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A little story that should serve as feedback.
I bought Assasins Creed Valhalla and downloaded it successfully with a very slow line at some point. Now I tried to start. The launcher it pointed out to me that it MUST be patched. No option to play the unupdated version. Well then I thought, then just three four hours longer. The update was as big as the game itself. After astonishment I researched and unfortunately had to find out that this is actually the case, because, so it was said, the game was completely restructured. Then I asked myself why I had to download the 90 GB outdated game at the beginning. It was only discovered afterwards that a completely new version is available. Very annoying, but I now decided to use the much better line at a friend to survive the evil again. After that I could actually play well for a day. It also ran, no bad bugs or any things that have necessarily required a patch. Today I wanted to play again.Well, but not possible, because it FORCED me to install a new update. No way to start the game anyway and zb. play offline. It was then "only" about 8 GB. Again with my friend I thought that was done quickly, but in the middle of the connection to Ubisoft was completely lost. After a few attempts, a short research confirmed that Ubisoft apparently has problems and currently no connection is possible. Can happen, I thought and waited. When the launcher could connect again, I continued the download. In the meantime the download had increased from 8GB to about 90GB.This means that I am downloading the full size for the third time and I am not even sure if I am allowed to play or if I have to update.
This was my little factual report, which hopefully gives them a hint and saves me the concrete wording about how dissatisfied I am.
PS: can you also think of a way how I can play the game without having to update it. E.g. offline and then wait until night with the DOwnload of the update.