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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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I find it hilarious that people are buying the DLC to get the game they made right this year, The Crew is garbage, Unity sucked, Rogue sucked, Watch Dogs.. well I don't know where to start, Just dance, never played it, but it looks like it sucks, FC4 is the only good one of the bunch, well and Black Flag but you can get it for pretty cheap now

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I tbh their still making money in the end, so even if they are giving away these games for free they aren't really losing anything. It's sad that gamers will support this and think everything is ok now just because they're doing this. As if that guarantees that this won't happen again. It will happen but probably won't be this bad.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> It's sad that gamers support a company apologizing and giving away stuff to those affected by their mistakes? I shouldn't support this? What's wrong with you? Yes, what they did was wrong, but at least they recognized it and did something about it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's sad that gamers are accepting this like that makes everything ok. It doesn't as it doesn't guarantee that this won't happen again as I mentioned at the end of my comment. You can't say they fully recognized this mistake if it continues to happen. It should of never happened and it will happen again but if gamers are willing to accept and forgive companies giving them faulty products just by a company simply giving away something that they're really not losing any money over then that's that.

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I give Ubisoft credit here. There will still be people mad at them but you can't complain about free dlc or a free game. I just hope Ubisoft uses this incident, as well as the watchdogs fiasco, to prevent similar situations from occurring.

As long as they focus on the quality of their games and not rushing games out to meet release date deadlines then there should be no problems. I am patiently waiting to see how the division fairs for its release. Better not be hearing about a buggy game that fails to reach the level of quality seen in gameplay demos.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> They will never stop rushing out games. Until AC stops being a yearly releases don't expect the quality to improve. People like to say for every yearly AC game that the games take 3 years to make. So? That doesn't mean they actual spent 3 years doing the programing work.

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How about black flag? Took 1 year but still good. They just need to spend more time in that one year. Thats all.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Black Flag didn't take 1 year to make and still had quite a few game breaking bugs. Every AC game takes about 3 years they just a worked on by different studios to get them out each year. Like I said it will still happen it just won't be this bad. The problem is not the gameplay it's how broken the games are due to them being yearly. You can't have a AAA yearly game like this and CoD without lots of bugs.

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And I'll get 16 free DLCs from CD Projekt, that will actually run. Don't bother, Ubi.

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Sweet!! I ordered the DLC. Just made my day ubisoft!!

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Now I wish I bought the DLC. Lol!

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Hope there's gifting option, my friend got AC Unity and FC4 on Uplay and said he would gift me FC4 if there's a gifting option. At least something good came out of this whole mess.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It'll be digital so it's locked to the account.

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I was hoping they will be distributing keys, well this is depressing.

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wow this is actually extremely generous of them to do. thanks ubisoft

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What actually sad is that someone somewhere will actually pick Just Dance 2015 as their free game lol

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Still better than Unity if you ask me. :p

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Don't be sad, just dance!

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Well... thats Fc4 right into my hat woop woop

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quick go get the dlc codes from ebay and gamestop.. before they stop selling them... or wait for things to be ironed out..

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haha nice ! i did not get affected much by all the bugs like other people said. With the season pass, i can now get the crew for free :))

i'm not even mad m8

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This was their plan all along. They've fooled you into getting their broken sh!t PLUS a season pass on day one on the prospect that you may get free stuff later. Now they can make broken sh!t all the time and everyone will buy it.

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I'm going to assume sarcasm here but sadly there are people that will actually concoct crazy scenarios like this just because its Ubisoft. People will find someone to still be mad at Ubisoft.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I'm sure their plan didn't include giving away tens of thousands of copies of Far Cry 4 for free...

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this kind makes up for it.

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i can't choose between far cry 4 and the crew!? damn you ubi

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From the Beta impressions, The Crew is a crap game filled with micro transactions being sold at a premium price.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> They are not allowing any review copys for the crew, that is always a huge warning sign, safe bet is to go for FC4, but maybe the crew wont be a nightmare on launch.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> get far cry 4, the crew will probably have a ton of bugs as well.

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well im pretty sure they're gonna learn from this and focus more on the testing stage for future products

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<< LINK REMOVED >> your sarcasm doesn't show through text

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Your move at 343

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Wow...that is good work from Ubisoft! Free Far Cry 4? You're forgiven!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Heh, we need more broken games.

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Well that sure is nice. My PC runs the game pretty smoothly so i haven't had any problems. I do feel bad for people who have specs any lower than mine since according to the performance data, EVERYTHING in my system is running at maximum overclock speeds or capacity (7 GB of ram + 3 GB of VRAM + 4 cores+ 4 virtual cores + 70% maximum fan speeds lol). This is on ultra at 1080p. Specs below mine will probably crash the game or run at 10 FPS on ultra lol.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> 7GB of ram! lol , first time I hear it. How did you end up with 7 , 4+2+1 ?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> virtual cores?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Well the i7 3770k has 4 physical cores and 8 threads as far as i know. My performance data from tools like MSI Afterburner reads them as 8 physical cores so i count 4 out of the 8 as virtual, or as the threads of each individual core.

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I still don't give a f*** about AC. Ubisoft have to get their sh!t together, when (if) they do it, then I'll consider them again. Not a day before that. These free DLCs don't mean nothing to me. They can offer me their full games for free and i still wouldn't care. I simply don't respect a company that doesn't respect it's customers. That is all.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I salute you sir.

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30,000 NPC's is already my gift and a priceless one at that!

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Ubisoft has LITERALLY bought their fans back!!! AWESOME.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Err no they didn't. I was huge fan Ubisoft in the past but after they started milking AC they started to lose their way each year. The only way they'll win me back if this disaster doesn't happen again and when they actually put more into their other owned franchises other than AC, FC, Just Dance, and now WD.

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No

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That's a very nice gesture by Ubisoft! Well played!

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How about a free copy of Far Cry 4, the only recent game released by Ubi that isn't completely broken, although it has it's problems.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> some one didn't read?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> In order to be eligible for the free game you need to have purchased the DLC, how many people do you think bought the DLC after such a rocky launch?

I wouldn't have, although I didn't buy the game, I got a copy for free.

EDIT ^^what he said

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<< LINK REMOVED >> well the DLC is free for those who didn't BUY the DLC and for those who did they get a free game( to make up for it).. why should they give you a Free Game if you didn't spent any extra cash.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Because you spent the initial cash on a game that barely works, why would you even want the extra content, I can't get through 10 minutes of the game without experiencing some kind of bug or glitch, so you need to buy an unfinished game, buy DLC for a game that even after a large update is still broken, to get a good game in return, so you are paying for more than the price of a full AAA game, for one you will probably never even complete.

They are giving it away anyway, they should extend that to all the people who actually wasted hard earned money on it, thank god I didn't buy this crap.

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That's assuming you brought the dlc pass

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I never had a single problem with this game, but I'll take free DLC...

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