Along with that confirmation from Ubisoft, it should also be noted that the publisher, and in particular the Assassin’s Creed franchise, is no stranger to leaks, as every mainline game in the series has had leaks in some capacity that would generally surface weeks to months before an official reveal. As such, Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok gets a new leak seemingly every other week but is in a slightly different scenario though. Its development over the absence of a title in 2019 has led to the game being talked about online for almost two years before its potential launch date, in part due to a reference found in The Division 2.
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At this point, there are more than enough credible rumors and leaks of Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok to indicate that it’s actually coming out later this year. Here are some predictions as to exactly when the game will be released in North America.
Tuesday - September 29
The idea behind a September 29 release date came primarily from an alleged insider on 4chan. This rumored Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok release date has some plausibility to it. First, it lines up with Ubisoft’s claim that it would release the next game in the series during the fall of 2020, albeit this release date is literally a week after the start of fall.
The supposed leak also claims that the new game will see the return of four player co-op which was introduced in Assassin’s Creed Unity. Also introduced in Unity were the RPG elements that the modern games have been focusing on, and the leak suggests that those elements will carry over as well (which is an easy prediction to make).
Finally, the leak suggests that Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok will be a cross-gen title a la Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. This is where the early fall release date makes sense. If Ubisoft is going to release the game across console generations, which is extremely likely, it would either try to release the game at the start of the fall season to generate a second wave of sales when it launches again with the PS5 and Xbox Series X (likely to be in November), or it would just release every version in November when the consoles launch.
Going by Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, the double release date worked before so maybe it’ll work again.
Friday - October 16
Looking back at the history of the Assassin’s Creed games, one can find two patterns within the release dates of each game throughout the years. First, the past few games in the series all released in the fall season on a Friday. Starting with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate in 2015, Ubisoft has stuck with Friday releases for Assassin’s Creed games ever since then (other Ubisoft games, such as The Division 2, still release on Tuesdays).
Also starting since 2015, Ubisoft has released every game in the series within the month of October. Previous Assassin’s Creed games, with the exception of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Black Flag, were typically released in November.
Another common pattern between the release dates shows that most of the games have launched on the third calendar week of the month they came out in, which is why October 16 is a likely candidate. If the release plan of Ubisoft’s five triple-A games is going to be a priority, then it makes sense why the company would stick with releasing an Assassin’s Creed game during a month it knows the game will sell well.
Friday - November 20
This is a double prediction. November 20 is a likely date for both the launch of Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok and of the PS5 and/or Xbox Series X. The PS4 launched on Friday, November 15, 2013 and the Xbox One a week later on the 22nd. If the PS5 and Xbox Series X launch by the same release structure then fans can expect the new consoles to come out on November 20, at least as one plausible date. If Ubisoft decides to stick with the double release date strategy it utilized with Black Flag, then November 20 seems like a likely second date as well.
Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok is rumored to be in development.
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