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If you know a product is going to be faulty why endorse it? Indeed silly customers. Grega talks about boycotting AC:U because of microtrans and bugs. This is the exact same thing.
If you know Company A makes great Washing Machines but their Toasters are complete junk why would you buy their toasters? You wouldn't, you'd either not buy a toaster or you'd buy a toaster from Company B
Also lol at pic
WHHHHAT? Wahuuuuut? Sorry but respectfully disagree. We are talking about a company that makes games, m'kay? Their job as developers and publishers is to develop a game and if they are targeting all platforms those games have to work for all of them. Again no excuse if they don't. And the fact that you say that we have to accept that as a reality because that is how things are now,is a bad way of thinking. Let's let companies get away with anything they want. They don't have to answer for anything they do and in fact while we're at it let's make sure that in the future stuff like this
should always happen in games and if they don't want to they shouldn't even patch it.
The fact that you are comparing washing machines with toasters doesn't really work especially when it comes to the new generation of consoles which have been made to be more similar to the PC's. You mentioned the PS4 version of unity ran the finest? Well were is Ubisofts excuse now, because correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've heard the PS4 (irony is large if this is true) is the most similar to PC's. In fact it has been reported on a multitude of times that the new generation of consoles will ensure that developers have an easier time porting those damn games over on PC. But this isn't even the problem of a game being badly ported just for the PC. This is a game, for which they silenced criticism until half a day after it released, that released broken and buggy as hell, which only leads people to speculate that they KNEW exactly what they were shoving out and yet did it anyway.
And you want to know why I'm this harsh? You want to know why I am not excusing any of this behaviour from Ubisoft? It's because I love Ubisoft. That's right I love that company. It had games that have a very special place in my heart and so many of them are really really good. Hey remember when they didn't have problems of this scale on the PC? Like with the, oh I don't know Splinter Cell Games (really like the last one) The Far Cry games (performance problems on 3? Yes, some. To the sheer scale of Unity, not even), the Settlers games, The Prince of Persia games (which I love/hate because they make me mad with anger but I always play them every once in a while), The Brothers in Arms games (which I love, the last one being my favourite Military Shooter, ironically for it's story and the last military shooter I played to completion, because the rest after that not so good especially not in the story department like this one was... I should play SpecOps: The Line), The Driver Games Especially San Francisco (All of my hate for drifts though). Did some of these games have problems on launch on PC? Yes and maybe. Where they small back then, especially compared to the disasters of AC 3 and Unity? Yes and maybe.
But here is where we made a grievous mistake. We let them get away with them. "Aahhh the game has some bugs and glitches for some and doesn't even run on my machine, but I'm sure they will fix it. *a week later* "Ah there we go it's fixed now. Still doesn't run that good, but good job Ubisoft 10/10" No. We were supposed to call them on that. We were supposed to slap them across the face and make them give us goodies for free for that like CD Project did with Witcher 2. Because now we've spoilt them rotten and they think nothing they do no matter how bad, they will get away with. Like that time they got away with overly restrictive DRM... oh wait woops massive backlash against it, restrictive DRM in the newer games? What restrictive DRM? Same DRM as before. The same thing needs to happen here. They know the fact that they are a very high quality company. But now they need to learn how to act like one, because AC Unity and everything that was associated with it, be it, running like shit, being glitchy, flat out broken, nightmare fuel
and the "Shameful Display!" of denying early criticism have to be severely punished where it hurts the most for them. Their wallets.
Think of it like this. Isn't it a shame for the brilliant story writers they keep hiring and the brilliant artists they use for these games, if for their sake alone, to have their games be so broken and so poorly optimised that only 1 third if not 1 fifth of the player base can enjoy their art without having to suffer through things like those monstrosities there?
No, sorry. Ubisoft deserves no excuses. Their job is to make games and ensure they work. That is it. If they keep doing this, eventually they will become the next Treyarch and Infinity Ward, stuck in a merry-go round of repetitive games that goes on and on and on until eventually it breaks down and falls flat on it's arse with no one to want to repair it because people are sick of that merry-go round.
I mean look at them. They release high quality games an then make them look bad by shooting themselves in the foot. Don't even get me started on their PR disasters.
Here's a video from one of my favourite Youtubers discussing this exact thing:
[video=youtube_share;b5nJSgTxwJw]http://youtu.be/b5nJSgTxwJw?list=UU4_bwov47DseacR1-ttTdOg[/video]