Ubisoft 'confident' that The Crew won't repeat Unity's mistakes

Ubisoft aren’t exactly the most loved game publisher at the moment. As you may have heard, the release of the highly anticipated Assassins Creed: Unity was plagued with glitches, £90 microtransactions and poor performance across both PS4 and Xbox One.

In fact, the outrage was so strong that it forced Ubisoft to do the unthinkable – release free DLC in an attempt to quell the masses.

While The Crew is made by a different studio, many have become understandably wary of buying another Ubisoft product, so[The Metropolist] reached out to Serkan Hasan The Crew’s lead game designer. He stated that he has total ‘confidence in the stability of the game and its performance’ and claimed that the team ‘have what it takes to make [this] a successful launch.’....

[uth11]

Well they did do a lot of beta testing, I'll give them that. As for the rest, we'll see come Tuesday

[bequietdrive]

Beta numbers and real world player numbers are two entirely different things though. As you said, we'll see..

[TimeSkipLuffy]

At least they did a public beta so everyone who have pre-ordered the game was able to help making a smoother transition for go live.

[princejb134]

Bf3 and bf4 beta says hi. Betas don't make much of a difference in my experience. Bf3 and bf4 betas were very glitchy and brought little to no improvement when the full game released.

[Pandamobile]

Betas bring more improvement than you could possibly know, Prince. It just takes time to actually fix things in games.

[ColinZeal]

I'd claim that Battlefield is much more popular than The Crew - especially considering it's an established franchise since 2002..

[sigfredod]

precisely based on the beta experience, i played both closed ones and the open, its the reason i´m worry, this game is 100% online so i experience several disconnections that send me back to main screen, a lot of erros, for example to all the challenges on the map become unavailable, and what is worse since its social part is what they are trying to sold us, i had a lot os issues that all the other players dissapear from the map, or when try to do a quick coop get the message no players on your sesion when there was players, i hope they really fix that but with the launch so close i doub it

[Hellsvacancy]

Well I don't have confidence in Ubisoft

I did however buy a Ubisoft title today, first time in a long time, Child Of Light, it's discounted to 50% on the PS Store, i've heard nothing but good things about it, I snapped it up

From Dust was also a Ubisoft game, it was amazing, maybe that's what Ubisoft should do, give up on AAA games

[bequietdrive]

Awesome game.

[uth11]

yeah they've done a number of smaller games that are all solid:
Child of Light, Valiant Hearts, Rayman Legends, Trials Fusion, Jackbox party pack.

[dragonyght]

lol Ubisoft is crying wolf again

[Findingcrybabies]

I don't think there will be many people stupid enough to buy this or any other game they make. I also think most gamers are smart enough to not believe a damn thing the say now.

[Alsybub]

I had a play on the beta and found it a bit generic. Maybe I didn't give it a real chance. Did anyone else like it?

[Forn]

No, I don't think anyone in their right mind liked it.

[badz149]

generic is an understatement! it's a racing game with a tacked on story using an overused plot.

I got it that the graphic might look a little bit better in the final version but OMG, Burnout Paradise from 2009 looks way better! the car handling is beyond terrible. I tried the beta for an hour and that's it!

I don't know why anybody would have high expectation for this game after playing the beta. the trailer was amazing and looks gorgeous(as expected from Ubisoft) but playing the beta right after watching the trailer feels like there's an invisible hand coming out of the tv screen and slap you on the face from the moment the game started!

[Phene]

I saw 16gigs worth of Download and passed ..my friend said its bland.

[DeadlyFire]

Controls need serious improvement on response time. I believe overall that would help the game tremendously. As far as story goes. Who gives a crap. Its a racer.

My hopes are not very high for it and never were really. Its okay, but I enjoy the brands I know better at the moment compared to the beta.

[Psychotica]

This isn't a must have game for me, I can easily wait until after release to hear player feedback.

[badz149]

there is an open beta going on right now. I don't know about other region but we just got it in Asia PSN. how about you try it for yourself. warning though...you might not like what you see.

[boing1]

Confidence will not fix uninspired gameplay.

[Baka-akaB]

The game seems to work fine from the betas , it's just very bland and mediocre

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Is Ubisoft confident enough to cancel the review embargo?

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[sugawalls]

LMAO!

[Forn]

Yeah, it'll just make it's own unique mistakes lol.

[lildudexst]

Racing was straight not worth 60$ kind lame it a must skip for raceing fan.I trust Ea to get back on track with raceing.so I wait for are belove burnout on ps4 and xbox1 and PC.

[Forn]

NFS is apparently Burnout now, and Criterion is working on a new IP.

[badz149]

No...just NO. there is no burnout after Paradise and no NFS have ever felt like one.

[bequietdrive]

Well, Most Wanted pretty much was Burnout..

[Alsybub]

Yes, Most Wanted was Burnout with licensed cars.

It was also very good. :)

[sizeofyou]

Deleted the beta after about 2 minutes. My car passed underneath a JCB and through trees when police were in pursuit. No excuse at this late stage in development. Not for me.
Shame 'cos I was looking forward to it as a concept...

[Fizzler]

Is that why they banned pre-release reviews again?

[Perjoss]

Oh man not again, does the embargo lift very close to launch date/time again, or even worse dont tell me its a post release embargo. What are these Ubi clowns playing at?

[assassin2k]

Actually ubi have said there is no embargo, however the game is being sent out for review a day before release and they said people should play for 30-40 hours before judging. Reviews will most likely start to surface on release day when the servers are live.

[Redempteur]

No embargo, doesn't send the review code early ? Meaning no review ...
Nicely planned ubisoft

[Travis3708]

It may not have any bug or glitches but the game is still crap!

[corroios]

Its funny how all games are this time of the year from Ubisoft...

[ScamperCamper]

Talk is sooo cheap. I guess the devs are humbled at the new hardware? Hard to comprehend how bad releases are becoming. I don't trust anyone except for Rockstar.

[bequietdrive]

I thought the game was relatively fun to be fair. Having proper cutscenes and a story was quite cool. That was only based on a few hours with it though, so who knows what its like as a full title

[uth11]

Well you can find so many comments where people said they deleted it after only 8 minutes or so, so it looks to me like many have never given it a chance. Just like many commenters are unaware that the handling is completely customizable.

[PS4isKing_82]

Whatever Ubisoft.

[Plagasx]

Whatever.

[Ps4andxb1]

XB1
Forza Horizon 2

Nothing else needed.

[bequietdrive]

Until Project Cars, that is ;)

[Ps4andxb1]

I can honestly say...

I dint think it will touch forza horizon 2's quality.

Fh2 is literally that good.

[vicristion]

Ubisoft, I do not care for The Crew. As neither Ubisoft will not care about Assassins Creed Unity. Have you made fun of the real fans of Assassins Creed franchise. Could you to make a game that could have been chosen game of the year. But instead you have mocked the franchise. I bought it and I liked it very much(too bad it has bugs, but can be solved with patches). I hope that the future will not be disappointed fans. For me Assassins Creed remains the best franchise.