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Ubisoft Commits To Improving Relationship With PC Gamers

Posted on Friday, February 22 @ 09:34:00 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

PC gaming has been neglected for almost a decade, but developers are beginning to wake up.

Speaking to MCV UK, Ubisoft's Stephanie Perotti shared the company's commitment to become more popular with PC gamers around the world. She said:

Announcing all these partners for Uplay and a wider choice of PC games, it shows our commitment to PC, and we want to improve out relationship with the PC community.

She continued:

We are always seeking to improve. We took a lot of that feedback on board. With every game on PC we are improving. Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III on PC were very high quality.

Although Far Cry 3 on PC suffered from several glitches and wasn't quite as fulfilling as promised, it was a step in the right direction. Assassin's Creed III did an even better job with visuals that were immeasurably better than their console counterparts, and was much more stable than previous games in the series.

Sony recently announced that the PlayStation 4 will be built on x86 architecture which is what the majority of PC games are fond of. Furthermore, it's in the best interest of multiplatform developers such as Ubisoft to work on improving their relationships with PC gamers so not only do the console releases fly off store shelves, but more PC gamers are interested as well. If there's one thing we've learned from releases such as Diablo III and Guild Wars 2 it's that the PC community is much bigger than people realize, and can produce sales figures beyond what even the best-selling consoles can muster. With even less work needed to port games over next-generation, it's a huge potential source of profit that should be fully taken advantage of.
Related Games:   Far Cry 3
Tags:   ubisoft, PC


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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 9:40 am
    Me want MORE PC games! (and better ones, too.)
  • Kakulukia
    Kakulukia

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 9:58 am
    That's one step. The next one is to release BG&E2, and then I'll be able to like Ubisoft again.
  • xavier_2000_ie
    xavier_2000_ie

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 10:56 am
    From the picture on the linked site she reminds me of Sheldon's girlfriend on big bang theory
    Just a random comment :-)
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 11:54 am
    I think she is a little better looking.
  • Beta_GR
    Beta_GR

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 10:57 am
    Their biggest step was removing that horrible always-online DRM for their games.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 11:43 am
    Ubisoft if you want to improve your relationship with pc gamers ditch that uplay bullshit. PC gamers dont want it. Some barely tolerate origins and only for Battlefield 3.

    "Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III on PC were very high quality."
    If high quality means unoptimized then ok. It did have DX11 (something that should be stanard and not just considered high quality). AC3 did support txaa though which was awesome for the nvidia camp with 600 series cards(But we are very few)
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE

    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 5:57 pm
    I was just about to mention how awful FC3 was on PC. If I have a GTX 560TI I shouldn't be getting worse framerates on Far Cry 3 than on modded Crysis (or even GTAIV with icenhancer) when FC looks far worse and has terrible distance blur on anything farther than 60 feet. Before anyone says something, "open world" is not an excuse since the LOD distance is so low it hardly renders anything. Watching that game struggle under its own horrible optimization, you can almost hear it saying "kill... me..."
  • hempy420
    hempy420

    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
    I don't know what you guys are talking about FC3 not looking and playing awesome on PC. I bought it DAY 1 and have NEVER dipped below 60 fps with graphics maxed out. I also haven't experienced ANY glitches although I may just be lucky. I am in about 80 hours worth of gameplay and I thought it looked awesome all the way through. If anything I think AC3 looks shitty compared to FC3 (I own both). Also maybe its time to upgrade your 560ti which was a mid-range card when it released 2 years ago.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 11:43 am
    Some of your games at fps locked(im looking at you from dust) and many of your other games have technical limitations including non pc friendly menus and such.

    Plus lets all remember Ubisoft spouting their mouths off calling most PC gamers pirates. " It's around a 93-95 percent"

    You arnt going to make any friends or customers out of badmouthing a legitimately large paying sector. Since AC1 you had packed your games with shitty DRM schemes(that have hurt your legitimate buyers) which have forced some gamers away from buying your games out of protest.(and because pirates get to play offline but not real customers.) The DRM can be oppresive from not authenticating correctly. Using up a game install any time you even just swap video cards. Always online authentication checks. etc.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 11:43 am
    We dont want UPLAY and we dont want shitty DRM and we dont want to be told its our fault when you release a product people object to.
  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi

    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 12:52 pm
    Replace StarForce, the most invasive DRM ever, with UPlay and always online DRM... please Ubisoft, you have to do better than that. And as Sourdeez said, it's not like their games are fully optimized for PC.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 2:24 pm
    As a PC gamer, I'd like to say, "Fuck you, Ubisoft".

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