Assassin's Creed Shadows Can Be Played Entirely Offline, Once You've Installed It

Gamers who live on the internet will complain about this

A bit shame, but not surprising. The only really annoying thing for me, is the PS Store version is so damn expensive - 87 dollars approx - I can probably get the physical for close to the regular US price, but knowing it’s not all data on disc makes me not really wanna buy it. I saw in trailer it’s playable day 1 with Ubisoft+, so maybe I’ll opt in for that, just to try the game.

Ubisoft sucks!!

Wonder if it also has something to do with the Infinity stuff. Either way, not real surprised.

Bad for preservation. Got to assume it’s to do with whatever the hell Infinity actually is.

Always-Online games have been the disgrace of this gaming generation.

@Kraaatos : Well it might be a shocker to you, most of us would rather game without online restrictions.

I've heard rumours that only the "Infinty Platform" is present as data on the disc. And that you need to download the game data for AC: Shadows before you are able to play the game.
I hope that isn't true

I believe it was mentioned in Luke Stephans recent YouTube video called: "Assassin's Creed Infinity Details"

Always online type is a bane when I go to sea for four-six months. I end up taking my ps4 pro. Steam deck has similar issues and it's portable. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar do the same. But I completed Days Gone last time out.

Sigh. Ubisoft I swear you can’t just let the great trailer sell the game. Nope gotta do something stupid. Not everyone has amazing internet.

I will likely switch to digital then.

Leave it to Ubisoft to screw everything up as soon as the game gets officially revealed

Ubisoft are a joke these days, from nonsense like this and that utterly pointless trailer for the game.

Buy our game on disc but the game isn't on the disc

Watch the trailer of our game, that doesn't even show the game

There going to do this from now. So my support Ubisoft ends this year.

Everything they make will require an internet connection. The remake for Black Flag I am sure it's going to need a internet connection.

Isn't this pretty much standard anyway as what game now doesn't require an update straight away

It was same for avatar and that took so much longer to install than any other game I have had on disk

@Kraaatos People who say its ok will be the idiots when they pull the same thing as they did with the crew and take your game back without you getting your money back.

@StylesT You dont understand what they are doing do you its DRM making it impossible to make a new install without the inteenet in the future.

Clearance sale, ps + extra or used it is then

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It’s probably because the game is too big to fit on a disc, so you’ll have to download a portion of it. It’s not like it requires a constant online connection, like in Top Spin 2K25.

I'll not be buying it then.

What's the next ste to antagonise paying players? Denuvo on consoles?

On the psn store it says online connection required to play the game. I won’t be buying this game

@Nightcrawler71 on psn store it says it does

@StylesT most game with a day one patch is optional not required

Next step in gaming evolution is when digital games will need a disc to be played.

@Kraaatos As opposed to gamers who live on the internet who don’t understand why this is a bad thing long-term and defeats the purpose of a physical release in the first place?

It depends on the reason - If it's a one-time thing I'm not bothered, most games have a day 1 patch and the PS5 itself connects to the internet as soon as it's switched on.

However, if the internet is needed regularly for offline play, or for some kind of mandatory 3rd party service which prevents you from playing even if the game is patched and up to date then that's an issue.

@MrBook I completely understand and agree with you that this is an issue for people that can't connect for whatever reason.

The preservation thing I get - the idea that a game you've bought 10 years ago might not work because some kind of 3rd party server connection is switched off is unacceptable. This hasn't happened yet though - The Crew was always an online-only game and marketed as such, and I don't think 10 years is an unacceptable time to pull the plug.

But I don't really get the people that get annoyed purely out of principle, especially with owners of a current gen console that are online with it anyway.

@Gamer_X his point (and yours) still stands, though.

Just for installing? No big deal.

Haha, what a clown show. I see some folks defending this garbage. Ubisoft will keep doing this as long as the gullible gamer base buys it up.

A lot of switch games require this but nobody really makes a fuss for some reason

Well that’s better. Most games these days need the patches anyway so I’m not too bothered about a game needing to connect to just install the first time.

@MrBook mortal Kombat 1, batman Arkham collection, Wolfenstein 2, tony hawk 1&2 are just a few examples.

Not to mention code in a box, can you imagine playstation or Xbox doing code in a box?

one problem solved but 99 remain....

Wow, the typical Ubibashing didn't take long this time. Every game announcement these days seems to have a fatal flaw that upsets some small corner of the fandom. However, Ubisoft attracts extra negative attention as they always have 2 or 3 foibles. This time it's: needing to be online to install, pricing of the different editions, and perceived "wokeness".

Ohh Ubi, why do you always make it so hard to be a fan?

Don’t most (not all, but most) games come like this nowadays? And even if you can “technically” play them without an update, you’re missing so much content that it’s basically a beta?

I think other than a few Nintendo titles like Mario Wonder, there’s usually a fat patch waiting for me when I put in a cartridge or disc for the first time nowadays.

Not saying I support this stuff but I don’t really see how this is a surprise at all.

I like all these online complaints. Most games are sold in digital versions. I buy only digital versions, I am one of those creating problems. As less people are buying physical copies, as harder it is to provide physical copies around the world. It gets more expensive aswell then.

Physical copies aswell has to be done very early to do shipping on time, and tends to need day one patches. It is easier to provide digital download closer to release date.

Yeah, I am bad guy for not ranting on Ubisoft for all of this, so you can take out your anger towards me too :●

I would imagine there is no way the full game could fit on a single blu-ray disc so the installation bit makes sense. I never expected an online connection to be required to play after its installed but happy to get clarification.

The Ubi-Hate squad definitely seemed to come out in full force on this game for some reason. I don't get it but whatever. I'm still very excited to play Shadows personally.

@MrBook The point I was making is not wether you've bought them or not it's that nobody makes much fuss and just gives Nintendo a free pass

I really enjoyed Odyssey, I hope they're able to recapture what made that game great without the bloat and excess of Valhalla. I'm not saying Valhalla is a bad game at all, but holy hell does it feel like a chore after a while...great games should leave you wanting more, not saying "I don't ever want to touch this again" when you're done playing it.

I honestly can’t remember the last time my PS5 wasn’t connected to the internet…

Not sure how only requiring internet for installation makes it any better; the whole draw of having a physical copy is knowing it will work down the line when it is no longer possible to connect to a server.

Granted, I am very unlikely to play this anyway; never got into the series. But it does irk me how we collectively keep letting practices like this become common place. People seem to think gaming is disposable; which is exactly what it will become.

@tangyzesty

I 100% both games and both left me wanting more.

This game is a hard pass. And if I do ever buy it that'll be because it's on sale for £5-8.

Seeing that Avatar, Star Wars Outlaws and now this game requires internet to do an install for a single player game just shows that Ubisoft wants a type of control for the games you buy physically.

@Lup I platinumed both, Odyssey I did 100% but Valhalla I never wanted to see again after getting the plat, it just felt way too bloated for me.

@Gamer_X this.

@Czar_Khastik 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@REALAIS folks, please do not feed into his inferiority complex.

@Zuljaras same

@PerpetualBoredom maybe read what it means first before you are throwing around big words.

It's very hard for me to be thrilled by a new assassin creed game at this point.

@PerpetualBoredom i am siding with common sense. Delusions are for you, maybe. Time goes forward and things changes. I am not buying Ubisoft games day one. I don't pretend that I care for Ubisofts physical releases. You really care what Ubisofts does? Best way to vote is vote with wallet, you don't like something what company does, don't buy it.

@REALAIS "Yeah, I am bad guy for not ranting on Ubisoft for all of this, so you can take out your anger towards me too :●"
Im standing by my point.

@PerpetualBoredom stand where you want. Not I am calling other people as mentally ill. You are just ranting to me/others first. And then you play dumb and don't understand why I am negative towards you. You are not creating conversations, you are just callingpeople in bad wirds because they don't think same as you. Thank you

@REALAIS Are you projecting? Nobody mentioned mental illnesses anywhere.

@MrBook Maybe every game I get just has an update that isn’t required but they’re pretty large. That being said, I do remember my copies of Avatar and CyberPunk came with 2 discs… although my CyberPunk copy is for XBOX One so it doesn’t have the Series X data on disc lol.

Game is already a DOA for me , I'll play ghosts of tsushima since that's on steam now.

So once again the disc contains nothing resembling a playable game. Ubisoft is a joke.

@MikeOrator Ubisoft is the one to start a lot of terrible trends good for you that you want accept all this nonsense. The reaction of get used to not owning your games is a reason to not buy any Ubisoft garbage..

@Flaming_Kaiser

I don’t think Ubisoft made up all these lame practices themselves. I think other companies tried different money making schemes and Ubi saw an opportunity and ran with it making those small schemes into a business model. Blaming Ubi for it all is giving them too much credit. Like blaming them for open world bloat or paid cosmetics. The didn’t invent this stuff they are just really good at making it worse. lol.

I really loved Ubisoft in the early days though and it’s hard for me to watch everything they do just crash and burn. However I am one that is only upset at pricing, DLC practices and online requirements. Nothing else.

Sorry but this outrage is laughable, pretty much all major games and studios require some kind of online connection for either installation or day one patches and a lot of games require always online for DRM stuff but I guess the last 10 years are fine but when Ubisoft does it I guess it's time for an over the top meltdown xD

@tangyzesty Thats not really the issue for me. The issue is taking away your choice to play it and they said it really clearly stop being used to owning your games.

That to me is a clear reason to stay away from a developer what's the next step telling me for how long i can play and when.

@REALAIS Its not only the physical games that get worse and worse on release. The digital copies get released in a horrible state quite a bit. The thing we called early access years ago with the discounted price is now more expensive and more broken on day one where the gamers are the testers.

Games dissappear from the store and get removed from peoples library already. Digital is one thing and that is for big corp to control the market up to a point where they tell you when and how long you can play.

The nonsense of preserving games digitally is total nonsense i have seen enough games dissappear and Nintendo even locks digital games in vault for them to tell us when we can buy them.

Now we need to go online to install games that are singleplayer already lets hope gamers push back wnd start to download more illegal copies.

I have all my games legally since the PS1 payed the price now im jusr buying less and less at full price let them go on liks this and people will buy less or go the illegal route in the end.

@Gamer_X Welp, this isn't an always online game. Just like Gamepass games, it needs a connection to install.
Not that I'm defending any of this. If this has a $20 complete option in a year (or 90 days, when they start telling us to focus on the next AC game...), I might pick it up. But I'm sure it will just be another one of these...which I almost always get five hours into and bounce.

What happens when that "Connection to Install" server goes away?....Assassin's Creed is a $70.00 title that you are suppose to perpetually own and not subscribe like GamePass.