EB Games in Canada was offering their customers a way out if they had purchased Haze for PS3 and wanted to return the game. A full refund was to be offered by the store IF the game was preordered and return with receipt within 7 days of purchase. This policy was more or less a free week rental and seen as a testament of the game not worthy of an outright purchase. Ubisoft was perturbed to say the least and called for the promotion to be cancelled. EB Canada obliged, or so we thought.
It turns out that the promotion is still active albeit with a new caveat. They are so confident that you will love the game, and NOT return it, they will give you the same considerations as before. It seems that EB Canada may be placating Ubisoft here. Why would this promotion even be necessary. Having to hedge your bets to sell an already anticipated product seems unnecessary. Is this a savvy marketing move or is EB Games motorboatin’ sons of bitches for defying a huge studios wishes?
Not those kind of loads you sick bastards. Loads of PC games. Over 40 titles in all are being made available for download.
Assassin’s Creed is now available for pre-purchase via Steam. In addition, Ubisoft is bringing many of its award-winning brands to Steam, including games from the Tom Clancy series, the Heroes of Might & Magic® series, the IL-2 Sturmovik collection, Far Cry®, and much more. Digital packs of many of these franchises will also be made available in the coming weeks.
Like I said before, if you’re into PC gaming and you don’t have Steam, you need to get with the program. Buying games at the store is so 1986.
Looks like Rainbow Six Vegas is going to be in need of a patch and soon since people are cheating their way to Elite status at an epic rate. Boosting is always unfortunatley a part of online gaming, but players have figured it out very quickly in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and are playing like 1 minute matches to gain 400 experience points. I can only hope that Ubisoft figures out a quick patch for this since we will have a lot of non legit Elites running around. The only saving grace is that rank does not really mean much except that you get to unlock some gear for your character faster and get some achievements. Still stinks though if you are a legit Elite and then see all these other guys boost their way up to you.
It seems like we have another case of a third party developer not making things work right on the PS3. This time, Ubisoft dropped the ball with Rainbox Six: Vegas 2.
According to reports all over the intarwebs, Ubisoft’s new first person shooter has major online problems with the PS3. Users are either not able to connect at all, or they get so much lag the games are unplayable.
With most of Ubisoft’s development team off for the Easter holiday, gamers are going to have to wait a while to get this fixed. Whether it’s a server issue or the game needs to be patched, Ubisoft better get on this one quick to avoid a firestorm. Gamers aren’t the friendliest people when something isn’t perfect.
Ubisoft released a trailer today to show off a bit of gameplay footage for Tom Clany’s EndWar. It’s not too much, but it’s definitely enough to grab your attention. I’m excited for the voice command for the game. I hope it ships with a real sword that I can slam on the table when my troops fail a mission. Ahhh the power.
Ubisoft made sure their pimp hand was way strong before heading over to EB Canada and bitch slapping the hell out of them. Stephen Totilo over at Multiplayer got in touch with Ubisoft for more details on the Haze return policy deal, and had this to say:
What I was told by a member of the Ubisoft’s PR team in the U.S. yesterday was that there had been a miscommunication between the publisher’s Canadian arm and the EB Games retail chain in Canada. Furthermore, the issue has been rectified some time in the last week and the promotion has been cancelled. I was unable to get further details on how this miscommunication happened.
So it’s pretty safe to say this program won’t be happening anywhere anytime soon. I can’t say I blame Ubisoft on this one. I wonder how EB is going to respond.
Many people are stoked about Haze for PS3 coming out soon. Apparently, EB Games in Canada feel that the game is not all that. If you preorder Haze, and return it with in 1 week with your receipt, you get a total refund. Its store credit but still. Ubisoft must be shitting their pants with rage right now. They are basically giving the game away for a free rental, and if you don’t like it, you can return it no questions asked. Furthermore, they are openly promoting this. There seems to be a good chance that Haze is going to suck big time and EB Canada is hedging their bets.
PS3 exclusives have been lagging behind and Haze has been no different, just plagued since it has been mentioned to the public with delays. Finally the news has hit the streets giving Haze a street date in May of this year. So it will be a fine day in May where PS3 owners will get to play Haze and use drugs (nectar) to become super-human soldiers in a war against rebels. Let’s just hope that Ubisoft doesn’t make any last minute changes and throw a wrench in the whole thing again.
To go along with it’s hefty system requirements, Assassin’s Creed for PC will get a few extra missions to satisfy your killing needs.
According to a press release from Ubisoft, there will be four new exclusive types of investigations. So no longer will you be pigeon holed into pick-pocketing or sitting and observing.
I really enjoyed Assassin’s Creed, and would love the extra investigation types and missions, but there’s no way my PC will run this game at a high enough level. I’ll stick to the console version.
There has been a lot of Wii-bashing as of late by both people and publication. How is it that the people singing the praises of something or someone seem to be the same people who act as the harbingers of doom a short time later? “It can only go downhill from here” people cry.
Are you serious? Has it come to this so soon? People are still scrambling around like assholes to find the damn things and you’re going to sit there and say the end is neigh? Are you a crackhead? Is that what it is? The crack? How sad for you. Huh.
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