BasilZero on 20 November 2022
They are going through what the Assassin's Creed series is going through, making sure the release is annual with less and less QA.
They could have easily waited this release until next year but they know people will buy it day/month 1.
Hopefully the game gets patched enough to mitigate the issues, there was a day 1 patch released according to someone I know who has the game.
I'll get the game myself sometime a year later when it goes down in price somewhere.
