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I experienced that joy with Blacklist!
Patched five separate times as I recall? Once for every time you start the game plus installers
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I experienced that joy with Blacklist!
Patched five separate times as I recall? Once for every time you start the game plus installers
Don't get me started about downloading or patching games on uplay when 2070 got stuck on 97% for hours and hours.
Ubisoft scrambles to fix Assassin's Creed: Unity's atrocious performance issues
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2847...ys-atrocious-performance-issues.html#tk.fb_pc
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2847...ys-atrocious-performance-issues.html#tk.fb_pc
Prior to last week I had zero issues with UPlay - it always worked fine for me during the earlier days around the time Assassins Creed 2 - Revalations was around.
Then last week I tried to replay AC2...20minutes later I did - before that it was just a stream of constant patches and I had no idea what they were for either as UPlay would just state that it was updating. Then just when I thought it was over, even more patches rolled in. I'd lost interest by the time the game started!
Ubisoft just dont care about you or me, its that simple.
Theyve grown too big and have enough oomph in the industry to just carry on churning out **** games, they wont go away nor will they change.
I wont pretend to know anything about the industry but I compare Ubisoft to that job you dont really want people to know you had, I'd be embarrassed to say I worked for Ubisoft and leave it off my CV. Like I said, I dont know the industry but thats my opinion of an outsider looking in and it dosent change the fact I think they are a dreadful games company that are only good at churning out the same old rehashed games every year.
Whatever way you look at it, people will still buy their games, Ubisoft will continue to make money and will continue to plague the industry with their 'all take and no give' attitude.
Theyve grown too big and have enough oomph in the industry to just carry on churning out **** games, they wont go away nor will they change.
I wont pretend to know anything about the industry but I compare Ubisoft to that job you dont really want people to know you had, I'd be embarrassed to say I worked for Ubisoft and leave it off my CV. Like I said, I dont know the industry but thats my opinion of an outsider looking in and it dosent change the fact I think they are a dreadful games company that are only good at churning out the same old rehashed games every year.
Whatever way you look at it, people will still buy their games, Ubisoft will continue to make money and will continue to plague the industry with their 'all take and no give' attitude.
Consumers want:
A) A product that looks like what was advertised
B) Not to be talked down to in PR speak
C) A working product at launch
D) To be respected for shelling out $60 for a new game, and not goaded into paying even more
Those points sum it up perfectly for me and are why I will not buy an Ubisoft game, along with needing to use Uplay.
At this point I wouldn't touch a UbiShaft game with a bargepole!
The fact that the rest of the world can buy FC4 on Steam but we can't in the UK was the absolute last straw!
Shame, as I loved FC3 (it was probably the last game I completed before Mordor) and was really looking forward to The Division but not now.
The fact that the rest of the world can buy FC4 on Steam but we can't in the UK was the absolute last straw!
Shame, as I loved FC3 (it was probably the last game I completed before Mordor) and was really looking forward to The Division but not now.
I thought I read that FC4 got pulled from all regions?
TBH this game always looked to me like it was going to be the same rinse and repeat AssCreed game, with more copy-paste Ubisoft gameplay.
Here's another find thanks to tommy
http://wccftech.com/ubisoft-points-finger-amd-technical-bugs-assassins-creed-unity/#ixzz3IzQdlUNs
But as was said, it's **** on most systems
http://wccftech.com/ubisoft-points-finger-amd-technical-bugs-assassins-creed-unity/#ixzz3IzQdlUNs
But as was said, it's **** on most systems
My biggest gripe with Ubisoft is from personal experience.
I owned a few Ubisoft games on steam, AC2, Brotherhood, a few others. Didn't play them much, was of course forced to use uplay etc.
Uplay got hacked, loads of people had their passwords changed etc. I couldn't contact support without creating a new account because your uplay account is your support account.
Waited a couple of weeks to get it back. In the mean time, I had decided I wanted to play Anno 2070, so I'd had to buy it on the new uplay account (same steam account).
They completely refuse to move the game to the first account. Even EA will do this, and it's their fault in the first place that I had to do this. I now have two stupid uplay accounts I don't want and can never remember the password to.
I've not bought a Ubisoft game since.
I owned a few Ubisoft games on steam, AC2, Brotherhood, a few others. Didn't play them much, was of course forced to use uplay etc.
Uplay got hacked, loads of people had their passwords changed etc. I couldn't contact support without creating a new account because your uplay account is your support account.
Waited a couple of weeks to get it back. In the mean time, I had decided I wanted to play Anno 2070, so I'd had to buy it on the new uplay account (same steam account).
They completely refuse to move the game to the first account. Even EA will do this, and it's their fault in the first place that I had to do this. I now have two stupid uplay accounts I don't want and can never remember the password to.
I've not bought a Ubisoft game since.
Who's asking for a Steam monopoly?
Personally, I want all my games in one place and, with 380 games on my account, that place is Steam.
I don't care if they also sell their game on Origin, UPlay or as an Atari2600 cartridge... just let me buy it on Steam!
The way FC3 worked through Steam is that it fired up UPlay in the background and then ran FC3... I didn't have to interact with UPlay, it just worked... well, the multiplayer didn't work (same with their latest Splinter Cell, I could never get to play it with friends). I'm fine with that. Steam achievements etc really don't matter to me but having my games on Steam does.
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The new EA? Yup that's probably right!! And a hell of an insult 
I can imagine nVidia aren't very pleased with all of this, having tied themselves quite closely to them...
I can imagine nVidia aren't very pleased with all of this, having tied themselves quite closely to them...
Rubbish, everyone has the choice to wait to see what a game is like before buying it. The real problem in gaming is that people pre order games willy nilly, until that stops these massive franchises will keep cashing in on peoples impatience - they are multinational businesses out to make money not do anyone any favours, specifically the people at the very top. Of course it still exists but gone are the days of developers making games in the interest of the industry and the community I'm afraid.
UBI pulled out of UK Steam on 6/11...
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/480539/upcoming-ubisoft-games-not-available-on-steam-in-the-uk/
The next day they vanished from US Steam...
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/156470/ubisoft-vs-steam
but then re-appeared...
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/156486/ubisoft-titles-return-to-steam
So you can still buy FC4 on Steam in the US...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/298110/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...OWG8IG081J#RTDOWG8IG081J.2115.Helpful.Reviews
Pretty good review of Unity over at Amazon -
Pretty good review of Unity over at Amazon -
Become a $60 Beta Assassin! November 12, 2014 By Christian Stella
Platform for DisplaylayStation 4|Edition:Standard Edition
AC Unity is true next-gen. In fact, it is SO next-gen that it isn't even finished yet! I like to be on the cutting edge and I appreciate that Ubisoft is making games that it is still making, even weeks after you've beaten them.
I also love the forced integration with an app as well as a website. How that works is that you sign in with your uplay account to experience so many error messages that last gen could never display on screen at one time.
The game itself (no spoilers) centers around Arno, an Assasin in search of locked chests that require a cell phone game with micro transactions to open. You level him up by "hacking" into your bank account to drain real money at 60 FPS. The rest of the game runs at a solid 12 FPS which is TWICE as cinematic as a movie... No small feat! Once you've completed "playing" a website on your computer, Arno is finally ready to fall through the ground and enter a white abyss... The core challenge of the game, these moments where you simply fall into the sky that accurately existed under 1700's Paris, are some of the most nail-biting moments in any game ever made... Will the game crash? Will you have to hard reset your console? Results are random, so it will always be a surprise!
Many people just won't "get" this evolution of Assassin's Creed and should spend their time opening up a history book instead. It is there they could read up on Paris' floating people and long battle with pop-in. Even today, many Parisians only exist after you've already walked past them. It is these small details that Ubisoft has nailed and they deserve applause with tons of random audio pops just as you'd hear in the game's cinematics.
After playing this gem, I've decided to fly to Montreal tomorrow to begin playing 2018's Assassin's Creed 9. Unity's only shortcoming was that it was a little TOO finished, so I am hoping the Ubisoft guys will let me plug my controller into a broken vending machine in their studio that simply eats dollars that I put into it without delivering.
Update: Ubisoft has mentioned that they will be issuing a patch that may "fix" some of these historically accurate non-issues. For this reason, I have lowered my score to 1 star. If I wanted to play a game that was finished, I would not have purchased a Ubisoft game on day one. Boo to Ubisoft, we expect less of you.