Gaming Altair You a New One: The Assassin's Creed Series

Oh dear. Unplayable? It's that bad? Ubisoft really messed up and I think a lot of us are going to be thinking twice before buying another game from them in this franchise. It takes a while to build up respect with customers and it takes two seconds to lose them. Way to go Ubisoft.

 

Ubisoft is working on a fix

http://kotaku.com/ubisoft-says-they..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

 

How did the testers not notice so many problems? Christmas isn't even until next month. There was no reason to rush.


Edit:

Rogue deserves a fair chance while Unity is given time to be fixed or reduce its retail price. Since Rogue seems to be Black Flag with a superior narrative, the game wastes no time getting you into the action. No more swimming around though, as the North Atlantic is noticeably colder than the Caribbean

 

Because developers can't wait till the Uncanny X-Mas: Holiday shopping season starts long before then and, indeed, Black Friday is just around the corner. Publishers will want to launch their AAA titles as soon as possible in order to boost sales for the season and boost their 4Q sales figures. It seems that the now accepted industry norm is for the publisher to launch a title if it's "reasonably" finished and "tested" (even if at 90-95%) and hope that the developer will patch it along the way since, hey, it's assumed that all consumers have the necessary internet connection in order to install the "fixes" to the broken title. It sucks, it's unfair, but there it is. After all, it's software: launching a broken or incomplete piece of software won't kill anyone like, say, launching a car with faulty parts our production problems. Why should something as trivial as QC matter in the end, right?

So what's the lesson folks? Forget Day One purchases and wait for informed reviews. Especially when the product in question comes from now ****** developers.

 

Gotten to Paris and haven't encountered any glitches quite yet.

 

PC

 

Excellent, doing what they should have done prior to release after they knew it was a problem and tried to manipulate people into buying it. I suppose you and Ezio have copies?

 

Looks like the consumers are the QA testers now LOL. Too bad they don't get paid.

 

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Ubisoft is still a better company than EA

 

EA was willing to push back Inquisition's release by a full year, and judging from the initial reviews, it seems to have payed off. Ubisoft rushed Unity out the door despite the fact that it clearly needed more time, and so far has ended up with egg on it's face.

 

Still terrible.

 

EA have been on the mend for the last year or so, while Ubisoft have been nothing but controversies. God help them if Far Cry 4 underwhelms.

Anyhow, I think I might actually be done with this franchise, despite how much I love it. Releasing two games (three if you count Liberation's port) in a year has successfully diluted the games to the point that they are no longer enjoyable. I've played a few hours of Rogue and it just makes me realise I'd rather replay Black Flag. Not to mention that waiting until Assassin's Creed XV to get some conclusion to the Juno plotline doesn't sound like something I'm into.

 

You're still terrible if that's the best argument you can come up with. But hey, if you're content paying full price (it should be the other way around) as an alpha tester for Boobysoft, hey kid, knock yourself out.

 

I didn't pay the full price, thank you very much

 

Ender: I'm a review slave, so I avoided Unity and bought Rogue due to encouraging reviews and the fact that I haven't played anything other than Killer Instinct for about a year

Invid: Amazon is selling Unity for $10 off and Rogue for $5 off, both with free shipping.

 

Well encountered the frame rate issues

Won't bother playing till the update

 

You were playing on the PS4?

 

Only gaming system I have.

 

It's not day one purchases, it's pre-orders. Stop putting money down on things that don't actually exist yet.

 

I haven't preordered a game since...maybe Arkham City.

 

I honestly can't remember either. Maybe it was Mass Effect 3. And look how that crap turned out...

 

What, a solid game with a polarizing story?

Pre-orders really rely on the fact that you want a day-one copy, exclusive content, or cool statues and collectables. Sell the collectables separately, buy the content when it becomes cheap paid DLC for everyone, and purchase online/digital copies so that you don't have to worry about ensuring you have a disc.