Why I lost faith in Ubisoft. | Forums

[Varghleif]

Now here is some ugly and unpleasant truth. Most of you may not even consider, that Ubisoft employees ARE actually slaves, working 12 hours/day, have no real life, kept away from their families, seeing their kids once for few weeks/ or even months. Why, you ask? Because of the company policy with their workers. So swearing about how bad work they do is acutually very NOT fair. Also, UBI is a company, that must make money, and thats why they make game developers push out out game to the market, even if they are barely finished, or with bugs found, because they have hard schedules, that must be met, otherwise entire teams will be sacked - company must produce as much as possible, they need to make money, quality is a secondary, or even tertiary factor.

The company policy with their workers is due to UBI's top management, their CEO, and also their shareholders, that have a voice and demands about making money. That is how the hard law of the market works. BUT, people suffer, and rage quit from work for game companies. You can find reports about how UBI treats their programmers, and that is not even limited to UBI, so does EA, and others. Read/watch it, see a guy next door that puts code into this game and must deal with failure consequences. It might even not be their fault, lets assume its some other department's, but still all world blame them. Someone could really lose a job because its fu***d company and somebody must be punished. I pity these guys, u made a mistake, learn from it, add crc checksums to downloads and verify files before apply, just for start. (my personal opinion to 1.06 cause)

On final thought: game devs make mistakes, It happens to greatest devs in the world. It's just a game, there are plenty of other games that can be played in this one's outage. It make people angry, because they spend their money, and some consolation should be a good practice, but still, its just a game. It takes 6 months, or a year after premiere to fix a bad game, that happened do Diablo 2 and 3 and many other games.

[SymphonyWarrior]

Now here is some ugly and unpleasant truth. Most of you may not even consider, that Ubisoft employees ARE actually slaves, working 12 hours/day, have no real life, kept away from their families, seeing their kids once for few weeks/ or even months. Why, you ask? Because of the company policy with their workers. So swearing about how bad work they do is acutually very NOT fair. Also, UBI is a company, that must make money, and thats why they make game developers push out out game to the market, even if they are barely finished, or with bugs found, because they have hard schedules, that must be met, otherwise entire teams will be sacked - company must produce as much as possible, they need to make money, quality is a secondary, or even tertiary factor.

The company policy with their workers is due to UBI's top management, their CEO, and also their shareholders, that have a voice and demands about making money. That is how the hard law of the market works. BUT, people suffer, and rage quit from work for game companies. You can find reports about how UBI treats their programmers, and that is not even limited to UBI, so does EA, and others. Read/watch it, see a guy next door that puts code into this game and must deal with failure consequences. It might even not be their fault, lets assume its some other department's, but still all world blame them. Someone could really lose a job because its fu***d company and somebody must be punished. I pity these guys, u made a mistake, learn from it, add crc checksums to downloads and verify files before apply, just for start. (my personal opinion to 1.06 cause)

On final thought: game devs make mistakes, It happens to greatest devs in the world. It's just a game, there are plenty of other games that can be played in this one's outage. It make people angry, because they spend their money, and some consolation should be a good practice, but still, its just a game. It takes 6 months, or a year after premiere to fix a bad game, that happened do Diablo 2 and 3 and many other games.

Makes total sense, and that's who I am blaming, Ubisoft, not the programmers.

[SymphonyWarrior]

UPDATE: This is what makes us frustrated. Ubisoft is not yet able to send out an update with the fix to this issue, HOWEVER, players that don't get paid to fix these issues fix them before Ubisoft even. Why?

Check this thread to see.

This is just beyond me. Thanks to the players that actually worked on it to get it fixed as soon as possible.