Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads::Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?
Ubisoft has responded to the situation, claiming that the pop-up ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage was caused by a technical glitch.
That excuse only works for people who have no ideas how programming works. New features can’t appear because of a glitch.
The only thing that can indeed happen is the feature was developed and tested, and it was enabled by a glitch. But the feature necessarily was developed intentionally, because things don’t just appear like that in a program.
“One of our engineers tripped and fell on the keyboard and accidentally coded an entire ad delivery system then accidentally shipped it.”
The only way I could imagine this being an accident was if they’d already built the ad system and then decided not to use it because they had a burst of common sense at the last possible minute, then later on they accidentally shipped the wrong version in an update.
If removing performance-worsening DRM wasn’t gonna encourage piracy, fucking ads in a game sure would!
Not that the games are even necessarily worth the disk space and download time anymore…