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Ubisoft continues with the controversial practice of launching incomplete games in physical edition. Even Assassin's Creed: Shadows will not be playable without downloading a part of the installation from the Internet.
From Ubisoft, they fired another shot at players who want the feeling of owning games fully in physical edition. Just as was the case with other Ubisoft games, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws, the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows will not have a full physical installation of the game.
In order to run AC Shadows at all, you will need to download part of the installation from the Internet. So you don't have an entire game on a disc that you can play without an internet connection.
At the same time, it was confirmed that Assassin's Creed Shadows is exclusively a single-player game, but it is currently unknown whether it will require an Internet connection even after installation.
The chances of that are somewhat likely, as the game is expected to be integrated into a launcher of sorts called Assassin's Creed Infinity, which will serve as a hub for the various Assassin's Creed games (and sell microtransactions, of course).
The topic of owning games and additional content for games is very relevant when talking about the publishing house Ubisoft. It was their shutdown of the servers for the ten-year-old title The Crew that sparked a global initiative seeking to create a legal framework to stop the permanent disappearance of purchased games.
And while The Crew has always been an online game, it's not actually the first case of controversy with Ubisoft removing purchased content even for single-player games.
Namely, in 2022, Ubisoft announced that PC players will be deprived of access to additional (DLC) content for old games such as Assassin's Creed 3, Driver San Francisco, Far Cry 3, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and others.
However, after the negative reactions of the players, there was a change of plan, i.e. Ubisoft explained that the plan was never like that, it was just a misunderstanding.
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