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[Geedorah]

Well this explains a lot.

Watch Dogs will be a pos on pc I'm assuming too

Yep... and there goes any and all anticipation I had of that title not sucking hind-tit...

 

[chickdigger802]

Oh Ubisoft...

With Uplay, usually we don't really care about the issues and the optimisation, because the idea is that if you can't run our games, we'll never fix it.

uplay is fucking weird. It offers easy twitch streaming, which i applaud, but its 2013 and you still can't preload games, while you can preload ubisoft games on steam.


WHAT THE FUCK

 

[Piercedveil]

Yes, let's brute force the games instead of Ubisoft optimizing them. They have the right idea.

 

[vocab]

Yes, let's brute force the games instead of Ubisoft optimizing them. They have the right idea.

Worked for Cryostasis!

This is inexcusable from a big developer who makes yearly franchises.

 

[Maedhros]

Isnt this how its always been as a pc gamer?

Low fps on newly released game? Upgrade!!! Ta da.

No.

 

[foxbeldin]

Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to have the game running smoothly; it's called a bigger gpu

 

[aeolist]

also just buy a better CPU!*

*our games do not take advantage of more cores

 

[RS4-]

I solve it by not buying their games.

 

[Lasthope106]

And this is why I haven't purchased a single Ubisoft game in recent years.

 

[gabbre]

BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER

 

[Crawl]

"pls buy more nvidia gpus we get money from them" - ubisoft

 

[jacksepticeye]

BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER

Excellent

 

[fantomena]

 

[Madrugador]

Ubisoft has no idea what PC gamers need or want. Such and incompetent company regarding PC.

 

[DangerStepp]

Just thinking...after reading this quote it should really come as no surprise how poorly Far Cry 3 was optimized.

 

[captainnapalm]

And yet if he said we have to take people with five-year-old PCs into account and adjust the bells and whistles accordingly, people wouldn't like that.

 

[-tetsuo-]

 

[EchoedTruth]

Oh Ubi so silly.

VERY PUNNY

 

[Bluekaveli]

And that still won't make their shitty ports any better.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Or even better: instead of buying a new and bigger GPU, don't buy Ubisoft games! Problem fixed!



Serious question. Does AC4 look better than Far Cry 3? They seem at the same level, more or less.

Then why AC4 runs around 30% worse than Far Cry 3*? (looking at some benchmarks)

 

[chickdigger802]

tbf i'm sure this is probably just some poorly worded quote/jab or something to compare... i dont know.

It's just weird, Ubisoft usually kinda gives a shit about their pc ports (besides screaming about piracy all the time)even though their inhouse engines are traditionally ass... they do offer ok options and somewhat useable mouse keyboard controls. Heck rayman and sc blacklist both ran fantastic on pc earlier this year.

 

[aeolist]

And yet if he said we have to take people with five-year-old PCs into account and adjust the bells and whistles accordingly, people wouldn't like that.

this is a false dichotomy, other PC ports are well done and run as they should on current hardware without pandering to out of date crap

 

[Zeth]

And people hold up Watch Dogs system requirements as evidence of next gen making technological advances and raising the bar in a substantial way. -_-

 

[Grief.exe]

Let me break it down for you Ubisoft.

Your games aren't optimized for the platform.
You force all of your games onto a DRM client that has an online check-in prior to loading up.
Your most popular games are dumbed down to ridiculous levels in order to appeal to an audience that doesn't exist on PC.
Your games come over weeks later than the console versions.

I gotta ask, why are you even on the platform at all? Honestly, just pack up and go. I wouldn't be missing anything.

 

[KHlover]

Looks like I can throw my conspiracy theory about devs being sloppy with Next-Gen ports to make you buy new hardware into the garbage bin.

Time for tinfoil hats:With the beginning of the next console generation ports start to suck again.

Coincidence? I think not.

It's no longer a theory. They just outright confirmed it. WTH Ubisoft...

 

[FinalStageBoss]

You heard that PC dudes, stop whining and buy a bigger GPU

 

[Nokterian]

That explains enough of there horrible pc ports.

 

[manueldelalas]

I bought Ass Creed 1 and Rayman Legends this week, haven't played them but now I'm worried they won't run on an i5 GTX760 PC...

 

[Asharakk]

Damn, thats just plain ignorant.

 

[Dennis]

Well, they are not entirely wrong.

I wish they would spend more time and effort optimizing but the

"yeah, well, if you are such a graphics whore just buy better hardware"

attitude is quite common for developers as far as I can see.

 

[WhiskeyDiver]

"Fuck you. We're not optimizing. Go buy a $1000 video card to compensate for our laziness and stupidity."

The ignorance and stupidity of that statement is too far off the charts to be accurately measured.

 

[Htown]

Yeah now it all makes sense.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Somehow this isn't surprising at all. I'm still not sure what's more pathetic though, them thinking this or the PC version still running better than their supposedly optimized version on consoles.

 

[serenewarfare]

What a dumb thing to say to try and cover up laziness in optimization. That being said, I'm having zero issues running the game.

 

[Gamerloid]

Horrible mentality... I can't believe this was said.

 

[Naminator]

Let me break it down for you Ubisoft.

Your games aren't optimized for the platform.
You force all of your games onto a DRM client that has an online check-in prior to loading up.
Your most popular games are dumbed down to ridiculous levels in order to appeal to an audience that doesn't exist on PC.
Your games come over weeks later than the console versions.

I gotta ask, why are you even on the platform at all? Honestly, just pack up and go. I wouldn't be missing anything.

Quoted for truth.

 

[FyreWulff]

They're not wrong.

Many devs also don't bother shipping good default control schemes on PC because they assume 90% of the users are going to change the keybindings anyway.

 

[Dolor]

Funny, in gaming, I usually don't care about Ubisoft. I just buy better games.

 

[solarus]

My 4670k and gtx 670 is going to run watch dogs worse than the ps4 isn't it ubi? Sigh. Terrible optimisation.

 

[stump sock]

Except that with Ubi games, you can buy the biggest GPU setup allowed and still have subpar performance because their devs are fucking incompetent and haven't ventured past coding for a Core2Duo system.

yup, beat me to it. idiots.

 

[The Cowboy]

This to me seems more like the template for PC development instead of optimising. Can't be bothered to make the game run better on X GPU/CPU?, ahh well, we'll just up the GPU/CPU requirements so it needs more to get the desired performance.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Does Ubisoft not understand that the people complaining about performance in their games are the ones who already have the parts they're telling them to go buy?

 

[Madness]

Or it means your optimizations were pretty shit. Aren't the console GPU's like weaker than AMD 7870 or something?

 

[Zombie James]

Reminds me of idiotic "RAM is cheap" talk.

 

[Serandur]

I'm curious as to how the game runs on an HD 7850 now.

 

[Gaz_RB]

I don't think this quote means what most people in this thread are taking it to mean.

I don't think this is referring to AC4s shitty performance

 

[Glass Rebel]

Let me break it down for you Ubisoft.

Your games aren't optimized for the platform.
You force all of your games onto a DRM client that has an online check-in prior to loading up.
Your most popular games are dumbed down to ridiculous levels in order to appeal to an audience that doesn't exist on PC.
Your games come over weeks later than the console versions.

I gotta ask, why are you even on the platform at all? Honestly, just pack up and go. I wouldn't be missing anything.

preach

Ubisoft is a terrible company on the same level as EA

 

[Steel]

Companies like ubisoft make me glad I do 75% of my gaming on console.

 

[Omega]

Facepalm.
Really Ubisoft, really.

I guess Ubisoft is saying I should stay clear of their PC games then.

This.

As good as The Division sounds, Ubi can fuck off.

It's sad how ignorant people are about PCs in 2013. It's not even that they're ignorant, it's that they seemingly take pride in it.

preach

Ubisoft is a terrible company on the same level as EA

Even though EA is on my shitlist, don't insult them like that.

At least when it comes to PC gaming they put in more of an effort. Origin isn't all that bad, especially with features like Twitch.tv broadcasting and their return policy that Steam doesn't have. uPlay on the other hand, serves no purpose at all.

 

[Robert J. Sullivan]

you what ubisoft