Ubisoft postpones its new Assassin’s Creed to 2025 after all – Coming day 1 on Steam

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which is set in Japan, has been postponed until 2025. Ubisoft was unable to meet the planned release date. Instead, the game will be released simultaneously on February 14, 2025 for all platforms, including Steam.

When was the release of Assassin’s Creed planned?

  • The release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows was planned for November 15, 2024.
  • The release is now postponed to February 14, 2025.

    • The developers say that the game is feature-complete, but after what they learned from Star Wars Outlaws, they want to give the game additional time to be further polished. The launch of Star Wars Outlaws was so mixed that it had a strong negative impact on Ubisoft’s share price.

    This is what Ubisoft says: The current Assassin’s Creed will be the “most important release in the series,” it is said.

    Ubisoft says the game will also be available to play on Steam on launch day, breaking away from the Epic Game Store.

    Existing pre-orders will be cancelled.

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    Postponement of the release was looming

    What can be said about this? The postponement of the release became apparent in the last few days. The plan was for journalists to start writing reviews now, but that was canceled at short notice (via insider-gaming).

    An appearance at a games fair, the Tokyo Game Show, in Japan was also cancelled for “various reasons”. The appearance there was actually planned for tomorrow, September 26th.

    Due to these two incidents, a postponement was suspected, but this could not be confirmed until the official statement from Ubisoft.

    Game is suspected of being too woke

    Why is the game controversial? In recent days, Assassin’s Creed Shadow has come under fire from “anti-woke” people like Twitch streamer Asmongold and game developer Mark Kern.

    People were extremely upset that a game set in ancient Japan had a black main character. It was said that this was disrespectful to Japanese culture.

    There are also many other reasons to find Ubisoft terrible and stupid. For example, Asmongold has repeatedly complained about the allegedly poor quality of the animations and dialogues, and that the game is significantly weaker than titles in the Assassin’s Creed series 10 years ago: Asmongold believes that Ubisoft only wants to distract from the horrendous price with the new character in Assassin’s Creed

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