Ubisoft keeps on Ubisofting

http://www.eteknix.com/ubisofts-free-game-compensation-comes-catch-ubisoft

As a gesture of good faith to anyone unfortunate enough to have bought a season pass for the bugfest that is Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Ubisoft recently offered customers a free game as compensation. How nice of them. Well, no, as there’s a catch. Because of course there is, hidden away in the small print.

Any person that accepts the free game is waiving their right to take legal action against Ubisoft for selling a broken game, and for when the company releases the first DLC for free, which devalues the season pass. So, rather than being a placatory gesture from the game developer for their mistake, the free game deal is actually a sneaky way for Ubisoft to cover its own hide.

The offending disclaimer starts, “You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally release, waive, and forever discharge and covenant not to sue Ubisoft Entertainment S.A.” It meanders on in dense legalese, but that opening statement conveys all it needs to: ‘claim our free game and lose your right to punish us for robbing you’.

If a class action lawsuit, which Ubisoft would likely lose, was filed against the company, anyone who claimed the free game would be ineligible to recoup any compensation should the suit prove successful. Avoiding legal fees has rarely been so devious.

tl;dr don't get the free game from them

Those sneaky fuckers.

Honestly, anyone willing to sue them won't even go for the free game at all. I just imagine this individual being full anti-ubisoft.

It is not worth to sue them, much easier and convenient to just move on and stop buying future Ubisoft games...

I rather have the free game.

If there is a class action lawsuit against Ubisoft and the plaintiff wins, I'll be lucky to get maybe a $10 check in the mail.

And yet people still preorder and buy Season Passes.

Peasants gonna peasant.

Yeah because Steam/Uplay/Origin is not full of that crap nah...

Stupid thread. Every company does this when they offer good faith deals. Pretty sure Sony did this back in 2011 too

You can always sue them, and when the court rules Ubisoft is nothing to blame you still get your free game.

^^

This is literally standard practice in every single industry. Go check your Steam ToU. Or Blizzard. PSN. Xbox Live. Nintendo Network. Even iTunes, Google Play, Amazon.

It's a standard clause, every single company includes it. I get that picking on Ubisoft is all the rage these days, but you don't have to make reasons up to do it, they're doing plenty wrong themselves.

So you bought a game....you get a game. Basically you come out even.

Free game is probably more than you'd get (individually) out of a class action anyway

Just like the Sony lawsuit for KZ,right?

Eh that will get appealed. But you don't get much in a class action suit.

Instead of suing just stop pre-ordering Ubisoft's games. If people would have showed just 24h of patience this would never have happened.

I don't know how the game is now after all the patches, but if Unity ever comes out in a good state you'll have two games :)

How the did the court rule for the Sony lawsuit ?

I swore off Ubisoft games last gen. It's quite simple thing to do.

Whenever I feel the urge to get one of their games I just get on PSN and check that title's amount of DLC. That always solves the problem.

What a scumbag shithole of a company. This is par for the course and it's a sterling example of why I never buy ubishaft games.

take the free game, it's more than you'll get in a costly lawsuit you probably don't deserve squat from anyways

Wow, get your shit together Ubisoft. I'd really like to play Assassin's Creed Unity and Far Cry 4, but I'm not going to until they're fixed. Looks like this isn't going to happen though so I guess you won't be getting my money. The last Ubisoft game I wasted my money on was Watch Dogs and that was a huge mistake.

So who do you buy games from? Even the all mighty Steam's Terms of Service has a spot on the very first page talking about a class action waiver. Valve is a shithole company too?

They are going to be hit with so many lawsuits very soon that they won't be able to make games anymore.

A shame all those talented developers are being bum-fucked by their shittacular publisher overlords.

People will never stop buying Ubisoft rehashes every year, people still buy COD and Battlefield, Madden, Fifa, it will never change.

Ubifail continues to impress.

I don't feel sorry for the bigwigs at UBISOFT but it kind of sucks for the developers who work for them.

Imagine spending a year of your life working crazy insane hours on a product, likely knowing that there's no way to get a complete working game out that you can be happy with thanks to the deadline set buy the guys upstairs and to then have the game release and be an utter disaster facing the wrath of the consumer and likely get blamed by the bigwigs who set the shitty deadline.

As someone who works in healthcare, i see this a lot(as likely anyone who works in the public sector) but at least we good a good pension and great job security. These guys are out on there asses.

What kind of gamer would go out of their way to hire a lawyer and go toe to toe in court with a gaming developer and publisher

Ubisoft is obviously upset at EA for winning all those worse company in america contests so is trying to improve their chances for the next one.

ubisoft would **** up something with the lawsuit and blame AMD again