The game is good, I got it with Blackflag on the Xbox One, and have been playing it since. The third party program for Ubisoft makes this unbearable. Signing in to use a single player game is excessive and stupid.

Okay, Ubisoft; I bought this game as I have enjoyed the Assassin's Creed franchise, however this rendition is almost unplayable on the Steam Deck due to the incompatibility with Ubisoft Connect. I realize that this title is a decade old and corporate mentality needs to focus on the next biggest release, but you seem to completely ignore supporting your titles once released.

Ubisoft Connect is completely unnecessary for games you are marketing through Steam as their security protocols eliminate the ability for unauthorized access to games purchased on the platform. Making customers log in to a 3rd party app to access game play is tedious at best, and completely broken at worst. Ubisoft Connect will not allow input with the Steam Deck native keyboard, and either requires a peripheral keyboard to be hooked up to the Deck for the privilege of accessing the game I paid for, or I HAVE to play on my PC. As my Steam Deck is my preferred console, it really makes your games with this requirement a HUGE PITA!

After reading HUNDREDS of complaints by your customers to this effect and the dismissive responses, that go something like this; "We're sorry you're having difficulties with .... But we're not fixing it." - is clear-cut arrogance, dismissive, insulting and an obvious belief that you're "too big to fail or care". While this attitude is probably justified currently, as your titles are generally at the leading edge of the gaming world, it's not a practice that is sustainable in the long term. I already hate spending money on any titles produced by Ubisoft because of this arrogant lack of any tangible customer service, hidden in verbose "spin" responses to complaints of broken or glitchy software, so I am thinking long and hard before expanding my library with any more Ubisoft titles due to this, and I would highly recommend anyone else considering purchasing Ubisoft titles do the same. Honestly, WHY should I pay for something that is delivered BROKEN!? if you're okay with this; I have a 50 year-old busted couch I can sell you for your break room, which I will use your "caveat emptor" attitude if you complain... "I'm sorry your couch arrived with holes in the cushions and a cracked frame, but I'm not fixing it."

Despite the playability (or lack thereof as I cannot even log in at this point) of the game, your lack of willingness to fix what's broken is a definite deal-breaker! Had I known that this was going to be an issue, I would NEVER have added another of your titles to my gaming library and will definitely avoid Ubisoft from here on out as there are MANY games on the market that are just as playable as your titles, with companies that take a much more serious approach to fixing broken software aspects, and keeping their customers coming back.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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