Ubisoft celebrates the announcement of the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake with a global hunt called Gold and Crystal treasure hunt. The prize is $500,000 buried in the Caribbean. To find it, participants must solve 15 puzzles linked to the game Resynced. The first phase is played from home with a map and a message in a bottle.
How the digital treasure hunt works 🗺️
The system combines textual clues with geographical coordinates extracted from Resynced's puzzles. Players receive a map of the Caribbean and a message in a bottle with encrypted data. Solving each clue unlocks a virtual location. The first user to register the exact coordinate will be transported to the Gulf of Mexico to physically unearth the treasure, which includes a replica crystal skull and gold coins with the Assassin's Creed logo.
The treasure that would make a pirate raider weep 💀
All very nice until you remember that in Black Flag, the real treasure was the ships you stole and the songs of drunken sailors. Now Ubisoft asks you to solve puzzles to win coins you can't spend in the port of Havana. The worst part: if you find the crystal skull, it will probably have fewer textures than Edward Kenway's character in the original PS3 version.