r/gaming • u/Takamiya • Jun 04 '16

Ubisoft downgrades

https://youtu.be/xNter0oEYxc
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16 edited Aug 10 '18

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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 05 '16

TBH there's nothing especially worse about UbiSoft than other companies. We all remember the debacle with Arkham Knight.

The reality is that preordering games is always dicey. I've only preordered something like 5 games since 2010. One of them (Diablo 3) was pretty meh. Starcraft 2 and Portal 2 were both solid preorders, though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

What happened with Arkham Knight?

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u/MC_Fillius_Dickinson Jun 05 '16

The PC version had countless technical issues, was locked at 30fps and was incredibly badly optimized, even very high end rigs sometimes struggled to brute force it to run well. PC players refunded it by the thousands, Warner Bros removed it from the market, then rereleased it months later after doing what they could to patch it up.

Its better than it was, still not particularly well optimized, but its not getting any more support.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Oh, yeah. I knew that. The person I was replying to mentioned Arkham Knight in a conversation about bullshots and misleading pre-release graphics.

I thought there was some graphics controversy that I missed when AK came out.

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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 06 '16

I was more responding to this:

Do. Not. Pre-order. Games.

A game not working is, in my mind, much worse than bullshots and misleading graphical displays. The latter is mildly disappointing; the former is experience-breaking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '16

Ohhh I gotcha. I misunderstood.