Comments on: Ubisoft go shopping http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/08/08/ubisoft-go-shopping/ A veteran's view on marketing games Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: rkt42 http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/08/08/ubisoft-go-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-2941 rkt42 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:56:52 +0000 http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=712#comment-2941 Quality games?. Sorry, Bruce, but Ubi is the worst publisher out there. They release buggy products, and then they don't have decent support for many of them (or none at all!). Ubi Romania is their only decent studio, and their games come always with some over-the-top DRM that ends hurting the buyers (anyone remember the Silent Hunter 3 fiasco with Starforce?) And now, they are admitting that in many games (namely Assassin's Creed) they introduced deliberated bugs that didn't let you finish the game to thwart the pirates. In the final production chain!. And let's not forget Rayman Raving Rabbids, which would not even start because of SecuROM woes. For months, the answer from Ubi Tech Support was "update your monitor drivers", and if that didn't work you were toasted. And then they wonder why nobody is buying their games... Sorry, but they deserve to go bankrupt. Quality games?. Sorry, Bruce, but Ubi is the worst publisher out there. They release buggy products, and then they don’t have decent support for many of them (or none at all!). Ubi Romania is their only decent studio, and their games come always with some over-the-top DRM that ends hurting the buyers (anyone remember the Silent Hunter 3 fiasco with Starforce?)

And now, they are admitting that in many games (namely Assassin’s Creed) they introduced deliberated bugs that didn’t let you finish the game to thwart the pirates. In the final production chain!.

And let’s not forget Rayman Raving Rabbids, which would not even start because of SecuROM woes. For months, the answer from Ubi Tech Support was “update your monitor drivers”, and if that didn’t work you were toasted.

And then they wonder why nobody is buying their games… Sorry, but they deserve to go bankrupt.

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