TSA writes: "Can you have too much of a good thing? Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has provided an answer to this age old question: it’s when having too much of a good thing makes you realise that the good thing isn’t that good at all, it’s actually distinctly average. I’ve been playing Odyssey for over seventy hours now and I still haven’t reached its conclusion. I’m not sure I ever will, as boredom has now well and truly set in. I’m fed up of the meaningless fetch quests, the constant level grinding, the repetitive combat and the lack of depth to the ‘moral’ choices. It is a game that has been stretched to such an extent it now inspires only apathy from me."
A fullscreen pop-up ad appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for some players this week.
Call of Duty already does this; Ubisoft and other game companies will follow suit and explore similar approaches.
Congratulations, A technical error In displaying ads while playing.
EU consumer law needs to chew these assholes a new one.
The big note here is the built in ad-displays during gameplay and not that they happened. Start screen, cool. Gameplay? That shouldn't ever happen.
"Start screen, cool."
Uhm, no. Start screen very much NOT cool either. There really need to be new laws implemented banning these companies from shoving ads down out throats at every opportunity they see fit.
For free to play which is a market of games needing monetization through different venues. In those games this stuff is fine by me. But when you pay ..20, 40 ,60, or $70 that's when it is not okay to any degree.
That's not a technical error. An ad can't be displayed mid-game without you creating the code/tech to make that possible first.
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I feel like this came too late personally. I really liked AC Odyssey but that game is HUGE. I played through it twice and I’m kinda burned out on it. It’s such a huge game and being a completionist it really took it out of me the second time. I don’t want to jump back in again after around 200 hrs. I was looking forward to this DLC to when I was actually playing Odyssey.
This is just my opinion. But major expansions coming so much later just doesn’t work for me.