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[Goon Boon]

The outlets need to give the fucking game a zero, big ol' goose egg, if they're misrepresenting the final product.

Fuck up that metacritic rating.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

I'm honestly amazed that Ubisoft managed to under-deliver for me. My expectations were so incredibly low to begin with, but somehow they managed to hit a low I never thought possible.

 

[Trigonometrize.]

Early this month I posted that I never dismiss games on principle. Exception time?

 

[prwxv3]

This is the greatest shitstorm i have seen in quite a while.

 

[FreedomFighter]

Holy shit.

This just keeps gettin' better...

 

[Of All Trades]

So the game was designed to be finished without microtransactions? Sounds good to me.

 

[Kuro]

Yeah, no more Ubisoft games for me. Sorry Rayman.

 

[SteveWinwood]

That's not true. The menu option to buy microtransation money was there in our retail copy.

Going entirely off the live video footage that happened on Gamespot less than an hour ago.

Were you able to connect to servers and actually purchase items in your copy?

 

[Squishy3]

ubi pls

 

[taco543]

That's soo sketch. Looks like ubi will no longer receive any money from me again.

 

[texhnolyze]

Ubisoft is the new EA.
You'll never get any more coins from me, ever.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

I'm not even surprised at the Ubiskullfuckery anymore.

 

[Seanspeed]

Could it be because the store wasn't working properly yet?

 

[The God]

It just keeps getting worse for this game. What was Ubisoft thinking?

 

[Nafai1123]

What a day for Ubisoft.

It's like peeling back an onion made of crap.

 

[TheSlySoul]

Yeah, my response to Ubisoft.
http://youtu.be/RHaoXiXtmMg

Seriously glad I saw this as the terrible game it is.

 

[RibMan]

Ubisoft are doing a tremendous job of avoiding forum debates and stuff.

 

[MHWilliams]

They weren't hidden the servers were just not up for reviewers so they couldn't pull the prices or store down in game. Isn't this common practice amongst most games with micro transactions?

This is probably correct. Didn't try to buy micro-currency, but the menu option was always there.

Like I can understand having issues, but at least have issues with things they actually did.

 

[tapedeck]

Ubisoft...

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

Ubisoft being more shady than EA!?

WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE

 

[Grisby]

Scummy as hell.

 

[Diagol]

SERIOUSLY?

MAN, I totally dodged a bullet by cancelling my pre-order for this game. It just gets worse and worse.

At least I've learned my lesson and will never pre-order/fall for the hype of a Ubisoft game ever again.

 

[kunonabi]

...You know if Ubisoft doesn't want to make any more games for Nintendo I'm perfectly ok with that. This is just insane to me.

 

[jelly]

Until Ubisoft see a substantial decline in sales, the shit train keeps moving.

 

[TheBioLover]

The game that keeps on giving. Holy shit.

 

[antitrop]

Ubisoft is absolute scum.

 

[Kuni]

Wow if true.... I'm looking at my Farcry order... May cancel and wait for all of this to be confirmed\not confirmed...

 

[John Bender]

Ubisoft, you piece of shit.

Yup, gonna vote with my wallet.
Won't buy your games... ever again.
(no loss, really)

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

 

[Sou Da]

This is probably correct. Didn't try to buy micro-currency, but the menu option was always there.

Like I can understand having issues, but at least have issues with things they actually did.

Was it made it explicit that the 'hack' option was for microtransactions?

 

[Nokterian]

Ubisoft is absolute scum.

Surpassing EA this whole year and i do not like EA what they did before but holy moly this goes above and beyond!

 

[Xater]

This game keeps on delivering but not in a good way.

 

[mnz]

They weren't hidden the servers were just not up for reviewers so they couldn't pull the prices or store down in game. Isn't this common practice amongst most games with micro transactions?

Isn't that somewhat important, though?

 

[Shyakugaun]

lol too surreal to be unreal

 

[wachie]

Its now how you start the race but how you end it. The race to the worst publisher award of 2014.

 

[Phantasmal Repose]

Wow, Ubi's trying really hard to gain the title of worst developer/publisher ever.

 

[HariKari]

The age of EA is over. The age of Ubisoft has begun.

 

[GuardianE]

What a disaster.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Are we sure this isn't a parody of that stuff? Watched a video on Gametrailers and the guy said there is also some stuff with the old AC games (in that there is a menu where you can choose each previous game to play if I understood that) but it's just a joke and not actually in the game.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/fc93uz/assassin-s-creed-unity-assassin-s-creed--unity-launch
It's at 02:00

 

[meppi]

Well Ubisoft is already on my shitlist next to EA of companies that I refuse to buy any more games from, so I guess there isn't much more than I can do than to echo everyone else on how scummy this really is.

 

[7DollarHagane]

Hey guys -


DONT BUY THIS SHIT.

 

[SarcasticD]

This can't get any worse they said...

 

[dreamlock]

Holy fucking shit. Everyone should edit their reviews and change it to 0. This is a new low. Never buying from Ubisoft ever again. Final straw.

 

[DR2K]

No parity between the review and retail copies? :O

 

[TimeEffect]

Lol, damn Ubisoft

I'd really love laws against this. Even just basic ones like being able to cancel digital preorders and getting a refund for misleading consumers AND media. That's really something

 

[Floridian]

All i can do is shake my head. How much deeper can Ubisoft go?

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

What did the revolutionaries grieve over, now Ubisoft? Taxation without representation? Let's present this in a modern light, shall we. Sales through misrepresentation!

Interesting to hear it was available as a menu option, though.

EDIT: Jumped the gun like the rest, I apologize.

 

[SteveWinwood]

This is probably correct. Didn't try to buy micro-currency, but the menu option was always there.

Like I can understand having issues, but at least have issues with things they actually did.

If you feel the op should be edited to be more accurate I'll certain do it, but from what I saw in the video, it seemed plenty disabled to me. I didn't show a price or anything, and Jeff Gerstmann said he didn't know if they were actually in it or not from the menus and wording.

Was it made it explicit that the 'hack' option was for microtransactions?

This basically.

 

[ClearData]

I'm not supporting these guys with this kind of product. I sincerely hope Far cry 4 is great because that's one of the few games I want day 1. But Assassin's Creed Unity has been an unmitigated disaster.

 

[Myggen]

The discussion about this on this week's Bombcast is 15 minutes into the podcast.