To apologize for the clearly rushed and buggy final product of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Ubisoft will be offering the game’s first DLC expansion, Dead Kings, for free on all three platforms for everyone, once it’s released. With the game starting to stabilize a bit more however (albeit not completely just yet), Ubisoft is proclaiming mea culpa, and is attempting to make amends to early adopters of the game. The fallout was so bad in fact, that Ubisoft’s stock value decreased by almost 10% after the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity, due to the more lukewarm reviews and negative player feedback. Many users are reporting scads of bugs and performance problems, with the PC version being especially problematic, and even being the host of a particularly damning ‘no face’ bug with some NPC’s, one that has since been patched out. Perhaps the gesture of free content in the way of Dead Kings might just change that.Assassin’s Creed Unity has suffered from an infamously rocky launch since it debuted on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC a couple of weeks ago. While retailers in India have reported strong sales of the game, it's unclear how many Indian gamers would have spent on a season pass given that DLC sales haven't taken off here in a big way. It's a welcome move from Ubisoft given how poor the experience has been for most gamers. ( Also see: Assassin's Creed Unity Review: An Almost Perfect Past) Those who have purchased it will still get the upcoming content as promised while the rest who have not can purchase its contents as they release. In addition to this, Ubisoft is stopping sales of the Assassin's Creed Unity season pass. The chosen game can be redeemed for free by March 15, 2015, and is limited to the platform on which Assassin's Creed Unity was purchased. In a surprise move, the company announced that its giving every owner (PC, PS4, Xbox One) of the game a free copy of the upcoming downloadable content (DLC), Dead Kings.įurthermore, those who purchased Assassin's Creed Unity's season pass or Assassin's Creed Unity Gold Edition can redeem a game for free from a list of six popular Ubisoft titles - namely The Crew, Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Rayman Legends, and Just Dance 2015.

The game's already received its third patch which promises to fix over 300 bugs ranging from single-player campaign crashes to save game corruption. It's reached a point where the game's many bugs have been made into memes.Īnd though the Internet has a predisposition towards turning most things into humour, Ubisoft is not in the mood for jokes.

Assassin's Creed Unity didn't have the smoothest of launches.

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