ubisoft is a publisher and, correct me if wrong, have nothing to do with the code.
if you have experienced issues with a game published by ubisoft, dont blame them, blame the dev :)
Ubisoft screwed up Blue Byte since 2001. Therefore Settlers IV was the last real Settlers... :/
i played settlers 1, 2 and 3 heh i have no opinion about later settlers :S
Too bad they published so many good games...
Their games are good, but...
ubisoft is a publisher and, correct me if wrong, have nothing to do with the code.
if you have experienced issues with a game published by ubisoft, dont blame them, blame the dev :)
Ubisoft screwed up Blue Byte since 2001. Therefore Settlers IV was the last real Settlers... :/
Only big publisher I like is T2. I dislike every other big publisher. Ubisoft is pretty high on dislike list.In no time nor space is anything worse than GFWL. uPlay at least works.
I think that Uplay is worse than GFWL and hate them for ruining one of my favorite game series, Heroes of Might and Magic. Russian version (HoMMV) was published by them and is a great game but HoMMVI is abysmal.
I think that Uplay is worse than GFWL and hate them for ruining one of my favorite game series, Heroes of Might and Magic. Russian version (HoMMV) was published by them and is a great game but HoMMVI is abysmal.
I'd have to say II, either way, the Settlers franchise is forever ruined... :cry:
They shall burn in hell for messing up Silent Hunter 5!
That's something that will only hurt gamers in the long run.
Steam coming to consoles?
Probably.
The Video Game industry is the ONLY one with a no return policy. If there was a return policy and these companies had to start eating their money like regular industry did for messed up, shit games, you'd see the whole industry turn around.
And In reality, it's just PC games that suffer the no return policy. Consoles have companies that act just like regular companies do and do returns and resales.(which is why xbox wants to go all digital and remove the ability to resale games. Fuking Money grubbing CEOs)
Steam's Big Picture mode is the first step towards moving to the Television and integrate the gaming experiences. Consoles games could be resold because you needed the physical media, on PC you don't. I can understand that. But now companies are moving to the "Cloud" because they have seen that it will allow them to charge more for less of a product. (Yes less because you have to be always online, which is bullshit for a standalone product). Google news "Photoshop" and see what I'm talking about.
Bottom line is, unless we want a future where you pay a subscription for every piece of software you own, oh excuse me, RENT, and must be online always in order to use it, we have got to boycott these companies and hit them in their stock price until more CEO's like EA's get laid off from their jobs. Oh for the FYI, after EA's CEO got canned, Sims 4 has been announced as a single player offline game for 2014 release. Surprise? No. Vote with your dollars people. Withhold them for the shit "Cloud enhancements" and make titles like Sims 4 with single player offline wildly successful. I'm going to buy it and not because I actually want it (though I'll give it to my kids), but because I want to send a message. Keep single players offline and make gobs of money, or suffer the loss of revenue when you don't.
You might not be able to resell or return your games on Steam (though the latter is actually possible, although you have to fight for it), but does it really matter that much? Steam has done a lot for Gaming, by including the Mac and now Linux people, and by proving that you can actually make MORE money, if you sell games for lower prices. I haven't bought a game for full price in the last three years.
And then there are all those integrated community features...
Steam in coming years will probably acheive one of the best things for PC gaming ever, which is kicking Microsoft out of their monopoly on gaming OS.
Nope, it doesn't work like that. If you want to break the monopoly you need to convince OEMs to sell PCs with Linux (can't, nowhere near ready) or Mac (can't, hardware bound and exclusive). If that doesn't happen, the vast majority of developers will just continue to target Windows only and ignore Valve's publicity stunts.
Nope, it doesn't work like that. If you want to break the monopoly you need to convince OEMs to sell PCs with Linux (can't, nowhere near ready) or Mac (can't, hardware bound and exclusive). If that doesn't happen, the vast majority of developers will just continue to target Windows only and ignore Valve's publicity stunts.
Of course, there's "PC is dying" trend which could result in death of Windows just because there won't be enough desktop PCs on the market.
You're tech-savvy user who's also working in IT industry. Most people aren't.
I think one of the reasons Microsoft is still dominant in the desktop market is to be found in businesses. They provide a much better integrated software suite for office work and system administration, all packaged together in a way that just works, and with minimum effort. The specific tools are usually not better than the equivalent open or linux compatible versions, but the convenience of only using proprietary stuff is that you don't have to care about messing with software not made to interact.