For months, a vocal minority worked up a big fuss over Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Black protagonist, going as far as harassing developers at Ubisoft Quebec and trying to organize a boycott of the hotly anticipated game. Well, it seems these misguided efforts were a total waste of time. No matter how you slice it, the troubled publisher has a hit on its hands.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is one of the most successful games in the nearly 20-year-old franchise, a source with the publisher disclosed to IGN. It had the second-highest day-one sales revenue in the franchise’s history. It was also Ubisoft’s biggest launch on the PlayStation Store and set a franchise record high for the number of concurrent players on Steam.
