Ubisoft Is Still Lying to Your Face about Assassin’s Creed

Twinfinite writes: Who is surprised really? Yesterday was time for the annual earnings conference call by CEO of Ubisoft Yves Guillemot. It’s a typical thing for large corporations, mostly to inform the shareholders who are keeping such companies afloat to have their concerns addressed. The things we’ve learned, as gamers, are a bit less than optimistic.

[rawshack]

the game wasnt as bad as what people who haven't played it was saying.i never had any bad glitchs.though i admit some times these chests was a bit of a hassle

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

yeah! It wasn't as bad as the people who haven't played it said, it was just as bad and worse as the ''actual people who played it'' said.

[strauser360]

that thumbnail reminds me of the movie mars attacks.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

@Sloobmm3

I bet you recently got the game after it got the patch with the 7 GB of data that was missing day 1. I got the game at launch, and it was an utter mess...unacceptable. I had to stop playing it and wait not for the 1st patch, or the 2nd patch, or the 3rd patch, but the 4th patch in order to the game to be playable. How is that okay?

I can't forgive Ubisoft for that even is the game is mostly fixed. After that, it is going to be really hard to make me buy an Ass Greed game

[starchild]

Who?

I played the game on PC and I can prove it to anyone. I liked the game quite a lot and had no major issues with it. The only issues I had were glitchy NPCs and the stupid locked chests that required the companion app (neither of which were game breaking, just annoying). Otherwise the game was pretty damn good and looked amazing.

I bought it at launch by the way. It was never broken. Glitchy? Yes. Broken? No. The glitches improved a lot with each patch.

[AndrewLB]

I hate defending Ubisoft, but the game wasn't broken for a bunch of people. The only issue I had with the PC version was a frame rate drop below 60 during cutscenes. other than that, smooth sailing.

[starchild]

Yeah, they definitely need to step it up in the quality control department. Both AC Unity and Far Cry 4 could have used more development time.

[heychrisfox]

For a company with a multi-million dollar profit margin and budget, they shouldn't be selling games that are broken for half of players, especially as a full release.

If they can release a game as big as Far Cry 4 with minimal issues, their flagship franchise can at least be functional.

[memots]

They want 60$ for a game that has so many glitch then they tag along some in app purchasing as if your playing a mobile game. i wont touch this game.
Maybe at 10$ at some point on PC but not for a long time.

[Tankbusta40]

Citing Ign is like citing Wikipedia for your masters thesis... You'll get laughed out of the room

[Tsubasa-Oozora]

I wish that site would disappear

[WeirdShroom]

Speaking of faces, I absolutely hate how all the adverts for AC Unity featuring multiple Arno's, EVEN THE ONE WHEN YOU START THE GAME, Show him with varied facial hair...yet that is not an option. False advertising.

[WizzroSupreme]

Ubisoft has failed me for the last time.

[Neo_Zeed]

Ubisoft has become nothing but a PR factory for a mass produced garbage plant. All they do anymore is spin BS and try to sell you on the concept that they aren't making trash.

[Muzikguy]

I couldn't agree more with this

[memots]

They might as well start making Mobile games and puts add on superbowl.

[heychrisfox]

Could they even do that without messing up their game? ;)

[kurruptor]

So what actually did they lie about?

I see they're still throwing around the bugged face image, which is ridiculous. That bug only occurred on 2 specific GPUs and it was fixed with the day one patch. So really only the people without Internet (by that I mean illegal downloads) could have experienced that.

[Game_face2]

With all these horrible launches from Ubisoft, it really scares me for The Division, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell (if they make another) games.

Skipped this game. AC has been disappointing for awhile now. Last good one was Brotherhood imo.

[matrixman92]

I really enjoyed Unity. I played it from beginning to end, getting 99% sync even before the next patch after the day one patch came out. Just take out the ridiculous amount of chests and it would have been all good for me

[Maxor]

Why don't they just do like the Order and implement a letter box pull down for the "cinematic feel". That reduction in rendering space would improve the game's performance across all platforms and they get to call it a feature!

[patsrule316]

I started playing it about 2 weeks ago. Other than someoccaisionalframe rate slowdowns and probably about 3 or 4 times where the game crashed and had to start over, I didn't see any significant performance issues. My problem is more the busted controls. The parkour often gets stuck, makes bad choices, and has problems entering windows/getting on ledges/ etc. Extremely frustrating, and I never had problems with older versions of Assassin's Creed like that.

Despite my frustrations with the controls, it isn't a terrible game. There are parts I am enjoying, and if it wasn't for the poor controls, I would give the game a solid B grade. But due to control problems (not due to glitches or bugs), I rank it behind Assassin'sCreed 4, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, and even AC1. Only AC3 is behind Unity for me.