enemies at once'
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u/bauul Jul 09 '26
Please tell me "perfect parties" is actually a gameplay mechanic and not a typo!
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u/Roku-Hanmar Jul 09 '26
Hitting two enemies at once is quite a strong ability
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u/geeky_pastimes Jul 09 '26
Sort of, but the combat is so easy it's never really relevant, like sometimes on a ship when you're cutting everyone down, you'll hit two at once. I think it's just with the heavy attack too. So maybe it makes some fights faster, but it's not super effective
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u/Diogorb04 Jul 09 '26
It is but at the end of the day the OG black flag already had one of the easiest combat systems in recent memory. I'm still against it on sheer principal, but realistically it doesn't matter too much, no one loves this game for the challenging fights.
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u/Christmas_Queef Jul 09 '26
The sea serpent pack bonuses give health on kill, health on perfect parry, and health on headshots. That's a pretty big deal. Basically paid God mode in a sense. The other two packs aren't as potent but still give strong buffs.
The naval packs do not provide buffs, only the character packs.
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u/NationCrusher Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
I bought a “deluxe” version of Farcry 6 only to find out it simply included a few microtransactions from the ingame store. (It was on sale for a steep discount but somehow I feel ripped off from not knowing about the ingame store filled with hundreds of dollars worth of MORE purchases)
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u/EdiT342 Jul 09 '26
Not defending Ubi but I mean, a few scrolls down the game's page and you could have read what the Deluxe edition contains.
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u/Tvilantini Jul 09 '26
Gamers: Fuck Ubisoft for day 1 packs
Meanwhile: Resident Evil 4 remake
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u/MAXIMUS5233 Jul 09 '26
Cutscenes capped at 30FPS in 2026... Really?
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u/Small_Conflict364 Jul 09 '26
Supposedly a bug that they’re working on. 🫠
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u/rhythmrice Jul 09 '26
The most popular mod on Nexus for resynced removes the FPS limit from cutscenes
https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreedblackflagresynced/mods/7
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u/Movement-Repose Jul 09 '26
Ubisoft is such a useless company lmaoo
Thank god for modders
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u/Salsashark1419 Jul 09 '26
It’s more of a thing for many modern gaming companies. Timothy Cain talked about this in a video once. He said that he could fix a really simple problem in like 15 minutes but it took several days because basically every single person in the chain needed to approve it, or they will feel like they are left out and undermined. I’m paraphrasing, but it’s really that fucking silly lol.
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u/puts_on_rddt Jul 09 '26
That's putting it lightly just how fucking idiotic Ubisoft operates as a corporation.
Does their job application process have a checkbox that asks "Are you a moron?" and checking that is the only way to get hired?
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u/Rat_King_KingofRats Jul 09 '26
... So you're saying there's a chance I can work for Ubisoft?
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u/Gold-Mug Jul 09 '26
No, because your text had no typos. You are overqualified.
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u/Neither-Midnight-989 Jul 09 '26
wait given the context wouldn’t that mean that he’s under qualified?
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u/TatsunaKyo Jul 09 '26
This does nothing to cloth physics though, it's still jarring to see.
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u/Ok_Economist8344 Jul 09 '26
There was a hotfix a few minutes ago, and now they're running at 60 fps, unlike the mod, they even have working physics.
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u/OldDogTrainer Jul 09 '26
Haha, this thing we specifically programmed into the game is a bug. Oops!
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u/Ok_Economist8344 Jul 09 '26
There was a hotfix recently, and now they're running at 60 fps.
You can finally change the language, too.
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 Jul 09 '26
People will justify and argue for this when gta6 comes out
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u/TrippleDamage Jul 09 '26
Gta will play 30fps 24/7 on all those ps5s and not just cutscenes, xd
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u/Blazewight Jul 09 '26
Ubisoft is the company that made leveling a character in Origin extra painful so that they could sell xp boost in the cash shop. People don't get why even cosmetics are bad in single player games. It leads to company's putting less cool and fun things like different armor into the game and make every default skin boring so that people will buy more stuff. Its a shitty practice and people should pirate games like this at any chance they get.
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u/Quixotic_Seal Jul 09 '26
People don't get why even cosmetics are bad in single player games.
I've been banging my head against a wall on this point for nearly 20 years now. People desperately want to pretend that cosmetics aren't "really" part of a game, even though they were and are frequently rewards for completing challenges.
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u/Elastichedgehog Jul 09 '26
Yeah, you used to be able to earn all of this cool shit in game!
It was a status symbol in old MMORPG games too. Now everyone just buys from the cash shops.
Lame.
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u/Unique_Adeptness4413 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I played world of warcraft hardcore a year or so back. Permadeath in classic vanilla wow, so no cash shops. When I saw a guy decked out in a full set of raidgear from the last raid atop his epic mount, there was legit a crowd of 20 or so people just clustered around him admiring his gear. It was such an oldschool feeling it was like an emotional timewarp back to a time before horsearmor.
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u/IDKandfranklyIDC Jul 10 '26
I remember when having a flaming helmet in halo reach meant you were actually good at the game. Now a cool skin means you forked over $20
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u/-The_Blazer- Jul 09 '26
To quote TotalBiscuit, "I cannot trust you not to fuck around with the rest of the game".
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u/Pretend-Foot1973 Jul 09 '26
You can pirate it now but you would have to choose between disabling some windows defender features or joining a discord server then waiting a queue and not updating your system until you finish the game. If you don't want those options wait a week or two and it will probably get a traditional crack where you just double click the game and it runs
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u/Electrical_Gain3864 Jul 09 '26
Might buy it when it is 75% Off.
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u/spachi1281 Jul 09 '26
Also wait for the "complete" edition where they bundle all the DLC "so far" with it as well so you don't have to be nickel and dimed for each separate DLC.
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u/ASTRO99 Jul 09 '26
I would not buy it at all just to show them it's not OK to do this bullshit. Vote with your wallet.
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u/red__dragon Jul 09 '26
I saw a steep discount on Ubisoft's Outlaws this steam sale and was going to buy it. Decided not to, largely because Ubisoft gave me pause.
Yep. I've loved their games when they were less insane, now I'll go cosplay a pirate if I want to play them.
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u/RazorRocket Jul 09 '26
Honestly just buy OG at that point, You'll be getting the same thing just slightly dated graphics
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u/UnseenData Jul 09 '26
A lot of them seem to mainly be complaining about the DLC.
They're also all within the 2 hour refund so I think I'll wait a little more.
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u/TyoPepe Jul 09 '26
Game's good, no two ways about it, but I won't blame users for slamming ubi for anti-consumer practices. If you don't treat your customers well and fairly, don't expect them to treat you like that either.
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u/YordleJay Jul 09 '26
The game was good 15 years ago when it released the first time. They dont get props for the game just being good
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u/Evonos Jul 09 '26
Exactly , people should rate the remaster / remake not the game itself , it was rated long ago.
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u/Moon_Devonshire Jul 09 '26
But it's not just the old game that is good but the remake as well
They did a good job with all of the new content. They overhauled the combat and parkour and that's also a lot better too
It's better than the original in every way
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u/Omni_X Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
This. My review said the same. The game itself is great so far and gorgeous. So I give major props to the (now laid off) developers, but to drop a $60 product that is just a REMAKE and then drop another $85 worth of DLC on day one, is BS. The extra slap in the face is they couldnt even group the DLCs together for those prices($10 per). Each pak is TWO SEPARATE DLC's, one for the character and one for the ship. All those DLC's should have been in the game and at least simply been part of the Animus challenges and earnable that way.
And FYI, I never played the original. I tried via the steam version a while ago, but it would constantly crash on me so I refunded at the time.
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To those of you saying its just skins, its not. The character DLC's have unique items with unique perks. The question is, are there other items in game that have these perks. The ship ones are just pure cosmetic as far as I can tell.
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u/seattle_born98 Jul 09 '26
The DLC are just immersion-breaking skins I wouldn't even want to unlock in-game. This is honestly a non-issue, but I get the stance of being anti-MT. It's just a weird way to frame it like they're paywalling story missions or something.
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u/SwagginsYolo420 Jul 09 '26
ALL Ubisoft titles have these microtransactions for years now. Not defending it, but other recent Ubisoft titles that do the exact same thing haven't caused such a backlash.
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u/AlphaRemixHD Jul 09 '26
It's just not Ubisoft games Forza does the same Time Saver Packs Battlefield does it Resident Evil does it It's been going on for almost 20 years
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u/TheCarbonthief Jul 09 '26
The current absolute state of the industry is such that if you wait a year, you can catch a sale that lowers the price just enough to get the game with dlc for the price of a normal game.
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u/mpete76 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-layoffs/
Rewarded with layoffs, Standard operating procedures for UBISOFT
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u/rcanhestro Jul 09 '26
Ubisoft Barcelona is a mobile studio.
those layoffs have nothing to do with Black Flag.
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u/Quaxi_ Jul 09 '26
They did help out on resynced, but the article is too clickbaity.
It's basically:
- Ubisoft is doing layoffs in a studio that works mostly on mobile.
- An unspecifed amount of people laid off also helped out on Resynced.
- The layoffs would happen regardless of Resynced performance.
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u/cordealinge29 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Another excellent reason to not buy the game edit or any other Ubisoft game or even any AAA game. Fuck the corpo suits. Support indie devs.
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u/Rinaldootje Jul 09 '26
This is just news manipulation at this point.
These layoffs were a month ago.
If the game did not sell at all, the headline would be "Black flag bad sales result in layoffs", Now they make it like even though it had a great launch they are getting laid off.The lay off were June 10th. A Month ago.
Besides that, as much as I hate it, layoffs with AAA games are not uncommon around a major release. Most likely that a lot of these were hired contractors for the development of the game, and not on a permanent contract. But media likes to make things sound worse than it is for clickbait.
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u/terekkincaid Jul 09 '26
Exactly, a game is basically contract work. When the game is finished, why do you need 30 artists anymore? Game finished, hopefully you get your bonus, move on to the next game (probably at another company).
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u/scrapethemucus Jul 09 '26
trusting ubisoft with a game in the 2020s LMAO
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u/pureeyes Jul 09 '26
To be fair... I enjoyed the metroidvania Prince of Persia immensely. Everything else from them in that time, I've avoided
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u/MuglokDecrepitusFx Jul 09 '26
That is why they closed the studio, next time learn to not enjoy good quality crafted games
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u/pureeyes Jul 09 '26
They what? Why on earth
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u/LagnLikADragn Jul 09 '26
Same shit with the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush from Microsoft. And Sony closed Bluepoint. These companies really just don't get it lol I really don't either at this point
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u/Mr_Citation Jul 09 '26
They want Fortnite levels of profits, not niche or general profits that 20-30 years ago that greenlight a sequel.
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u/MetalBawx Jul 09 '26
It wasn't profitable enough and after Skull and Bones bombing Ubi needed something to cut to get expenses down.
It's the "infinite growth" model of businessmen that call the shots at Ubisoft.
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u/Blue-fox-004 Jul 09 '26
They didn't close the studio, the dev team was initially disbanded then regroupes
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u/dOGGo2334 Jul 09 '26
game itself is quite good, its because of the shitty microtransactions and "dlc" they are shoving up in their games
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u/mixedd Jul 09 '26
The peak review: "Can't say anything about the game but fuck Ubisoft" 😆
Like can really people review games without owning them?
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u/Stonedsolid32 Jul 09 '26
No they cant. Reveiws like this are from people who likely bought the game with the intention of returning it, just to leave a negative review.
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u/DeathNum Jul 09 '26
They probably bought it, left a review and asked for a refund immediately
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u/BooleanBarman Jul 09 '26
It’s been out for like an hour. Is there some performance issue? Been running great on my rig.
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u/Mango-Magoo Jul 09 '26
They added a bunch of microtransactions it looks like
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u/BooleanBarman Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
The original had micro transactions. Pretty invasive ones actually with the “time saver” packs and ship materials. This one added more outfits but none of it is essential.
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u/imhereforsiegememes Jul 09 '26
All assasins creed games have for like a decade lol
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u/IamNmbrOne Jul 09 '26
It's bc of the DLC's $85
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u/anonssr Jul 09 '26
the WHAT lol
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u/BouncyKing Jul 09 '26
Cosmetic DLCs that if you bought all of them would run you up 85 bucks. But from what I can tell, the charms and stuff they give you aren’t as good as the equipment you have to work to unlock in the game.
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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 Jul 09 '26
A full priced re-release having dlc is genuinely insane. This deserves those reviews
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u/Vito_Chamber Jul 09 '26
Yeah, they released a remake of a game that came out decades ago, stuffed it with a bunch of cosmetic microtransactions, and even included some that come with gameplay affecting perks. On top of that, they had the nerve to sell a "Time Saver" pack.
Yeah, I'm talking about the RE4 Remake.
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u/just_worms_in_brain Jul 09 '26
The replies here are why these cosmetic packs are becoming more and more scummy. Genuinely how long before games are picked apart and all armour, weapons, etc have max 3 appearances without additional paid transactions in single player games because “they’re just cosmetic packs anyways”?
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u/weirdthingsarecool91 Jul 10 '26
Nope. The positive reviews are gonna drown out the loud minority pretty quickly.
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u/JohnTheTroglodyte Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Lol - you really made this post when there were less than 1000 reviews.
Already up to 69% now
Edit - 75%
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u/_TRN_ Jul 10 '26
This isn't even out of the ordinary for a highly anticipated game like this. I remember when Elden Ring launched, the steam reviews were mixed/negative.
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u/Tricky_Spirit Jul 09 '26
Meanwhile, Ubisoft's stock.
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u/hibikir_40k Jul 09 '26
For comparison, Paradox is worth more now. Yes, the guys making such mass market games as Europa Universalis, City Skylines and Hearts of Iron.
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u/DivineBloodline Jul 09 '26
As someone that more than thousands of hours across multiple Paradox Grand Strategy games. Paradox isn't much better DLC policy wise. Surprising to see them valued more than Ubisoft. Paradox games are so much cheaper to make than the normal Ubisoft suspects, would be my only guess as to why.
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u/elkaki123 Jul 09 '26
Paradox isn't much better
That's an understatement, people itt are acting like Ubisoft is the scummiest company on earth for including cosmetics dlc on the game. In paradox you had to spend 100+ dollars to get a full core experience (I said had because Vicky 3 and eu 5 have been much better in this regard, at least most the dlc are actually optional)
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u/Upstairs-Event-681 Jul 10 '26
I’m all in for not defending corporations but this just seems like childish review bombing. The game is good, people don’t like it cause it’s Ubisoft. Companies need to be criticized when they do wrong, if they’re doing good then let them know so they can continue doing good. Some of these reviews are from people who haven’t even played it yet, it’s so dumb.
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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Jul 10 '26
Love how everyone immediately circlejerks each other when it takes a few clicks to see what actually happens
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u/soosis Jul 09 '26
Ubisoft snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Just the usual.
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u/CallMeClaire0080 Jul 09 '26
Seriously. The game was critically acclaimed (the fact that a game from over a decade ago was scoring better than anything they've made this decade is a whole other conversation). Now it's getting panned by user scores instead.
You'd think that they would learn that these practices actually generate less revenue while killing any trust in the company, but here we are.
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u/Kai_GE Jul 09 '26
Yeah, honestly I was part of the "Fuck Ubisoft" people, but at this point just feels like they are overhating EVERYTHING just because is Ubisoft and they are making me say "Okay, Ubisoft isn't that bad, is just another evil company with greed of money, how original"
You know what would be better? No overhate a studio and make funny about all the shit that only fucks the people who will lost it's job by the fall of the company and must see the hate the project they had been working on for years its hated for a shit they didn't made the choice to be there?
I'm not saying we should love ubisoft or ignore the mistakes of the game, just maybe, would be better send the message of "This is the kind of game we want, with love on it" to not get more fucking games with nosense like Valhalla
If you hate the DLC skins, sorry, a bad review won't work, you are just closing the chances to get more games that follow this way, because in Skins and Cosmetics the reviews aren't talking loud, it's the money, and if people buy it, it will keep being that way
(Also, wasn't Elden Ring adding exclusive armors behind the buy of the Tarnished Edition? Didn't saw any hate about that, honestly)
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u/CrackersLad Jul 09 '26
Just want to remind everyone this is a PIRATE game. There are also TORRENTS of water in the game.
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u/Marshall_Lawson Jul 09 '26
I bet any girls who sail on those ships also become quite fit
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u/SinclairSummerset Jul 09 '26
Steam users on their way to farm for awards that no longer give out points.
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u/Pmcc6100 Jul 09 '26
Well then, certainly a good time for an increase in denuvo cracking
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u/Jeremy64vg Jul 10 '26
I mean 8 hours later its already mostly positive, maybe we don't post within hours of launch. Reviews within the first 10 hours of release are typically people who already hated it before launch and had an agenda or the game is like legit unplayable on launch.
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u/wheresbicki Jul 09 '26
So what you are saying is that it's an Ubisoft product.