{"id":85747,"date":"2026-07-10T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85747"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:37:04","slug":"ac-black-flag-resynced-is-a-hit-but-people-are-particularly-upset-about-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85747","title":{"rendered":"AC Black Flag Resynced Is A Hit, But People Are Particularly Upset About One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, and the swashbuckling pirate adventure game got off to a great start. Vantage Studios, the new company in charge of the Assassin&#8217;s Creed brand, announced today that Resynced sold more than 2 million copies in its first 24 hours. It hasn&#8217;t been a total success story, however, and the negativity surrounding the game pertains to the usual culprit: microtransactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the strong sales and player numbers, Resynced is scoring well with critics, sitting at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced\/\">impressive 84 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic<\/a>. It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-delivers-the-series-best-reviews-since-2013\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-delivers-the-series-best-reviews-since-2013\/\">most celebrated Assassin&#8217;s Creed game since 2013<\/a> based on Metacritic scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-has-the-best-launch-the-series-has-seen-in-years\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-has-the-best-launch-the-series-has-seen-in-years\/\">reached 99,451 concurrent players on Steam in the first day<\/a>, setting a record for an Assassin&#8217;s Creed game on Steam. <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1817136\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Resynced-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1817136\" \/>Resynced is off to a good start. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It hasn&#8217;t been completely smooth sailing for Resynced, however, as players have taken issue with how there is $85&#8217;s worth of microtransactions for the $60 game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198018869799\/recommended\/3751950\" id=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198018869799\/recommended\/3751950\">post on Steam<\/a>, Ubisoft said it&#8217;s aware of the feedback and &#8220;reading all of it.&#8221; The studio said the add-on content that people can buy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, and the swashbuckling pirate adventure game got off to a great start. Vantage Studios, the new company in charge of the Assassin&#8217;s Creed brand, announced today that Resynced sold more than 2 million copies in its first 24 hours. It hasn&#8217;t been a total success story,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85750,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85747\/revisions\/85750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}