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Assassin's Creed Shadows
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Vorph
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Spronk is right unfortunately. Also, when AMD and others give away Ubi games with hardware, the codes activate directly in Ubisoft Connect and won't show up on Steam charts at all.
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I'm not just talking about steam. I'm talking about their inflated million players 1st day claim.
I guarantee the vast majority of those are free keys they've been giving away for months now or ubi+ subscribers.
I subscribed to ubi+ for a month to try Valhalla but I certainly won't be doing it for this garbage game.
So most of their claimed numbers are probably either free keys or $15 ubi+ subscribers.
Not $70 full price purchases.
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Loser Araysar
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There are trannies in medieval Japan that you can romance?
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Vorph
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Yeah, any estimates that come directly from Ubisoft PR, especially ones where they are careful to say X number of players rather than sales, shouldn't be trusted at all.
Ubi+ is $18 a month now, since they jacked up the price when they added Xbox to the PC service. Which means that the console numbers will be skewed badly too.
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It's worse than you think.
The black protag has options for romance, one is a fucking non binary faggot and the other the married sister of the big shogun boss.
Checks out.
On top of all the shit that is disrespecting Japan's culture in this game this takes the cake.
The black protag has options for romance, one is a fucking non binary faggot and the other the married sister of the big shogun boss.
Checks out.
On top of all the shit that is disrespecting Japan's culture in this game this takes the cake.
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Loser Araysar
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Lanx
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Runnen
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It's weird to see those videos, I haven't played an Assassin's Creed game since the third way back then, but a few years ago I picked up AC Odyssey (the one in Greece) on a friend's recommendation on PS4 but never really put much time into it, only a few hours then I moved onto other games. Fastforward to a few weeks ago my teenage son started playing it so I've been playing on the same save too because it's a huge ass game with a zillion places to explore, sidequests and stuff... and it seems WAY better than this Shadows game. How?
I mean, I know devs and writers have only become more retarded at Ubiwoke but how do you make a game engine worse? We're playing Odyssey on Easy and the NPCs aren't as dumb as Shadow's NPCs on Expert difficulty? It's really weird.
I mean, I know devs and writers have only become more retarded at Ubiwoke but how do you make a game engine worse? We're playing Odyssey on Easy and the NPCs aren't as dumb as Shadow's NPCs on Expert difficulty? It's really weird.
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Penance
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Gator
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C'mon we all know Ut friended himself and he's one of those "friends"
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Vorph
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The whole choose your character's sex thing in Odyssey was a major marketing point, along with being able to have normal or gay "romances" in the game.
The best part was when the people writing the DLC finally remembered that there should be at least some sort of connection between this random ancient Greece action game they were making and the rest of the AC series. They decided that Alexios/Kassandra would have a kid with the child of the first assassin, so naturally all the degenerates absolutely lost their shit all over twitter and reddit. The game's director groveled for forgiveness, which was extra funny because as much as they wanted to appease the mob there wasn't really anything they could do to "fix" it. Basic biology is a bitch. They did change the name of one achievement though, after degens took particular offense to the achievement for continuing the assassin's bloodline being called "Growing Up".
Valhalla was basically the same as Odyssey, just without anything to enrage the perpetually offended mob.
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Tasty The Treat
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The situation reminds me of COD only not nearly as dedicated as that's got the whole "pro gaming" scene going in it's favor. Those games have also become shamefully woke yet they are still top sellers.
Reminds me why I often say we got the gaming industry we deserve. Too many people just don't give a shit and keep rewarding these shitty companies with sales buying the same few big franchises forever keeping some of the worst companies in gaming afloat.
Still all this said I bet the ultimate sales figures are going to take a big hit this time. Like there's probably millions of copies they could have sold if they didn't fuck around so much. Right now everyone playing it is the diehard loyalist fanboys who pre-ordered and just had to play the game day-one anyways. There's always going to be people like that no matter how shitty some AAA slop turns out to be.
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