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?

[Alan]

Because of UPlay

Treat your customers like criminals, and they're not going to send you much praise.

[Cuso™]

I agree with you Jolly.

[Baron von Noob]

Ubisoft need a swift kick in the wedding tackle, that's what they need. Forcing UPlay DRM down my throat just to play FarCry 3, which i bought on Steam which is also DRM... Makes ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense don't you think?

Ubisoft is the French version of EA, i think good old Jim Sterling can explain the hate quite well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BjujgxfY5g

[Ouch]

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....

[Forcen]

I like that Ubisoft can have its uplay thing AND STILL SELL THEIR GAMES ON STEAM!
If EA did that with their games it would be great.

[Rhudda]

HappySanity =) původně napsal:

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....

Uplay started as (and in part still is) an always online DRM scheme. It's not an online shop with a smidge of DRM and tons of service attached to it like Steam. That's why people don't like it.

Forcen původně napsal:

I like that Ubisoft can have its uplay thing AND STILL SELL THEIR GAMES ON STEAM!
If EA did that with their games it would be great.

EA aren't very nice. They like their exclusives so they get more money - that's legitimate, but it makes things more unpleasant for their customers.

[Teddy]

Think Far Cry 3 was bad, try Anno 2070.. it has Steam, uPlay, Tages AND requires you to register for an account on another website.

[-Someone Else-]

UPlay used to be pretty bad when it was always online required; now that is removed it really isn't much more than one more popup screen after I get done playing that I have to close. I don't dislike UPlay nearly as much as I dislike Origin.

[spetzjalista]

Jolly Jew původně napsal:

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.

Right....
Do you remember lies about Ghost Recon - Future Soldier? (XP support)
Do you remember lies about Far Cry 3? (local coop never made it into the game)
Do you remember lies about Splinter Cell - Blacklist? (all versions except for WiiU were promised to be identical, yet there is no local coop for PC).
How about abysmal DRM? Always online for single player - can you remember it?
How about dirty play with prices during Sales? (increase the base price, apply discount, so in the end customer paid the same). That was really lame.
How about abysmal support for Ghost Recon Future Soldier?
Constant delays on Assassin's Creed games.
LOW quality ports for Assassin's Creed games (abysmal performance).
LOW quality port for Splinter Cell Conviction (better looking games run better that this thing on UE 2.5).
How about generally lying to PC users? how about empty promises to gain PC users' trust back (and never doing ♥♥♥♥?). How about shoddy ports that still cost FULL PRICE.

Now you know, why they are not mentioned.
You can't earn respect and just exploit that. You NEED to keep positive relationship ALL THE TIME. Ubisoft doesn't need love. All they deserve is kick in the nuts.
I buy my games and I don't like UBI treating me like crap. It looks like they might join the infamous 2 club - EA and Activision.Someone will get my money, just not them.

[GenPattonBR]

Ubisoft sucks big time.
UPlay is a joke, and most of their games are very badly designed.
The only Publisher worse than Ubisoft is Codemasters.

[Parafoosi]

Ubisoft is dumped on mostly because of their terribad DRM policies. Like UPlay(and that hilariously broken DRM they used before it). I'm not a fan of anything that wastes my time and computer memory(with vague promises such as it'll "protect" the game, which is bs as crackers were able to break it in a few days).

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

i can undestand some complaints but whats wrong with Uplay?

i got blood dragon, getting the uplay account took less than a minute. playing the game with uplay is easy as pie. so why hate that? its not great but definetly not terrible

[mycarlooksfast]

Jolly Jew původně napsal:

i can undestand some complaints but whats wrong with Uplay?

I don't have a problem with DRM if it adds value, like Steam does. Uplay does not add value as a Steam user and is just one more hoop they want me as a paying consumer to jump through that pirates don't. Any additional sign-in required for a game I purchased through Steam (like FarCry3) is frankly an unwelcome intrustion and waste of time. Ubisoft is no different than EA (one of the most hated companies in the world, may I remind you) with their desperate attempt to grab market share with their sneaky corporate DRM scheme.

[ShadowAngel]

Ubisoft is one of my most disliked companies and i try to avoid buying games from them as best as possible.
Reasons?
- They treat their developers like crap. Even 10 years ago, the developers complained about not having enough time to finish their games as Ubisoft demands they be ready at a certain time. Not giving them enough time to release Patches as they're forced to immediately produce another game/sequel.
- Then they release unfinished/bugged games. Again, has been this way since at least 10 years. Games like the Silent Hunter series for example are (in)famous for being incomplete.
- They bought and destroyed Blue Byte, once an awesome company. Since Ubisoft bought them, they were denied to create a new Battle Isle game. Instead they're forced to puke out one bad Settlers game after the other.
- They treat customers like crap. From using the horrible Star Force copy protection back in the day to the huge "always online and connected to Ubisoft servers" failure (where the server went down and you weren't able to play the games) to the awful UPlay crap. It seems like they want to piss of the customers as much as possible.
- Under them a lot of once great game series changed for the worse: Prince of Persia, Settlers or Heroes of Might & Magic (the sixth one has to be a joke...it just has)

I also disagree about the franchises "everybody loves". Far Cry is mediocre, nobody likes the second game. Assassins Creed...haven't played the newest one but the first 3 and they were boring and uncreative as hell.

[Lupin III]

I liked Far Cry 2 just fine, it was just obviously not part of the franchise and should have been given a different name. Or rather, it should have kept whatever its original name was, since it's clear that they changed it to Far Cry 2 to cash in the name.

Ubisoft is definitely a deplorable company though. They treat their paying customers like criminals. All their attempts to stop pirates, which always fail on the day of release, do nothing but make their customer's experience miserable.

They deserve no love. Though I've enjoyed some of their past games, I will not buy anything else from them.