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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.