Not only they have released yet another broken game, they've hidden microtransactions from Review copies! WTF? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=931099 To make things worse, the game not only is filled with bugs, it's not even optimized. When will companies understand screen tearing and fps lower than 30 is not acceptable. If your game isn't capable of doing that, you better consider you're pushing too much and the system can't handle it, so you need to optimize it. This review sums up: http://www.amazon.com/review/RTDOWG...SIN=B00J48MUS4&nodeID=468642&store=videogames Honestly Ubisoft just took over EA as the worst game company. And it's not just me saying this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/11/12/congratulations-ubisoft-youre-the-new-ea/ The only games i bought from these guys were Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. I'm glad i never got into these annual "franchises". Games like Assassins Creed and Battlefield are always broken on release and yet people still continue to give them money.
that's so funny. It is really sad. Every popular demanding game comes out unfinished and buggy. I love Sims and even Sims 4 is uncompleted, they said they are adding pools and ghosts soon. I think everyone is stop going to buy the half-ass games and realize just to wait for it to get fixed. OR JUST DELAY THE GAME.
Man, and to think...how buggy would the game have been if they'd tried to animate female characters? Slightly buggier.
This reminds me of when I bought Resident Evil 6, and beat it within a week or two. There were obvious flaws with the game, but everyone online was defending it by saying, "They're going to fix that with an update." Eventually, the update did come, and certain issues were addressed. However, it was long after I lost interest in the game, and the game I see as Resident Evil 6 will always be the game I bought on release; not the updated version. I believe this happened with Ninja Gaiden 3 as well, where people complained that Ryu only had one weapon, but the game was constantly defended with statements like, "You can't bash the game for that, because more weapons are coming with an update." Finish the game, and then let people play it. I'm tired of this mentality that, "Everything will be better when the update comes."
i'm glad i have only have rayman legends for the 360, farewell consoles (not including the wii u) i hope you die sooner or later
Yeah, because this shit only happens with console games...and PC gaming doesn't have its own bullshit such as early access. Lest we forget that PC games are where the whole trend of releasing unfinished games really started, because they could easily be patched back before this was really possible on consoles.
HAHAHA this made me literally burst out laughing at work lol. Seriously though this thread makes me genuinely sad, I wanna go back to the MegaDrive era and just buy complete, fun, original games that I'll still be playing in 20 years (like I am now)......
Oh I gotta update the SNES later because it has glitches. They actually made the game good and finished. There are little bugs but not huge game breaking bugs.
The whole industry is actually treating customers like trash. It isn't something new, but it's getting worse by the years. Driveclub, Halo MCC, AC: Unity, Sonic Boom, "Battlefield's", "Fifa's" and so on. I don't understand why people still pre-order games. I do understand that as games get bigger and more complex to make, bugs and glitches get more commom. But honestly how these companys even consider those games were ready for sale and how Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo certified them?! Have some dignity and respect for the people you want to make money from.
Not necessarily. I remember the PAL version of MSR on Dreamcast had some really huge game-affecting bugs which weren't addressed until the US version was released.
Personally I don't really understand / relate to all these 'horrible' things the videogame industry is doing. Times are changing, business models are changing, buying habits are changing and yes also the consumers are changing. Micro transactions, DLC, on disc DLC, pre-order bonuses, bring it on. At the end of the day a game is either worth playing or not, you don't like the terms of the game, then don't play/buy. In this case -if I understand it correctly- the review copies were unable to connect to a online marketplace of the game, which offers micro-transactions among others. So basically, the reviewers did not use and did not know about the option of using micro transaction to influence the game for players who choose to use them. So this whole functionality does not influence the game, since it's fully optional.
The problem with microtransactions is that the presence of them can cause developers to change the game in order to entice people into using them.
Personally, I don't have a big issue with DLC, updates, or whatever in general. I think the problem lies more so in the fact that companies will release unfinished products at full price, and then expect gamers to be satisfied that those issues will be fixed eventually. A game should be ready to play when it's on store shelves; updates and DLC should be bonuses, not necessities. Of course, it's rare that a product is completely unplayable upon release, but still. As for the micro-transaction thing, that's a fairly different case. I don't have much of an opinion on this, but I do agree that it seems like something which shouldn't be a problem if it wasn't necessary to enjoy the game anyway... but one has to wonder why they would hide it to begin with, and it does still give a false impression of the complete product.
Glad this thread was made. Was watching my roommate play the new AC and frankly it looked pretty poor. The AI seemed almost completely broken. Normally I like UbiSoft, but they do seem to be slipping. I loved Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, so here's hoping they can deliver with FC4. Patching has now become a crutch. These publishers want deadlines to be followed. Everything running smooth until the end and now an unforseen issue will cause the game to be pushed back a few weeks? Ignore it, then patch it later. They're so concerned with the game being released in what their market research probably called "prime selling window" that their losing sight of what's actually important. I mean, they knew people were going to buy AC day one anyway.
Man, I was so looking forward to this title but now I'm not going to touch it. Micro Transactions? I hate that shit. As for "We'll fix it with a patch" They can go and F**k themselves. If it's broken then don't release it! I love this comment in the Amzon review "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!"
Now I know why they said it'd be too difficult. They can't even get the fucking AI right. Ubisoft are getting their heads too far up their ass, as they know they can slap AC on a cover and people will go apeshit and buy it. Knowing full well it wasn't finished or optimized. I went to a midnight launch and I just felt like a story like this was going to happen. (for the record, I didn't buy it either heh)
The AI was my primary complaint upon watching the game. The enemies wouldn't attack the player from the back. It seemed like they could barely do anything but shuffle around. Fish in a barrel situation. Can anybody who has played it confirm if this is normal or just an isolated bug? I'm thinking the AI is probably just baseline broken.
