community starts to boycott Ubisoft

_Gabriel_ · 01-18-07, 11:19 PM

Hi

i found that at some german news sites:

http://ubi.spiderfighter.de/

Greetings

Gabriel

Letum · 01-18-07, 11:35 PM

Can you provide more details for us non-Germans?
Thanks

Gizzmoe · 01-18-07, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Letum

Can you provide more details for us non-Germans?

The English text is below the German one.

"Ubi-victims"... Aww, booo hooo hooo...

CCIP · 01-18-07, 11:48 PM

Yow.

I think an all-out boycott is immature. Sure, I agree, don't buy their bad products. Support their good ones. No need for silly extremism when in fact Ubi are NOT really that much of an exception...

GSpector · 01-18-07, 11:53 PM

I too would like more info on this.

Hey Gizzmoe, True the initial purpose of the site is in both English & german but only 1 post was in English. It's hard to tell whom you agree with and for what reasons IF YOU CAN"T READ GERMAN.

_Gabriel_, Do you know of any other sites like this one?

Gizzmoe · 01-19-07, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by GSpector

It's hard to tell whom you agree with and for what reasons IF YOU CAN"T READ GERMAN.

Do you play many Ubisoft games and think that most of them are too buggy/unfinished, that the customer support is bad and Ubisoft should be boycotted because of this? If so, you agree with them. If not, you don´t.

I don´t get it, no one is forcing them at gunpoint to rush out and buy a game the day it comes out. They could wait a week and check the reactions on the forum. If they see that too many people are unhappy with the game they don´t buy it and perhaps wait until the first patch comes out. Then they check the forums again...

Kapitan_Phillips · 01-19-07, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

I don´t get it, no one is forcing them at gunpoint to rush out and buy a game the day it comes out. They could wait a week and check the reactions on the forum. If they see that too many people are unhappy with the game they don´t buy it and perhaps wait until the first patch comes out. Then they check the forums again...

Thats exactly what I do. Before I bought Red Orchestra Ostfront, I did some pretty heavy research into the kind of support it would get, and since there's a specialised team of developers specifically for adding new content and patching the game, I went straight out and bought it. I highly recommend it, by the way.

On the subject of Ubisoft, they're nowhere near as bad with customer service as Electronic Arts. EA Games, when you go to their support section, is pretty much like:

1) Please Choose a Game
2) You have selected Battlefield: Vietnam - please choose a question that most represents the problem you are having
3) To view the answer to this question, please register.
4) You have chosen 'My problem is not displayed here' and thus, you must be reporting a problem that doesnt exist. Good day.

_Gabriel_ · 01-19-07, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by GSpector

_Gabriel_, Do you know of any other sites like this one?

Yes there are a few but all currently in german.

Greetings

Gabriel

GSpector · 01-19-07, 12:36 AM

Thanks _Gabriel_.

Agreeing with the main topic is not the same as agreeing with every post. That's why it's important to be able to read the other post just to see which points you agree or disagree with.

I personally have not had any real issues with UBI Software but I am also careful about which copy protection many company's use.

SPORES is a title I would like very much to get but if they use the same copy protection that SIMS 2 used then it would be a waste of my money because SIMS 2 will not install on a system that has NERO. Of course, if you ask the Phone techs, they just act like they don't know about it when it is documented on their website if you dig deep enough. Their Phone Techs just want you to make a whole lot of tweaks to your system and try to find every excuse to blame your system instead of their software.

I was lucky to be able to return SIMS 2 back to Circuit City which has a NO RETURN policy for opened software only after I was able to prove to them that I could not install the software because of the Software's built-in scanning software.

_Gabriel_ · 01-18-07, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Letum

Can you provide more details for us non-Germans?
Thanks

Hi,

well the community is upset about that Ubisoft currently didnt patch several games like Rainbow 6, Splinter Cell, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and older games too, like our good old SH3, they dont response to any community questions or things like that.
The community is also annoyed that ubisoft first brings out console games and then they do a unkind PC conversion (Splinter Cell).

Greetings

Gabriel

P.S. Sorry for that bad english

01-18-07, 11:19 PM	#1
_Gabriel_ Mate Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 52 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 0	community starts to boycott Ubisoft Hi i found that at some german news sites: http://ubi.spiderfighter.de/ Greetings Gabriel

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Can you provide more details for us non-Germans? Thanks __________________

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Yow. I think an all-out boycott is immature. Sure, I agree, don't buy their bad products. Support their good ones. No need for silly extremism when in fact Ubi are NOT really that much of an exception... __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

01-18-07, 11:53 PM	#5
GSpector Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 676 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	I too would like more info on this. Hey Gizzmoe, True the initial purpose of the site is in both English & german but only 1 post was in English. It's hard to tell whom you agree with and for what reasons IF YOU CAN"T READ GERMAN. _Gabriel_, Do you know of any other sites like this one? __________________ Specter

01-19-07, 12:36 AM	#9
GSpector Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 676 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Thanks _Gabriel_. Agreeing with the main topic is not the same as agreeing with every post. That's why it's important to be able to read the other post just to see which points you agree or disagree with. I personally have not had any real issues with UBI Software but I am also careful about which copy protection many company's use. SPORES is a title I would like very much to get but if they use the same copy protection that SIMS 2 used then it would be a waste of my money because SIMS 2 will not install on a system that has NERO. Of course, if you ask the Phone techs, they just act like they don't know about it when it is documented on their website if you dig deep enough. Their Phone Techs just want you to make a whole lot of tweaks to your system and try to find every excuse to blame your system instead of their software. I was lucky to be able to return SIMS 2 back to Circuit City which has a NO RETURN policy for opened software only after I was able to prove to them that I could not install the software because of the Software's built-in scanning software. __________________ Specter