Windrose exists and is already a bunch of fun!
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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'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
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- 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.
Was it added in a post-launch update?
Remember when it came out in 2020 that Ubisoft had an internal sex 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.
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?
I mean the microtransactions are one thing but the headline is also making it seem like the original was a perfectly ethical game which it absolutely wasn't.
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And off the wishlist, it goes.
Sea shanties now cost $0.50 per word sung.
Why, are they generated by AI and you have to pay for the tokens? /s
Stop giving them ideas....jfc
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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'!
I don't buy Ubisoft garbage.
if ye buy from the cash shop ye a landlubber not a captain
Looks like I'll just wait to pirate this pirate game. :D
It leaked a few days before launch
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Not defending this, but it did remind me of how nuts the monetization was on the original. I had a modded 360 at the time, and there used to be an old school forum style website that curated all available DLC. This game had exclusive content for GameStop, Walmart, Target, and I think a 4th and 5th retailer too. Not to mention the pre-order bonuses and other exclusives. I wanna say there were around 25 different pieces of content and to get 100% of what was available, youd've had to buy 5 retail copies of the same game... or have a modded 360 and an internet connection. Even unlocking the content was more of a hassle than most DLCs. You had to move your user profile to a USB stick, connect it to your PC, inject the entitlements to the exclusive costumes into your profile, then move the profile back to your console.
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The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
Glad I had zero hopes for this from the start. Just gonna wait for Windrose to 1.0 for my pirate fix instead of bothering with this.
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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.
Black Flag is 13 years old?! Now I feel old.
Eh? The original had a cash shop too, and some stuff locked behind a mobile companion app AFAIK
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Didn't Ubisoft collapse or something?
Somehow, despite the scandals and one of the main family members dying, they are still going strong with their bullshit.
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.
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