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The Crew: 'Don't Believe Everything You Read' says Ubi
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Ubisoft has an interesting new post on The Crew blog today that lets players know that reviewers will be able to start posting their thoughts as early as the game goes live in December. That announcement comes with the caveat that those reviewers may be basing their thoughts on early versions or beta versions of the game and that writers may not have seen The Crew in its optimal light.
For this very reason, The Crew will be available to media to begin their reviews when the game launches on December 2. There will be absolutely no embargo on any type of coverage once the game is available for sale. While we fully anticipate that you might see some reviews immediately at launch – largely built around the preview sessions we facilitated during the past months or the limited content of the closed and open betas – they won’t be based on optimal conditions or reflect the finished game. We sincerely hope everyone will take the time to customize their ride as they progress through all five regions, explore every corner of the map solo and with friends, dive into our competitive and cooperative mechanics, race to the end of the main campaign, choose a Faction and compete with your crew in Factions Wars, and so much more.
Read the full post on The Crew website.
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This seems to be a new trend among developers. Seed doubt about early game reviews to hopefully drum up more sales. We saw it with Destiny as well.
It might work for a time but they better use it carefully. if you tell your fans your game is better than early reviews indicate over and over again and are proven wrong most of those times, sooner rather than letter your fans will stop listening to you.
Not that I don't think the current Internet age review industry doesn't have way to much collective piss in it to be useful in any manner.
LOL
I always wonder what I can and cannot say as an active tester.
I think I am allowed to say I test both the PC and PS4 version.
UNRELATEDLY!!!
I spend a fortune on games, buy every crappy pos that ever releases. I will NOT be buying The Crew.
Take from that whatever you will.
Call it a coincidence, although personally i wouldn't, this is probably not unlike the situation with the latest assassins creed game, where reviewers weren't allowed to say anything until 12 hours or something, after the game launched. No prizes for guessing the reason for that was
it has been super consistent.... if a developer is blocking pre-release reviews of its final product that product is going to have some issues
100% of the time. Guess the Crew isn't going to be that great.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women...
the game is pretty fun tho >< the handling needs some tweaking but some of it you can do your self
This have been a good conversation
Strangely considering it was obviously designed for consoles the game plays and is way more enjoyable on PC.
The Crew is 90% precision driving that I personally find totally impossible on a game controller.
Those minute last second corrections passing a gate or hitting a target dead on are pretty much impossible without a precision mouse/keyboard combo, at least in my experience. A clear difference between gold medals on the PC or bronze/fails on the PS4.
PC is in select closed beta testing.
A fitting saying here would be, You made your bed now lie in it.
Nobody has forced ubisoft to over extend themselves the way they have over the past 4 years. They are pushing games out way too fast ever over-whealing their development staff as well as their networked servers.
Sadly the top 10 % know the asteroid is coming so they having to rush everything and get greedier and greedier so they can afford to finish all those underground bunkers and get them all well stocked for the end.
At least that is the only thing that seems to make any sense to me on how and why so many long established solid sensible corporations have now begun cutting their own throats with shoddier and shoddier production, higher and higher pricing, and a total disregard for customer retention.
Hell even the banking crisis, real estate bubble, and exchange sell offs are all part of where is the money going? Money just does not vanish from a global economy and yet that is exactly what has happened, the top 10% have taken the money out of banks, real estate, and the market. So where has it gone?
Why do we have a global concrete shortage, why over the past 5 years have we had companies that produce bulk slats of survival rations in millions of units have large periods of total sell outs.
Why are we showing one of the slowest 5 year periods of tech advancement in our history?
Why are the top 10 richest people in the world buying up huge tracts of farm lands, wilderness, and fresh water sources.
Anyway back to ubisoft, they made their bed and now they LIE in it.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Ok I do not usually do this..
However, I am going to change my mind about The Crew.
The just pushed a pretty big patch that addressed a lot of the problems I had with the game.
That being said this patch has had like zero test time, even though it does fix a lot of bugs and address a lot of the issues testers have been asking for it may carry with it some bugs too.
I am going to admit I was wrong and admit I just purchased the game based on this latest patch completely.