Yeah, the technical error of enabling them before they meant to. Anyone who's stupid enough to have bought a Ubisoft game in the past decade deserves this shit. There's so much excuse-making about the way gaming companies are going, that they can all get fucked. I hope they enjoy their full screen ads.

They didn't accidentally code everything for this, test it, put it in updates, etc. That was all on purpose, and they 'accidentally' enabled it to measure how much outrage was generated. If people make excuses for this shit now, it WILL be coming as a permanent "feature".

Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with their little "accident". I haven't bought one of their games in years amd this greedy corpo shit paired with lackluster games is exactly why.

How the fuck do you accidentally add popups

A technical error doesn't result in popup ads. The code had to already be there.

"You were not supposed to see that yet. Upsi dupsi"

"Sorry we showed you the ad before the black Friday return window lapsed."

Ubisoft says it was trying to put an ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage in the main menu of other Assassin’s Creed games. However, a “technical error” caused the promotion to show up on in-game menus instead. Ubisoft says the issue has since been fixed

So they fully planned to roll out full screen pop up ads, it was just supposed to be in the main menu, not in-game. Fuckers.

This is why I don't play AAA games.

Fuck Ubisoft and fuck greedy corporations!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Ubisoft is blaming an unspecified “technical error” for a fullscreen pop-up ad that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week.

Reddit users say they spotted the pop-up on Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game, with an ad appearing just when you navigate to the map screen.

“This is disgusting to experience while playing,” remarked one Reddit user, summarizing the general feeling against such pop-ups in the middle of gameplay.

“We have been made aware that some players encountered pop-up ads while playing certain Assassin’s Creed titles yesterday,” says Ubisoft spokesperson Fabien Darrigues, in a statement to The Verge.

Either way, the intent of adding pop-ups into the middle of a game you’ve paid for is rather “gross” as one Reddit commenter puts it.

Imagine a world full of games you’ve paid $70 for and then ads popping up in the middle of gameplay.

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Obviously coding this up isn't accidental, so I guess they mean that activating the feature was accidental (not very reassuring) but also it's kind of hard to believe that even that was accidental. Any very basic QA would have prevented that. It was probably deliberately testing the waters.