Last Friday, I was alerted to the fact that almost everything on the Ubisoft online store had been discounted down to $0.00. Unsurprisingly the store was under pretty heavy load from everyone filling their virtual carts full to overflowing, so it was a bit difficult to make a purchase. Nevertheless I persevered and picked up XIII, Settlers, Assassin’s Creed 1&2 bundle and Silent Hunter III. XIII I got because I liked that game and my chances of finding it anywhere else seemed pretty slim, the Assassin’s Creed bundle because I’ve already paid $200 getting both those games on console and having a PC copy would be nice, and the other two games were more or less by accident because of the flaky nature of the store at the time.
Honestly, I assumed it was something of a mistake on Ubisoft’s part, even Steam tend to discount games to $1 rather than ‘totally free’. Equally, I assumed I would get an email some time this week saying “our servers were teh hax0rred, sorry but we can’t fulfill your order.” Instead, today I got this:
Last week, the Australian Ubishop site was showing that nearly all of its games were available for a 100% discount. This was obviously a systems error that has now been fixed.As you were quick enough to act on this error, we would like to advise that Ubisoft will honour this sale at the full discount. We hope that you enjoy the games, and invite you to visit our website again to view our upcoming PC lineup, and our regular promotions. Admittedly, they probably won’t be quite as generous as the one you have just taken advantage of…
This is better than I expected, so hats off to Ubisoft. As for the snarky “just taken advantage of…” I’d like to point out that the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood download on the front page of the store is AUD$89.95 in the Australian store, and USD$49.99 in the US store (which converts to AUD$49.71 at the time of writing). So, Ubisoft store, let’s admit we’re all taking advantage of each other when the opportunity arises, shall we?
