Okay everyone, this isn’t an April’s fools joke. No seriously, it is not. Ubisoft has joined Open Gaming Alliance and claimed that PC gamers are important to it. Not only that, but the French company is comitted to understanding and addressing PC gamers’ needs. Oh, and that’s not a joke.
As Ubisoft consumer and marketing director Sandrine Caloiaro said in a statement.
“PC gamers are important to Ubisoft, and we’re committed to better understanding and addressing their needs and to continually improving our relationship with them. By joining the OGA, we’re able to glean gamer insights from their research, learn from best practices in our industry, and contribute to the group’s upcoming initiatives.”
For what is worth, we asked Ubisoft whether it would be interested in some tech interviews for a number of its titles, to which we got the following reply.
“We’ll be doing fewer and more selective interviews this year.”
Now while this is not – at least yet – a straight forward “No”, we don’t know whether or not that’s what Ubisoft means by claiming that it will understand and address PC gamers’ needs, but there you have it.
But then again, Ubisoft has always been acting strange when it came to interviews. For example, last year the French company agreed for a Q&A interview regarding Assassin’s Creed: Unity instead of Far Cry 4. Ironically – and as you already know by now – Far Cry 4 was better optimized than Assassin’s Creed: Unity. So normally, our Far Cry 4 Tech Interview should be given the green light and not the other way around.
But anyway, it will be interesting now to see whether Ubisoft’s PC titles will be better optimized than all the previous ones. And by optimized we mean… you know… optimized. And not downgraded!
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PR bullsh!t If they cared about us they wouldn’t be giving us crap
I can’t stop laughing. Far Cry 3 was my last Ubi game and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
Dat weed.
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good, I’m very interested in GR:Wildlands, let it be good on PC.
They say this every year before they release an Assassins Creed game. Already saw it coming. Then they will delay the game a few weeks and then it will still release in horrible shape. Ubisoft is nothing but consistently awful at making games..
1- no more uplay
2- no more assgreed mess on pc
3- no more delays on pc release.
4- no more systems parity bull crap.
5- no more of this pr awful ultra crap.
6- GTFO… you are a dev way to pro consoles
2- no more assgreed mess on pc
3- no more delays on pc release.
pick one
I think he means all the times they delayed the game in the past, like to avoid piracy or something. I used to get so mad because of that lol.
It was GTA 4 and 5 kind of thing. Consoles first, 1 year later on the PC.
Yea but IF their titles turned out to be as great as GTA V turned out to be, it would be ok, but they don’t so.. F dis.
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They should try to work in pachinko machines (french pachinko machines) like Konami and leave the videogames industry. I won’t miss Ubi
if only ubisoft spend half as much time fixing their pc versions as they do making excuses….i mean its not like every other dev does better on pc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPMmAUdWh5M
lulz didnt they say 98% of pc gamers pirate.and now they care about them…lulz
Just let uplay die
All hail The Almighty Ubisoft*!!!
*I meant it as a sarcasm
Yearly damage control from Ubisoft, as expected.
inb4 poor AC: Syndicate port. Glad that I don’t care about any Ubisoft, EA or Acti games anymore.
count me in. i’m done with them and really don’t care about their games anymore.
After that disappointing, low-budget and half-finished Heroes VII game, I’m 100% done with Ubisoft too.
That was sad, Might and Magic Games deserve better.
I knew they will screw up. That’s why I never followed that game. It’s sad to see good franchises in current state. I’d say sell World in Conflict and Heroes franchise to SEGA.
If you are too happy with life and want to be annoyed, they really are commited to addressing your needs.
Words are meaningless. The actions are or in this case the final product is what’s important. I won’t get swayed by this PR. I’ll have to wait for the real review of how this game performs on the PC.
Out of the big publishers they still probably are the most pro-PC ones. Because while their multiplats are sometimes delayed and have problems, at the same time they are the only big publisher that still regularly releases PC exclusives with high production values.
they were but they killed M&M last year, they killed M&MH7 less than a month ago, they are killing settlers with that always online crap again. the first two had very low production value, settlers also don’t look good. the only thing left is Anno and by the looks of it, it’s going to be good and looks like it has really high production value but lets wait and see, 2070 was a mess for almost a year and even now (after they removed that crap drm and put another one in) i have problems with it.
Meh. Might & Magic games are always a mess at launch, This was true even when New World Computing was making them and remained true no matter who took over the IP, from Nival, through Arkane, Black Hole and now Limbic. Fortunatelly the IP is popular enough that eventually those games get fixed with patches. Might & Magic X was awesome even with bugs and became amazing with patches. Heroes 7 will be the same. The core of the game is great, easily the best entry since HoMM3. Now all they need to do is polish the bugs out.
And always online won’t kill Settlers. Settlers 7 had it and still was amazing. And Anno 2070 isnt a mess and even at launch it was great game.
Overall..Ubi finances great PC exclusives, with high production values and lots of depth. They just fail at polishing them up, but that’s just what majority of pc exclusives suffer from.
No settlers 7 had it and that was when backlash happened and they removed it and game became playable, yes it was good.
Anno 2070 didn’t worked for many people (almost anyone) at launch and some of the game features were locked behind that online bulls**t and still is but at least you can launch the game offline.
M&MH6 had a crap launch too because of that crap drm, funny pirated version worked so well but people who paid for it were screwed.
No you can’t call them high production values when they cut corners and reuse the same asset.
M&MX was a failure and M&MH7 isn’t going to do better since no one buying it.
“And always online won’t kill Settlers”
it will, beta was awful, that DRM is awful, maps are tiny and they won’t make them bigger, it’s dead on arrival.
” majority of pc exclusives suffer from”
no.
SEGA is way way way way way better and their games have way higher production values than the ones released by Ubisoft for PC.
Is anyone even surprised? They do that every time they have a new game coming. F*** Ubisoft.
lies but they are way better on PC than when they were in mid 2000s and way better than EA. still don’t care about both of them and don’t want any of their games anymore.
No they are not.
they are not good yeah but still better than EA. no one can beat EA. ubisoft is in the better state than it was in mid 2000s, EA is in worst.
Ubisoft never fixes their games. EA is not like that.
true but atleast they admit they screwed and their games have enough content (repetitive but still) for players to play with. EA is now only removing features & content from their games, using more DRMs, forcing people to be always online even for single player games, awful season pass or microtransactions (both have but still is more aggressive), and they are known for destroying talented devs or studios and they are still doing it.
Mmm, Crysis franchise mostly ran well on systems (considering you had what it took at the time), Battlefields were alright, NFS well it depends on which one and to top it off battlefront is as smooth as butter and as sharp as ever. I’m with “connos” on this one. AC mess all year long, watch dog fiasco, far cry stutter etc. I think it’s a matter of perspective.
EA published games nearly always are regionally sound. Bf4 had ongoing online issues, bit outside this was solid and performed wel across wide range hardware. Almost every PC game released by Ubishit is technical disaster, even often down to control schemes and support. I’ve no love for EA, but if you arguing they’re worse, I present to you Watchdogs, AC 3,4, unity , all of which had terrible CPU optimisation.
Heroes V had troubling development because of… Ubisoft. Heroes VI had troubling development because of… Ubisoft, and it also ruined Black Hole, because they were trying to fix the game from their own pockets. And now Heroes VII is suffering from the same fate, completely broken and unfinished. Like hell they care about PC.
I’m not even saying about Heroes 3 HD. It’s just a giant spit in the face to all PC gamers.
They say this every time near the release of their games and then turn a blind eye towards the mess they make, not going to buy this S H I T not after so many bad experiences from them.
nice joke, ubisoft
Optimization aside.. AC Unity looked great, but when you climb a tower.. omg.. OH MY GOD. The distance looks like something out of a N64 game. The trees,the buildings.. the water and ground.. It looks horrible. Looks worse than the gfx on low settings too.
I hope the next games are way better.. but the question remains.. do we start buying their games if they start making them better or do we just skip every Ubisoft game. You know.. because of how they behaved in the past.
Anyone remember how AC used to come waaay later (like a GTA game) compared to the console versions? I sure do. Unity is just the latest fail and i dont even count all the times they said something horrible about Piracy and PC gaming/gamers. Ubisoft? More like Ubifail or Uberfail..
Way to cry wolf… Ubisoft lost my trust a few assassins creed games back…
Ubisoft Wants To Earn PC Gamers’ Trust Back, Will Further Optimize Its Titles
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-wants-to-earn-pc-gamers-trust-back-will-further-optimize-its-titles/
Ubisoft On Why There Are Hidden Options In Watch_Dogs
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-on-why-there-are-hidden-options-in-watch_dogs/
Watch_Dogs – Final Retail Build Versus E3 2012 Build
http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/watch_dogs-final-retail-build-versus-e3-2012-build-full-demarco-mission/
PC gamers are important to Ubisoft. LMAO made my night
DICE says hi
Ask them to give us an example next time. When have they ever addressed our needs.
Ahahahahahaha Ubisoft you are worse then EA!
splinter cell blacklist was the last GREAT PC port from Ubisoft. ( can’t recall which studio)
If you really want to support us, GET RID of UPLAY a.k.a Udon’tPlay
Great game aswell
Ubisoft Torronto.
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Unity was better optimized than Far Cry 4
Unity has less bugs than Witcher 3.
true
PC gamers are important to Ubisoft
Yeah right , thats why my ticket is open for months…dont lie UBI
i read this message every year from ubisoft
they should change that sh it to Franchise, cause that’s all they care for.
What do we want ? No More Uplay !! When do we want it ? NOW !!
LOL this guy.
Ubijoking, right?
i thought i hear this couple of times ago. if consoles graphics = PC ultra, i know that’s they are freaking serious about PC gamers.
Actions speak louder than words and the piss poor ports are action enough for me not to believe anything Ubisoft say.
They have a funny way of showing how “important” we are.
From the company that called PC gamers pirates and not worth the “concern” all I have to do is laugh till my sides explode.
http://i.imgur.com/7Tv0SGw.gif
Ubisoft still don’t give a f’ though, this is the start of lip service with no action or action that will come a decade later.
hahahahahahaha
Well, according to Ubisoft, PC users buy more copies than Xbox so yeah, PC is the second most popular platform ,so you should care about us more. On the positive side, at least UPlay looks better now so it’s not all doom and gloom.
not using GW is a good start