Decline meh Ubisoft (Ubi fuckery general thread)

[Gerrard]

We have one for EA so why not?

>make a closed "alpha" (less than 2 months before release) test for a game
>say you want feedback from players
>fail to give them permissions to access the closed test forums where they are supposed to post said feedback (vBulletin is teh hard)

:vivelafrance:


E: also I will leave this here for ease of access

http://archive.is/4iod7 Ubisoft CEO claims PC has 93-95% piracy rate

Spoiler

 

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[evdk]

We have one for EA so why not?

>make a closed "alpha" (less than 2 months before release) test for a game
>say you want feedback from players
>fail to give them permissions to access the closed test forums where they are supposed to post said feedback (vBulletin is teh hard)

:vivelafrance:

No worries, Vivendi gonna straighten them out.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[pippin]

Ubisoft do all the bd things every major AAA dev does. Capitalism fuckery general thread when?

 

[Gerrard]

Did Kotick ever lie about piracy statistics (which they had no way of accurately measuring anyway)?

Also let me remind you of the time they declared their DRM a success because it "reduced piracy", but without mentioning it also reduced PC sales by 90%.

 

[DosBuster]

The quality of their pc ports has improved quite a bit in the past few recent few years so maybe he changed his stance?

 

[sullynathan]

meh, Ubisoft currently has the best fps this gen.

 

[Carrion]

meh, Ubisoft currently has the best fps this gen.

"Best" doesn't mean much if "good" doesn't even exist.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Did Kotick ever lie about piracy statistics (which they had no way of accurately measuring anyway)?

Also let me remind you of the time they declared their DRM a success because it "reduced piracy", but without mentioning it also reduced PC sales by 90%.

Those 90% were the pirates, right? Then his calculations makes sense.

Also, to quote myself: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ver-legit-customers-again.96746/#post-3718495

 

[Somberlain]

I have some Ubisoft games on Steam that require Uplay even when I try to launch them through Steam. I don't remember what my Uplay account is so I contacted Ubisoft support, sent my keys and asked what Uplay account they are tied to, like their FAQs instructed. All I got was some copypasted responses that didn't answer my question at all so I decided that I'd rather use cracks than deal with their worthless customer support.

Fuck Ubishit.

 

[Gerrard]

Yeah, their support is literally "Have you tried turning it off and on again?", i once was going back and forth with them for a month (waiting like 5 days for a reply every time).

Did Kotick ever lie about piracy statistics (which they had no way of accurately measuring anyway)?

Also let me remind you of the time they declared their DRM a success because it "reduced piracy", but without mentioning it also reduced PC sales by 90%.

Those 90% were the pirates, right? Then his calculations makes sense.

But then PC accounted for 23% of their sales at the beginning of 2015. Imagine what would happen if the piracy was only 80%.

Also, to quote myself: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ver-legit-customers-again.96746/#post-3718495

If only.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm willing to be money that the "90% of PC gamers are pirates anyway" is based on the numbers taken from the sales figures for World of Goo, a small indie game whose developers were not afraid to disclose that 90% of the copies of the game being played were pirated copies.

Yes, let's judge a whole consumer market on the stats and figures of the sales of ONE game, one SMALL game, released MANY years ago.

 

[DraQ]

Quick question:
Assume you're calling all the shots. There is a thing you can do that will increase the number of copies sold by about 10% but also increase piracy of your game severalfold.
Do you do it?

 

[FeelTheRads]

What the fuck, are you dumb or what? That means you're losing even more money.

Jeez, what a retard!

 

[Beowulf]

Recalibrate your sarcasm meter DraQ.

 

[DraQ]

Recalibrate your sarcasm meter DraQ.

Note that I didn't use "

".

 

[sullynathan]

meh, Ubisoft currently has the best fps this gen.

"Best" doesn't mean much if "good" doesn't even exist.

lets stop hating ubisoft for a second and realize they made a good game.

 

[anus_pounder]

to ubisoft.

 

[sullynathan]

stop disparaging my posts man, I'm not Ubisoft.

 

[Gerrard]

Quick question:
Assume you're calling all the shots. There is a thing you can do that will increase the number of copies sold by about 10% but also increase piracy of your game severalfold.
Do you do it?

It's funny because I'm sure Guillemot thinks every pirated copy=lost sale.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

to ubisoft.

Fixed.

 

[Metro]

Vivendi (Paris:VIV) announced today that it crossed the statutory threshold of 24% of Ubisoft’s share capital on November 4, 2016. On that date it owned 24.059% of the share capital and 21.296% of the voting rights of Ubisoft, based on the number of shares and voting rights declared by the video games company on September 30, 2016.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161107006174/en/Vivendi-owns-24-Ubisoft

 

[toro]

Vivendi (Paris:VIV) announced today that it crossed the statutory threshold of 24% of Ubisoft’s share capital on November 4, 2016. On that date it owned 24.059% of the share capital and 21.296% of the voting rights of Ubisoft, based on the number of shares and voting rights declared by the video games company on September 30, 2016.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161107006174/en/Vivendi-owns-24-Ubisoft

La merde has hit the fan.

 

[sullynathan]

fuck, Ubisoft. I already own Blood dragon, why give it for free?