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Ubisoft - Why do you keep lying to PC gamers about simultaneous release dates?
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ghst said:
Trackmania redeems their existence. Although, if they didn't exist, they wouldn't have been in a position to buy them out last year. Poses a bit of a conundrum. But, hey, I'm an easy grader. I fully expected them to completely fuck Nadeo up after they purchased them. And to see business as usual, I'm grateful. Such is the state of Big Publishers in the year 2011. Brownie points for doing nothing and staying out of the way on the obvious.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
angular graphics
Banned
EscoBlades said:
It's still too early to announce the delay
ShockingAlberto
Member
Driver San Francisco PC was delayed on August 11th, just under a month before the game's release date.EscoBlades said:
AC: Brotherhood was delayed on September 9th, so if they're as nice as they were when they delayed that game, they'll probably be letting us know soon.
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
Is it going to have always-on DRM? Or do you "only" have to be online when it starts up.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Driver is/will be start-up activation, but this is Assassin's Creed, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if they force always-on for it.Guerrillas in the Mist said:
Haunted
Member
Scumbag Ubisoft.angular graphics said:
2 or 3 weeks is not a big deal, but substantial delays are. Videogames are a fast business and the audience is fickle, quick to move on to the next big hyped thing. It also effectively kills the impact of any marketing campaigns because they're 99% designed to coincide with the first release.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Zimbardo said:
I don't get this. To me it just smacks of the same kind of silliness that surrounded FFXIII being announced on the 360. Why do they owe the platform anything?
I agree that their PC releases have been shite recently, but it's not like you're owed anything that needs to be "repaid"
Despite the delay, I didn't mind how they handled Brotherhood on the PC. Got rid of the horrid DRM and replaced it with a much more reasonable 1-time activation, gave the Da Vinci DLC for free, and didn't pull an Activision/EA/Bethesda of charging $60. If there's one thing Ubisoft messed up here, they didn't really do a good job conveying that they dropped the awful DRM, as I still see posts on various sites citing Brotherhood as yet another example of constant online activation checks. Makes me wonder how many people skipped buying it for that reason, but of course, delaying a game 4 months isn't exactly helping sales either.
Of course, the fact they brought back the constant online activation DRM back for their most recent PC games makes me think we might see more of the same for AC: Revelations unfortunately.
Of course, the fact they brought back the constant online activation DRM back for their most recent PC games makes me think we might see more of the same for AC: Revelations unfortunately.
AcceptableGhost
Member
I don't think it really matters. Ubilauncher + consistent launch online verification for a game = no buy. Used PS3 copy it is.
Edit: Does the launcher check for online every single time you launch the game or not? I thought it did.
Edit: Does the launcher check for online every single time you launch the game or not? I thought it did.
iNvid02
Member
despise the online connection at all times, the worst form of drm i've seen so far.
and the online verification when launching is a piece of shit too.
but ubi-launcher itself is fine, it loads very quickly and you can just click play and your off.
they should keep that and ditch the silly drm
edit: ^^ dont get your hopes up yet, all the pc ac titles usually get their delay announcement towards the end of september, we still got about a week to go.
after that i dont think there could be a big delay of months, maybe a few weeks like arkham city
and the online verification when launching is a piece of shit too.
but ubi-launcher itself is fine, it loads very quickly and you can just click play and your off.
they should keep that and ditch the silly drm
edit: ^^ dont get your hopes up yet, all the pc ac titles usually get their delay announcement towards the end of september, we still got about a week to go.
after that i dont think there could be a big delay of months, maybe a few weeks like arkham city
Castor Krieg
Banned
Why would you get it on PC? I guess you could if SP matters to you, because MP sucks balls - 100K on Leaderboard vs. 1.2Mln PS3 vs. probably more on X360 (don't have X360 version). On PS3 I join all game types within 10sec, my brother playing on PC has sometimes to wait a few minutes.
We're still 3 months out from the release of Revelations. As my OP shows, almost every other game was delayed with under a month left before release. We still have two more months for a delay of Revelations to be announced.
No, I'm not suggesting that at all. But I am suggesting that maybe if Ubisoft stopped treating PC gamers like shit, they'd actually make more money from PC games.
Acheteedo said:
No, I'm not suggesting that at all. But I am suggesting that maybe if Ubisoft stopped treating PC gamers like shit, they'd actually make more money from PC games.
This, I bought SH5 and what a steaming pile until the modders fixed it.ghst said:
Have not purchased an ubisoft game since for my PC or xbox.
The fanbase for that game if it was at least fixed and missing DRM is huge for the genre.
They have tried and tried to get ubi to release one more patch to no avail.
They even offered to put together a team of modders who would fix it for free if they were given temporary access to the source code.
zephervack
Member
I will never forgive them for selling me a non-working version Splinter Cell Conviction, i made my brother buy it too so we could play some Co Op and that uPlay garbage just DOES NOT WORK, after 3 hours of disabling firewalls, redirecting ports on my router and other means i just gave up, i wish Steam did refunds.
Aaaaand delayed.EscoBlades said:
Sportbilly
Member
That's OK, I've been fucking with Ubisoft for the last few years. Steam sale Christmas 2012 for AC: Revelations- you can't be bothered releasing on time/ stick ridiculous DRM on, I won't bother buying till the 75% discount.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Trollolol
Gully State
Member
I bought Splinter Cell Conviction on PC for $1 and I still felt cheated out of my money...Never again Ubisuck...never again..
The Nature Roy
Member
Better than Ghost Recon: Future Soldier where Ubisoft continues to be extremely evasive about the PC version's very existence...
If it is delayed, it's probably an attempt at steering potential pirates towards the console versions, but the kicker is that when it does launch, it'll most likely have the horrible DRM that comes standard with most of Ubisoft's PC ports. Ubisoft sure are dedicated to earning the title of the worst publisher of the past few years.
As the leading publisher of ultra shallow auto-games, they don't release many worthwhile games these days anyways. There isn't anything in their current line-up that I couldn't easily live without. AC is being run into the ground with these yearly installments so I'll just go ahead and wait until it's super cheap or pass all together.
As the leading publisher of ultra shallow auto-games, they don't release many worthwhile games these days anyways. There isn't anything in their current line-up that I couldn't easily live without. AC is being run into the ground with these yearly installments so I'll just go ahead and wait until it's super cheap or pass all together.
Tallshortman
Member
The best part is some of their recent games have been "released" as cracked torrents before the official release even happened. Bravo.