Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced breaks Steam and PlayStation player records

gamingJul 10, 2026482,300

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched to a surge of players, hitting roughly 100,000 concurrent on Steam and topping PlayStation charts while PC players complained about in-game shops. Fans have leaned into nostalgia, sharing personal memories of the 2014 original and filling the photo mode tag with elaborate virtual photography celebrating Caribbean sunsets and shipboard moments. Streamers and podcasters are treating the release like a return voyage, live sessions, singalong community projects with folk group The Longest Johns, and long-play ‘I will 100% every area’ commitments dominate posts. At the same time, community posts are calling attention to real-world fallout: Ubisoft Barcelona has begun laying off 51 employees who worked on the resync, and that contrast has become part of the release’s conversation.

Theo

@theopriestley.net

51 employees were laid off after Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched. It's pointing more and more towards a fixed-term, project-by-project games industry. That still requires you to work on-site and relocate for every gig. Utter bullshit.

140745d ago

Mr. Carter39

Sounds like a great reason to fund our own game dev company and stop working for these bullshit corporate fucks.

almightytallest.bsky.social11

Is this how the film industry operates?

The Brigadier9

Sadly that's all been happening for a while. I worked for a medium sized dev studio in a permanent position (because I'd been there for years) - all new starters were coming in on fixed term short contracts because it was easy to downsize that way. Eventually they made the move to shift all 1/2

ArchaicTorment 🇫🇮7

I wish the average player was informed and cared about what was happening in the industry, far too many are just casully buying whatever looks neat and never realizing to even consider what their money goes torwards.

British Summer Dave.5

Only in the established studios. This creates space for startups. I hope we see a new wave of innovation 👍

Jeremy Hodder4

Yea that's why these big studios don't get my money anymore, fucking with a CEO's money seems to be the only thing those pricks understand

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Josiah Hawthorne19

Amazing how the video game company behind a game with a frame story about an evil video game company can have so little self-awareness.

Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙7

They want all the freelance benefits for *them*, but none for the workers. Vile. It's high time the industry unionises en masse, or it'll collapse from lack of talent alone. How do you keep making blockbuster games if nobody is left to make them? Insane direction to take for a creative industry.

Genie Lauren3

Oh, this is big trash

AshlaPike2

These companies deserve to die.

Wario64

@wario64.bsky.social

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has sold 2 million copies

13244d ago

Mizzle Sue ΘΔ35

Not enough to not get laid off apparently

JCat17

And they're still getting laid off!

That Zapher Guy8

But they probably promised their shareholders 10 million therefor now must lay off everyone who worked on it. Hurray games industry

Connor Rorick7

Buying a Ubisoft game at launch is hilariously silly. All of their games fall like bricks in prices not too long after launch

Wolvie4

Wait to see how many sell once it drops to $20 in a month or two.

yeaitsme1015.bsky.social2

Will buy when $10. Should have been a sequel!

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i deltaruned my today7

and in the end they didnt get laid but they did get laid off

It's KFG!4

not 2 billion so everyone has to get fired

MAIS PUTAIN ALEX4

Après faut pas s'étonner que les studios sortent de la merde si vous la gobez day one malgré des tarifications inacceptables.

Josu🔻🇵🇸3

Mira que bien 39.000 copias por cada uno de los 51 despedidos de Ubisoft Barcelona.

Gear 🍉3

I'm consistently stunned that there's this many suckers still buying Ubisoft shit

Bruno Izidro2

Pronto. Agora vem o remake do 1 (mas é remake mesmo, reimaginar o jogo todo🙏)

Tales From the Cryptlette2

That's crazy for a game everyone has and can be bought very cheap instead of buying the new one.

Hellwarden2

They're gonna hire back the people they laid off now right? Right?

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)

@ela-bambust.bsky.social

I probably have an article in me about how Assassin's Creed went from Anarchist philosophy with "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" to cryptofascist signaling and changing the Creed to "we work in the dark to save the light"

11545d ago

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)71

The former can only be a deeply anarchist call to question power structures. To say that nothing is true it's to say that anyone who sells you absolute truth is lying to you. To say that everything is permitted is to say that laws are not reality, that there are only consequences.

Taco Ghoulash3

Ezio in Revelations finally explaining the meaning of the Creed after three games of hearing it recited (or at least, his interpretation of it) is still one of my favorite moments in the series. Just a wonderful note to prelude the ending of his trilogy, to understand what we've been fighting for.

Maple Autumn 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🐕2

Hah, I didn't know that they used that quote in AC. For me, it came through Principia Discordia, and the practice of Chaos Magic, and its associated philosophies. It's a thing I and some of my associates say quite often.

Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸2

It's been a moment since I replayed the older ones, which one ypu think is the turning point?

Atomikrin 🍉🐸1

Having only played through 2 and Odyssey, I'd be interested in reading that.

Lucy1

I would be very interested to read this article, for what it's worth

Rayman

@rayman.ubisoft.com

Fret not, the Edward Kenway skin will return in Rayman Legends Retold! In the mean time, be sure to dive into the pirate fantasy in AC Black Flag Resynced ☠️

An image of Rayman in the Edward Kenway Skin, in Rayman Legends Retold.

7444d ago

SuperAbachiBro1

Any chance of seeing the return of these kings exclusively for the Switch 2 version?

Sam 🐦

@samplaysgames.bsky.social

How do you make a Pirate angry? take the p out of him... 🙃 #blackflagresynced

6245d ago

Kawaii Crusader2

Yarrrrrrrr, put it back in, daddy OwU

Pud | Twitch Streamer2

That one made me laugh!!

Kazuki1

Ngl....it made me laughter harder than it should but there can only be one pun lord

Pup Vhiro➡️BFC

@vhiro.bsky.social

CW: messy leaking diaper Black Flag resynced came out and I got diapered and played like 5 hrs of it lol

5144d ago

Taihou the diaper snoofer (Ran)1

all that in just 5 hours?

LyricDL1

I’ve been playing it too! So good!!!

Arron Automata

@arrontk.bsky.social

Streaming some more Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced 🏴‍☠️ 🎵 What will we do with a drunken sailor. 🎵 🎵 What will we do with a drunken sailor. 🎵 twitch.tv/arrontko

3544d ago

🦠Witcher Drenom🦠2

To put things in perspective here: Arron just started the game on his stream… NPC has audacity to call Arron useless right off the bat. www.twitch.tv/arrontko/cli...

CPreczewski1

Yo ... Ho Wishing you a Jolly Good Stream Mate.

Matt // elkz 🕹️

@notelkz.net

It's gonna take me a solid year to finish Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, I'm getting distracted every 5 seconds because this game is so beautiful. That and collectibles, must 100% every area as I go!

3244d ago

Arkhangel | BALLxPIT2

I def can’t wait to give this series a replay!

FamedTitan1

the perils of being a completionist amirite??? glad you're enjoying it

LeedleLee1

So happy you're enjoying it Matt! Looking forward to hopefully checking it out one day as it's got your glowing recommendation 🥹

GamesIndustry.biz

@gibiz.bsky.social

Following the launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, layoffs have begun at Ubisoft Barcelona affecting 51 employees www.gamesindustry.biz/layoffs-begi...

A character in pirate attire stands on the deck of a ship, looking out at a tropical island bay with lush green cliffs, palm trees, and a small settlement.

2445d ago

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David Smith23

Bro come the fuck ON

J0SIE Mostly6

Good guy Ubisoft giving you every reason to pirate their pirate game.

🪴 moja_png 🪴2

C'est juste une putain de blague ...

Tony

@dharlequin.bsky.social

📸 #AssassinsCreedBlackFlagResynced Didn't have much time with the photo mode, I was enjoying my favorite game in the series too much 😁 #VirtualPhotography #thephotomode

2445d ago

Danielle Partis 🌴 on holiday 🍹

@daniellepartis.bsky.social

I didn't anticipate how nostalgic I'd be for Black Flag. The 2014 launch coincided with my first shift at GAME, the staff dressed up as pirates. We got a shipment of giant barrels in to decorate the shop and I took one home and crafted it into a table - my first taste of video game tat. Lifetime ago

2745d ago

Mattmamatt🎮Xenoblade Chronicles Switch 2 Edition

@mattmamatt301.bsky.social

Early stream! Sailing in Black Flag Resynced for day 2, I also have new emotes! Live twitch.tv/mattmamatt301

1545d ago

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Mattmamatt🎮Xenoblade Chronicles Switch 2 Edition6

Raided @daisyonaquest.bsky.social since she's back from seeing BTS, come hang out! Gonna stream again later today after ALGS :)

Plokool8112

Go follow his twitch, guys.

Lark 🌊 Singing Sea Shanties

@larkoneironaut.bsky.social

After a mentally bad week my mom got me AC Black Flag Resynced because she knows that the original is one of favorite games of all time, now I'm feeling so much better, having the time of my life in the Caribbean fr 🥹😭 #VirtualPhotography

1645d ago

Alex

@alexsurvives.bsky.social

Looking forward to getting stuck into Black Flag Resynced tonight! What are you all plating this weekend?

1944d ago

VoMAA 🎮⌨️🖱🇨🇦3

Zero Parades for Dead Spies, and depending on when the wife and kid go to bed, possibly some Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

☕️ AgeQned ☀️🍻❤️3

GranBlue Fantasy Relink, Digimon Story Time Stranger and Moonlight Peaks.

SayYesToDeathStranding2

Enjoy bud! More Death Stranding for me

Matt Ciciriello1

Jumping into Black Flag as well

Christian S.1

Dinner! Hehe, kidding (I can't resist a bit of fun with autocorrect quirks). More seriously, I'll be working through the exceptionally rad Ogre Battle 64.