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Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin's Creed Shadows' culture war nonsense (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tired inner gamer. The original AC got boring for me. Just lots of repetitive uncreative climbing to complete collections. They they came out with Uplay with AC2 and i keep going back to “is this game worth creating an account and giving up my personal information to play, when there are multiple other games available with a better value proposition for my time, money, and privacy?”

The answer (for ubisoft) is invariably no. So i’ve effectively been on an unintentional Ubisoft boycott since 2008 since i refuse to create an account.

[–] doomcanoe 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Good on ya! Fight the good fight!

Personally, I dug the "social stealth" mechanics in the early AC games, especially as it was a interesting deviation from the more line of sight based formula of the MGS games, and the light/shadow based stealth of the Theif and Splinter Cell series (everything old is new again in that regards), but I've always been a fan of stealth games anyway. And I found the climbing and parkour to be fun and novel at the time, even if it is extremely "automated".

Was fortunate enough to just rent AC 1&2 for the 360 at the time, so uPlay never really entered into my decision making.

But yeah, if you were a completionist, I could see how that would get extremely boring. And Ubisoft's business practices are super shitty.