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Assassin's Creed Origins is Being Review Bombed [Due to a Windows 11 update causing issues. ] (gamerant.com)
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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (33 children)

To me "review bomb" implies giving a rating based on external or irrelevant factors. Giving a game a bad review because it doesn't run correctly on your computer is perfectly valid and helpful to other users.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    It ran fine since 2017 and got blindsided by MS. Anyone blaming Ubisoft is biased af, or has information not included in this article.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Yeah, the billion dollar game developer doesn't have the resources to test preview editions of the only PC OS their game is designed for. They're just a small startup of ~20k employees. How are they supposed to allocated anyone to patching a game from their most popular franchise?

    You're right, it's the consumers fault for being biased.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    The game is an eight years old single player game. I doubt they had many people working on it anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So, people should leave positive reviews for games that no longer work?

    Like I get what your saying. It's not Ubisoft's fault.

    But if they're not going to fix their old game, than it should be reviewed negatively so people don't spend money on a game that no longer works.

    If they don't want that, than delist it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't want to discredit the reviews, just give more context to the situation. I don't think that there is any AAA dev that has 8 year old games at such a high priority level that they would fix any "posthumous" issues immediately.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    They do have the resources, they also have the expectation they won't need to waste them on dumb shit MS breaks.

    Ubisoft IS the consumer of MS products. But I guess your sympathies for consumers is only skin deep.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (8 children)

    Companies aren't people. So yes, my limit is "skin deep".

    (Not the person you replied to).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    What a profound observation. Paperwork isn't flesh. Amazing. What's your point?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    That yes, it doesn't bother me that Ubisoft is a consumer of Microsoft.

    If Ubisoft doesn't update their product, they should be reviews negatively. If they don't like it they should de list it so people don't pay money for a broken product.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Delist the game that's been out since 2017 and already bought by 10 million people! Genius! The update point has already been clowned on by plenty of others in the thread, so I won't relitigate that. But wow dude, delisting is so smart. Like, if 10 million people with the game can't access what they paid for that's way better for consumers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's almost like you can delist it in such a way you prevent people from paying money for a broken game with no intention of updating it again, and still leave it for people who currently have copies.

    Wow that was such a garbage take.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yea it's pretty garbage. No mention of MS having culpability for breaking it. Just blame the victim and sweep the game under the rug.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    So what, you think they shouldn't be reviewed bad for a broken game?

    No, it's broken and shouldn't be for sale if they're not going to fix it.

    Guess what, as a mobile dev, my job is to fix the broken shit on multiple OSs as well. It's the territory.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think MS should fix it, that's my only position. I don't care what Ubisoft does because they didn't break it. Their reputation can only improve from this set of facts. Doing nothing is a neutral act, and developing a patch is a positive.

    Idc about your buggy checklist app.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (14 children)

    It is due to an external factor - Microsoft

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (13 children)

    Star Wars Outlaws in particular received a temporary fix for crashing issues back in November. While Microsoft and Ubisoft have been working on a fix, issues with games like Assassin's Creed Origins still remain.

    If a fix exists for other games and not this one and you've been negatively affected, that's a 100% acceptable reason to give a "Not Recommend" review.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Then maybe you should revise your comment to say external factors are valid

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (11 children)

    That's not an external factor. It's the absence of a patch in the game.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I feel like you don’t know what an external factor is

    The game was in a working state, an update by an external company for an external application (the OS) caused the issue

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (9 children)

    What state is the game currently in for these users? Not working. Why would they recommend it?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Then maybe you should revise your comment to say external factors are valid

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's literally not external.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh so they pushed the Windows update that broke it

    Sorry, my mistake

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is the game supposed to work on Windows? Does it?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The version of Windows it was released on, it would be silly to think it includes future versions

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm not going to discuss this any more. This is a perfectly acceptable review of the game. Seeing mixed or negative scores for recent reviews is important for potential buyers. Ubisoft has made patches for other games affected by this but not this one. This is not review bombing.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wouldn’t call it review bombing either nor would I call it an illegitimate review

    I would say that your definition of review bombing is incorrect as we can both agree the above is legitimate and caused by an external factor

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you agree this isn't review bombing, what the fuck are you even arguing about??? 🙄 It's not external. It's the game crashing. External would be something like "I don't like this company's CEO so I'm giving it a bad review."

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