Ubisoft needs more love

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

i donnu, whenever i see disussions about good and respected game compaies ubisoft is never mentioned.

somehow, one of the oldest companies in the PC industries that still keeps making good games and please its customers, is forgotten and rarely appriciated.

they made some amazing franchises that everyone loves like A's creed, far cry and ramen but from some reason the great company that made these is seldom praised for it..

why cant it join the blizzard/valve/bathesda club?

[Tony]

I really liked the reviews of Anno 2070, would have purchased it. But then I struck upon a comment on UPlay, in the game's review.

No thanks, there are enough other games to buy and play.

[Killington]

I like Ubisoft. I like every game of theirs that I have owned. Of course I only own games within their Tom Clancy line, and even then only Ghost Recon Online was actually on the PC. It's FTP anyway.

I suppose a much better experience with Ubisoft can be found on consoles, if my experience is any indication.

[Lenny the Bruce]

Jolly Jew님이 먼저 게시:

why cant it join the blizzard/valve/bathesda club?

Because those developers put a lot more time into a game and UPlay has only caused trouble for me.

Take Assassin's Creed alone. 6 games in 6 years, not counting the other 10 titles for iOS/Vita/DS, etc...

Over that time period, Blizzard released Starcraft II and Diablo III. Valve launched two original IPs (Portal and Left 4 Dead 2) and made one sequel for both. Bethesda, as a developer, released Fallout 3 and Skyrim. (Oblivion, the last Elder Scrolls game came out before the first Assassin's Creed game.)

So Blizzard, Valve, and Bethesda combined have developed only 8 major games since Assassin's Creed 1 debuted.

Now I'd love to play Blacklist and a few other Ubisoft titles. The other three developers mentioned are simply known for taking their time above all and releasing quality, polished titles. Ubisoft is known as being more equatable to EA. The gaming juggernaut that wants to be involved in every project possible.

[tmwfte]

Lenny the Bruce님이 먼저 게시:

Take Assassin's Creed alone. 6 games in 6 years, not counting the other 10 titles for iOS/Vita/DS, etc...

You are aware that each game isn't being completed in a year, (two years or more is the average) and that they have multiple teams working on the games, correct? Do you understand how large Ubisoft really is compared to the other games publishers and developers?

[Lenny the Bruce]

tmwfte님이 먼저 게시:

Lenny the Bruce님이 먼저 게시:

Take Assassin's Creed alone. 6 games in 6 years, not counting the other 10 titles for iOS/Vita/DS, etc...

You are aware that each game isn't being completed in a year, (two years or more is the average) and that they have multiple teams working on the games, correct? Do you understand how large Ubisoft really is compared to the other games publishers and developers?

Sure, Ubisoft is massive. Which is why I consider them a "gaming juggernaut" and more "equatable to EA."

I'm half taking a jab at them for making Assassin's Creed into one of those series, like Call of Duty, which gets sequels once a year. Sure, the new game is better. But how much better?

[Levy McGarden]

I agree

[Jhemp12]

I'll give Ubisoft some love since noone else is lol..Assassins creed and Farcry are two of the best lp's around right now..I havent had any problems with Uplay.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

HappySanity =)님이 먼저 게시:

Why does you guys complain about UPLAY they just try to build up like valve did with steam or EA do now with origin. As long they do good games I dont mind....

It took Valve several years to built steam in to the standard of the industry. It took other companies several years to learn from Valve's mistake and success and still manages to create pathetic clients such as origin and uplay.

The right way to compete would be to create a client that rivals steam's client in features, neither uplay and origin have done that despite years of observation. Instead they created half baked clients so that can get in on that extra slice of money pie.

[That Guy]

joshhempfleng님이 먼저 게시:

I'll give Ubisoft some love since noone else is lol..Assassins creed and Farcry are two of the best lp's around right now.

right because fighting a magical george washington and making back packs from animal skin is sooo kewl >.> . im going to go play real games where you kill gods and take over galaxies

[Lu]

They've produced some good games over the years, but nothing so fantastic as to make me overlook the inconvenience of having to use Uplay in addition to Steam.

[WhiteKnight77]

Killington님이 먼저 게시:

I like Ubisoft. I like every game of theirs that I have owned. Of course I only own games within their Tom Clancy line, and even then only Ghost Recon Online was actually on the PC. It's FTP anyway.

I suppose a much better experience with Ubisoft can be found on consoles, if my experience is any indication.

If Ghost Recon was not on the PC, explain the wallpapers[www.whiteknight77.net] and Screenshots[www.whiteknight77.net] that I made in 2001/2002 while the XBox gamers were waiting for GR to come out or the fact that I spent 6 hours interviewing the owner of GRIN about GRAW[www.ghostrecon.net] on Ubisoft's dime in 2005?

Ubisoft has big problems. The games they make, or publish, are no longer GoTY winners, but average fare churned out by dullards who do not have any original ideas. Games are shells of their former selves and customer service reeks. Gamers of PC games have to make patches themselves to fix games and to top it off, they use a "scene" fix and get caught at it and try to cover it up.

They are the kings of doublespeak and one hand does not know what the other hand is doing. Their DRM schemes are huge failures and one brought about a $5 million class action lawsuit, which resulted in Ubi dumping Starforce really fast due to it.

One has to wonder why CryTek and Eagle Dynamics jumped ship and stopped having Ubi publish their games. Ubi also held the niche market gamers and had one of the largest catalog of niche market games, until studios left or they changed how the games played (like being able to extend the time a torpedo runs so it does hit a target :blink:). Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon is now a run and gun game with big old hints, at least GR, (ala ConViction) plastered everywhere and have become linear instead of open world.

I will not buy another Ubisoft game, ever, and I have a hard time recommending anyone buy any of their games due to how they are and their shortcomings as listed above.

[Killington]

I said that I only have played one Ubisoft game on the PC, and that it was Ghost Recon Online.

I still like Ubi, but maybe its a former Ubi than what they are today. My memories of Ubisoft are mainly from their older games anyway.

At least topics like these give me an insight in case I ever wanted to pick up another Ubi game.

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

great, now i feel bad for buying the blood dragon/gunslinger pack =\

[WhiteKnight77]

Killington님이 먼저 게시:

I said that I only have played one Ubisoft game on the PC, and that it was Ghost Recon Online.

I still like Ubi, but maybe its a former Ubi than what they are today. My memories of Ubisoft are mainly from their older games anyway.

At least topics like these give me an insight in case I ever wanted to pick up another Ubi game.

That is not what you said. You stated that only one Tom Clancy game was on the PC and that was Ghost Recon Online. That is not true as Rainbow Six was first released on the PC too, by RSE and not Ubi (RSE self published it too). There have been other Tom Clancy branded games on the PC also.

While you may have only played one, that is not what you stated originally.

[Onno]

Uplay