Assassin's Creed on PC is apparently a crappy port. Wait, what? A Ubisoft PC port sucks?
Un-possible!
From the arstechnica article itself:
'First, the menus and UI are all very console-ized. This might not be a bad thing, but when it takes so friggin' long to exit the game that there are YouTube videos about it, something isn't right. The game takes a long time to get used to using a mouse and keyboard, but you can always just use a gamepad if you'd like. Putting up with annoying interface issues doesn't have such an easy fix. Is it so hard to make your game feel like an actual PC title?
The other issue is that many, many people are suffering from bad crashes throughout the game, and it's rendering the title almost unplayable. What is causing this issue? It's hard to pin down one thing, but gamers are having good luck fixing the issue by disconnecting their Internet connection; it seems the game is trying to phone Ubisoft.
"The address is 216.98.48.53:3074 random local, 3 attempts every 75 seconds, registering to Ubisoft in Ontario. DRM messing with honest patrons again... as long as the game is running it will keep hammering away at that address," one forum member remarked, as other gamers fixed the issues by killing their connection. A forum manager in the UK posted one idea to fix issues, pointing gamers to the latest Nvidia drivers, only to be told that fix does nothing. If you have an Nvidia card or an Internet connection, this may not be the game for you.'
All those crashes that were reported in pre-release cracks of the game were passed off as the cost of illegally downloading content before it's ready. Shame on us.
Guess we were wrong about that folks, the game really is that shitty. Way to go, Ubisoft.
On a slightly related note I get pissed off when developers annouce the death of the PC as a viable gaming machine, then churn out this crap as if to prove their point. I've seen the game running and witnessed the crashes they're talking about - at least try and make it LOOK like you gave a shit when coding this, that's all I ask.
Requisite link to original article:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/04/14/assassins-creed-on-the-pc-bad-ui-bad-drm-bad-port
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I don't understand how companies truly believe that their crappy copy protection is stopping anyone who REALLY wants to pirate something from getting it. Are they just doing it for the lulz. I mean seriously.
I'm a "MOSTLY" honest consumer that buys a majority of my games legitimately (or used). Yet I get pissed on for doing so more than my friend Jay who decided to download a DRM free cracked copy from ISO hunt. Thank you ubisoft. And while we're at it, thank you too Bioshock publishers. I am still enjoying my new root kit several months later.
no friends, laym.
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I also thought by utilizing the age-old copypasta recipe/technique I was doing a service to the original article writers, and therefore becoming a better person. And better than the rest of you.
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04/15/2008 13:59
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I also thought by utilizing the age-old copypasta recipe/technique I was doing a service to the original article writers, and therefore becoming a better person. And better than the rest of you.
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(# 6) on 04/15/2008 14:32
vishusdelishus says:
04/15/2008 13:59
I'm the master of copy-paste. I challenge all to copy, then paste better than I.
I also thought by utilizing the age-old copypasta recipe/technique I was doing a service to the original article writers, and therefore becoming a better person. And better than the rest of you.
ZINGEROO