The Cynical Monetisation of Assassin's Creed
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2022
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While the degradation of Assassin's Creed is an oft-discussed topic, one of its leading causes is not, this, of course being monetisation. With the introduction of the Helix Store in Assassin's Creed Unity, MTX (Microtransactions) began to get seriously intrusive. Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Assassin's Creed Valhalla in particular, are games that are warped and made worse by Ubisoft's need to pedal MTX. This is a video (video essay if your parents aren't divorced) about Ubisoft's cynical monetisation.
also sorry for the breathing in this one. scorching when i recorded this and my dna is like 75% caveman from a place where people are not programmed to withstand heat beyond room temp. i messed with some of the voiceover but it's still kind of annoying at times. sorry :( 
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I'm loving this jaded Walshie era, coming back with some absolute banger videos
Thank you brother. You of all people know just how difficult it is to maintain the "above it all nostalgia blinded ac fan" persona when riveting new content like this year's Sigrblot festival is releasing. It's a hard act to stick to...but comments like this make it all worth it ♥
@@WalshieYT1 are you going to change game theme?
This franchise is becoming death microtransaction hell?
Fantastic video Walshie, glad to have you back. Keep up the great videos and pressure on this increasingly corrupt company. Happy to have you back on the platform.
Dude Sorry , but do you actually think Ubisoft feels pressure cuz of Walshie's Videos 😂 ? Bruh
@@mrmeme2917 no I don’t. By implying pressure I don’t by any means think Ubisoft will care. By pressure I refer to dissuading potential gullible consumers from indulging in the companies malpractice and decreasing consumer care over the years. If some people can save their wallets just a bit then that’s definitely worth it through the video and efforts of it. I stopped purchasing Ubisoft games and even gaming altogether but I still firmly want consumers to know what they are getting into and how it could be better, who knows the video could reach a few of those with an extra comment or like.
@@richard_henry1358 why are you worried about other ppls wallets clowns like you need to mind their own pockets and if I wanna drop money on a game I will because I'm not some broke clown
I swear, and some damn big fandom pages here in Italy are unironically still defending Ubisoft, saying stuff like "uh, people like to shit on Ubisoft becouse that's what everyone does it, becouse it's the current fashion but they don't deserve it" or the evergreen "don't buy it, bruh" regarding MCs, it's so fucking sick that such things come out of admin's mouths, the worst is when twice they discarded the mistrreat of Ubi's devs saying that it has nothing to do with the games' quality or with the pages... as someone who is studying to enter in the videogame business this really sickens me, see how this "fans" prefer to suck on the corporation boot instead of protect the real minds and hands behind the series of which they literally are admin of a rather big community...
I can't say it's much better here, unfortunately. Our culture around corporations is pretty bleak. It sucks to see people deifying and pledging loyalty to mega-corporations who have only created art they liked by coincidence, because it was profitable. These corps have no artistic integrity and would happily churn out poorer products were it the more efficient and more profitable option: it is their fiduciary duty to do so. It's a real shame that consumers can't see this very blatant line in the sand that separates suits and artists. The former will always impede the latter if doing so boasts a bigger number. shit sucks lmao
I appreciate how articulate you are, it's good to have you back. Also I see that heaven or las vegas vinyl in the background king!!
greatest album of all time 🙏
Incredibly well-made video, glad to have you back!
you perfectly summarized the problem with modern ubisoft games in this video, it's not just that their games have microtransactions it's the fact that they're designed around them, I think it's mainly Ubisoft's fault but also the small minority who buys into all this stuff - the flaming armor skins, the time savers, they're ruining it for players who just wanna play the game that they paid for
I'm not even 5 minutes in but i know this is gonna be an absolute banger. Great to have you back!
Incredible video, Walshie. As a former AC fan who now has played Elden Ring for 150 hours, the whole existence of micro transactions and passes in the AC franchise seems so outlandish and horrific in hindsight.
I played Valhalla for 24 hours and was appalled by how boring and bloated it was plus the paid content. I uninstalled it.
It's so sad to see what major publishers and devs like EA and Ubisoft have done to some of our favorite titles. Good on you and others for calling it out.
The only Paid thing in Valhalla is Skins really
Thanks for the comment dude. I don't really play video games that much anymore, but when I do, it's usually Death Stranding or Minecraft, something I can just relax with for a bit, and I always experience that same whiplash. Having a great time with a "one and done" video game made to be a finite experience - like Elden Ring - makes everything else feel obsolete. If I wasn't so invested in Assassin's Creed I doubt I'd look twice at it after seeing the inclusion of an in-game store. Simply too much good stuff out there 🤷♂️
@@mrmeme2917 definitely. But for a game that prides itself on customization and being an RPG where you can make Eivor who you want him/her to be, it's a big deal just how much over the top stuff is behind a paywall. I tried to get back into the series with this game and just couldn't. It's not really even good at being an RPG imo. I get some people like it. I just couldn't.
@@WalshieYT1 and that's it, really. I've been playing ER over the course of a few months now and don't want to pick anything else up. There's only so much time and energy to give, so why give it to something that doesn't deserve it?
@@TSpoon823 totally Disagree, I think people trashing Valhalla cuz it's made by Ubisoft, it's not perfect no game is but it's really underated in my opinion Valhalla and Rogue
Came here from LazerzZ channel. Awesome video, keep it up!
Personally, I'd like for Assassin's Creed to do away with the dialogue options and choosing your gender and just focus on writing good characters and stories like the games before Odyssey. The worst part of this is the game giving you the illusion of choice for what's probably the sake of padding and false replay value only for it to later come out that there is indeed a canon route.
I can agree with this. One of the things that has bugged me is them enabling you to play a character of either sex and give you dialogue options, only to come back later and write a book that establishes the canonical character's sex and actions. So what is the point?
Another thing that bugs me is the fact that characters in the world of the game itself don't react or respond to the sex you play as, even though historically they certainly would have. For example, nobody in Odyssey seems to find it strange that Kassandra is running around on a battle field, even though--from what I've learned in history--Greek women were not even supposed to be seen outside the home, let alone fight. Considering Kassandra's upbringing it makes sense that she won't conform, but nobody in the world comments on it.
@@laurahardy9420Characters reacting differently in Freedom Cry and Black Flag to Adewale and Kenway was a nice touch I wish was kept for the sex thing, in Black Flag Adewale is treated differently by the pirate friends of Kenway(except for James Kidd), and he reacts to some missions where there are slaves and slave ships. And in Freedom Cry there’s enemies specifically there to kill you because your race is different. Oh but don’t mind the woman being the captain of the ship while we go to Athens.
@@laurahardy9420 also it's historical fiction why are there gender and dialogue choices when this has already happened we are just reliving it. I shouldn't be deciding what Eivor did. She already made those decisions.
Brilliant video mate! A proper way to return to RUclips. Looking forward to future content, and hoping you've been doing well since the break
Putting into words what we have all been thinking for a good while now.
Excellent video mate
"we have all"
the crybaby shitter AC fanbase you mean?
Finally you are back! Hyped
I remember the syndicate one. I think it's the only game where you can get free helix while roaming. I managed to get a ton by free roaming. Then when I was trying to 100% the game, there was this collectible that does not show on the map unless you buy from the helix store. I didn't want to buy helix because I already have about 80% of helix credits for buying the map. So I grind more helix for days and managed to buy the map from the store without paying a single cent.
its a shitty thing to do but still doable but you cant grind out the price for dawn of ragnarok lol
HE RETURNS! Loved the video it was class, and honestly sounds like your voice has got even damn deeper with the depression that comes from having to cover this completely soulless game series!
I love how as I'm watching this and he talks about a RUclips video with 80% ads, an ad actually interrupts the sentence 🤣
Well look who's back! I have waited a long time for this moment
This is why I call them either the spiral of apathy or the spiral of animosity.
Dude this is crazy, it has been so long that your voice has changed massively!
Could not have said it any better myself, great video. Sadly I don't think we'll see anything decent let alone good anytime soon, it's just a shame.
Good stuff Walshie, hitting new highs at 18.
Walshie’s voice is deeper lol
Hit puberty
Holy fucking shit he’s back dude we missed you dude
Ma boy Walshie coming back strong, less goo
This is a golden video
great video mate
Oh you’re back now
Welcome to the club. I've been the same distant peaking times to times to see what's up since 2013. It ain' to bad, you substantially lower your expectations and sometimes get good surprises like AC Unity ! I even had some really decent fun with AC Origins even though it felt off story-wise. And who knows, maybe we'll get a new Ghost of Tsushima type game in another setting soon !
Making unity is absurdly easy actually… if you go into the cafe renovations you end up making a stupid amount of money
Youre asking AC fans to actually put work into a game? lol
Thank you for this great video! Well explained! Lets be honest, when Desmonds died, the series died. Because after that, every AC game after had MT from to small to worst. And after Valhalla, im think im done wit AC and Ubisoft games because every game of them has these problems
Desmond is dead by the end of AC3. Do you really think a series that had the admittedly faulty Unity and the damn near perfect Black Flag in its future was dead?
i might be the worst kind of consumer. i didnt notice any of these predatory consumer practices with the helix stores, nor did i feel like i miss out on anything without having bullshit looking outfits or xp boosts
that’s just you knowing not to waste you’re money on stuff, so no ,you actually have common sense
@@C2190 for real, who the fuck cares how do i look in a single player game, all that matters is i wasnt paywalled ever
Oh my god. Firstly, I didn't know black flag had this kind of extra content I always thought unity was the one to hate for this (probably still that is the one). I put 100 hours into valhalla in 1 week when released, (never played since) that must be my most regretted time spent in my whole life. (except the almost this amount of odyssey) With both cases, playing the main stuff in hope for at least something worth watching and hearing, and valhalla almost got it. And I have to admit when it ended I really thought maybe we go back to the important narrative game style, but how blind was I.. as you mentioned there were few very very great key story moments in valhalla (only thanks to Darby) which are not worth the 60€. They are proof always left their to prove that they could've done something interesting, meaningful, powerful game. But they chose money instead. I can't express myself how much I'm sad right now but hey, thanks for the lovely video :D
Give this man a medal @walshie you know your stuff and we all know Ubisoft want to suck us dry of every penny nowadays..
Me doing the main quest, was told or was burdern to do a side quest... 150 hours later returning to the main quest, oh that npc died... was he important? the entire thing sounds sad but i have zero idea what i should be sad about.
Love seeing the Soprano's wiki on the bookmaker
Why is your channel so underrated
Scammed
I really have no issues with micro-transactions, I played and completed last 3 games without buying anything from the shop.
Limbs he’s back
man watching video is just sad....
any way great video sir
i'm glad your back @walshie
The funny thing is that with Valhalla Ubisoft bothers more with adding microtransactions than actually patching up the game and fixing it. I'm sure many people including me still experience certain bugs that were there since the game's launch even after so many freaking patches and updates.
Walshie missed you alot bro
24:17 wow, they've started putting adverts in the middle of the game now!? You're playing the game and then suddenly you're watching an advert? What the heck???
its almost like games have been doing this for years when new content comes out.
Coming back in full force Walshie simply lovely can I just say I have never seen a game company try so hard to destroy a phenomenal one of a kind video game series to become a joke now it is really unbelievable and it is all because of money
Some people say they Saved it
17:52 Pareto Principle
I wish you wouldn't use visual endgame spoilers as b-roll, makes it kind of hard to share
I'm quite happy that Ubisoft's Micro-Transactions usually don't fit into the world of AC because it puts me right off buying them because I only like wearing Lore or historical era accurate gear.
He’s baaaaaaaaaack!!!!
Yes, i totallly agree with you. and im going to be watching the AC games on youtube from now on i think, unless there comes something spectacular. AC will always hold a peice of love in my heart growing up with the game, but Ubisoft will not.
Have you seen Skull and Bones too? They made a botchery of what they promised and what will be coming out. its funny how a game 10 years older.... Black flag! will still be better than a modern game they are making. Its like you said, value for money within the game will be no more. Ubisoft has allready done it with Skull and Bones.
(i know its not released yet but they have given loads of information about what they will have in the game and will not)
There is not a doubt in my mind that they wanted to make skull and bones an assassins creed title going back to the Caribbean but actually realized in their brain dead drained head that it wouldn’t have been the best idea so they’re making it a separate IP
15:40 "It's like watching a RUclips video that's 80% ad"
*proceeds to play unskippable ad*
Me: 🗿
AC youtubers calling other people lazy and/or greedy will never not be funny to me.
The legendary prowler belt would have cost $1,347,301.19 in 2014 (150,000 livres in 1789). In 2022 it costs 1,686,351.73.
The alternative is to pay 10 bucks in modern money because people are somehow too lazy to just play the game.
The slippery slope: microtransaction edition
I wanted to try the Origins DLC since it looked interesting but didn't cause it costed twice as much as the game bought new for 20 dollars
I just buy Ubisoft games secondhand at this point. I'll enjoy their games for however long without giving them money, or adding to their total sales to fuel more selfish decisions.
@18:48 I just got the sword of damocles in odyssey and It looks nothing like that, why would they want you to pay to get a weapon from another game and then make a completely new version of it? Not to mention it looks kind of dumb
if they just ported it over, youd cry about it being lazy, if they change it, you cry about continuity, they literally cant win.
@@SharkSprayYTP don't put words in my mouth I don't care either way but they're making extra work for themselves by completely remodeling an asset
Make vids on future ac game
If you actually see, Dawn of Ragnarok also has Reda which is in ancient Isu times
Walshie Daily uploads is it time to have the fun gay party
Wideshie became Deepshie
I play only ezio trilogy, can't relate to new fan's problems 😌 if I don't buy their new games
5:59
off topic, but remember that radio segment in Watch Dogs Legion about anti capitalism? Ubisoft is disgusting
This video is the W in Walshie
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT so lemme get this straight!
They’re removing dlc from older games in the franchise off the market, and still expect us buy their new dlc in the same franchise???
Who’s to say in ten years the Ragnarok dlc wont be removed as well? If I was on the fence about it before, I’m damn sure not gonna waste my money on it now
It sucks so much. When ownership isn’t guaranteed, there’s only one valid way of obtaining a game. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
@@WalshieYT1 Ubisoft turning fans into criminals. I’d love to say I’m surprised
PC players!
You can get all of the 'premium' equipment for free buy using cheat engine (check the nexus for more info)
Don't buy in game ressources with real game money >>> use cheat engine or a trainer.
I really wish they pushed the open world fantasy game expect on for Honor rather than the slightly historically accurate stealth genre.🤷🏻♂️
Unfortunate, but inevitable, I suppose.
Don't just not buy the microtransactions. Don't buy the games. Don't talk about the games. Don't acknowledge the games. The only way to stop this problem is with pure indifference to the product and the company as a whole. Shut them out completely and focus your attention on games and developers that produce quality content without the corrupt and greedy business practices and if those developers turn into the same thing... rinse and repeat.
What also bothers me lately is how lazy the character writing has been, and more sadly it's been like that at the same time they introduced female characters, it's really a shame it's like they don't even try to make them with a personality or likable, that includes secondary characters. The story all together is just lacking in general
Oh hush with your "female oppression" nonsense. That shit is getting old
Ironically, I actually enjoy seeing the microtransactions because it gives me more pleasure when I 100% their assassin's creed games and far cry games .i realize " damn these things aren't even necessary " and I see it as another way of giving ubisoft the finger. It also takes me back to the older games and how rewarding they were .
Armor of Altair
Armor of Brutus
Armor of ishak pasha
Mayan Armor
Native Armor
All these outfits can be obtained without a single coin . In today's case these would be sold in the helix store for 20 plus dollars.
But i guess times change.
if youre buying the game then youre still helping them not just financially but also to inflate their player hours spent , ive pirated all their games except for Unity because of Co-Op
@@Retr0_Blues yyyeeeeah no, they make their sales back from microtransactions. The actual video game being sold means nothing at this point. This has been report for a few years now.
@@nestormelendez9005 yeahhhh no the base game purchase is still a massive factor , like 25 to 35% so no you're not putting the 30 bucks or whatever it is now into a void or black hole .
@@Retr0_Blues yyyeeeeah no, the microtransactions make of 50 - 70% of sales and plus the fact that physical sales are divided with the retailer sold . The actual game purchase means little now.
@@nestormelendez9005 you said no and just repeated the estimate i said dude
The "if you don't like it don't buy it" argument works if you're talking about the game itself. The last AC game I played was Syndicate because I don’t like the microtransaction ridden grindy RPGs the recent games have become. If you bought the last three AC games or any of their side content within months of their release you’ve contributed to the problem, even if you didn’t engage with the microtransactions you’ve still contributed to the problem. My conscience is clear. I have not financially contributed to the state AC is now because the last time I gave them money was a sale bought Syndicate, in fact everything after AC3 was sale bought.
AHAHAHAHAHA! im contributing to your precious Ac going down what you think is the shitter? good cry about it.
What a comeback, keep going... There's another threat on horizon...
T e n c e n t
" Ubisoft is the Most Anti-Consommer in all of Gaming"
EA : Let me Introduce myself..
@@pandabearmush857 they are and have been for years
Is it weird that this video makes me wanna play odyssey and valhalla 😭
Common Walshie W
i sometime don't like to bash on the new gen ac players, since they are just enjoing a game that has a lot of mindless fun to offer, but then i also think that these people are the one that make ubisoft gain bilions just with microtransactions, and then i just make hell rain upon jorraptor's twitter comment section.
Let people enjoy what they like. Why does it matter to you what other people spend their money on?
@@YungSavage203 because they are the reason WE are getting these shit games
@@TheKuno every game they make isn't made with YOU in mind. None of thier games are objectively bad. All of you are arguing about optional things.
@@YungSavage203 that's exactly the problem, the games they make are targeted towards the largest group of people possible, games should have have a designed audience, i don't like fifa cause i don't play football so if tomorrow fifa becomesa narrative linear story driven game just to make me like fifa as well, that's just means it lost it's soul
@@YungSavage203 you are in the wrong video m8
Ubisoft is the worst company ever and my mortal enemy.
Wait what's happening to old assassin's creed games? What's decommissioning
Delisting. Taking them off the market.
looks like ubisoft is the new ea
And Assassin’s creed mirage got an adults only rating for “real gambling” what a shame. RIP assassin’s creed
apparently there were talks about initially integrating the game with NFT's for about a year but they let that idea go a couple of months ago since the hype died down and the backlash wasnt worth it . i dont think theres black jack or anything in mirage , the rating system just categorised NFT's as gambling which seems kinda fitting lol .
Aren't 100$ like 90€?
yeah haha i fucked this up
Y’all weren’t using Cheat Engine all this time?
Is it just me, or does the Valhalla gameplay, especially the free run/parkour parts, look really bad? I haven’t played any of the rpg AC games, although I own a copy of Origins.
Honestly I feel the most anticonsumer triple A company would be EA
In a Fromsoftware game there would be 0 mtx
21:11 😂
Man i feel bad that I caved and bought the Xp Boost. I’ll replay odesy , origins and then I’m done with. This franchise. I don’t want to. Hope anymore. The thing is Assassin’s creed could be amazing. But Ubisoft doesn’t want it to be. It’s just good enough to get you hooked. And than drag you through the Mud. Wear you down and make the thought of spending appealing. Imagine the next game with 10000 hours of content. No thank you Ubisoft I’ve given you to much money and to many chances.
Imagine complaing about too much OPTIONAL content
@@YungSavage203 when they design the game around the content it isn’t optional anymore. You can beat the games jut fine without leveling on Normal or easy. When you play on the hardest one it becomes required. To squeeze every bit of Xp out. That’s why people make custom quests in odesy to xp grind. Hey if you have 500 spare hours then it’s just fine.
@@YungSavage203 also in Ubisofts case it’s the same content. Copy pasted 1000 times. Would you call that fun
@@kS-ic4rf They have a formula just like every other developer/ publisher Maybe that formula isn't for you. They even switched the formula up and people still complain. Either you have alot of time or you have alot of money. You seldom have alot of both. Those xp boost do wanders for people who lack time but have disposable income. Move on this is a non issue
@@YungSavage203 i am complaining because. This doesn’t need to be a thing. I like every assassin creed game. But over the years the design. Of the games is how can we nudge the player into spending. Not how can we make a great well loved video game. For example leveling in odesy is almost pointless. The enemies scale so the gameplay stays largely the same. But you need to level because if you don’t you can’t do the story because you fall behind.
This is designs with means they are doing it on purpose. Or every time you start a new game you get an Xp boost. For a few hours so you can get a taste of how fast it is. Then you lose it and the game turns into a slog. I’m ok with them being upfront about it. But this is really scumy. Keep in mind that this is a 60 $ game. Not ganshin impact or some free to play title.
There are star wars fans who are singing the praises of ubisoft for not being electronic arts once it comes out I doubt they'll be singing anything.
nah, theyll be busy having fun playing a good game while AC fans are stuck in the 2010s jacking it to videos of terrible parkour from the mediocre AC 2
Piracy and game trainers exist to counter this lol! Its the time like how cheats are good guys now!
ive pirated valhalla and used a trainer to avoid the grindy bits and it was still a pain in the ass to finish .
That's wy i don't buy new AC games. Post AC Origins Progression and Gameplay is so agonizing
agonizing for an AC fan maybe, probably because Ac fans think ezio trilogies glorified QTE combat was the pinnacle of gaming.
@@SharkSprayYTP ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
These Games cost 70 allready by themselfs, i'm not gonna pay it like a free to play.
@@SharkSprayYTP peak Combat in Mechanigs was Unity. You can one or two Guards with ease, but you easely die the more they get. A nice enouragemant to Stealth.
Sadly, as long as the 10% of gamers who make them 50% of their money continue to make them huge profits, there will be no change in their business model. Corporations have the same singular goal as any other person or entity who is in sales...make as much profit as legally (and sometimes not so legally) as possible. They have investors and shareholders to answer to. So, welcome to the state of gaming from now until forever. Videos like this are a plea for altruism and corporate responsibility that at the end of the day will fall on deaf ears, thus having zero impact. Greed is the mindset of our society and it's only becoming more popular. Depressing outlook? Certainly...but hey, living in reality will serve one's self better than coloring your eyes with fantasy.
Ubisoft = Abstergo
ubisoft is definetely an awful company but i think the one company who has the most her place in the hall of fame of anti consumers has to be Electronic Arts ubisoft definetly follows up
I still like Odyssey
I guess I'm part of the problem? I love the AC games. I always get the Ultimate digital editions and I always 100% each game. It is my personal favorite game series.
@@Winston.S.Churchill move on. Noone cares
@@Winston.S.Churchill
i can confirm, this fanbase is toxic as all hell and stuck in 2010s. They hold a mediocre game up as if its the bible and then invade the comment section of Valhalla videos to give their meaningless opinion thats drenched in bitterness and stinking of virginity.
Nerd
i dont hate anything most of the time it’s just me disliking stuff but boy do i despise ubisoft for killing the ac franchise, story wise breaking their own lore to the micro transactions they just don’t care anymore and go onto whatever trend is popular at the time. i do hope ubisoft goes bankrupt and the ip actually goes to someone’s who cares about the lore of the franchise
itll just get bought out by an even worse company , i doubt we will ever get a good story driven stealthy AC game ever again . its hacking and slashing all the way to the IP's death lol .
I played all main story games since 3, and never made a single microtransaction. It isn't the games fault that people are ready to give RL money for a fancier horse, they would be stupid not to take it.
Uhhhh AC died a long time ago😂
Dunno when AC fans will realise they dont actually have to buy this stuff.
I literally address this argument in the video lmao
@@WalshieYT1
and? you AC commentators are always toxic as hell. do i trust you to put a fair balanced critique out? no. You commentators all do the exact same "new bad, old good" credibility in the shitter as far as im concerned.
You’re calling me toxic for creating a critique you haven’t watched and are vocally writing off? lol
@@WalshieYT1
no I'm calling you toxic based off of what I've seen from you before. So am i going to waste my time watching a "critique" as you would put it, when you've no credibility? Not a chance. Just old school fanboys crying about modern AC and pretending their subjective opinion is actually an objectively correct one.
lmao. This is a fairly typical response to any critique made by older ac fans. Calling out “toxicity” whilst generalising and mischaracterising a group of fans feels incredibly misguided.
If you’re willing to actually listen to me in good faith, then I’m more than happy to engage with you.
The two reda stores in origins and Valhalla (and whatever the shop is called in odyssey) are gambling in game form
Get over yourself thinking corporations werent doing shady practices a decade ago or two decades ago etc. You just never noticed because they (all corporations) have always done things to make more money at all times ever. This current anti-corporate bandwagons is kind of stupid because it means no one noticed before now. Nothing has changed, its just easier and more convenient and more obvious, it will change to the next revenue method eventually, most likely subscription services. Just more hollow complaints over something that happens everywhere for everything, so why should AC be any different? All corporations in any industry do everything to maximise profit at all times, they always have, thats why they become corporations, thats how they work.
if he doesnt like their business practices then he doesnt , why go out of your way and run defense for Ubi .