Some Assassin’s Creed gamers encountered in-game ads for Ubisoft’s Black Friday gross sales whereas enjoying older Assassin’s Creed video games earlier this week, however Ubisoft claims this wasn’t intentional.
Reddit person triddell24 posted a video of the advert, which was shared by Fab on X/Twitter, under. It exhibits the participant making an attempt to open the map in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey earlier than the display fills with an for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, which is 20% off within the Black Friday gross sales.
“Take benefit of 20% off on the newest recreation within the sequence,” it reads, giving the participant the choice to both shut the advert or “purchase now”, which presumably opens a hyperlink to the console’s retailer.
Il semble qu’Ubisoft expérimente la publicité en jeu chez certains utilisateurs (Xbox et PS).
Vous êtes au milieu de votre jeu, accédez à la pause ou à la Map et vous avez pendant 3sec. une pub pour un autre jeu qui s’affiche. Suffisant pour désinstaller ? ? pic.twitter.com/m5S4rEXas5
— Fab ✨ (@Fab_XS_) November 23, 2023
Ubisoft has denied this was an intentional ploy to promote copies of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, nevertheless, saying as an alternative customers have been served these advertisements by chance as “the results of a technical error”.
“We have been made conscious that some gamers encountered pop-up advertisements whereas enjoying sure Assassin’s Creed titles yesterday,” a Ubisoft spokesperson informed IGN. “This was the results of a technical error that we addressed as quickly as we realized of the problem.” The developer did not clarify how the technical error occurred.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage launched October 5 as a smaller-scale entry that returns gamers to the sequence’ roots by way of slower-paced, stealth-based gameplay, veering away from the role-playing recreation foundations of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla (and doubtlessly the subsequent recreation, Assassin’s Creed Red, which just lately spouted a recent leak).
Its map is not wherever close to the scale of these of its predecessors for one, and it solely takes round 20 to 30 hours to finish in comparison with the a number of dozens of hours of earlier video games.
In our 8/10 evaluate, IGN mentioned: “Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s back-to-basics method is a profitable first step in returning to the stealthy model that launched this sequence.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
