Why are you falsely advertising the WD2 soundtrack as a reward for 30 Ubi points?
The Actual Soundtrack:
https://play.spotify.com/album/2Sm4aLWKSZiqjbKGvGvKoq
What I got:
http://imgur.com/a/GXuMh
3 tracks, not even FLAC, just the regular MP3 files [24Mb]
Just so you know, when other devs advertise game soundtrack as a reward/dlc, you get the *actual soundtrack*, in FLAC and MP3.
Guess what? I just reconsidered spending $80 in your store as a part of Black Friday sales. The soundtrack is $10 directly from the artist. Community managers, please look into this.
Hello awenare,Originally Posted by awenare Go to original post
In the Ubisoft Club reward list the description of that reward specified a "selection of songs" not the full soundtrack:
Listen to a selection of songs from the in-game soundtrack, specially curated to keep you psyched for the hacking challenges ahead!
Hope it helps,
Elyon
Thanks for the answer Elyon. Finnish translation in Ubisoft Club page is a little bit clumsy. It could mean that you have selected the best songs from the game to the soundtrack. Or it could mean, that you have pick few songs from the soundtrack... as an Club Reward.
Anyway, now I got it what it means ;-)
Hi Elyon,
I think you may agree with me that 3 songs only is not exactly what a user would expect. The title clearly says "soundtrack" not only a selection of it - and even if it's technically written in the description it seems just a poor keyword play, distasteful and deceitful from Ubi, especially as a user I cannot see what I am redeeming beforehand. There are at least 50+ In game tracks, so a reasonable expectation would be a (little) shorter version of that - not 3 songs. The least that can be done is to correct it online and either offer the full soundtrack or not make it a 30u purchase.
If you are trying to dismiss this practice as okay because someone wrote a "selection" in the description - no, it's not okay. With practices like that you are becoming a strong contender for beating EA for the "worst company" award.
I also know you are not personally responsible for this but please make sure to share my feedback with the management - shirking your users of $10 worth of content just cost you $80 in sales today, and certainly more in the future. I own 20+ Ubisoft titles and this company had my loyalty for over 10 years, but will not support this.
Ubisoft marketing strikes again. They probably have the worst marketing and PR teams of all the AAA publishers. Every now and then you think they might be cleaning up their act the way EA did, but then something like this happens or you discover things have been deliberately kept out of a very overpriced season pass (or both!) and you realise... it's the same old Ubisoft with an aptitude for alienating the very people who buy their games. This should have come as no surprise really, all things considered.
Did you skip basic mathematics at school? The "selection" was an equivalent of receiving a single mission in Watch Dogs 2 instead of a full game. The radio has 25 songs (+ I believe additional discoverables), the soundtrack itself additional 16. I have received a luxurious selection of 3 out of 40+ songs. Best purchase ever.Originally Posted by The4orTy67 Go to original post
The title of the reward says "Soundtrack". Not "Soundtrack Selection". Just "Soundtrack". So perhaps you'd like to extend your helpful advice to Ubisoft who are well aware that a significant number of users will only read the title because games and their reward systems tend to bombard users with lots of extraneous information. Uplay in-particular is guilty of this with its intrusive overlay.Originally Posted by The4orTy67 Go to original post
And so ends Marketing 101 lesson for today. Obfuscation such as this is a deliberate practice.