If the studio and ubisoft can mess up FC3.5 (FC4) then it will be a very bad time for ubisoft's share price.

But comments like this are non constructive and utterly subjective. Is it any wonder that those investing multi million pound sums in game production want to protect their investment? There is an ever increasing sense of entitlement nowadays that leads to people all across the Internet, regurgitating spontaneous sound bites.

Do you have a copy of FC4? Have you played it? Is FIFA 15 really FIFA 14.5, because they keep kicking the same shaped ball each year? What do you base your opinion on?

You see in the old days it was simple. You bought a game, you didn't like it, you thought twice about buying their next offering. Nowadays, social media and the blogosphere get to talk out of the back of their heads to an international audience.

I didn't watch the AC:U video and see trash. I just saw a beautiful game where optimisation could (and should) be improved. As for the rest, self fulfilling prophecy springs to mind.

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

Simple. From now on don't buy a game until you hear the reviews. If they stop reviews from being released then don't buy

Is the correct answer.


Also, don't condemn games six months before release based on a 60 second YouTube clip. Then embargoes may become less commonplace.

Its a joke, prehaps it needs a few smiley faces.

Ubisoft has suffered with the launch of Unity and it may have similar problems with FC4 but the game does look similar to FC3 (gameplay vids) will their be a large difference between the two?

Nothing wrong with getting the same game with changes/improvements ie Fifa/Cod etc but people are always looking for something new and different.

Ubisoft claim unity uses all of the ps4/xbone hardware, so prehaps too many AI?

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-uni...

I know it's a joke, but that is the point. It's still a serious negative image to the marketing industry and they will obviously try to counter that. Embargoes are the easiest way to achieve it.

More constructive criticism is what the industry needs. Hundreds of bedroom based review sites trash talking every release help nobody, and that is exactly where the industry currently is. We're at the point where a 7/10 is labelled as poor or unfinished. Is it any wonder that developers/publishers are wary of throwing the review door wide open to all and sundry?

That in turn makes it easier for the Ubisofts to get away with huge day one patches etc. I don't disagree that it's an issue, I do think its laughad that nobody takes responsibility for creating that very culture.

Ubisoft claim unity uses all of the ps4/xbone hardware, so prehaps too many AI?

Yes, I pointed that out up thread. I think too many NPC's is probably the (unnecessary) culprit.

They usually release on a friday

It showed such promise a few days ago. It makes no sense that they created such a mess of a game and even though they realised what they had done they then decided to release it anyway.
I have no sympathy for ubisoft, if they can't do their job properly then they don't deserve to be in business

Triple so called AAA titles release on a Tuesday ,take advanced warfare for instance and many other games....most are Friday but big games sometimes get shifted to Tuesday...

In the USA they have 2 release days,Tuesday and Thursday ....

If you look at another guys take on N4G this morning he claims the game is not in the state people are screaming about,he said it has glitches and a few issues ,but unplayable it's not.

its emerged the game dev's have breached DX11 guidelines.

http://wccftech.com/ubisoft-points-finger-amd-techni...

That may be an answer for the xbox1 and PC, as PS4 doesnt use DX11 right?