Earlier this week reviews surfaced of gamers encountering in-game pop-up adverts for this yr’s Murderer’s Creed: Mirage, whereas innocently attempting to open the map display screen in Ubisoft’s older open world stabathon Murderer’s Creed: Odyssey.
Here is one we discovered on Reddit, which was uploaded on Wednesday. A couple of customers within the related thread are reporting related pop-ups in Murderer’s Creed: Origins and Murderer’s Creed: Valhalla.
Just got an in-game advertisement when I tried to go to the map
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Is that this the primary, teetering snowball that unleashes an avalanche of mobile-style in-game promoting for Ubisoft’s blockbuster gameworlds? Will I’ve to take heed to a Nestlé jingle each time I hack a radio tower within the subsequent Far Cry? Brief reply: no. Longer reply, as shared with RPS this morning by an Ubisoft consultant: “We now have been made conscious that some gamers encountered pop-up advertisements whereas enjoying sure Murderer’s Creed titles yesterday. This was the results of a technical error that we addressed as quickly as we discovered of the difficulty.”
Large publishers reminiscent of Ubisoft have experimented with including in-game advertisements to their video games prior to now, not at all times for the worst. 2K Video games tried it with unskippable loading screenvideos in NBA 2019. Soccer Supervisor provided free matchside billboard house to psychological well being charities in 2020. Within the latter case, the advertisements are each for a great trigger and in line with the sport’s illustration of digital soccer. Pop-up Black Friday advertisements through the heyday of the Peloponnesian Battle? Much less convincing.
This is not the primary time Odyssey has skilled such a technical concern. It occurred in 2019, as reported by Kotaku. An Ubisoft consultant informed the location again then that “it was a bug and has been mounted.”