Welcome to the wet feet edition. Why wet feet? For many reasons, not the least of which are the background sounds used by Turbine. Have you ever been to or acted in a high school drama production? Remember what the high school acting coach used to tell students to say to make “crowd sounds”? During…
Tag Archive: Ubisoft
The Self Destructing Reputation
“Last month, PC Gamer took the extraordinary step of recommending against the purchase of an otherwise excellent game, solely on the basis of its obnoxious digital rights management (DRM). The victim was Assassin’s Creed 2, and the perp was the software that required the player to maintain a constant internet connection while player…Ubisoft’s mistake…
They could be a contender
A couple of items in the news this morning had a quote from the old Marlon Brando movie popping right into our collective heads – “I could have been a contender.” The reason for this, is that both stories seem to place at least someone involved as a serious contender for the Darwin Awards. The…
Was it good for you?
Was it good for you? Just as you were getting over the hurt – just when you said to yourself, “O.K. Ubisoft used and abused me, but hey, she’s French so you have got to expect that right?”… It happens all again. Here is an excerpt from an article over at Kokatu.com. In a post…
Access Denied
Access Denied While Ubisoft is busy showing us their middle finger these days, it seems that the collector’s edition of Silent Hunter 5 is being shown the door in Germany. It seems that someone at Ubisoft forgot to account for the German constitution and left in images that violate the same – that’s one heck of…
Brand Recognition
Many of our regular readers and listeners may have noticed that we tend to have very pro-developer viewpoints lately…especially where there is some doubt in any given issue. After all, as grandmother used to say, you get more industry professionals with honey than you do with vinegar (or was that flies…in any case the expression…