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Assassin's Creed Black Flag: Resynced "Exceeding Annual Expectations" 2 Weeks After Launch

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It's been pretty clear, judging by the player count figures alone, that Assassin's Creed Black Flag: Resynced has been at least decently successful. However, a recent Q1 sales report from Ubisoft has just confirmed that the game has been a commercial success as well as being a hit with gamers and reviewers alike. Ubisoft reports that Assassin's Creed Black Flag: Resynced has sold more than its expected annual volume in its first 14 days on the market. In those 14 days, Assassin's Creed Black Flag: Resynced sold an impressive 3.5 million units.
UbisoftStrong launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced in July, achieving 84 on OpenCritic and Metacritic, with 3.5 million copies sold-in to date, exceeding annual expectations within its first 14 days.
Ubisoft reported total sales of €268.2 million for Q1 2026, which is a decline of 13.7% compared to the same time in the previous financial year. Still, net bookings, at €255.8 million, were higher than the €250 million target but still fell 8.7% short of the €281.6 million for the same period in the previous year. Ubisoft expects to see net bookings for Q2 to come in at €370 million.
Source: Ubisoft

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17 Comments on Assassin's Creed Black Flag: Resynced "Exceeding Annual Expectations" 2 Weeks After Launch

#1
FierceRed
It's almost like if a company that creates lasting emotional memories for their customers, suddenly remembers to listen to them, they would get rewarded for it.

What a concept.
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#2
Prima.Vera
Lol. New re-releases of older games are actually bringing more money than their latest games... That is saying something about their games quality. Those CIOs are living on another planet, I swear...
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#3
Onasi
Mentioning sales as a success I understand, no problem there. But I still chuckle when game publishers talk about review scores or aggregators like the shambles of what is “gaming press” nowadays even matter.
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#4
BiggieShady
They managed to make impressive looking remake too thanks to how much their anvil engine is backwards compatible, complete asset swap with only mocap reused. And of course, targeted age group has some spare money to spend on nostalgia.
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#5
remekra
Shadows must have sold really badly, since in this case they are very happy to share the number of copies sold, rather than "active players".
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#6
TheDeeGee
Ooh, high critics scores!

Still making games for the Urinalists, lol
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#7
Dorek
Still oddly support ticket open for 2 weeks with no replies since i cant buy anything in their store for unknown reason.
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#8
Legacy-ZA
I will wait for a sale. I am sure a lot of reviewers that are on a nostalgic trip where they associate the game with "better times." I don't trust any of them. The visuals are beautiful, but that isn't the only thing that grabs my interest in a game.
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#9
Vayra86
Legacy-ZAI will wait for a sale. I am sure a lot of reviewers that are on a nostalgic trip where they associate the game with "better times." I don't trust any of them. The visuals are beautiful, but that isn't the only thing that grabs my interest in a game.
Well, its simply AC with a pirate hat and some ship combat, let's not oversell this game, indeed.
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#10
FreedomEclipse
~Technological Technocrat~
In before they start laying off the dev team.... Oh wait.....
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#11
aktpu
Vayra86Well, its simply AC with a pirate hat and some ship combat, let's not oversell this game, indeed.
Sounds like great fun. Yarrr!
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#12
Onasi
Vayra86Well, its simply AC with a pirate hat and some ship combat, let's not oversell this game, indeed.
To be fair, that’s somewhat enough. The pickings for good pirate games are SLIM. There is Sid Meier’s Pirates!, the legendary (if supremely slav-jank) Sea Dogs series and… that’s kind of it. Some Mount and Blade TCs maybe, if you are willing to scratch the bottom?
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#13
Athena
Ubisoft has just confirmed that the game has been a commercial success as well as being a hit with gamers and reviewers alike
the only thing that really matters is gamers, screw the reviewers, way too many bump up game scores for idiotic reasons

As for being a success, sure, a re-run that is up against today's trash they put out... but will they get the message, or will they get the wrong message?

People just want good games, bring back things like Splinter Cell, and don't mess it up by injecting BS into it
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#14
Bigshrimp
It truly shows how much originality has fled the company if they are happy with the minimal effort of a remake of an old game. It's all these AAA studios are good for now, mostly.
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#16
Dragam1337
Vayra86Well, its simply AC with a pirate hat and some ship combat, let's not oversell this game, indeed.
Dude, have you even tried it ? Cause it sure doesn't sound like it.

People that don't like AC usually like black flag, because it's essentially not AC... just got the AC brand slapped on for brand recognition.

It's a pirate game with a tiiiiiiiny bit of AC lore. Vast majority of the game revolves around trying to establish a free society from the spanish and british empire, with a ton of intrigue and backstabbing between all the legendary pirates that figure in the game.

Get off the hate train, and either try the game, or just stop posting made up BS like that.
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#17
Vayra86
Dragam1337Dude, have you even tried it ? Cause it sure doesn't sound like it.

People that don't like AC usually like black flag, because it's essentially not AC... just got the AC brand slapped on for brand recognition.

It's a pirate game with a tiiiiiiiny bit of AC lore. Vast majority of the game revolves around trying to establish a free society from the spanish and british empire, with a ton of intrigue and backstabbing between all the legendary pirates that figure in the game.

Get off the hate train, and either try the game, or just stop posting made up BS like that.
I've played Black Flag already, yes
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