A certain group of players have been experiencing pop-up ads over the past few days while playing older Assassin’s Creed games. This was attractive for the currently ongoing Black Friday sale, which was headlined by a discount on the new Assassin’s Creed Mirage. So by advertising it through a popup screen directly interfered with the gameLeading gaming magazines also began to attract attention.
With an explanation why he had to hurry Ubisoft itself believes that the existence of this type of advertising marked as technical error. At the same time, company representatives added that the problem has already been resolved and players should no longer encounter pop-up advertisements. However, it should be noted that this is not the first time that users have encountered this type of advertising while playing a game from Ubisoft.
Already four years ago on a similar pop-up banner players encountered while playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. So it’s clear that Ubisoft hasn’t completely given up on the idea of in-game advertising and is at least continuing to test the feature and how players might react. However, the community reaction in this direction was quite strong and clearly negative, so it is doubtful whether the company will ever decide to fully implement this type of advertising in the future.
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We’ve learned that yesterday some players were experiencing an in-game pop-up message while playing select Assassin’s Creed games. This was due to a technical error, which has now been resolved.
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Source :Indian TV
