Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

misk@sopuli.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.works – 154 points –
Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed
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Their finger slipped and accidentally coded a whole in-game ad delivery system.

You're not a programmer, right? You have no idea how often this happens!

Just the other day I accidently sleep coded an entire pop-up ad system and put it our automated delivery system tool so all customers know to buy stuff they don't need or want.

Yeah, I was about to say, as a software engineer I can totally understand how that might have happened and am not surprised... But the skeptic/cynic in me feels like it's a convenient excuse.