@xnosmokenoknivesx

4 months ago

Ok, this is honestly such a huge coincidence, but I'm actually an Assassin's Creed Multiplayer content creator haha. The multiplayer community for Assassin's Creed has existed well beyond its launch and its initial trending stages among gamers. I've been playing it competitively for 9 years, only stopping recently due to Ubisoft shutting down the servers back in September/November (funnily enough, all the servers were supposed to be entirely shut down in September across all platforms, and then randomly in November they went back up on PC, Xbox, and PS3 lol. Gotta love Ubi's server moderation). But yeah, after playing it for so long, I can assure you that one of the main reasons Assassin's Creed MP never maintained its popularity was because many videos/guides/etc covering it never showcased just how unique of an experience it is when playing competitively. The multiplayer has many insane exploits and glitches, many of which require serious training to master, which developed a massive skill gap between veteran players and people just trying to enjoy the novelty of an AC multiplayer. Us in the AC multiplayer community have tried countless times over the past 13 years to erase the barebones perception of the game as just being a replica of the campaign's heavy focus on stealth and small strings of combat sequences that don't really need much thinking. In simple terms, it definitely isn't a "cat and mouse" experience, but I totally understand where you guys are coming from. As mentioned earlier, the amount of exploits/glitches/other competitive advantages across all the multiplayer installments is something that many players didn't really care to learn at the peak of the game's popularity, since again, they're just playing for novelty. Ubisoft themselves never really bothered to support the competitive community either, the formula everyone perceives ACMP as is what Ubisoft stuck with. They also would often remove many exploits, add random game breaking patches, and other modifications to the games/servers that in the end, served zero purpose. Their staff that was assigned to work on the multiplayer even has a lot of controversy within the competitive AC multiplayer community, just look at EscoBlades for example. He was originally a competitive player who joined Ubisoft's PR team for the multiplayer games. Besides the deplorable things he did while employed at Ubisoft, he would frequently backstab his longtime competitive friends, as well as the entire cross-platform community, badmouthing us to his higherups and pushing for our servers to shutdown sooner than they were. He was one of the only voices we had that could reach Ubisoft, and he completely turned his back on us. I've been debating making a documentary on the AC multiplayers for years now, and I think I'll finally go along with it. But it's very interesting to see you guys cover it, as you can tell I'm very passionate about it haha. Great video though!

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