Ubisoft games for free.....That actually sounds a bit pricey.

Oddly the new Watch Dogs is getting good reviews.

But it's not selling well. I wonder why that is. Were people burnt after the first game?

Multiple reasons I think:

• The data we have on games selling poorly is mostly retail sales for the UK. We don't know whether digital sales have increased or by how much.
• Having few to no reviews in the weeks leading to a game's launch might make people hesitant to pre-order or buy on the first week.
• November was a specially crowded month so it shouldn't come as a surprise that these games didn't sell as well as expected (Titanfall 2, Infinite Warfare, Watch Dogs 2, Dishonored 2).
• In some cases, like Watch Dogs, a lot of hype was built up initially for a game that was a huge letdown so I would expect people are naturally cautious about buying any sequels.
• These games tend to have lots of problems at launch on PC what could (and should) persuade buyers to wait a few weeks (or months) until most bugs have been ironed out. (I'm looking at you, Dishonored 2!)
• It could also (hopefully) be indicative of gamers having learned to wait and see rather than pre-order or buy at launch.

   

I am not on a blockade though. If a game is bad it is bad. Even if I really want to like it.

What irks me though is the pre-order junk, the false advertisements, and the review embargoes. It just....I dunno. I don't trust it.

Fair enough.

Ubisoft did a lot of questionable stuff over the last years that had it end up on my undiscriminating shitlist (shared with Activision). If it has the Ubisoft logo, I won't touch it no matter what. Zero tolerance wallet voting

Ubisoft did a shit move with Settlers 6. The expansion pack for it didn't work. Something about the serial code for it. Customers complained but Ubisoft did nothing. To add insult to injury they kept selling the expansion pack and later included it with the main game. Didn't work then either. So they knew they had a faulty product and kept selling it.