Things Ubisoft Is Good At

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Killerspinach 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:02pm

Too be fair most big time publishers do many of these but none (not even EA) seem to do them as well as Ubisoft has this past year.

1. Making release dates
2. Creating characters void of personality
3. CTD
4. Trying way too hard to make everyone happy at once
5. Trying to be as politically correct as possible to the point where it's sickeningly obvious and still managing to fail and offend somebody down the line.
6. Reusing assets
7. Reusing assets
8. Reusing assets
9. Releasing patches that break more than they fix
10. Running users in circles through their support system (response times of over a week are common and rarely is any usuable suggestions given as per many users complaints and mey personal experience as well)
11. Hiding from their customers (not one way of contact to the compnay other than tech, no phone, no way to go above the "tech support" level of communication at all other than finsding their secret lair and physically visiting it)
12. Taking government handouts (millions and millions of tax breaks afforded to this compnay from Montreal and at the end of the deal the city said it benefitted them little to none (this is the city's fault as well but still it's seedy business all around)
13. Ruining their best franchises (Splinter Cell, AC, look at their declining review scores for proof)
14. Touting Pre launch DLC packages
15. Tacking on multiplayer modes that suck just so they can put "multiplayer" on the box
16. Launching DLC before their games even run well on the majority of systems that either meet or exceed their recommended stats.
17. Avoiding the use of any of Steam's features such as achievements, trading cards, workshop etc.
18. Forcing us to use their Uplay DRM which constantly fails
19. Adding micro transactions to 60$ retail games
20. Releasing Early Access games without putting them on Early Access
21. Turning off their biggest fans
22. Turning off everyone else
23. Airing live action trailers on television with no gameplay in them.
24. Cluttering your screen with obnoxious HUDs and tutorial tips (I know to press the space key already, you told me 1,000 times)
25. Merchandising
26. Buying off large gaming review outlets
27. Dropping 5,000 trailers for every single game they release
28. Teasing you with Beyond Good and Evil 2 which they've been doing for near a decade now
29. Having a "casuals first" appraoch to gameplay design
30. Making splash screens
31. Breaking users save files
32. Blatantly insutling pc gamers "all pc gamers are pirates" or telling us we need "bigger GPUs" when their game doesn't run on our systems which meet or exceed THEIR recommended specs
33. Ignoring a severly disgrunted customer base
34. Flaunting their failures as successes
35. Making fraudeuant claims [Farcry 4 claimed controller support even though controllers were known to crash the game for over a month. AC Unity claimed it had multi language support in some regions where it did not which Ubi quickly changed on the game's store page mere hours AFTER launch, imagine how many people this move screwed over.]
36. Telling upset customers to "contact Steam" who just tells them to "contact Ubi"
37. Lying to customers by placing blame on Steam when they are the ones who adminster their own store page NOT Steam and are free to give refunds if they see fit.
38. Turning the Clancy world into an action series post Tom's death instead of the tactical military experience it once was (see last two Splinter Cell games)
39. Copying other companies i.e. Pagan Min/Handsome Jack (boderlands2) are basically the same guy. They communicate with the player in the same ways, have the same personality and crack some of the exact same jokes minus some minor verbatim changes.
40. Blatantly pushing a liberal political agenda. Which is whatever you guys can have your opinions but do you have to flood your games with them so much to the point where it almost seems like you are intentionally tyrying to slip in some subliminal conditioning?
41. Ticking off whole cultures (Africa in Farcry 2, French in AC Unity, I'm sure there's more, everything pisses someone off these days lol)
42. Recycling plots
43. Building gorgeous but often static worlds (closed off interiors, repeatitive ambient events of few types, repetitive npc chatter, lack of that living/breathing world quality that rockstar is so good at)
44. Over embellishing prior to launch (heralding rock climbing and Pagan Min in Farcry 4 ads yet both were farily minimal portions of the game while the majority was a direct copy/paste of Fc3)
45. Sponsoring popular streamers
46. Whipping people into a fervor at E3 then disapoiting thema at launch (Watchdogs)
47. Displaying graphics in media demos that are far away from what is actually in the final product (Watchdogs)
48. Calling the result of the last two reasons a success and praising how this misrepresented product is "our fastest selling game ever"
49. Making false claims and referencing false stats ("90-95% of pc players are playing pirated copies")
50. Pissing me off

Last edited by Killerspinach; 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:04pm

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Uncouth Ruffian 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:04pm

i thought this was going to be a positive thread then i read it oh well

Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨ 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:06pm

Making people ma-

Originally posted by killerspinach:
50. Pissing me off

Oh, you already went there.

Zauberblümele 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:06pm

Originally posted by killerspinach:
50. Pissing me off

thats what posts like this are doing, if you dont like it, dont use it, or write your critics to ubisoft so they can extend their product.

Killerspinach 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:10pm

Originally posted by Shakar:
Originally posted by killerspinach:
50. Pissing me off
:thumb: thats what posts like this are doing, if you dont like it, dont use it, or write your critics to ubisoft so they can extend their product.

It's an open forum. To use your same logic; "if you don't like it, don't read it". Besides how could anymone even fairly employ that logic when their product is so woefully misrepresented? I did like what was being advertised to me so bought it, problem was it was a different thing than they said it was.

Naedmi 14 Jan, 2015 @ 6:13pm

It was a fair read. Most about it was true.

76561199631829825 22 Aug @ 8:22pm

Originally posted by Killerspinach:
Too be fair most big time publishers do many of these but none (not even EA) seem to do them as well as Ubisoft has this past year.

1. Making release dates
2. Creating characters void of personality
3. CTD
4. Trying way too hard to make everyone happy at once
5. Trying to be as politically correct as possible to the point where it's sickeningly obvious and still managing to fail and offend somebody down the line.
6. Reusing assets
7. Reusing assets
8. Reusing assets
9. Releasing patches that break more than they fix
10. Running users in circles through their support system (response times of over a week are common and rarely is any usuable suggestions given as per many users complaints and mey personal experience as well)
11. Hiding from their customers (not one way of contact to the compnay other than tech, no phone, no way to go above the "tech support" level of communication at all other than finsding their secret lair and physically visiting it)
12. Taking government handouts (millions and millions of tax breaks afforded to this compnay from Montreal and at the end of the deal the city said it benefitted them little to none (this is the city's fault as well but still it's seedy business all around)
13. Ruining their best franchises (Splinter Cell, AC, look at their declining review scores for proof)
14. Touting Pre launch DLC packages
15. Tacking on multiplayer modes that suck just so they can put "multiplayer" on the box
16. Launching DLC before their games even run well on the majority of systems that either meet or exceed their recommended stats.
17. Avoiding the use of any of Steam's features such as achievements, trading cards, workshop etc.
18. Forcing us to use their Uplay DRM which constantly fails
19. Adding micro transactions to 60$ retail games
20. Releasing Early Access games without putting them on Early Access
21. Turning off their biggest fans
22. Turning off everyone else
23. Airing live action trailers on television with no gameplay in them.
24. Cluttering your screen with obnoxious HUDs and tutorial tips (I know to press the space key already, you told me 1,000 times)
25. Merchandising
26. Buying off large gaming review outlets
27. Dropping 5,000 trailers for every single game they release
28. Teasing you with Beyond Good and Evil 2 which they've been doing for near a decade now
29. Having a "casuals first" appraoch to gameplay design
30. Making splash screens
31. Breaking users save files
32. Blatantly insutling pc gamers "all pc gamers are pirates" or telling us we need "bigger GPUs" when their game doesn't run on our systems which meet or exceed THEIR recommended specs
33. Ignoring a severly disgrunted customer base
34. Flaunting their failures as successes
35. Making fraudeuant claims [Farcry 4 claimed controller support even though controllers were known to crash the game for over a month. AC Unity claimed it had multi language support in some regions where it did not which Ubi quickly changed on the game's store page mere hours AFTER launch, imagine how many people this move screwed over.]
36. Telling upset customers to "contact Steam" who just tells them to "contact Ubi"
37. Lying to customers by placing blame on Steam when they are the ones who adminster their own store page NOT Steam and are free to give refunds if they see fit.
38. Turning the Clancy world into an action series post Tom's death instead of the tactical military experience it once was (see last two Splinter Cell games)
39. Copying other companies i.e. Pagan Min/Handsome Jack (boderlands2) are basically the same guy. They communicate with the player in the same ways, have the same personality and crack some of the exact same jokes minus some minor verbatim changes.
40. Blatantly pushing a liberal political agenda. Which is whatever you guys can have your opinions but do you have to flood your games with them so much to the point where it almost seems like you are intentionally tyrying to slip in some subliminal conditioning?
41. Ticking off whole cultures (Africa in Farcry 2, French in AC Unity, I'm sure there's more, everything pisses someone off these days lol)
42. Recycling plots
43. Building gorgeous but often static worlds (closed off interiors, repeatitive ambient events of few types, repetitive npc chatter, lack of that living/breathing world quality that rockstar is so good at)
44. Over embellishing prior to launch (heralding rock climbing and Pagan Min in Farcry 4 ads yet both were farily minimal portions of the game while the majority was a direct copy/paste of Fc3)
45. Sponsoring popular streamers
46. Whipping people into a fervor at E3 then disapoiting thema at launch (Watchdogs)
47. Displaying graphics in media demos that are far away from what is actually in the final product (Watchdogs)
48. Calling the result of the last two reasons a success and praising how this misrepresented product is "our fastest selling game ever"
49. Making false claims and referencing false stats ("90-95% of pc players are playing pirated copies")
50. Pissing me off