{"id":2044701,"date":"2026-07-15T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2044701"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:56:00","slug":"assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-enjoys-the-best-launch-of-any-ac-game-on-steam-making-avast-sum-of-money-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2044701","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced enjoys the best launch of any AC game on Steam, making avast sum of money there"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced enjoys the best launch of any AC game on Steam, making avast sum of money there<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">There be treasure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/AC-Black-Flag-Resynced-underwater-treasure.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Assassin&apos;s Creed Black Flag Resynced - Edward Kenway finds an underwater treasure chest\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"AC-Black-Flag-Resynced-underwater-treasure.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Ubisoft<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/fran-j-ruiz-author.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"fran-j-ruiz-author.png\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/fran-ruiz\">Fran Ruiz<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-07-15T12:56:00+00:00\">July 15, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-steam-launch-data?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          7 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"7bfe1fe9-86cc-4aad-81c5-82a6f2cbce07\" data-name=\"Assassinu0027s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Assassinu0026#39;s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Assassinu0026#39;s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Assassinu0027s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Assassinu0027s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Assassin&apos;s Creed Black Flag Resynced\" title=\"Follow Assassin&apos;s Creed Black Flag Resynced\"><br \/>\n  Follow Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It&#8217;s clear by now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced<\/a> has been a success for Ubisoft, even though that&#8217;s inexplicably resulted in the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-barcelona-strike-july-2026\">laying off many of the developers that made it possible<\/a>. A tally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-2-million-sales\">2m copies sold on launch day<\/a> is an impressive number, and new data underlines just how big the launch has actually been on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Market data company Alinea Analytics &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-early-sales-shadows\">which analysed the game&#8217;s pre-launch performance<\/a> &#8211; shared an updated look at how Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been doing on Steam since release. As of 13th July, 701k copies have apparently been sold there, making $35m in revenue, with an extra $1m coming from minor DLC sales.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Assassin&apos;s Creed Black Flag Resynced - Official Horizon Launch Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D5MMjrUlKwM?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/D5MMjrUlKwM\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced &#8211; Official Horizon Launch Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced &#8211; Official Horizon Launch Trailer<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D5MMjrUlKwM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alinea calls Black Flag Resynced the biggest Assassin&#8217;s Creed launch on Steam yet, and while that initially sounds startlingly impressive, it&#8217;s worth taking into account that 2025&#8217;s Shadows was the first game to release simultaneously on Steam. In the past, Ubisoft had favoured its own Ubisoft Connect PC platform, but the strategy changed following a handful of underperforming releases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-24-25-half-year-results-plummet-as-star-wars-outlaws-underperforms\">such as Star Wars Outlaws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On day one alone, Resynced pulled in $22.4m on Steam, 2.35x what Shadows managed on its own launch day ($9.5m),&#8221; Alinea highlighted. And four days in, sales sat at $35.1m versus Shadows&#8217; $22.2m, &#8220;roughly 1.58x ahead and pulling away&#8221;. Edward Kenway&#8217;s adventure is also far ahead of previous Assassin&#8217;s Creed instalments Valhalla and Mirage in total revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The story around launch-day DLC packs &#8211; which combine to cost a total of more than $85 &#8211; is more complicated. While Alinea states that players are generally avoiding the cosmetic bundles, with only around two percent of players spending money on them, a higher six percent of players bought the $5 map pack that reveals certain items in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmetic microtransactions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-steam-review-bomb-dlc\">caused some backlash early on, leading to review-bombing<\/a>, which may or may not have pushed Ubisoft to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-microtransactions-fun-claim-black-flag-resynced\">remove comments about microtransactions making games &#8220;more fun&#8221; in a recent financial report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-review\">Eurogamer&#8217;s three-star Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced review<\/a> called it &#8220;a perfectly fine way of experiencing&#8221; the 2013 modern open-world classic, yet the additions &#8220;are not universally positive, and as a result it leaves the original feeling misshapen, wonky, a bit rogue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It&#8217;s clear by now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced<\/a> has been a success for Ubisoft, even though that&#8217;s inexplicably resulted in the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-barcelona-strike-july-2026\">laying off many of the developers that made it possible<\/a>. A tally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-2-million-sales\">2m copies sold on launch day<\/a> is an impressive number, and new data underlines just how big the launch has actually been on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Market data company Alinea Analytics &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-early-sales-shadows\">which analysed the game&#8217;s pre-launch performance<\/a> &#8211; shared an updated look at how Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been doing on Steam since release. As of 13th July, 701k copies have apparently been sold there, making $35m in revenue, with an extra $1m coming from minor DLC sales.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Assassin&apos;s Creed Black Flag Resynced - Official Horizon Launch Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D5MMjrUlKwM?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/D5MMjrUlKwM\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced &#8211; Official Horizon Launch Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced &#8211; Official Horizon Launch Trailer<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D5MMjrUlKwM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alinea calls Black Flag Resynced the biggest Assassin&#8217;s Creed launch on Steam yet, and while that initially sounds startlingly impressive, it&#8217;s worth taking into account that 2025&#8217;s Shadows was the first game to release simultaneously on Steam. In the past, Ubisoft had favoured its own Ubisoft Connect PC platform, but the strategy changed following a handful of underperforming releases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/ubisoft-24-25-half-year-results-plummet-as-star-wars-outlaws-underperforms\">such as Star Wars Outlaws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On day one alone, Resynced pulled in $22.4m on Steam, 2.35x what Shadows managed on its own launch day ($9.5m),&#8221; Alinea highlighted. And four days in, sales sat at $35.1m versus Shadows&#8217; $22.2m, &#8220;roughly 1.58x ahead and pulling away&#8221;. Edward Kenway&#8217;s adventure is also far ahead of previous Assassin&#8217;s Creed instalments Valhalla and Mirage in total revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The story around launch-day DLC packs &#8211; which combine to cost a total of more than $85 &#8211; is more complicated. While Alinea states that players are generally avoiding the cosmetic bundles, with only around two percent of players spending money on them, a higher six percent of players bought the $5 map pack that reveals certain items in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmetic microtransactions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-steam-review-bomb-dlc\">caused some backlash early on, leading to review-bombing<\/a>, which may or may not have pushed Ubisoft to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ubisoft-microtransactions-fun-claim-black-flag-resynced\">remove comments about microtransactions making games &#8220;more fun&#8221; in a recent financial report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-review\">Eurogamer&#8217;s three-star Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced review<\/a> called it &#8220;a perfectly fine way of experiencing&#8221; the 2013 modern open-world classic, yet the additions &#8220;are not universally positive, and as a result it leaves the original feeling misshapen, wonky, a bit rogue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced enjoys the best launch of any AC game on Steam, making avast sum of money there There be treasure. 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