WE get it, you guys messed up patch 1.4.0 for a second time so your waiting till its perfect so as not to look like complete imbeciles (just mostly imbeciles) but why in the name of god cant you release the black screen fix on its own as a hotfix, you know so that thousands of your customers can actually launch the game they paid for, you have given no good reason why, you are going to end up making them wait for an entire week to be able to actually play the game, when you could have released the hotfix wednesday night when you admitted to having fixed the issue, but no youd rather just rub it in and let them know its been fixed but they cant have have it, you realise it probably would have been better to just say nothing at all, so your giving the middle finger to your customers so that you can release one big patch that fixes multiple issues at the same time for the sole reason that it will look good as PR, you guys are reaming your customers knowingly as damage control, i realize that its the end of the year and your execs are making decisions based on what will look best for stock value so that they can pad the 4th quarter earnings as much as possible because it will have a direct effect on the amount of money they get as their yearly bonus, well i hope they enjoy the short term benefit and that customers actually remember this time and learn that the guys calling the shots and running the company have 0 respect for the customer and view them as nothing more than dollar signs and make all decisions based solely on what makes the most profit in the shortest time and even when they mess up royally they will never admit to it directly and will resolve it in whatever way is the cheapest and has the least negative impact on the companies image, like withholding the blackscreen fix so they can bundle it with the patch, because the patch will fix minor issues like shading and stuttering which affects the majority of people whereas the black screen problem affects the minority, so they dont want to waste time helping the minority with a hotfix, they want to cater to the majority, even though their problems arent as bad, am i wrong? because i cant see any other valid reason for not releasing a hotfix for something you fixed wednesday night other than pure greed and damage control.
enjoy corporate gaming people, when game companies are publicly traded and run as corporations instead of run by gamers who do it for the love of the game and care about their customers more than pure profit, its not going to get any better, look at what it did to EA, you are just a faceless cog in the wheel of their money making machine
P.S.just wanted to say i realize that this doesnt apply to the majority of ubi employees and that its just a few people in suits ruining the good image your company once had and making you the next EA, and they'll use the boogeyman of pc pirating to blame everything on, i mean piracy is so bad its destroying companies that dont use drm like GOG and companies that put PC users first like cdprojectred, oh wait a minute it isnt they are both making a ton of money while doing so without draconian drm and while caring about their customers
oh almost forgot #day1dlc