Well, well, well. Look what landed right into our laps. Ubisoft has thrown Assassin’s Creed Shadows Premium Edition, along with the DLC Claws Of Awaji, straight into Ubisoft+ Premium. The very service they’re trying to keep hard selling. The eagle has… umm, landed, people 🦅 although a silence prevails that no one seems to want to upset.
So, the way it works is if you’re subscribed to Ubisoft+ Premium (which goes for maybe fifteen bucks a month??), you are now entitled to play the full premium edition of Shadows in addition to the new DLC. The Claws of Awaji expansion is basically a big story DLC about Naoe’s mum and some regalia weapons, but honestly, players are saying that it’s kind of… anticlimactic? One player named Beebo the Man Tickler bluntly stated, “I wish Tsuyu and Hanzo had more relevance to like… literally anything.” Oof.
Now, that is also not the main drama that unfolds in reply, no sir. There is, rather, a raving scurry over RPG elements within Assassin’s Creed games. Like this guy, Wandrey Warley, who uploaded some combat clips of older games, saying, “We want this beautiful combat in the game, don’t change it to RPG!” Then another person says straight away, “Don’t put RPG in AC Black Flag Remake 😡 ” with an angry face emoji.
It goes even deeper! One player named tkl 908 went in a hardcore rant about Ubisoft who, in his opinion, “lost half of your audience by insisting on forcing Rpg elements over any real story,” and there’s been “no meaningful assassins Templar lore in years.” Damn. That’s some real frustration right there.
Oh, and during all this, technical issues just start popping. Korean Xbox players are reporting that the Premium Edition still isn’t showing up on Xbox? Then here comes a complaint from Dave B that whenever he tries to start the game he owns on Steam, Ubisoft Connect crashes. This guy has to control-alt-delete to kill it then restart. Every. Single. Time. That sounds… unbelievably annoying.
Achievement hunters are being affected as well. Beebo is again everywhere in these replies, claiming he can’t see all of the DLC achievements with PoisonX7 begging Ubisoft to fix achievement sync between PC, PS5, and Xbox. Add to that a bunch of technical complaints and some genuine rage at the direction the game is taking.
Well, that can only take us to… politics. Some replies just outright labeled the game as “woke crap” and other disparaging terms. Then there’s some person claiming it’s the “worst selling game of all time” and accusing Ubisoft of bribing stores to suppress sales data. Not very likely? But hey, everyone’s mad.
Amid the mob, there are a few cherry-picked positives. Alà bá Ã’nájìn says, “The sidescroll tale is beautifully done!” which is pretty nice, I guess. MR_OLLS is definitely having fun in Rome with Brotherhood instead, which is honest-to-God, same.
But now, the burning question from JonathanSnoddy: Do you need to level up in the base game first, or do you just jump straight into the Claws DLC? According to Rob The Awesome, you have to complete the campaign first. So there is that.
What in the world this single tweet reveals about the current state of Assassin’s Creed fandom is insane. You’ve got people angry about RPG elements, technical issues on different platforms, achievement problems, and random political complaints being thrown in. It’s like a microcosm of modern gaming discourse in one single tweet reply tree.
Ubisoft will push this model of theirs and DLC drops, but players are clearly divided. Some are thrilled about new content, some wondering what the hell is going on with all these technical issues, and a big chunk of people just want the franchise back to where it used to be without all that RPG stuff. Of course, then there are those Black Flag remake rumours that are just adding fuel to the fire for concerns about game direction.
The Claws of Awaji DLC has landed for Ubisoft+ Premium subscribers while the main question is whether any players will be able to enjoy it in the light of other more pressing concerns. The community is divided between technical frustration, complaint about the direction of gameplay, and a disgorging of those few that are excited about the new content. It’s a messy untangle for sure, but hey – that’s modern gaming for you.
