Gamers across Reddit are angry at Ubisoft due to the next Assassins Creed game being only 30FPS and stating gamers prefer it over 60FPS (self.SubredditDrama)

SubredditDrama

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So Ubisoft recently claimed in a TechRadar article that the next Assassians Creed game is going to be in 30FPS instead fo 60FPS since "It actually feels better for people when it's at that 30fps". Unsurprisingly, this has sparked some delicious upset amongst the gaming community!

First let's look to /r/gamernews, which is probably where the best drama is. The top comment turns into some tasty drama over whether or not 60FPS is better than 30FPS when one user says "Those bastards have a different opinion? Piiiiitchfooooooorks out!".

/r/Games is next up, which has a lot of deleted comments (damn mods, being all active):

snookums thinks that "that no one cares" about 60FPS and that it's only a fringe obsession. Kidxa disgrees, thinking instead that "It's painfully obvious" the problem is "children like [snookums] who have to justify their console purchase as they can't afford a PC to experience 60fps."

Minor spat between two users which turns into name insults very quickly

Another "is 60FPS better than 30FPS" argument

"I'm going to make a video game review site. The only information covered is going to be whether it is 1080p 60fps or not. That's the only thing that seems to matter to people these days, so why waste time talking about story, art, gameplay, or music?"

Enough of /r/games, let's take a peek at /r/xboxone, where one use agreeing with Ubisoft is referred to as insane.

/r/pcmasterrace doesn't have any drama between users, but they're all pretty angry at Ubisoft:

Fuck off ubisoft, go die in a ditch whilst holding your beloved uplay drm. I'm sorry for the language but Ubisoft just pisses me off so much.

A little piece of me died inside from reading that article pls ubisoft just STFU you are just digging a deeper hole for yourself that you will never be able to crawl out of from saying stupid shit like that.

Kill. Death. Decapitation. Strangulation. These are only some of the feelings I feel like doing while reading this article.

Surely nobody can be this fucking stupid.

The /r/PS4 thread doesn't have much in-fighting either, but they're all pretty angry at Ubisoft:

Do they actually think we're that stupid?

Fuck off Ubisoft. TLOU Remastered is FANTASTIC in 60FPS, same thing with Shadow of Mordor. After playing TLOU in 60FPS I could never go back to playing it in 30FPS This is just a shitty excuse. They shouldn't tell me what I want.

Fuck yourself Ubisoft. higher fps is better , no matter what genre of game it is. Stop talking to us like we are idiots

There is one user who gets very angry another user at the suggestion of not buying the game, but it doesn't go beyond a couple comments:

Jesus fucking Christ. Does everything need to be a boycott?

/r/girlgamers is pissed too, but their thread is fairly short.

EDIT: I forgot to check /r/assassinscreed, but luckily is /u/WolfKingAdam is looking out for us. Here's the full thread, and here's a direct link to some drama. Thanks /u/WolfKingAdam.

104 comments submitted at 13:33:18 on Oct 9, 2014 by wipqozn

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  • CantaloupeCamper
  • -4 Points
  • 13:57:40, 9 October

Oh what a surprise...

Seriously, I wish there was gaming discussion about actual games, what you do in the game, etc.

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  • WorldOneWon
  • 14 Points
  • 14:02:08, 9 October

People have the right to be mad about this shit. Consoles and PCs have the power to run these games at higher FPS. It makes no sense to limit them.

Plus Ubisoft saying that people will enjoy 30 FPS more than 60 FPS makes no sense

  • [-]
  • masshamacide
  • 2 Points
  • 14:25:33, 9 October

"Consoles have the power to run these games at higher FPS"

Yet, xbox one's main complaints is that it can't.

Edit: That was the beginning of the launch of console, it's now able to with patches. My mind went derp.

  • [-]
  • WorldOneWon
  • 4 Points
  • 14:30:30, 9 October

Yea I wasn't sure about XBONE, but PC's and the PS4 sure as hell can

  • [-]
  • masshamacide
  • 2 Points
  • 14:33:44, 9 October

I have both new gen consoles. They're remotely the same unless you're in a cut scene where there's darkness all around you-- the PS4 highlights great detail in dark environments better than the XBOX one.

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  • CantaloupeCamper
  • 2 Points
  • 14:07:12, 9 October

People have the right to be mad about anything.

Doesn't mean it has anything to do with if the game is actually any good.

  • [-]
  • WorldOneWon
  • 8 Points
  • 14:13:59, 9 October

Well when Ubisoft comes out and announces that they want a game at 30 FPS for a "cinematic feel" of course the discussion will revolves around that

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  • theoreticallyme76
  • 3 Points
  • 14:48:35, 9 October

If they wanted a really cinematic feel it'd be 24fps, 30 is TV.

I can buy their argument that the majority of console only gamers don't give a shit about 900 vs. 1080 or 30 vs 60 fps. If people really care about making sure their games never drop below 60fps or run lower than 1080p just get a PC.

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  • this_is_theone
  • 9 Points
  • 14:10:13, 9 October

I think the anger is more about ubisofts bullshit response.

  • [-]
  • CantaloupeCamper
  • -4 Points
  • 14:16:25, 9 October

Seems like a pretty silly thing to get angry about :(

I'm willing to bet 99 out of 100 of the angry folk here who were going to buy the game before... still will... and will have fun.

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  • this_is_theone
  • 8 Points
  • 14:21:30, 9 October

Of all the silly shit people get mad about on reddit, I don't think getting mad about a company bullshitting is that bad.

  • [-]
  • CantaloupeCamper
  • -2 Points
  • 14:29:47, 9 October

Folks can certainly get mad about silly shit.

This seems notably disconnected from the actual thing.

I mean angry about some PR (some of those guys I think are frothing at the mouth) and putting so much anger into it....... still gonna fork over $60 to the company as soon as they can.

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  • madmax_410
  • 3 Points
  • 14:28:44, 9 October

That's not true. A lot of the PC gamers absolutely hate ubisoft for the shit they pull (Watchdogs really broke the camel's back) and actively boycott them by simply not playing any of their games.

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  • CantaloupeCamper
  • -3 Points
  • 14:31:39, 9 October

99 out of a 100 of the folks who WERE going to buy it in the first place.

Meaning this particular hubub really doesn't change anything.

Angry folks actually not buying something aren't changing anything they were going to do anyway and I seriously doubt there are THAT many of them.

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  • FlapjackFreddie
  • 0 Points
  • 14:02:18, 9 October

There's a lot of discussion in /r/games and /r/truegaming. I'm sure the sub for the game itself would contain tons of discussion on gameplay.

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  • CantaloupeCamper
  • 2 Points
  • 14:08:45, 9 October

games is pretty much /r/gaming without the memes......

/r/truegaming is a good sub but tends to be a bit more high minded, less about the actual game(s), but still a good sub no doubt.

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  • Ewindal
  • 2 Points
  • 14:28:09, 9 October

> games is pretty much /r/gaming without the memes......

Then what's left?

/r/games is a very cynical sub. There's very little enthusiasm for games to be found there. Other than that, it's nothing but a stop for news about games, which is primarily what I use it for. Discussing games themselves is better to do in other subs.

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  • CantaloupeCamper
  • 1 Points
  • 14:32:11, 9 October

> Then what's left?

Yeah not much.

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  • xelested
  • 2 Points
  • 14:53:58, 9 October

We're going to have to resort to actually playing the games instead of complaining about them? Fuck.