Ubisoft Developers give the reason why games are downgraded

[Thony]

Finally words of truth and honesty from ubisoft dev ! Big up for him !

Now, everybody go on twitter and tweet to Microsoft and Sony : "Intentional PC gaming killers"

[Kellytm3]

IMMA FIRIN MAH uTORRENT at Ube$oft!

 

I would do the same, IF they made something worth playing.

[kuddlesworth9419]

30% is a far cry from 75%... 

Still lots of games go down that far all the time. Tomb Raider right now is 80% off. 

[OBEYSQUIRREL]

I agree with this post. If console games are outselling PC games (im sure they are) then the companies will optimize for the largest market share. Not the smallest.

Sure im not happy about it but its either that or they just don't bother making the games for PC in the first place. Id rather take the 30fps limit in that case

 

People aren't upset because of how the game turned out, they're upset because the game was already perfectly fine for pc and they removed a lot of things from it to make it worse for parity with consoles. If the final release was how it was programmed and shown off from the start there would have been no problem, but the game was intentionally made worse after it was shown off to the public. That's a switch and bait, and there's good reason to be upset with whoever forced that decision.

[Captain_Slow]

Im pretty sure the next iteration of Tegra processors will be more powerful than these "next gen" pos

[Techhog]

Since he said console makers, of which there are only 3, of which only 2 are relevant to third parties... OH HEY MR. SPENCER 

[ComradeHX]

Console makers are pressuring to have pc also 30 fps locked? They want to start a war lol

It's not a war if they lost before it started...

[mr moose]

So, not that I disagree with the OP, but have we got anything more substantial than a kid on reddit?

 

 

 

Also, why is this news to anyone?

[Bensemus]

30% is a far cry from 75%... 

He says down to 30% not 30% off. There is only a 5% difference in those numbers.

[Crazy Wozza]

So if this turns out to be true, will Nvidia and AMD wade in to this?

[Almercenary]

Consoles ruin everything. They must be DESTROYED. #PCgamingslowlybecomingnotmasterace. Console makers are a bunch of fucking pricks.

[Testcatt]

No they won't because it's linux based, one more platform to optimise for, it will make more problems than solve.

Everything should be optimized for Linux in my opinion. And by everything i mean EVERYTHING.

[ZetZet]

Everything should be optimized for Linux in my opinion. And by everything i mean EVERYTHING.

nah, it has no market, literally 3 times less people use linux than osx and that says everything.

[TDP_Equinox]

Well, i have already sworn to pirate every ubi game that looks remotely good, but now i will not even be doing that.
30FPS on PC? Fuck that.
no. We bought our PC's so we could enjoy BOTH graphical fidelity AND 60+ FPS.
Not so we could be limited by consoleportitus, and fucking microsoft paying ubi to do stupid shit.
This post made me laugh, then it mad me angry, and then it made me want to cry.
I've come full circle and back to angry, someone needs to do something about this BS.

[virtualTune]

Anyone who thinks that EVERYONE that develops games at Ubi is happy with these bullshit limitations being imposed on them and is completely on board with the FPS limiting has achieved a level of mental deficiency that I didn't know existed.

 

Stop trying to demonize an entire company for the choices that were made by the ones in charge.

at the end of the day, what the artists and designers and who knows who else think about it doesn't matter unless they have an impact on what ends up in the consumers hands. When we talk about a company we always primarily reference to the people running it.

Well, i have already sworn to pirate every ubi game that looks remotely good, but now i will not even be doing that.

30FPS on PC? Fuck that.

So you are telling me, that if the game would be 60fps you would at least have the common courtesy to pirate the game? Fuck off, Pirate!

[givingtnt]

Where was the reason exactly?

basicly consoles want more sells than pc. so they turn the graphics and fps down on pc so the console looks the same. so people go like : uh its useless to get a pc.. i ill get a ps4 or xbox1... thats why

[MonkeyFace]

My conclusion is that Ubisoft lacks balls. That's all that needs to be said. They had a vision as a company, and they tossed that out of the window because someone else told them to.

 

Lame-ass company.  

[Guest]

 Then, he smiled, said "But our eyes can't see past 24 fps anyway" and winked at me.

 

THIS

 

makes me so mad, they just know they can screw with us and act like they don't even know

[Victorious Secret]

So, not that I disagree with the OP, but have we got anything more substantial than a kid on reddit?

Also, why is this news to anyone?

Welcome to LTT, forget about facts and stick with conjecture.

The sad thing is that Ubisoft is so full of shit.

What, the guys behind Witcher aren't being pressured? Cause they seemed to have a pretty clean message: "Consoles get what we can give, nothing more or less. PCs get more because we can give more"

My god Ubisoft, so sad. They are passing the buck when it's turning out that either they are full of shit or Sony/MS treat different devs differently.

Why isn't Witcher 3 being gimped on PC? Cause CDPR aren't inept morons who can't code. Nor are they promising the universe to gamers.

CDPR knows the limitations on consoles and they are giving it their all. That's all anyone can ask for.

They aren't crying "but..but.. MS made us gimp it". No. They're straight up saying PC version will be the best and that's it.

Get a better PR firm Ubisoft and maybe stop talking all together. Unless you like digging PR graves.

[Evil_Serban]

Wow thanks Ubisoft, I'm so excited to have a "cinematic" 30fps experience with stuttering all over the place. Sadly even if we stopped buying their games on pc instead of improving them I'm sure they would just stop making them on pc.

[samons]

Wow great news for my new rog monitor Oo  

 

They should be embarrassed.... Ruined some great games... 

[Misanthrope]

I don't buy that at all... if this is the case, how come every single other dev isn't doing the same thing? I guess they might be "pressuring" them, but most other dev's aren't giving in...

I like it better when EA was the stupid and evil game dev... I don't play any EA games

Because other devs know better, follow NDA and generally shut the fuck up about it instead of making dumbass excuses.

[Valli]

I meant as in giving devs more choice for platform. At the moment there's like six big platforms, MS own a third of those.

 

If the Steam Machines are successful -> a seventh platform -> less market share by MS and Sony -> more choice for devs -> less influence by MS and Sony -> no more MS pressuring devs for 30 fps.

 

At least in my perfect world.

 

Also I'm not an expert but I always thought Linux was the easiest to develop for?

 

Popularity will grow, I would very much expect Linux to grow in the following years if Steam Machines are successful, I will certainly move towards it.

 

If microsoft either would open up DirectX to all platforms like linux and mac osx, or all developers would just use opengl. And then this s#it about optimizing, and platform vs platform would stop, and then we could all concetrate on the thing we all love (even console gamers), gaming and talking about hardware.

[ErickS89]

That's not the problem. They are not optimizing for consoles and not PC. They are outright limiting the PC version for parity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's another quote:

 

They did not aim for 30FPS. They are forced to do so. And Microsoft is forcing them to do the same on PC. The people that did the presentation are developers too. So, the "30FPS is better" might just be a PR stunt.

 

Wouldn't this fall under Microsoft's parity clause?  Basically just fuck the xbox, fuck Microsoft's clause and problem solved. 

[Beskamir]

I'm pretty sure it won't kill Ubisoft if they became a PC only dev. After a few days or weeks console makers would come BEGGING for them to make console games again. Ubisoft, EA, Activision, etc are by the looks of it the reasons why a lot of people buy consoles. They could try to strong arm console makers but they might need to conspire with the other major devs.