Ubisoft managed to screw up big time

[Agayek]

...I think it's FINALLY time publishers in general are done away ENTIRELY.

IF that were to happen, the game market would be gutted. Believe it or not, publishers do far more than distribute the games. They're generally the financial backers of most games out there. If publishers didn't exist, we simply wouldn't get games with budgets over $5,000,000 (which is basically every AAA game in the last 15 years).

Whether that's better or worse than what we have now is up for debate, but it will certainly negatively impact the game market for the short term at least.

What we really need is publishers to start focusing on customer service. Publishers have gotten so lost in the short-term bottom-line that they just don't care about customer loyalty and the like. Their business practices need to make a shift to treating the customers as customers instead of criminals more than anything else.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Well, there goes that company. Too bad, I kinda liked Ubisoft. Ha Ha, just kidding. I don't think this will end them but its going to be a real set back.

On the larger side of things, this is going to set DRM back quiet a ways. Ah well, the issue of DRM has been at maximum rage for so long that it can't get much worse anyways.

 

[Worgen]

Ugh dammit, I thought they pulled the drm off from dust, thats the only reason I bought it, fucken ubisoft, guess I'm calling them tomorrow to ***** about it.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Uh oh... I just bought Rayman Origins on Steam, and got this message upon attempting to launch it: "Video driver failed to initialize. Check readme.txt for more information."

I tried looking through Steam and Rayman Origins files, and I could not find any "readme.txt" anywhere. Is this related? What should I do? (I haven't gotten a response from Steam Support just yet) This game isn't exactly visual-heavy. I've played more content-heavy games on the same machine. Heck, even Plants vs. Zombies, which does the exact same thing with its visuals as Rayman Origins works perfectly!

 

[bfgmetalhead]

so thats why I could'nt get on my Anno 2070 that I PAYED FOR on the summer sale! *rage*

 

[Savber]

Ubisoft has never been kind to PC gamers. It's sad and a pity but it's nothing surprising.

 

[SirPlindington]

Well, Ubisoft's brain is a bit soft, if you ask me. BAM!

Really though, this is just ridiculous, but I can't say this a massive shock. Crap like this happens all the time, this is just on a larger scale.

 

[Aprilgold]

So I dodged a bullet by choosing not to buy Anno 2070? While I hope that this is sorted out quickly so people with Ubi games can enjoy their purchase, I do feel slightly good about sticking to my morals now.

Well, too be fair, 2070 pretty much was all the look and less the gameplay but that is just how I saw it.

How many times are you people going to let this happen before you realize that letting the developer control your access to a game after you bought it for anything other than an MMO IS UNACCEPTABLE!?

Obviously when they learn to be smart customers, which is never.
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The only game I will buy from Ubisoft within the next few years is Watch Dogs, officially breaking my ban on them.

Don't buy into this shit or they'll keep making it. It's why innovation in FPS has been slown to a bloody crawl because everyone and their damn mum buys modern-military-shooter games.

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

This is what makes me so torn about Ubisoft. I wish they weren't as evil as EA and Activision, but they are. And yet, they've also developed or published some of my all-time favorite games: Prince of Persia: SoT, Beyond Good and Evil, Assassin's Creed (and Watch Dogs was one of about 3 interesting games at E3 this year). But even though I'm not a PC gamer and DRM doesn't hugely affect me, come on Ubisoft. You cannot think this is reasonable, can you?

I'm not going to boycott Ubisoft as long as they continue to produce quality, playable console games. But if thats not the case for the PC versions, then I see no reason why you guys should continue to give them money.

 

[gigastar]

I knew there was a niggling doubt stopping me from buying Heroes of Might & Magic 6, it was Ubisoft.

I didnt even know Ubisoft published the game, but that stopped me from buying it and jumping arse first right into this nonsense.

Now only if i can get used to playing ArmA 2...

 

[Rednog]

Mine seems to work just fine? I tried it on both my steam and non steam ubisoft games.

 

[WaysideMaze]

whether true or not, that's reality.

I wanted to post a large reply to your post but I was too busy looking for a bigger spoon, because the irony in this sentence is just delicious.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Hey it really is a universal gif!

I guess it's a good thing I didn't buy any of the Ubisoft titles, even with the deep discounts going on. I did get the latest Ghost Recon when it was released and that was unplayable too, but only because it was one of the worst pc ports I've seen in my life.

-Piracy rage snip-

That's like saying that grocery stores shouldn't exist because people might do some shoplifting. Shutting down an entire platforms service because of the actions of a minority (and yes, piracy is a minority despite the media hyping it up)is unacceptable.
This shutdown will only affect legitimate gamers, if anything this only encourages piracy. If you steal a game you don't need to put up with bullshit like this.

I'll assume this is some error on their end because even Ubisoft (dumb as they are already) are not THIS stupid.

 

[CommieCowboy]

Last Ubisoft game I purchased was their PC port of Grandia 2 a decade ago. It was full of glitches and botched battle animations and special effects. I also needed Windows XP to get it to work, which I found kind of funny because I was told that 9X/ME were supported and XP wasn't.

 

[Zoomy]

Lucky for me the only Ubisoft games I want Heroes of Might and Magic 5 and Beyond Good and Evil 2. One was released in 2006years before Ubi brought out this shit and the other will never happen.

 

[Vault101]

Honestly, it does not bother me. People, if you have to play games on PC, you need to expect something like this happening. A game is more likely to be pirated from PC than gotten legitimately. Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.

yes, and I dont agree with Piracy..HOWEVER the simple fact is you DO NOT punish your paying customers for the activity of others...[b/]there are better ways to go about it[/b]

sure, DRM is there, and I deal with it,I dont boycott..and I accept the fact I have to deal with it but I don;t have to like it

[quote/]This is another notch in the consoles are better side of the argument. We don't have to worry about companies screwing over our gaming experiences with meaningless and mandatory DRM like this.
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with online passes bullshit even that feels questionable (or at least heading that way) I mean just look at Jim's video on consoles ebing PC's....kind of shows how conoles are losing their "avantages"

 

[Vegosiux]

Honestly, it does not bother me. People, if you have to play games on PC, you need to expect something like this happening. A game is more likely to be pirated from PC than gotten legitimately. Sorry, but whether true or not, that's reality.

[citation needed]

And I hope you really have some overwhelming evidence that that's the case, because otherwise I'm going to call "Bravo-Sierra" right here.

While you're at it, why don't you toss in some evidence that proves screwing over your legitimate customer is somehow more likely to make them stay a legitimate customer.

Yet, I can play From Dust whenever I want on my PS3 without having to resort to online checks like this. Sure it might be slower because I can never have the right graphics card, but I can still play it whenever I feel like it on or offline.

Oh how cute, console vs. PC.

This is another notch in the consoles are better side of the argument. We don't have to worry about companies screwing over our gaming experiences with meaningless and mandatory DRM like this.

Good for you. Now why don't you stop wasting time mingling with us PC low-lifes? Your master race might excommunicate you if you spend too much time with us, after all.