Though it’s already garnered a bit of controversy, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has set a new standard for the franchise, becoming the biggest Steam release in the entire series. It’s some 50 percent up from the last mainline game, AC: Shadows, showing that the strength of the brand alone isn’t enough to make a big enough splash. As per the numbers shown on SteamDB, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced peaked at 99,451 concurrent players today, following an incredible day where the remake sold over two million copies. This puts it about 50 percent above Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the latest entry in the series, which clocked in 64,825 players around launch and is now struggling to maintain an audience bigger than 3,000 concurrents. Resynced is genuinely a good remake, and a great game on its own. Screenshot by Destructoid Resynced is also the biggest Steam launch for the entire franchise and is also some 50 percent above what many consider to be the best of the RPG ACs, Odyssey. This latter released in October 2018 and had 62,069 players at the height of its popularity. Worth mentioning is that, even eight years later, it has nearly twice as many concurrent players than Shadows, signaling a grim decline for the series overall. The fact that Resynced, a remake of a game from 13 years ago with not so many changes as one’d think, is setting new records for the series should be a major alarm for the suits at Ubisoft. The franchise has come a long way since then but not in any good sense, though there were some cool games and ideas and concepts that never really could come into their own. It’s now being maintained through its name alone, which, as powerful as it is, is starting to lose some of that magnetism it once had. Black Flag Resynced could prove to be a refreshing new beginning for the series, though, ironically, the original was in some sense the start of the franchise’s decline back in the day (remember the Unity fiasco)? 0The post Black Flag Resynced is Assassin’s Creed biggest Steam launch as the remake clocks in 50 percent more players than Shadows appeared first on Destructoid.