How to ruin your PC port in five easy steps

I read the first few paragraphs till I got to the bit about soliders and then went off to read that article and its comments, found that more interesting, never occured to me the forces must play games in their spare time, even play CoD or BF2 haha.

Back on the topic though, I read the rest and it made me think of great games that started on PC but then we had to wait ages for, like some of the GTA series.. not to mention GTA IV with its badly optimised engine and the whole social club stuff.

The waiting brings me onto the fact i've been hoping for Red Dead Redemption to come over to PC eventually like GTA IV did.. sigh.
 
Almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As for the two industry guys quoted, well that says a great deal about the attitude of big developers towards their customer base these days...
 
Great artical thanks for the share, I especially liked the part about Ubisoft's DRM! it only makes me want to pirate the game even more.
 
Pighardia said:
There aren't many companies hated more than EA but Ubisoft are trying damn hard!
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I've always considered Activision the worst, then EA, then Ubisoft.

The funny thing for me is whilst the former two have properties/titles i have enjoyed in the past, Ubisoft don't. They just don't seem to produce games that interest me so much, so I've never had to show any dislike towards them ha.

Where as Activision's money schemes with COD and now with their Blizzard department and this Diablo 3 DRM, It just fuels my dislike, the possibility of the notion of paying monthly subscriptions to activision for COD Multiplayer is just astounding to me. I stopped playing COD after number 4, as it just got dumbed down, fair enough but the notion of setting a precedent of charging extra for your game once you've bought it. DLC is bad enough at times, but monthly subs for an FPS... sigh :(

I've had Diablo 3 on pre-order for over a year now, i'm just praying they haven't royally screwed up the game with their grubby fingers and ponzy schemes.
 
shipinabottle said:
I've always considered Activision the worst, then EA, then Ubisoft.

The funny thing for me is whilst the former two have properties/titles i have enjoyed in the past, Ubisoft don't. They just don't seem to produce games that interest me so much, so I've never had to show any dislike towards them ha.

Where as Activision's money schemes with COD and now with their Blizzard department and this Diablo 3 DRM, It just fuels my dislike, the possibility of the notion of paying monthly subscriptions to activision for COD Multiplayer is just astounding to me. I stopped playing COD after number 4, as it just got dumbed down, fair enough but the notion of setting a precedent of charging extra for your game once you've bought it. DLC is bad enough at times, but monthly subs for an FPS... sigh :(

I've had Diablo 3 on pre-order for over a year now, i'm just praying they haven't royally screwed up the game with their grubby fingers and ponzy schemes.
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I always had EA at the top of that proverbial pile until Ubisoft's Hate Your Customer DRM campaign. Strange, they keep telling us that the PC sells far less games than consoles, but the figures (and also the PC gaming alliance figures) show that while Xbox + Kinect + PS + Nintendo sell more than PC (like saying Fiat + Nissan + Peugeot + Ford sell more than Toyota), but on an individual basis PC actually sells more games than some of the individual consoles ~ doesn't make for much of a Pro-DRM argument though so I can see why they keep it quiet.
 
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I'm not sure I can think of a ubisoft game that is worth buying regardless of DRM at the moment actually. Drawing a blank on any of their games I've thought were worth the asking price.
 
8igdave said:
I'm not sure I can think of a ubisoft game that is worth buying regardless of DRM at the moment actually. Drawing a blank on any of their games I've thought were worth the asking price.
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I am not loving Ubisoft at all but i have to disagree there. I think the Assassin's Creed games have been excellent and have turned in to one of my favourite series of recent times.
I don't know if the DRM issues will affect AC Revelations, but i would not be happy(but will still buy it anyway:rolleyes:)

AC games are the only Ubisoft games though, not really a Splinter Cell fan
 
Pighardia said:
I am not loving Ubisoft at all but i have to disagree there. I think the Assassin's Creed games have been excellent and have turned in to one of my favourite series of recent times.
I don't know if the DRM issues will affect AC Revelations, but i would not be happy(but will still buy it anyway:rolleyes:)

AC games are the only Ubisoft games though, not really a Splinter Cell fan
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AC was good and boring at the same time so I never bothered with the ones that followed but looks like they just kept doing the same thing over again anyway really.

Splinter cell was good 8 years ago (or when ever the orginal came out). After that they have been going down hill. Last one I got was double agent and it was so easy and just silly.

Rainbow six vegas was good but buggy as hell and I think the only reason I actually enjoyed it was because everyone online was a complete and utter noob and was very easy to kill them on. Vegas 2 was even worse online, 32:2 on deathmatch on a tiny map with 12-16 people just shouldn't be possible! Even when only using a pistol you'd still rape them on there, just felt wrong!


Personally struggle to justify paying for a ubisoft game with all the bugs, dmr and generally just half asses effort when I probably won't play it for more than a few hours and could have got it for free instead.
 
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8igdave said:
I'm not sure I can think of a ubisoft game that is worth buying regardless of DRM at the moment actually. Drawing a blank on any of their games I've thought were worth the asking price.
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They bought out 3DO's IP (the Might & Magic RPG and HOMM strategy series), The Learning Company's IPs (which include Prince of Persia). They also acquired the likes of Bluebyte (who make the Settlers series). Basically anything good under the Ubisoft label was purchased after the game was made by an independent studio, there are perhaps a few exceptions to that like the first Splinter Cell.
 
8igdave said:
AC was good and boring at the same time so I never bothered with the ones that followed but looks like they just kept doing the same thing over again anyway really.
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I hate to send praise their way, but you're not really right as regards Assassins Creed 2. DRM aside it's in line for a reward for "Most improved sequel". They significantly revamped everything, it would be as if Deus Ex was a sequel to Invisible War only even more so.
 
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