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A hot potato: The highly anticipated Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched yesterday. Despite the hype, its Steam user rating debuted as Mostly Negative before moving to Mixed. But apart from several complaints about performance, the biggest issue was the $85 worth of DLC Ubisoft released alongside the game. Now, the company has responded to the outcry.
Black Flag Resynced currently has a Mostly Positive rating on Steam, but the huge amount of launch-day DLC resulted in the game being review-bombed into a Mostly Negative rating, with many noting that buying all the day-one extra content cost more than the game itself.
Also upsetting many players was the fact that the $70 Deluxe version of the game came with only a fraction of the DLC on sale. There were additional complaints about those paid-for items that offered a "paid gameplay advantage," such as a resource pack filled with gold and crafting materials, and a map pack that adds exploration markers to the in-game world.
