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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag’s unexpected disappearance from the Steam store is down to nothing more exciting than a tech bug - and definitely isn’t a sign of an upcoming remake for the pirate entry in the stealth-action franchise.

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[-] Kichae@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Well, you see, the technical issue that's stopping them from selling it is called "canibalization of sales", which is technically an issue for their marketing department.

[-] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Weird to think it was because of a remake. The game isn't old and still holds up very well.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Last of Us part 1 remake says hi

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the original wasn’t on PC for TLoU

[-] Virkkunen@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

They didn't remake the game so they could port it to PC, they did it so they could sell more banking on the triple dippers

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Both is correct.

I mean if you don’t understand that they’ve ported or remade their PS exclusives to PC because they also wanted a new untapped player base that didn’t own playstations, I don’t know what to tell you, brah.

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not weird to think as the remake being in the works has been reported many months before they pulled the game from Steam.

It's a decade old and big studios are creatively bankrupt, so they just love simple redoing old shit and reusing the old work.

Skyrim wasn't the game that started this shit, but it sure was what popularized it with studios.

[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It holds up well until you try to run it. Terrible issues on PC they never fixed...

[-] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Weird, I don't get those issues on my PC. I usually install it every year at least once to play through it.

[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I think it can go one of two ways. Either it runs fine

Or you need windows 98 compatibility mode, change some ini setting, set physx or whatever its called to off and be finally able to play.

Then see yourself standing in your ships boundaries, unable to move. This all happened to me and I just stopped playing.

It did play well a few years back but that was on windows 8.

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