An overview of Ubisofts downgraded games (video)
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fantaskarsef
Made me laugh greatly, and reasures me that not buying ubicrap games is the right way for me personally.
fantaskarsef
It was, it was even noted that it's not only graphics downgrades.
lucidus
Let's see if they become more honest as Vivendi lmao.
fantaskarsef
You do understand why they do this 😉
Yeah, it has to run on consoles, they like annoying the smaller part of their sales, PC community, than miss out on 5 million sold console copies... it's a business decision. It's just a shame they could do so much better, push their energy into obviously better graphics, and then they have to throw it away. It's just that those games have to run on old hardware, and even with downgraded resolution it seems to still stress consoles with lots of effects.
Xuanzang
Boycott Ubisoft for false/deceptive advertising. It's a big joke.
Backstabak
I really like, how this article came out 2 min after the "WatchDogs 2 Hello World Teaser".
Xuanzang
lol !! And he is absolutely right. 🤓
fantaskarsef
Didn't try to bash you, I was surprised myself that I could actually hear the difference. Not that my hearing is bad (it's actually above average for my age), but that a yt video and my work laptop's speakers could bring it out!
bigfutus
I bought Far Cry 4 for few bucks on Steam sale, and i don't complain 🙂
XP-200
And i though Watch dogs looked good, until i saw what that video. lol
Oh well, thankfully i never pre-order or buy at launch these days, so i am free of getting caught out on this stuff, but bummer for the pre-order crowd. lol
fantaskarsef
Could have gotten it for free, still politely declined 😉
But you're right, on a budget things look different. Not much to complain about graphical fidelity if you don't pay 60€ launch price, the pricing argument changes things greatly (or if the game is already a year old etc.)
Netherwind
This is scary stuff but also well known.
Though I'm sure they wouldn't downgrade Rayman 😉
fantaskarsef
Sadly, that will leave you with almost no games besides indie ones. And there are still worthy 'big' titles out there, too. But I know what you mean... it's just the environment has changed... PC is the overflow of console sales these days, instead of a seperate branch in the gaming business.
I bet you won't hear the words 'we won't bring this to consoles' anytime soon.
fantaskarsef
At the beginning it says that all the actual final gameplay footage was recorded on a high end pc with everything maxed and a controller, time code 0:24.
XP-200
I doubt even the PC versions in those videos were ever real or looked anywhere like that in real time, videos always looked ike they were totally staged.
Singleton99
Disgustingly deceptive , Ubisoft need to have their backsides spanked for very misleading and false advertising of their so called AAA games ...........................
lisac85
This dramatic downgrades are just because of consoles. PCs could probably run E3 games, but consoles can't, not even in a dream. So to protect console market witch is big they downgrade PC versions too, so the console fans wouldn't complain about the epic difference.
Today we would have much, much better graphics in games if it weren't for consoles witch are suffocating graphic's progress on PCs.
Stormyandcold
I actually think there's something else going on here. The clue is in the big differences in all assets used in all games shown at events like E3 etc.
I suspect the "event-versions" are actually what we'd call "tech-demo", running on a different engine altogether with proper lighting, smoke, textures...even sounds as you've noticed.
What they seem to do is take small portions of the real game and remake it at a much higher-quality and this is then presented as representative of the real game when infact it's just a tech-demo of what the game could be like, but, not what it's actually like. This explains the assets and even interface differences etc.
Kinda-like those UE4 demos. Small portions of the game, just enough to make you "wow" and "awe" (and think it's real) and ofcourse, buy the eventual product which is much lower-quality and not because of consoles either, the real games are lower-quality because they were made that way.
XP-200
^^Yeap, it is always telling that these reveals are alway pre-recorded, never live. ha
Just watch E3 next week and see how many videos are pre-recorded with games that look way too good for even PC tech to reach.
vbetts
Moderator
It's not though. In every pre-release footage, it is always noted that these games are still in development and are subject to change.
It's crappy, but not illegal.
