Ubisoft Insists Murderer’s Creed In-Recreation Black Friday Advertisements Had been a ‘Technical Error’

Some Murderer’s Creed gamers encountered in-game ads for Ubisoft’s Black Friday gross sales whereas taking part in older Murderer’s Creed video games earlier this week, however Ubisoft claims this wasn’t intentional.

Reddit person triddell24 posted a video of the advert, which was shared by Fab on X/Twitter, under. It reveals the participant making an attempt to open the map in Murderer’s Creed Odyssey earlier than the display fills with an for Murderer’s Creed Mirage, which is 20% off within the Black Friday gross sales.

“Reap the benefits of 20% off on the newest recreation within the sequence,” 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, nonetheless, saying as a substitute customers had been served these adverts by chance as “the results of a technical error”.

“We now have been made conscious that some gamers encountered pop-up adverts whereas taking part in 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 realized of the problem.” 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 sequence’ roots by slower-paced, stealth-based gameplay, veering away from the role-playing recreation foundations of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla (and doubtlessly the following recreation, Murderer’s Creed Crimson, which not too long ago spouted a contemporary leak).

Its map is not anyplace 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 assessment, IGN mentioned: “Murderer’s Creed Mirage’s back-to-basics strategy is a profitable first step in returning to the stealthy type that launched this sequence.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.