In a recent claim of “deceptive marketing” by U.S. consumers who purchased the recent release of Might & Magic Heroes VII: Collector’s Edition, Ubisoft is offering refunds and free games. The controversy took to Reddit and Imgur after gamers claimed Ubisoft made it unclear that a $100 price tag only included a digital code for the game and soundtrack instead of a physical copy.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
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Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
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This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
Classic Ubisoft
They are really one of the only devs that i can count on one hand, that when something has gone wrong they try to put rite by offering a free game, they did it with ac unity. But there are way to many devs out there that do wrong n do nothing about there mistakes, they even do not apologise or they pass the buck on to someone else.
The above is one reason why ubi have my respect because they do not have to do that, they could be just like every other dev out there. I of course am n ubi fan, or should i say a huge tom clancy fan, but i love the variety of games ubi n there devs launch.
The problem with this industry is there is way to much pi** taking, devs n pubs should be held accountable for bringing broken games out, being deceptive or not releasing the infomation that should be released that results in the customer buying a game because they hyped it up with features that are not there.
There should actually be a division in which publishers n developers should have to hand in there product with which it gets tested and if it fails certain tests set up by this division they should be made to go back n sort it out. Having a body set up to sort these devs and there games out would result in better quality products. Removing unplayable games being rushed out by developers because publishers want there money faster, should be something that needs to be nipped in the bud, the market has no need for rushed piles of rubbish, it harms a developers rep and of course it hurts the customers pockets n leaves us all frustrated. Ive been saying ever since last gen something needs to be done about this.
They should just stop the shady and illegal BS and then they wouldn't need to apologise. Notice how all the free games are old enough that everyone who'se even a little interested probably already has them? ***ty consolation prize.
Wow, this makes me less likely to preorder ubisoft games. Although im in Europe so it seems im better protected as a consumer according to this story?
I hope collector's editions that give out digital copies really fall flat at retail. It's a crappy practice. The fact that Ubisoft didn't make it clear means they probably know that it would mean people would not be as likely to buy it.
A note to all publishers:
Most people that buy collector's editions actually collect games. Collector's don't collect digital games, because they neither own them, nor can be confident in the purchase since they won't even know if they have access to them 5-10 years down the road. Collector's like physical stuff...you know, to show off or collect...so if you want collector's to pay a premium for these collector's editions, spend the extra $1-2 manufacturing costs for a physical copy of the game. On top of that, collector's editions with digital copies are all but worthless on the second hand market, so you lose all those sales from speculators who may just want to turn around 2-3 years later and make some money because those digital codes are only good for 2-3 years to begin with.