"Ubisoft examines review policy following Assassin's Creed: Unity mess"

[kane_magus]

So let me see if I have this straight here. Ubisoft releases a shitty, buggy, broken game which gets reviewed rather poorly, and what Ubisoft takes away from this is that there's something broken about the reviews process rather than their shitty, buggy, broken game? Sounds like a blast of hot, vacuous air to me. (Or, wait, maybe it's all just

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[owsf2000]

I find the situation will never get better either. Mainly because it seems most gamers simply can't learn to vote with their wallet, which when done by the majority CAN cause a difference. When done by the minority, all it does is save money for those practising it. I see calls by some gamers with no self control over their wallets calling for legislation to make buggy games illegal rather than them holding off on a purchase.

[kane_magus]

While games are always going to have some bugs show up from time to time, they would have far less bugs in them if the devs would just take (or be allowed by the publisher to take) more time to fix their shit before releasing it. Except that the devs/pubs have absolutely zero incentive to do this, precisely because they know full well that they can get away with selling subpar, broken shit since, exactly as you said, gamers simply do not give a fuck. Oh sure, they can cry up a storm about it when they get a roach motel of a game like this, but will that stop them from sucking up the next Assassin's Creed game to come down the sewer pipe (or whatever other broken shit Ubi deigns to shit down their throats)? Of course not. The cycle just repeats itself ad nauseam, ad absurdum, ad infinitum.

[dmjewelle]

On one hand, the majority of gamers WOULD have bought the game expecting it to be running properly, I know USA has a return policy, but if it happened to us we'll just end up with a $200 brick. We *could* have voted with our wallets but we were conned into buying. That way it makes sense to have that legislation so that the developers can be charged with fraud.

Also from what I read, it's most likely the business people forcing them to ship it NOW before they lose money. Nobody wants to be dragging their feet like FFXV's development cycle, but I don't know how much developers have a say in pushing back the release date so they can ship a properly unbugged game.

[owsf2000]

If your country has consumer protection laws in the slightest, it would generally give people a method to bring companies with shoddy products to court. Video games included. For instance if you did buy a game, odds are you were expecting it to run

[dmjewelle]

Actually it's not about the buggy game, it's about ethics in video game journalism.

*be dum tish*