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Assassin's Creed Unity Players Will Get Free DLC in Wake of Rocky Launch

Dead Kings expansion will be free for all players, while those who bought the game's DLC pass will get to pick a free game.

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In an effort to make it up to fans affected by Assassin's Creed Unity's troubled launch, Ubisoft will give away the game's Dead Kings expansion to all players, the publisher announced today. This content was previously going to be included with the game's DLC pass. For people who already bought the pass (or the Gold Edition, which includes the pass), Ubisoft will give you one free game from the list below.

The publisher is currently in the process of setting up a system to process this free game offer. Full details on how you can claim your free game will be published soon. The game's DLC pass has been removed from sale, though its other scheduled content--including the standalone game Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China--has not been scuttled, and will be delivered later.

As for the Dead Kings expansion, which is a story campaign set after the events of the main game, it is "coming soon," Ubisoft said.

"I want to sincerely apologize on behalf of Ubisoft and the entire Assassin's Creed team" -- Yannis Mallat

Ubisoft Montreal and Toronto CEO Yannis Mallat also apologized for Unity's rocky launch, saying he understands how disappointing and frustrating the matter is for those affected.

"Unfortunately, at launch, the overall quality of the game was diminished by bugs and unexpected technical issues," he said. "I want to sincerely apologize on behalf of Ubisoft and the entire Assassin's Creed team. These problems took away from your enjoyment of the game, and kept many of you from experiencing the game at its fullest potential."

Mallat stressed that Ubisoft has been working diligently to fix the game's issues by releasing a steady flow of patches. The game's third major patch is rolling out now, and it's a big one, featuring more than 300 fixes that aim to improve performance, matchmaking, connectivity, and more.

"In addition to the latest patch and this offer, we are committed to delivering further fixes for other issues you've raised," Mallat added. "In the meantime, please keep your feedback coming--it has been both humbling and incredibly helpful as we continue working hard to improve the overall quality of the game. We are hopeful that with these forthcoming updates, everyone will be able to truly enjoy their Assassin’s Creed Unity experience."

For more on Unity, check out GameSpot's review.

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Finally, a proper admission of guilt. The gift, however, isn't all that great, is it? So Season Pass holders are qualified as "more affected" than non-Season Pass holders, yet everyone who owns AC:U was affected by the bugs in the same way.

Not a great message, unless I've missed the point somewhere?

The real question will be, has this caused enough of an upset at a high enough level now to make sure quality comes first, next time? No more preorders of Ubisoft games still stands. They're going to have to prove they mean business before they'll see another sniff of a preorder from this guy.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> non-pass owners are getting the season pass' content expansion for free.

ubi had to compensate the people that bought the now-free content, so they're giving away free games instead of a refund, because these companies will choke on their own urine before willingly giving someone their money back.

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Next we'll be complaining about all the bugs in the DLC

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Can you patch the story? You know, so its not garbage?


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wow, no matter what ubisoft does, people complain, dont complain. they are giving away free games for **** sakes, who cares if ac unity isnt perfect, its a hell of a lot better than watch dogs and most of the other games released this year.

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Rocky II was the best one

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Why are these devs trying so hard to compensate for such a detrimenting crap?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> they aren't trying hard at all. That's the worst part.


You think they are losing money over giving away this free DLC? They probably snipped this content from the game for contingency plans just like this.


Set aside content to calm the angry mob just in case.

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Fortunately, I stopped buying games on launch day so I was completely unaffected. While the Ubisoft gesture is nice, I would much rather deal with a company that releases games that are what they are advertised to be.

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And GameSpot, STOP VERBATIM COPY + PASTE developer/publishers news features!!! It is pathetic! At least write in your own words! I got the same news as an email from UbiSoft!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well problem is, not everyone gets the same emails as you and not everyone knows about this. Its good to have this information posted from more than one source, so in case you did miss it from another, you'll see it here.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I understand and that is good, but at least rephrasing wouldn't hurt you know, it just feels cheap to copy/paste. anyways, may be i am overreacting considering the game itself turned out to be a nightmare, sorry!

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>i actually agree man, they are getting paid to write articles so they shouldn't be lazy and take copy and paste shortcuts. if i was writing for gamespot, i wouldn't be doing it and tbh id love their job. point is there are people out there who would kill for that job, so the writers shouldn't take their job for granted and make an effort.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Totally fine. No need to apologize. I've seen some people literally take things way too far. But I do get what you are saying. You would rather see this written with something different, so that its not a repeat everywhere you go. Some sites do change the articles a bit, so I'm thankful for that.

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Those are Eddie's words!

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So I am guessing, all the DLC's they were planning to release on the Season Pass are not going to be released, hence they are giving a free game so that the ones who bought it do not feel the pass being overpriced. In addition, this should speak volumes about how many people actually bough the Season Pass was overwhelmingly lower than their expectations.

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So those who bought it day one and suffered all of the problems will only receive some p.o.s. Dlc and not a full game like those who bought the season pass. So glad this is my LAST AC game, and if The Division is bad, I'm ****** done with Ubisoft.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> you have a lot of forgiveness in you lol.

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Well I bought Far Cry so yeah

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<< LINK REMOVED >> how is far cry? i want to believe it deserves more than a 7 after reading so many biased reviews from gs lately but tbh i wouldn't be surprised if it deserved the 7 it got after some of ubisofts games lately and also their whole attitude with parity between x1 and ps4 stinks.

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I haven't had any problems really. I let this guy play it through shareplay and he bought it the next day. It's gorgeous visually. It's my first Far Cry game and I'm having fun in it. I'm glad I bought it. I would say it's a solid 8-8.5.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You really need to play FC3 - one of the best games I ever played and kept my interest to the tale end!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Wahhh.

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"Unfortunately, at launch, the overall quality of the game was diminished by bugs and unexpected technical issues,"

So what you're saying is... that you knew about the bugs when you released the game?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> tbh im starting to think devs release buggy games on purpose to see if they are worth patching or not, if enough people complain then they do a patch :). a lot of games this gen are horrendously buggy at launch whereas on ps2 and xbox (the first one) literally none of the games were like that.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Reading comprehension overpowered.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That quote suggests the opposite.

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I got AC Unity for free thx to my purchase of the gtx 970 strix.

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From the article's title, I thought "Wake of Rocky Launch" was the name of the DLC and that they might be bringing ship battles back.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Ship battles are extremely cool and fun, but honestly they aren't AC elements, UbiSoft should create a new franchise for that kind of gameplay. Next thing you know, we have an Assassin's Creed in the future year 2222 AD, and doing spaceship battles and instead of Fast Travel we will have Faster Than Light travel. lol.

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As soon as I read this I bought a season pass. It was cheaper than Far Cry 4 and you get stuff in AC Unity so this is a great deal imo.

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Awww thats so nice of you Ubisoft, will I be getting free DLC for Watch_Dogs too then?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> watch dogs wasn't that buggy, it just wasn't that good a game.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah its just got to do with the colossal amount of hype for what is just a good game.

Problem is people were expecting a genre defining experience and to a large extent its their fault as well for getting so over-hyped.

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At least they know how to say sorry.

Still no excuse for releasing an unfinished game, pushing pre-sales & setting review embargoes for after the game has launched. I hope consumers don't keep going back to Ubi like an abused partner. Saying sorry & offering a nice gift is one thing but have they changed? Please people, don't get sucked into pre-orders unless you've seen evidence that it's actually a good game.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Sorry, human's stupidity is eternal. So don't count on it.

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seeing how i bought the seasonpass for 70% of the normal price and havent had the game breaking bugs i dont mind getting far cry 4 a new game for free.


so a win win for me :D

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it's just a "i'm sorry we're so sh*t" present


here! have one of our average repedative games on the house!


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Besides The Crew and Just Dance, those games are great.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> repetitive not repeditive

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> hahahahaha funny. I dunno have you played far cry 4 its pretty fun and I been thrashing the crew beta. I honestly do not see any reason to complain as it is free and a great selection. better than what sony gave us for being hacked

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Hate em love em x999999...........

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So in order to encourage sales of a game that they clearly didn't QA and pushed to production which hurt consumers, they offer something that costs them next to nothing (and probably should have been in the game)?!?!?!

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!


Yeah....no.

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Sweet can't complain about free stuff. Finished and loved the game despite the technical issues.

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Shove it up your ass! I'm done buying your shitty games.

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