Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads::Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?
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Fuck “allegedly” there are multiple videos of there of it happening.
Imagine still buying Ubisoft games…
I wouldn’t even pirate them, they suck. The Ubisoft gameplay loop is dull repetitive wank.
Ubisoft has responded to the situation, claiming that the pop-up ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage was caused by a technical glitch.
The pop up may have been triggered by a technical glitch before they wanted it to. But the whole feature of course was not only developed but implemented into the live version of the game.
That excuse only works for people who have no ideas how programming works. New features can’t appear because of a glitch.
The only thing that can indeed happen is the feature was developed and tested, and it was enabled by a glitch. But the feature necessarily was developed intentionally, because things don’t just appear like that in a program.
“One of our engineers tripped and fell on the keyboard and accidentally coded an entire ad delivery system then accidentally shipped it.”
The only way I could imagine this being an accident was if they’d already built the ad system and then decided not to use it because they had a burst of common sense at the last possible minute, then later on they accidentally shipped the wrong version in an update.
Schrödinger’s feature
I would have refunded the game the first time that shit happened. That said, I quit playing Ubisoft games years ago so that’s not a concern of mine.
I stopped buying ubi games since 2-3 years ago, even when I was getting the games with discounts.
Great now they have been given the idea this is a possibility now…
If removing performance-worsening DRM wasn’t gonna encourage piracy, fucking ads in a game sure would!
Not that the games are even necessarily worth the disk space and download time anymore…
