I think he must have been playing with the review copy; the one I started my review with did invoke a number of crashes. Once I got 1.2, things became pretty stable. No CTDs to date.
It's pretty ironic, Ubi really wants to rope in the "casual" gamer but the substandard manual and tutorials defeat that purpose. Thankfully, the Romanian devs did not skimp on the realism and gave the game plenty of scalability.