Negative reviews for an update that bricks your game seem perfectly reasonable to me
Except in this case it wasn't anyone involved in the game that did the update. I don't think it's fair to punish devs (even Ubisoft) for Microsoft shitting the bed again.
It sucks people can't play the game, but they should wait patiently, or "review bomb" Microsoft somehow. Sounds like Ubisoft is trying to fix the issue, and isn't the (primary) party at fault in this instance.
Leaving negative reviews for a game that worked up until someone else did something doesn't seem fair.
EDIT: I didn't realize it had been months. I thought about putting a 'sunset clause' style disclaimer in my original statement, and should have. Past a certain point - and months qualify - it is back on the devs' heads. So, yeah, fuck Ubisoft.
Here's some added context, then. The update happened two entire months ago. "Assassin's Creed Origins" wasn't the only Ubisoft game affected. Amongst others, there was also "Star Wars: Outlaws" and an Avatar game. Both of those games were quickly patched, and now work perfectly fine. AC is the only one that still cannot run; that crashes immediately, even after all that time. They waited months, before starting to leave all of these negative reviews. Even worse, the game is still being sold on Steam, even when it doesn't work.
At this point, I'd say that the complaints are perfectly justified.
Nah Ubisoft deserve this. For one the game has been unplayable for 2 months now, whilst they've patched some of the newer games that the same update bricked. And it appears the update only bricked the games in the first place because of the stupid obtrusive DRM bullshit they package along with their useless mandatory 3rd party launcher.
Devs don't get to make stupid unnecessary points of failure and completely ignore the consequences of their own actions just because outside actions brought those consequences to light.
Yeah, the flaming bags of dogshit need to be left on Microsoft's doorstep. They have been dropping the ball so fucking hard for the last decade and not getting any flak for it. Light them the fuck up over this and shine a light on just how badly the Windows operating system is being mismanaged. It is nothing short of criminal.
Except in this case it wasn't anyone involved in the game that did the update. I don't think it's fair to punish devs (even Ubisoft) for Microsoft shitting the bed again.
It sucks people can't play the game, but they should wait patiently, or "review bomb" Microsoft somehow. Sounds like Ubisoft is trying to fix the issue, and isn't the (primary) party at fault in this instance.
Leaving negative reviews for a game that worked up until someone else did something doesn't seem fair.
EDIT: I didn't realize it had been months. I thought about putting a 'sunset clause' style disclaimer in my original statement, and should have. Past a certain point - and months qualify - it is back on the devs' heads. So, yeah, fuck Ubisoft.
Here's some added context, then. The update happened two entire months ago. "Assassin's Creed Origins" wasn't the only Ubisoft game affected. Amongst others, there was also "Star Wars: Outlaws" and an Avatar game. Both of those games were quickly patched, and now work perfectly fine. AC is the only one that still cannot run; that crashes immediately, even after all that time. They waited months, before starting to leave all of these negative reviews. Even worse, the game is still being sold on Steam, even when it doesn't work.
At this point, I'd say that the complaints are perfectly justified.
Yeah, I should have added a disclaimer.
If you leave your game in a literally unplayable state for months, yeah, you deserve the negative reviews at that point. Oof.
I sincerely agree, with that context.
I see your point. But if I'm the customer and only have the one option to leave a comment, I'm commenting there.
Nah Ubisoft deserve this. For one the game has been unplayable for 2 months now, whilst they've patched some of the newer games that the same update bricked. And it appears the update only bricked the games in the first place because of the stupid obtrusive DRM bullshit they package along with their useless mandatory 3rd party launcher.
Devs don't get to make stupid unnecessary points of failure and completely ignore the consequences of their own actions just because outside actions brought those consequences to light.
Yeah, the flaming bags of dogshit need to be left on Microsoft's doorstep. They have been dropping the ball so fucking hard for the last decade and not getting any flak for it. Light them the fuck up over this and shine a light on just how badly the Windows operating system is being mismanaged. It is nothing short of criminal.
This argument is like the Amazon equivalent of not judging the product because of the price.
It’s all part of the same package.