Ubisoft: 'We want to improve our relationship with PC gamers'
Publisher Ubisoft hopes to become a major player in the PC space with a broader digital store.The firm has been selling PC games via its Uplay service for some time, but has now opened that up to third parties, with EA, Warner Bros, Telltale and Bohemia amongst the companies on board. Wider selection and overhauled policies can widen the store’s audience, it is hoped.
Ubisoft was criticised by PC gamers for controversial ‘always-online’ anti-piracy protection. But the firm has now stopped the practice and Ubisoft’s worldwide Uplay director Stephanie Perotti says it’s listening very closely to feedback reports mcvuk:
“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 told MCV.
“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.”
The third party games were made available on Uplay earlier this week, and the company is now looking to sell digital cards via retailers, just like Steam, Xbox Live, PSN, Facerbook, MMOs and Nintendo eShop already do.
“We already offer cards with some of our free-to-play games,” added Perotti. “We are now developing something for Uplay.”
There are currently 30 titles available on the Uplay digital store from third parties, and more will be announced over the ‘coming weeks and months’.
Perotti says the firm is ‘open to all opportunities’ when it comes to launching the Uplay store on other devices, including mobile.
But with a vast quantity of digital retailers, including Steam and EA’s Origin, already on the market, does the industry really need a new PC download store?
“I don’t think you can have too much choice,”?said Perotti. “It is just another way to expose more content.
“At Uplay we are also offering all Ubisoft titles, more console content and elements that gamers are more interested in. It’s about offering more options and more choice.”
Ubisoft: Our DRM will 'evolve and improve' - 04/12/2010 10:05 AM
Ubisoft's online platform requires PC gamers to be connected to the internet while they play. But problems arise when authentication servers are unavailable or unresponsive. This was felt first with ...
Ubisoft: 'working hard' on Assassin's Creed 2 - 11/27/2008 11:56 AM
During its first-half fiscal 2008-09 conference call today, Ubisoft parried a question regarding the Assassin's Creed sequel.
Senior Member
Posts: 3462
Joined: 2004-09-30
Or check any game thread, all talk of AA, SweetFx and whatever BS and none of gameplay.
Senior Member
Posts: 4194
Joined: 2006-10-11
Am I reading too much into it, or are you saying people wouldn't enjoy Skyrim unless it looked good? Skyrim isn't my coup of tea, but I'm pretty sure most people enjoy this game for the gameplay and not because it looks nice with mods. I spent hundreds of hours playing Fallout 3 and Fallout:NV, whose graphics are dated to say the least, yet that didn't bother me one bit.
I'm saying people only enjoy Skyrim because of the graphical modding, not the actual game. It was specifically supporting this statement:
just make graphicly awesome games and they are fine. they will talk AA and AF all the time and yet wont care about how the gameplay or story.
That game has horrible gameplay and story, it's all about those high-res textures, modded graphics, enb whatever, etc.
I personally prefer gameplay over graphics. I loved DmC and the graphics in that game were laughable at a lot of parts.
Senior Member
Posts: 7214
Joined: 2006-09-24
TBH only thing i hate is the drm they implement. I don't really care if the game has best gfx or whatever as long as it's easy to use and gameplay is nice. Playing games only for gfx is just boring, i liked skyrim for what it is as with all tes games.
But for example first crysis pretty as hell and boring as hell IMO.
I don't want stupid crap drm in everything ubi makes.
Senior Member
Posts: 20796
Joined: 2003-04-27
Probably yes. And who is not anyway? Internet these days =)