Comments on: R.U.S.E. Postponed ‘Til September

By: Warskull

Warskull — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:40:03 +0000

With Ubisoft’s DRM, the poor marketing, and releasing near other, bigger games, RUSE will likely be DOA. Sucks for the developer, they actually did a decent job. Maybe they can escape Ubisoft in the future.

By: DJ Phantoon

DJ Phantoon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:11:13 +0000

Oooor I should have just looked down.

I told you, bro! i TOLD you about stairs dawg!

By: DJ Phantoon

DJ Phantoon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:10:11 +0000

the sock ruse was a……………

DISTACTION

i HAVE the car

(It is very unlikely anyone will get this reference)

By: SmokingKipper

SmokingKipper — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:10:54 +0000

Sorry for my terrible spelling etc, getting used to this netbook, with TINY keys and all types of crazy.

By: SmokingKipper

SmokingKipper — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:09:17 +0000

I am suprised of this DRM, they did not just make it a browser game; could they not have done the same with Settlers?

Making it a browser based game, lets Ubisoft do all their cloud based saving gibbons, and by proxy, you need to be online to play. I would have bet this would have sat far better with the public as well.

What do you think?

By: Don

Don — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:34:12 +0000

Yeah, put me in the don’t care camp as well. Until their DRM nightmare RUSE would have been on my list of possible purchases but now, not so much. OTOH perhaps the delay will be of benefit, by the time it’s ready maybe Ubisoft’s DRM will have been found to be a sales killer and/or thoroughly cracked and will have dropped out of the picture. One can but hope.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:38:09 +0000

This is a bit of a puzzle. From my time in the recent beta the game seemed slick, balanced and fun. Almost entirely bug-free, too. I would guess the delay would be due to issues with the single-player content.

Chalk me up as another who wouldn’t have bought it anyway, blah blah DRM blah.

By: bill

bill — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:01:04 +0000

I thought we weren’t talking about games by these guys??

By: Thants

Thants — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:31:40 +0000

You’d play an RTS on a console? You monster!

By: Bowlby

Bowlby — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:53:35 +0000

Not interested until they change their DRM “solution”. (Although, if I were to buy R.U.S.E. it would certainly not be on the PC. Ubisoft are the worst when it comes to the PC port/version of their games.)

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:14:52 +0000

@Goomich

Wow, I had no idea that late summer was going to be the turn based strategy apocalypse. 2010′s going to be a good year…

By: subedii

subedii — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:27:20 +0000

Pretty much my thoughts. I was interested until it was evident that Ubi’s new scheme was involved. At that point I didn’t even bother with the beta since I knew I probably wasn’t getting it. These days my RTS gaming is happily satisfied by DoW2 (and Chaos Rising), and Supreme Commander 2. And Starcraft 2 is on the way. I don’t really feel any pressing desire to buy this too and support Ubisoft’s shenanigans.

But hey if you want to compete against Starcraft 2, it’s your call. Should the game fail to sell, I’m sure there’s a suitable and readily available excuse you could adopt as to why it did worse than expected.