Well you have to give them credit for the amazing job they're doing to promote Cliffs of Dover. . . they have a "web site". . . . well, a front page.

Pretty much all the hype built up for the game is due to 1C and Oleg actually releasing content themselves and giving interviews. Ubisoft only cares about A++ titles that they can make for consoles and maybe do a crappy port to the PC.

Plus they like to "buy" a dev team, squeeze out a product as fast as possible, and then lay them all off as soon as the game goes gold. That's one reason why their patches suck, because they don't have anyone from the original team working on them.

So it means that a publisher has the final word as how and when a game will be on the market, despite its current state of developpement ? :confused:
Would that mean that CoD is pushed out also by Ubi ? Would Oleg have waited another year for release ? It is a very interesting debate....;)
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With the IL2 series, Oleg (1C) were under a UBI contract, and there were many unknown squabbles on exactly this.. 'Releasing products before they were ready'.
Luckily for us Oleg stood his ground and the COD development (AFAIK) is completely disconnected from UBI. 1C are using UBI for distribution though, which makes sense as long as UBI have no say in the product activation.

The other sims were in-house to UBI, and thats why they're stuff-ups.
UBI is a distributor, not a developer... period. And as soon as they realise it the better... Maybe with SH5 this message has sunk into those accountants.
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On top of all the trashing up of what had been beloved franchises; Ubi is loathed for their draconian DRM. They even attempted an always connected DRM that ultimately failed, and cost them and the franchises they did this with dearly. They aren't the worst publisher for seeming to hate gamers, but many consider them a very close runner up. I'm glad that Ubi's only involvement is publishing when 1C Maddox was ready for the game to be released.

You'd think by now they'd realise that with the internet and most people's steadily increasing internet-savvy, that the word about a bum title spreads quickly and thousands of sales can be lost.
Gone are the days of people buying and only then discovering that it's a turkey. There's only so long you can shoot yourself in the foot before pain makes itself known. Hopefully Ubi may be beginning to feel some twinges.

Slightly off-topic, but I noticed that Ford US is suing Ferrari for calling its new F1 racing car the Ferrari F-150. F-150 is 'apparently' the name of a popular Ford truck and their lawyers are laying down the same kind of BS that NG laid on UbiSoft and OM over copyright.

Mind-numbingly stupid

They ruined Rainbow6 and Silent Hunter series. *

I think it's enough to hate...



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And still haven't sold more copies than originals: aka Dumb&Dumber

I wonder how much that idiot is on? Makes you wonder how cleaver the top dogs are in the commercial world.

Also this one time, I saw Ubisoft kick a puppy.

THis is called capitalism enjoy it. THe rich upper echelons control everything so that it lines there pockets with maximum cash at the expense of the little guys. The larger the corporation the worse it gets. Unless government begins to regulate some of these things it only gets worse.