Black Flag is 13 years old?! Now I feel old.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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Remember when it came out in 2020 that Ubisoft had an internal sexual exploitation ring in which the upper management were preying on the women in the development staff?
I haven't played an Ubisoft game since, including some favorites.
Somehow I had memory holed this. Just generally hate Ubisoft. But jesus fucking christ I remember this coming out. Yea fuck Ubisoft.
Holy shit that was wilder than I expected
Patrux bullied and harassed others by violence and setting a colleague's beard on fire.
Looks like I'll just wait to pirate this pirate game. :D
The comments online are nuts. "The original had it so it's a nothing burger".
Wtf are you smoking to think it's okay to accept micro transaction on a single player game that's a remake from a decade ago?
Have you see the cash shop items though?
If you want to spend an extra $12 to parade through the pirate game with flaming armour and a molten skin for your boat be my guest I guess.
This is a nothing burger. It's had this shit for years, and nobody with taste is going to buy it, so fuck it, let the fools be separated from their cash.
You can... Not just have it as a micro transaction.
Or do like every other fucking remake in the past decade and include it in the game.
God damnit Ubisoft you had ONE more opportunity where you could have redeemed yourself and you just. Can't. Fucking. Stop.
Ok they can have one more chance and they better not ef it up this time. Jk fuck Ubisoft and all their ancestors
Fuck Ubisoft.
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Cash shop in a single player game.
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Contains Denuvo and requires a Ubisoft account to use their shitty launcher.
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Has adverts in-game.
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Launched with $85 of DLC.
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Immediately started laying off workers after launch.
Fuck Ubisoft, and if you bought this game, fuck you too.
Running AC4 on my modified Xbox console. 0 issues, 0 bucks paid for the game, 0 fucks given.
Ubisoft ruined one too many games. My beloved Rocksmith now is a useless microtransaction shell of its former power. I won't buy a single ubisoft game in the future. Time to lay rest to the cancer they brought into gaming.
I should figure out what to do with my modded PS3 before the shop shuts down. I think the modded software pulls from the official store servers for some things like games?
AFAIK any ps3 is able to be Software hardmodded (though some sort of a program, permanent effect). There are a few series that allow to pull games off online for Xbox (some degraded and won't work anymore) and I bet something like this exists for ps3 too. Check consolemods.org. They have plenty of info there
Ooo thank you, I actually installed CFW on my PS3 already recently! I was lucky that my slim is a model that can be permanently CFW’d. I should do my 360 as well… only issue is, it doesn’t have HDMI so none of my screens work with it unless I get a capture card D:
Quick edit; oh, in my previous comment I was saying I should utilize the CFW to get some things that might not be available as easily when the store closes, which I believe in next year.
I'm so glad I got at least some songs on Rocksmith before they were pulled from the Xbox store. The new version is absolute trash
Honestly the "laying people off after launch" speaks volumes of the teams that do the same; can you not work multiple projects and shift people to the other one until it's complete?
The layoffs seem more like "line must go up'" than any kind of "we can no longer afford you now the job is done".
I'm probably preaching to the choir.
The layoffs seem more like "line must go up'"
This is literally always the case
It's self-cannibalizing also. Layoffs are now the only way for them to maximize profits enough for their shareholders to get their ROI, and in the future even that won't be enough. They will be drained of every ounce of value that can be extracted of them and then discarded. Such is the fate of every company that gets in bed with wall street.
Yeah, totally.
I really dislike the dishonesty. If you're always going to lay-off/downsize/insert-capitalist-euphemism-here after each project is done then stop hiring people as staff and hire them as contractors instead. Make it clear from the start it's not a permanent position.
But that's more expensive, as people demand 50-100% more salary as a contractor; Line must go up faster
Yup, exactly 👍
- Immediately started laying off workers after launch.
Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.
Didn't Ubisoft collapse or something?
Can I join your reality? Seems nice to live somewhere where moronic choices produce tangible consequences to those that made them, but that's not how it works where I live.
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
Sea shanties now cost $0.50 per word sung.
Ubi was a dev that I paid dearly,
Wey-hey bully in the alley,
And if they could they'd charge us all yearly,
Bully down on Shinbone Al'!
Why, are they generated by AI and you have to pay for the tokens? /s
Stop giving them ideas....jfc
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if ye buy from the cash shop ye a landlubber not a captain
Glad I had zero hopes for this from the start. Just gonna wait for Windrose to 1.0 instead of bothering with this.
Same. At this point the only thing Ubisoft could possibly convince me to buy is another VR assassins creed but they already announced that they're done with VR because they hate fun.
Eh? The original had a cash shop too, and some stuff locked behind a mobile companion app AFAIK
Pretty sure there were weekly challenges as well. It would tell you global stats of how many ships destroyed or whatever.
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