• Cash shop in a single player game.

• Contains Denuvo and requires a Ubisoft account to use their shitty launcher.

• Has adverts in-game.

• Launched with $85 of DLC.

• Immediately started laying off workers after launch.

Fuck Ubisoft, and if you bought this game, fuck you too.

Sea shanties now cost $0.50 per word sung.

if ye buy from the cash shop ye a landlubber not a captain

The comments online are nuts. "The original had it so it's a nothing burger".

Wtf are you smoking to think it's okay to accept micro transaction on a single player game that's a remake from a decade ago?

Remember when it came out in 2020 that Ubisoft had an internal sex ring in which the upper management were preying on the women in the development staff?

I haven't played an Ubisoft game since, including some favorites.

Glad I had zero hopes for this from the start. Just gonna wait for Windrose to 1.0 for my pirate fix instead of bothering with this.

The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?

Looks like I'll just wait to pirate this pirate game. :D

Eh? The original had a cash shop too, and some stuff locked behind a mobile companion app AFAIK

I don't buy Ubisoft garbage.

God damnit Ubisoft you had ONE more opportunity where you could have redeemed yourself and you just. Can't. Fucking. Stop.

Fuck Ubisoft.

Not defending this, but it did remind me of how nuts the monetization was on the original. I had a modded 360 at the time, and there used to be an old school forum style website that curated all available DLC. This game had exclusive content for GameStop, Walmart, Target, and I think a 4th and 5th retailer too. Not to mention the pre-order bonuses and other exclusives. I wanna say there were around 25 different pieces of content and to get 100% of what was available, youd've had to buy 5 retail copies of the same game... or have a modded 360 and an internet connection. Even unlocking the content was more of a hassle than most DLCs. You had to move your user profile to a USB stick, connect it to your PC, inject the entitlements to the exclusive costumes into your profile, then move the profile back to your console.

And off the wishlist, it goes.

Black Flag is 13 years old?! Now I feel old.

The original holds up quite well, at least on PC with highest settings and resolution you can get. I never finished the game to be honest and thought to myself to revisit it to finally get the job done. But then waited for the Remake and it looks like its not a must have.

About the cash shop, one could just ignore it, right?

Didn't Ubisoft collapse or something?

Windrose exists and is already a bunch of fun!