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

submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is clearly them testing the waters to see how big the backlash will be for even more intrusive ads, plain and simple.

A code error would probably crash the game if it went to pop up something that's not meant to be there, or at least make it unplayable. This was not the case, and it was clearly meant to be there.

If there is a huge fallout over it, they'll push the rollout date further back. If people don't seem to care, which THEY FUCKING DO, then they'll just push the date up.

Every time I see this shit, I wonder just how satirical the Drink verification can meme will end up being.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Satire is dead.