Ubisoft Delays Far Cry 4 PC Reviews To Launch Day

Right now, Far Cry 4 reviews are popping up all over the internet. It is, by all reports, a great game. Unfortunately, we can neither confirm or deny that assessment. More troubling, given the launch state of Assassin's Creed: Unity, is that we can't tell you how it performs on PC. The reason is simple: we haven't yet received code.

If you're getting a sense of deja vu, it's because exactly the same thing happened with Unity. For Far Cry 4, Ubisoft held a console review event; giving multi-platform outlets the chance to have their reviews in place for today's embargo. We, naturally, need to play the game on PC. Last night, we were informed that code wouldn't arrive until Tuesday, the date of the game's launch.

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We asked Ubisoft for an official statement, which you will find below:

"The reason why we did not provide review code until now is that there is a title update which won’t be available before Monday prior to launch. However, we will officially communicate on the title update prior the release of the game so consumers are aware."

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*sigh*

Guess we have another poor PC port from Ubisoft incoming.

Never change, never learn, Ubisoft.

Lame. I won't be buying this game, unsurprisingly...

GAF going nuts, as usual, over this is always fun. People already deciding the game is a bad port. Now Char wants the fun here.

It'll probably be fine. It's the same engine as FC3. Unity was fucked on all platforms anyway so it was easy to tell it was fucked on PC.

NOW PANIC!

Has ubisoft ever had a strong PC presence? Half the games they release on PC are like ass.

I hate to say it, the only way to play an ubisoft game safely is mostly on a console. Aside from a select few. *Looks at AC unity*

before this/last gen, yes

yeah not good

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-unity-far-cry-4-pc-versions-to-be-developed-by-ubisoft-kiev/

I have never run into trouble playing any Ubisoft game on the PC.

Ubisoft PC ports

@PurpleMan5000: Did you play AC Unity? The thing is atrocious.

The douchebaggery continues

Shit....that's the version I wanted. Guess this means there are problems.

@PurpleMan5000: try ac unity, total biscuit a you tube reviewer couldn't keep it near 60fps with 980 sli

After the shit they did with Unity, Steam sale for me.

Will wait for Steam sale. Ubisoft doesn't deserve my money right now.

I haven't played Unity, but I have had no issues with any other game. It sounds like the console versions of Unity had major issues as well, so this is really just the case of it being a bad game, rather than a bad port.

Getting this PS4 version so don't care about PC problems at this time.

I'll say it again, Ubi continues to entertain me even when I'm not playing their games. For that, I am grateful.

In the past several years Ubisoft made an attitude of a big bad publisher out of themselves who doesn't care about what their community thinks of them. Like, we're too "corporate" to care about you.

Until now when even the console versions of AC Unity are deeply flawed.

I'm pretty sure they'd do shit if Unity released only on the PC with the same issues.

Well I'm ready to watch Ubisoft stock take another nosedive.

I will happily ignore Ubisoft and it's crappy PC support and put my money where it is more deserving,saying that however i still buy the odd Ubi art games,Valiant Hearts and Child of Light and games like Rayman were utterly fantastic it is just a shame they can't show their AAA's the same amount of love and care.

Apart from Watch_Dogs, I havent either. I havent played Unity yet though and I really dont feel like paying full price for it.

@charizard1605: Well there's another game I just lost a little interest in.

ubidick has offically overtaken ea as the biggest scum on the planets this year

I will give Ubisoft the benefit of the doubt and assume most of their issues are related to the next generation of consoles. Black Flag was just a port.

@ghostwarrior786: Large publishers tend to withhold information by delaying reviews (via embargoes or late review copies) when they don't have enough confidence in the quality of the game - when they believe that keeping consumers in the dark will generate more pre-order and day zero sales than allowing information freely. On the other hand, when they ARE confident about the game, they tend to always allow fairly early reviews, which tend to only contribute to the hype wagon.

Any publisher would have done the same. EA has done it before, Activision does it (i.e. Destiny), and there are cases where Ubisoft had the confidence NOT to do it (i.e. console versions of FC4). It's a dirty, scummy, but financially rewarding move. Any large publisher would be compelled by its money-driven ownership (thousands of shareholders who only invested for money and nothing else) to make such a decision. Even if the company's policies change, they company will still be compelled to find ways around the policies they themselves imposed to withhold information and maximise profits.

All large public gaming companies are greedy scums. How they act depends entirely on what they have in their hand. The companies that turn out to have good games in their hand will certainly maximise that advantage and appear impartial and honest, since that generates more profit than appearing dishonest.

Some exceptions are public companies like CD Project RED, where the original owners still retain a majority (and ergo control) despite going public. Private companies like Valve are also clearly excluded.

oh what problem?

Another rushed game release confirmed.

Any problems the PC may have at launch or as the TC or other has insinuated the same problems as past UBISOFT PC ports. I dont care.

By the time I buy the PC version, if it all, it will be under $10 and have had numerous patches.

Ubisoft is going all out this season with the attempts to become worse than EA.

This makes me glad I spent my $10 on the Far Cry franchise pack (1, 2, 3 and BD on Steam this weekend) rather than a preorder for a game that likely won't be worth playing until next year.

Terrible port incoming ... or FAR superior version (but that's unlikely) .

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

I'm getting it day one. They've been working with NVIDIA and it looks sick. Can't go wrong.

Yeah look how Asscreed Parity and Glitch_Dogs turned out what could possibly go wrong.

Neither of which have NVIDIA exclusive features (aside from TXAA which is in everything these days). FC4 is getting a lot of NVIDIA love.

If you do this, right after AC:Unity, you should provide a reason for holding back reviews.
I'm not falling for this either.

"We're going to put more time in our PC versions"

"We are re-evaluating how we handle review embargoes"

All hollow words. Ubisoft really wants to out do Acti and EA when it comes to having zero respect for gamers, don't they ? As I get the feeling they think we are idiots.

Never a good sign.

That has a ring to it, could really be used as a tagline for their products from now on:

Never change

Never learn

Ubisoft

Its not on steam people lol.

Funny thing is there are videos of the pirated version all over youtube. Ubisoft are just being idiots again.

FC3 ran OK for me but this is shitty practice so they won't be getting my money.

Seems to me that Unity on PC is significantly better than on consoles, provided you have the proper specs. I mean, literally 20 fps with super fugly textures on the console versions, on PC it rarely dips, it's just overall a shitty 40 fps or something like that, which is ok I guess.

People really blew Unity's issues out of proportion. At least that's what I'm seeing, as I have had zero issues with the game thus far.

You understand that the "PC problems" are actually on the PS4/XBOX, but worse...right?

That is, crappy optimization. Check out AC:UNITY digital foundry reviews, much lower fps and gfx than PC versions.

But you knew that.

why peeps be excited for this game when DA:I comes out the same day?

Only in the UK.

AC:UNITY was both. A shitty port but not nearly as bad as the ps4/xbone versions.

LOL Dragon Age/

LOL Ubishit titles

What? Why not?

We'll see. The day one patch could be basically the finished product. The only way to tell is to actually wait for reviews of the release build.

Doesn't bode well though.