Notre Dame Burns

[KingsGambit]

They also donated half a million dollars to help rebuild. If they just wanted a marketing opportunity they could have just put up the game itself for free and gotten the same thing.



I already have it for their other games. It's not Steam, but it certainly doesn't seem terrible. Maybe that's just me though.

I'm with MM. It's in terrible taste. If they wanted to just help rebuild, they could have just quietly donated the money and not trumpeted it with a marketing opportunity. Jesus had something to say about people who made a big show about charitable donations.

[Mountain Man]

They also donated half a million dollars to help rebuild.

In an industry where a top selling game can rake in tens if not hundreds of millions, $500,000 is cheap marketing.

[Sparko]

Ubisoft went and donated $500,000 to Notre Dame, and made Assassin's Creed Unity free until April 25th because of this. They wanted people to be able to see the virtual version of Notre Dame it since the real version was so badly damaged.

The LIDAR scans they used for the game are so detailed that they are probably going to use them for the reconstruction.

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The rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating fire Monday may take years, but the historic structure could get some help from 3D maps and even the video game “Assassin’s Creed,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

Amid the outpouring of grief and support on social media for the iconic French Gothic structure, Ph.D. student Hannah Groch-Begley shared on Twitter the work of late art historian Andrew Tallon, who used laser scanners to make an accurate model of the building


https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/16/a...llon-3d-laser/