Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with their little "accident". I haven't bought one of their games in years amd this greedy corpo shit paired with lackluster games is exactly why.
Well said!
Last game I bought was crew 1 for 5€ many years ago. All the games I have were redeemed using amazon gaming.
I purchased R6S years ago and it's gotten nothing but worse over time.
I also purchased that. One of the worst purchases I ever made.
That game is nothing but sweaty try hards. No thanks!
How the fuck do you accidentally add popups
You don’t - it’s a bullshit excuse. It’s like a 5 year old with their hand in the cookie jar saying “I didn’t mean to do it.” Yes you did, little Jimmy, what you didn’t mean to do was get caught. Now blow that idea up to a greedy, unethical, billion dollar corporation.
Rhetorical question haha, I know it's bullshit. Popups take effort to create, you can't just accidentally add them.
A technical error doesn't result in popup ads. The code had to already be there.
"You were not supposed to see that yet. Upsi dupsi"
That's was just a little Oopsi-soft
"Sorry we showed you the ad before the black Friday return window lapsed."
Ubisoft says it was trying to put an ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage in the main menu of other Assassin’s Creed games. However, a “technical error” caused the promotion to show up on in-game menus instead. Ubisoft says the issue has since been fixed
So they fully planned to roll out full screen pop up ads, it was just supposed to be in the main menu, not in-game. Fuckers.
This is why I don't play AAA games.
Fuck Ubisoft and fuck greedy corporations!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ubisoft is blaming an unspecified “technical error” for a fullscreen pop-up ad that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week.
Reddit users say they spotted the pop-up on Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game, with an ad appearing just when you navigate to the map screen.
“This is disgusting to experience while playing,” remarked one Reddit user, summarizing the general feeling against such pop-ups in the middle of gameplay.
“We have been made aware that some players encountered pop-up ads while playing certain Assassin’s Creed titles yesterday,” says Ubisoft spokesperson Fabien Darrigues, in a statement to The Verge.
Either way, the intent of adding pop-ups into the middle of a game you’ve paid for is rather “gross” as one Reddit commenter puts it.
Imagine a world full of games you’ve paid $70 for and then ads popping up in the middle of gameplay.
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Obviously coding this up isn't accidental, so I guess they mean that activating the feature was accidental (not very reassuring) but also it's kind of hard to believe that even that was accidental. Any very basic QA would have prevented that. It was probably deliberately testing the waters.
Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with their little "accident". I haven't bought one of their games in years amd this greedy corpo shit paired with lackluster games is exactly why.
Well said!
Last game I bought was crew 1 for 5€ many years ago. All the games I have were redeemed using amazon gaming.
I purchased R6S years ago and it's gotten nothing but worse over time.
I also purchased that. One of the worst purchases I ever made.
That game is nothing but sweaty try hards. No thanks!
How the fuck do you accidentally add popups
You don’t - it’s a bullshit excuse. It’s like a 5 year old with their hand in the cookie jar saying “I didn’t mean to do it.” Yes you did, little Jimmy, what you didn’t mean to do was get caught. Now blow that idea up to a greedy, unethical, billion dollar corporation.
Rhetorical question haha, I know it's bullshit. Popups take effort to create, you can't just accidentally add them.
A technical error doesn't result in popup ads. The code had to already be there.
"You were not supposed to see that yet. Upsi dupsi"
That's was just a little Oopsi-soft
"Sorry we showed you the ad before the black Friday return window lapsed."
So they fully planned to roll out full screen pop up ads, it was just supposed to be in the main menu, not in-game. Fuckers.
This is why I don't play AAA games.
Fuck Ubisoft and fuck greedy corporations!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ubisoft is blaming an unspecified “technical error” for a fullscreen pop-up ad that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week.
Reddit users say they spotted the pop-up on Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game, with an ad appearing just when you navigate to the map screen.
“This is disgusting to experience while playing,” remarked one Reddit user, summarizing the general feeling against such pop-ups in the middle of gameplay.
“We have been made aware that some players encountered pop-up ads while playing certain Assassin’s Creed titles yesterday,” says Ubisoft spokesperson Fabien Darrigues, in a statement to The Verge.
Either way, the intent of adding pop-ups into the middle of a game you’ve paid for is rather “gross” as one Reddit commenter puts it.
Imagine a world full of games you’ve paid $70 for and then ads popping up in the middle of gameplay.
The original article contains 344 words, the summary contains 144 words. Saved 58%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Obviously coding this up isn't accidental, so I guess they mean that activating the feature was accidental (not very reassuring) but also it's kind of hard to believe that even that was accidental. Any very basic QA would have prevented that. It was probably deliberately testing the waters.