Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Unity has been, to put not too fine a point on it, a disaster for them. The biggest problems have come in the form of the launch of the game showing that it was far from finished (oh those faceless bugs) and more recently a large forth patch that was even larger on the Xbox One version thanks to it re-downloading the entire game.
One part of the entire debacle has been the cancellation of the Season Pass for the game, which resulted in Ubisoft telling purchasers of it and the Gold Edition of the game that as compensation for the problems and the cancellation they could choose a free copy of a number of Ubisoft games. And some of those games were pretty nice ones too.
Only hold on a second.
Some sharp-eyed people who have actually read through the legalese of the free game offer have noticed a little waver inside the agreement. Namely that if you choose to accept the free game you're not then allowed to join in any lawsuits that might want to sue Ubisoft over the broken game not being as advertised. Basically, Ubisoft are trying to cover their own backsides and lower the chances of a class action lawsuit or making sure there's so few left to file one that it wouldn't be considered worth it in the end.
Either way, the entire situation has seriously damaged Ubisoft's reputation among the Assassin's Creed fans and the next game will have some serious work to do to make it up.
The titles on sale for the free game offer in case you're still interested are as follows:
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag
- Far Cry 4
- Just Dance 2015
- Rayman Legends
- The Crew
- Watch Dogs