Ubisoft Sues Disc Replication Company Over Assassin's Creed PC Leak
GameSpot reports that Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against Optical Experts Manufacturing, a disc replication firm based out of Charlotte, NC.
Optical Experts Manufacturing had been contracted to manufacture game discs for the PC version of Assassin's Creed, which was released this past April. According to Ubisoft, "an extraordinary breach of trust and gross negligence" led to one of the employees leaving the plant with a copy of the game some six weeks before the retail date.In taking the contract, OEM had to agree to security procedures that would've prevented such a leak. One of these procedures, Ubisoft alleges, is that no copy would ever leave OEM's premises.
NPD indicates that the PC version of Assassin's Creed sold only some 40,000 copies through June, nothing compared to the stellar sales on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. According to Ubisoft the version that ended up early on the internet was downloaded more than 700,000 times.
Making matters worse according to Ubisoft, is that the earlier version of Assassin's Creed contained a bug (for security reasons) that would make the game crash half-way through. Though supposedly this bug was not in the final release, the mix of reviews based on the buggy release as well those based on the retail version "created customer confusion and caused 'irreparable harm' to [Ubisoft's] reputation".All in all, Ubisoft is suing OEM for copyright infringement, breach of contract, negligence. For the breach of contract and negligence, the publisher is looking for at least $10 million in damages.
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replyShitty game - shitty sales. Now they want at least some money through lawsuits against OEM manufacturer. Lame. They sold many on consoles only due to hype and nice pre-release screenshots.
Once people realized there's not much more to it and it's pretty much repeating bore-fest after initial mission - word came out for PC fans to watch out - hence shitty sales ensued :)
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I love how whenever a PC game doesn't sell but is pirated a lot, people instinctively say the game is objectively awful, despite positive reviews. Give me a break. Bad games sell well all the time, and good games don't.
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reviews? give me a break dude rofl
If you believe reviews, you're in for a lot of surprises in your life :) Vast majority of reviews are either half-assed due to laziness of reviewer, influenced by marketing dollars or out-right bribery under the table.
Look what happened to Gertsmann 'cause he made a mistake of telling the truth about shitty game out to public ;)-
to add to that - general reaction after release was that the game is heavily over-hyped and not good beyond nice graphics and some action elements and it's bore-fest beyond initial impressions.
Hype and PR along with half-assed reviews made it look different pre-release and people believed it like they always do ;)
PC gamers didn't bite, so thanks for console people and honest reviewers saving us some money and telling us how it really is and not buying yet another 'greatly praised' game turning shitty in the end, like many before and many more to come surely.-
PC Gamers didn't bite? Maybe because most of them had tried it before it was even released.
I bought it on 360 but browsing torrent that one was being leeched/seeded with some huge numbers.-
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oh, here's one of my favorite reasons WHY it was shit.
I have an Audigy 2 ZS soundcard in a WinXPpro box.... pretty much the ubervanilla of sound setups. This piece-of-shit wouldn't play voices with sound acceleration on. I had to turn OFF my sound acceleration!
Who did the QA on this thing? Did they only test it on one PC setup? Its stuff like that, that makes a horrible port. ergo, shitty game... which equals no sales.-
I already owned the 360 and never tried it myself, but I know for a fact that a couple friends had ZS + XP and it worked 100% fine.
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If you're so stupid that you believe that nonsense conspiracy theory about Gerstmann gate, then no wonder you don't trust reviews.
Regardless, Assassin's Creed was amazing, and I don't know anyone who thinks otherwise. It's only on the crazy internet where I meet people who act like highly acclaimed games are horrible overhyped trash out of some desire to appear cool to other people like them.-
If you're so stupid that you believe that nonsense conspiracy theory about Gerstmann gate, then no wonder you don't trust reviews.
Bother backing that up with some proof? What do you think, why Gertsmann, editor in chief, lost his job days after his review and said review was pulled offline for some time after that - until outrage ensued?
Sure, AC is amazing - for first 2 levels. Or if you adore looking at games more than playing them past those 2 missions. Eurogamer sums it up nicely:
"I always found Assassin's Creed to be a 6/10 experience wrapped up in a 9/10 game engine. Waiting six months for what amounts to some minor tech tweaks and four additional mini-games certainly hasn't changed my mind, so..."
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=131457&page=3
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The game did get a pretty bad reputation after its console release. The added wait for the PC version obviously didn't help - neither with that nor in general.
Have a look at Eurogamer's rereview of the game for the PC-version: (6/10, ouch!)
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=131457&page=3
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'material' was shitty game they were trying to sell based on nice false reviews and pretty in-game graphics with no depth on the gameplay. They pulled a near-scam on console gamers and now they wanted to do the same for pc guys who wouldn't hear or know by then how lame their game is. So, people soon realized the game is in fact shit and heard that from others and decided not to buy it.
I don't get people defending every big company out there, just because it's big and powerful. It's not all black and white, people. They're not some good guys always delivering good shit on the market and respecting their customers like they should. In this case, bad rep came from shitty product, not some bug here and there like they'd like you to believe. Ask xbox owners and ps3 owners.
Would you like it better if people paid 50$ only to find that out or would you like it better if Ubisoft released game that's not a complete fuck up and repetitive crap? I wage on latter, and it will make Ubisoft not repeat same mistake and underestimate their audience if they got any brains in their exec's heads.-
"Near-scam"? Really? REALLY?
The game certainly didn't live up to the mountain of hype surrounding it (what game does?), but it was still quite a fun experience and many, many people enjoyed it, myself included. So sorry to hear AC stole your money, killed your dog and raped your mom....
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Is Chris Remo gonna have to choke a bitch?
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If you have something to say, don't call out other people to do it for you - or you're incapable of putting together more than one sentence at the time? If Chris Remo had something to say, he'd say it already. But he ain't some stupid kid on steroids spewing stupid shit around thinking he is cool or something.
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Actually, he already said it. You on the other hand, haven't said anything to warrant a second response by him, and what you got from me was as suitable a response as you deserve. Feel free to try again.
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You actually made 3 sentences at once there.. and they all got no or next to none meaning! wow
>Actually, he already said it
Oh yeah? Who cares, but only some little kid up Chris Remo's butt. I don't keep track of what other people say nor I do care if they don't say it to me. get a life kid.
>You on the other hand, haven't said anything to warrant a second response by him,
I never gotten any response to any of my posts by that person and why would I care about it anyhow? get a life kid.
>and what you got from me was as suitable a response as you deserve
It was suitable for some lifeless kid at age of 10 or so, sure. get a life kid.
>Feel free to try again.
rofl
Look,get your nose out of Chris Remo's ass and get a life of your own and learn to stand up for your own believes instead of crying for your mommy when big bad people start owning your little ass.
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exactly my point.
pirates will always pirate, and people buying their games will mostly buy them - if they're worth their money that is. I personally didn't buy it and never thought of pirating as I never do only due to some honest reviews and people saying game is crap. That's all.
And Ubi is probably blaming me and their gramma for their shit sales instead of looking at their game and admitting it was shallow, repetitive pos. Maybe they know by now and will get it right with their future games, since their all games are similar in that fashion lately..
I'd say it was a free advice and they should pay people for letting them know that and saving their asses from future crappy games like AC is. Shallow and shiny pos.
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Guys like you need a script that posts this argument for every article on piracy.
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