According to
gamesindustry.biz, Ubisoft is suing PC games manufacturer Optical Experts Manufacturing for over ten million dollars. The claim is that an employee took an early version of
Assassin’s Creed home and uploaded it onto the Internet causing over 700,000 people to pirate and mutually dislike the PC version of the game. Furthermore, Ubisoft is claiming that a fatal bug put into the game on purpose was a part of the production and pirated content of Creed, thereby lowering review scores and customer satisfaction.
The “bug” was a piece of malicious code that could crash the game halfway through. Ubisoft did not comment if the bug they put into the game additionally caused every mission to be the same or every civilian to have the same comment to Altair’s acrobatics. It has also not been confirmed if the push-happy retards scattered throughout the back end of the game was a result of the malicious code either.
On a personal level, I think suing for a leak of the game is perfectly fine. Although, adding in the “irreparable harm” due to the game’s bug seems to be overboard. I would have been more than accepting if my copy of
Assassin’s Creed stopped working. It would have saved me from several hours of jumping into haystacks and other repetitive elements. The reason the game got poor marks was because it wasn’t that great of a game, Ubisoft.
Contest:
6:16 AM on 08.07.2008
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On the one hand, I want to commend Assassin's Creed for making me uncover information about my target before killing them. On the other, I want to stab everyone in the eyes for making me do exactly the same things every single time.
And don't even get me started on flag collecting.
I hate Ubisoft too. Mostly because they made Assassin's Creed.
I'm fucking sick of everyone complaining that piracy is the reason they didn't make millions of dollars from their game. Your games suck, for the most part. When installing the game becomes a problem due to DRM, don't be surprised if people don't buy the next one.
Quality products without hassle = sales.
Everything else = PIRATES DID IT THEY STOLE OUR BABIES THEY WANT US DEAD OMFG!! PC GAMING IS DEAD.
Just...no.
I liked climbing buildings and searching for people to save. It made me feel like batman for some reason.
I don't mind if a game is repetitive if it's Good. That's why I buy FF's when they come out, they're basically all the same, but they're (mostly) all good. Thats why I'm going to buy Disgaea 3, because it's good. The gameplay remains practically the same.
Also, where were the production values? No subtitles? That's laziness, and I live in a busy house, I can't always hear every single thing said in a game, which is why I have subs on to catch what I have missed, they're a god send and should be mandatory. A game like Assassins Creed was meant to be on a grand scale and have great presentation as Jade "Female" Raymond told us countless times. Kingdom Hearts 2 has more presentation value in a single world than Assassin's Creed has in the entire game. I can remember in Kingdom Hearts 2 where the the HUD changed when you entered the white room in the old mansion, that was the only room in the game where the HUD changed to that. Thats production value, it shows effort has gone into the game. Assassins' Creed is just ... meh.
If you look really closely at them, their skin looks really flaky, I always thought that was the reason...
that's just how lawsuit's work. you have to throw every potential cause of action and remedy against the wall and see what sticks. If you don't you could lose your chance to recover under those theories should then become more viable.
That got it slammed in the initials previews but unlike Assassins Creed, was a really good game to play through. Still haven't completed either but hey ho, oh, and Creed definately a console game, cant even imagine how it would play on PC, well, apart from badly... :)
I really liked Assassin's Creed for giving me some new things, and I look forward to seeing the ideas behind it get expanded and refined.
Ubisoft can sue if they have substantial evidence this company let their game out, but there's no other reason. It's their job to bug-fix, not Optical Experts. If you look up OS, it's a company that gets your product out and who reproduces it.
But other than that the game wasnt so bad, other the the fact that I couldnt find 1 last Kingdom flag and didnt feel like going through all that again.
I avoided both if those games for every system, even cell phones as I found them both pretty lack luster.
BLASPHEMY.
Nice work Ubisoft Sweat Shops!