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Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by wave_walnut@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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Let’s hope we never see this type of ‘technical error’ again.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How can it be a technical error when there actually is such a function to begin with?

[–] espiritu_p@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe because they inteded to launch later?

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

They are just lying. I don't trust this response for a single moment. We have seen how the slope as far as game monetization practices goes is in fact slippery.

Sports games already use in-game ads. They will keep going for as long as players take it.

[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Just MAYBE they had planned to release a free to play Assassins Creed and that’s where the Ads were intended for.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The intention was to only show it in the main menu. Now it was shown when the game is paused as well.

[–] Nipah@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

But the thing is, you generally don't just magically have the ability to seamlessly plop an ad into a part of the game. That kind of thing needs to be purpose built, to either have the option to plop an ad on the main menu + map, or to (more heinously) plop an ad ANYWHERE in the game.

So worst case scenario (well, not WORST because the game doesn't, like, go back in time to kill your grandfather or something) is that someone higher up said "Hey, what if we could put an ad anywhere in the game? Get the team working on that" and it was done... best case scenario is that I guess their games are coded so well that they can just seamlessly plop in a chunk of code that doesn't break anything else and just works?

But going off of past experience with Ubisoft games, that best case scenario is kind of laughable (insert a screenshot of the guy's face texture not loading for AC Unity here).