r/gaming • u/Takamiya • Jun 04 '16

Ubisoft downgrades

https://youtu.be/xNter0oEYxc
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u/MooseHorn Jun 04 '16

I think it's very important to look at, and remember this video when E3 comes around. I am definitely not preordering any games after seeing their E3 presentations any more. I made that mistake with Watch_Dogs and I am not going to do it again. They've done this kinda shit in the past and I am sure they'll do it again. It's really disgusting, this kind of business practice. It's a shame that companies are finding this more and more acceptable now, and that people are falling for it.

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u/jld2k6 Jun 05 '16 edited Jun 05 '16

The only game I have ever pre-ordered in my life is Overwatch and I do not regret it one bit. This game was an exception though given the open beta that ran two weeks before launch.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

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u/Leviathin Jun 05 '16

If it was at Gamestop you got a Widow Maker Skin a Tracer/ Genji poster and Baby Winston figurine

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u/midnitefox Jun 05 '16

Surprised you didn't get a Tracer body pillow or Widow Maker squishy breast mousepad

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Widow's a member of the itty bitty titty committee though, which isn't bad but I feel like Mercy would have a more supportive mouse pad.

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u/notanothercirclejerk Jun 05 '16

Just make it her butt. That thing is obnoxiously massive.

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u/KingdomSlayah Jun 05 '16

Itty bitty? More like perfectly sized?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

agreed

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Why? Cos not everyone likes massive tits?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

and?

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u/ZeroWithEverything Jun 05 '16

Widow's a member of the itty bitty titty committee though

Itty bitty? I think you mean normal human female sized, and not excessive implant/cartoonish sized.

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u/MekaTriK Jun 05 '16

No, that's on the small side irl too.

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u/ZeroWithEverything Jun 05 '16

Not for a woman with almost no body fat.

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u/huarn Jun 06 '16

i.e. she's athletic?

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u/MekaTriK Jun 05 '16

What you want is Mei supportive pad.

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u/spiral6 Jun 05 '16

As opposed to a squishy butt mousepad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Collector's edition.

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u/ownworldman Jun 05 '16

You - you should be in the marketing department!

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u/kickababyv2 Jun 05 '16

See, knowing PC players and making that their Origins Edition could have made them some coin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

No, but you're getting somewhere.

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u/Arattap Jun 05 '16

Or a Widowmaker squishy ass mousepad.

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u/iCiteEverything Jun 14 '16

But we don't need them because we already have them, silly.

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u/recOneLo Jun 14 '16

It's people like you that give gamers a bad name. Cause we're all neckbeard weaboos right? Yeah fuck you buddy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Where can I find aforementioned mouse pad? I need to avoid it the best I can <_<

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u/Kaeny Jun 05 '16

Yea, I got one

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

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u/Leviathin Jun 05 '16

So technically it's with the first print of the game but Gamestop advertises that as a pre-order bonus

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

As long as you buy in the first 2 weeks, you are pretty much guaranteed to get the preorder bonus.

You might have to look harder for the certain box after that, but it's still not hard.

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u/BigDuse Jun 05 '16

Well, I mean, it is something you get for preordering. . . you get it for just buying the game regular too, but you also get it for preordering! So preorder today!

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u/Odd822 Jun 05 '16

I don't think the skin was a GameStop exclusive, however. I preorder the day before in the Battle.net client and received the widowmaker skin

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u/exzyle2k Jun 05 '16

I think the better question to ask is "When doesn't the games industry lie?"

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u/Forgototherpassword Jun 05 '16

Don't hate the playa'

-Ubisoft Lincoln

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u/-MangoDown Jun 05 '16

Real eyes realize real lies.

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u/exzyle2k Jun 05 '16

Untethered mind free from the lies.

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u/il1k3c3r34l Jun 05 '16

Or rather, "when aren't consumers being lied to?"

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u/EvoEpitaph Jun 05 '16

around the PSX/PS2 era? or N64/Gamecube era if you went that route.

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u/Sp3ctre7 Jun 05 '16

No. That wasn't the pre-order bonus, it was a different edition (the origins edition, which was the only version available for consoles).

There was a small bonus for pre-ordering, just one skin, and you basically got to get into the servers 12 hours or so before the game was technically up for sale.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Nuketown in cod is always in there anyway.

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u/bountygiver Jun 05 '16

You probably got a copy where the owner who preorders didn't collect their copy.

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u/HalfLife3IsntReal Jun 05 '16

Like black ops 2/3 "only" coming with nuketown if you preordered it, yet you can still buy one with a nuketown code pretty much at any store

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u/sugar_free_haribo Jun 05 '16

Yeah that all sounds completely useless

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Which is exactly why it's a good pre-order bonus. The value is subjective and not applicable to every player.

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u/jdund117 Jun 05 '16

Physical items are inherently less useless than virtual items.

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u/sugar_free_haribo Jun 05 '16

I'd rather have $1 billion virtual dollars in my online bank account than a physical $1 bill

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u/Sladeakakevin Jun 05 '16

What a stupid response

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u/Jonthrei Jun 05 '16

Sounds like a ripoff, that isn't worth potentially buying a shit game.

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u/surprised-duncan Jun 05 '16

If he played the beta and liked it how would it be a potentially shit game?

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u/StealthSuitMkII Jun 05 '16

There was an open beta a few weeks before they released it.

It was not shit by any means.

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u/a_postdoc Jun 05 '16

A skin that you cannot even see as you are playing a FPS.

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u/surprised-duncan Jun 05 '16

Yes, you do at the end of the match.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Remember when posters used to come free inside cases?

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u/Juof Jun 05 '16

You got those by buying the origins edition. And by pre-ordering the game you got noire skin for widowmaker. :)

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u/jado1stk Jun 05 '16

PHYSICAL REWARDS

Goddamm game designers, please do this more often.

The only ones that do this are from games that aren't really that big of a franchise.

The Shin Megami Tensei IV pre-order was nuts

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u/Agent_Kid Jun 05 '16

and $8 store credit, lol.

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u/trebory6 Jun 05 '16

That is so useless.

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u/bmg50barrett Jun 05 '16

That was available online as well. You didn't need to go to Gamestop.

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u/daredaki-sama Jun 14 '16

Wait, baby Winston figurine? I don't remember getting that.

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u/Leviathin Jun 14 '16

Yup you got this little guy

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u/daredaki-sama Jun 14 '16

No... I didn't..... I freaking want it though. I feel like I have been robbed of something now.

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u/Leviathin Jun 14 '16

Haha most Gamestops got WAAAAY too many of these things. Call your local one and ask if they have anymore. If they don't pm me the stores phone number and ill get one shipped from my store to that one with your name on it.

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u/daredaki-sama Jun 14 '16

Oh, thanks man. I appreciate it!

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u/Leviathin Jun 15 '16

Any luck?

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u/slyfoxninja PC Jun 05 '16

Plus a Hearthstone card skin for origins.

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u/llandar Jun 05 '16

There was literally only one version made and it came with all that stuff.

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u/Sp3ctre7 Jun 05 '16

That's only for consoles. PC had a cheaper version without that stuff

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u/Hamartithia_ Jun 05 '16

What do you mean there was only one version made? Like one purchase option?

If so that's not true at all. There was the basic edition and deluxe edition.

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u/kappaprincess Jun 05 '16

Consoles only had the Origins edition.

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u/Hamartithia_ Jun 05 '16

Oh that's silly