Thank you, Charlie! And Fuck You, Ubisoft.

[erastes]

I’ve tried from time to time to get listed on Fantastic Fiction, with no avail, and Charlie wrote to them and pointed out that I was co-listed in the Speak Its Name anthology, and now I’m listed!  Whee!

Oi! Ubisoft!

I’m not at ALL happy with you.  I’ve been a Sam Fan (Splinter Cell) since the FIRST GAME. I was the first woman on the forums to finish the first game and have bought them all, and played them all – despite one of them sucking pretty highly.

So WHY are you cutting the Playstation adrift with the lastest: Splinter Cell: Conviction? And why on EARTH are you making it exclusively for the stupid Xbox?  (And the PC – which is a stupid platform for that kind of game when you are used to a console.) Madness! Despite rumours that it will eventually come to PS3, Ubisoft are dismissing them. All I can hope is that you are telling fibs.  I think it’s bloody disgusting that this exclusivity cuts in with games. When there’s a film release the distributors don’t say “Ok – we are only going to release this in a format which can only be watched by a fraction of the population.” BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE STUPID.

I could understand it if the idea was that Ubisoft was attempting to get more people to buy the Xbox but why would they want to do that? Or perhaps they get a royalty for every Xbox sold after the release. I don’t know.

So buck up, people. Not just Ubisoft, but all you games producers. Put your games on as many platforms as is possible. Yes yes, I know you get a big bonus for exclusivity, but how about a limited exclusivity?  Six months. A Year.  Don’t penalise people with “the wrong console”

NO LOVE AT ALL.

Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I get so frustrated about this console exclusivity thing. No way on earth am I going to buy a whole new console for Dragon Age: Awakenings. Just not going to happen. I'll wait for it to come out on the PS3 - I'm with you on not wanting to play games on a PC. Apart from anything, my PC simply isn't up to it.

[taylorbooks.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Don't you have a lot more books they could add? More anthologies? Go Charlie!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i do--but i cant update it--i realyy dont know how it works

[n8an.livejournal.com]

I love fantastic fiction - it's a great resource, but I've never even had them respond to an e-mail I've sent, let alone do anything (I tried e-mailing in a correction about FOOL FOR LOVE - it had a different title originally, and they listed it on an author bio under the previous title). I wish they were a bit more "responsive."

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I'll write to them for you LOL. *is flushed with success* (or maybe just the menopause)

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

ubisoft moving to the xbox, letem go
because xbox players who are supposedly hardcore actually have it pretty easy, games are dumbed down for them
seriously
look at silent hill 5, only took aboot 6 hours to complete and he had combat training!!! gone were the days of flailing about with a woodenplank and hoping for the best....
there's a load of games I've played moved onto the xbox and they just all suck, therefore if they've moved it there they've dumbed it down for the fourteen year old kids who own the console (and my housemate)
sod em and play god of war three, it's sony exclusive

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Completely agree. But we'll get a second Xbox for ,my birthday so we can play proper co-op shoot'em up campaigns... :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

you need TWO consoles to play co-op with the Xbox???