Some Murderer’s Creed gamers encountered in-game commercials for Ubisoft’s Black Friday gross sales whereas enjoying older Murderer’s Creed video games earlier this week, however Ubisoft claims this wasn’t intentional.
Reddit consumer triddell24 posted a video of the advert, which was shared by Fab on X/Twitter, beneath. It reveals the participant making an attempt to open the map in Murderer’s Creed Odyssey earlier than the display screen fills with an for Murderer’s Creed Mirage, which is 20% off within the Black Friday gross sales.
“Benefit from 20% off on the most recent recreation within the collection,” it reads, giving the participant the choice to both shut the advert or “purchase now”, which presumably opens a hyperlink to the console’s retailer.
Il semble qu’Ubisoft expérimente la publicité en jeu chez certains utilisateurs (Xbox et PS).
Vous êtes au milieu de votre jeu, accédez à la pause ou à la Map et vous avez pendant 3sec. une pub pour un autre jeu qui s’affiche. Suffisant pour désinstaller ? ? pic.twitter.com/m5S4rEXas5
— Fab ✨ (@Fab_XS_) November 23, 2023
Ubisoft has denied this was an intentional ploy to promote copies of Murderer’s Creed Mirage, nevertheless, saying as a substitute customers have been served these adverts by chance as “the results of a technical error”.
“We’ve been made conscious that some gamers encountered pop-up adverts whereas enjoying sure Murderer’s Creed titles yesterday,” a Ubisoft spokesperson instructed IGN. “This was the results of a technical error that we addressed as quickly as we discovered of the difficulty.” The developer did not clarify how the technical error occurred.
Murderer’s Creed Mirage launched October 5 as a smaller-scale entry that returns gamers to the collection’ roots via slower-paced, stealth-based gameplay, veering away from the role-playing recreation foundations of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla (and probably the following recreation, Murderer’s Creed Purple, which not too long ago spouted a contemporary leak).
Its map is not wherever close to the scale of these of its predecessors for one, and it solely takes round 20 to 30 hours to finish in comparison with the a number of dozens of hours of earlier video games.
In our 8/10 evaluate, IGN mentioned: “Murderer’s Creed Mirage’s back-to-basics method is a profitable first step in returning to the stealthy fashion that launched this collection.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.