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Five Worst Game Launches

Kevin from Denkiphile: "I’m going to go ahead and assume that everyone reading this has already heard of the buggy, overhyped mess of a launch that Ubisoft’s Watch_Dogs just had. For anyone who has played games for the past, oh, I don’t know, three-four years, you’ll know that this is just the latest in a tradition developers seem to have of having terrible, terrible releases. Here are some of the worst."

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alexkoepp3621d ago

I'd add SOCOM 4 to that list. Wasn't the games fault but the PSN hack and being down for a month killed that game real fast.

creatchee3621d ago

Even though I completely despised SOCOM 4, at least it had a single player campaign to play. For SOCOM Confrontation's launch, it took like ten minutes to load a game (after the countdown), and then there was freezing and boots to deal with.

SaffronCurse3621d ago

I still enjoyed Confrontation much more than Socom 4.

crusf3621d ago

Believe it or not Half-Life 2 should be on this list. Launch was a mess with broken authentication issues and graphical problems.

WeAreLegion3621d ago (Edited 3621d ago )

No. It had a very successful launch. GTA Online didn't go live until a few weeks after the game released.

XStation3621d ago (Edited 3621d ago )

That's why i mentioned it. Battlefield 4 had a successful launch; it's story mode worked fine, but the multiplayer wasn't

Revolver_X_3621d ago

Watch Dogs is meh to me so far, but overhyped? The fastest selling Ubisoft IP isnt overhyped. Thats hype confirmed.

user56695103620d ago

i never knew watchdogs was hyped up. every time it was in the headlines it was always about resolution, frame rate, and gfx. devs and pubs hyping their game isnt the same as us hyping it up. if it was like that i wouldnt have enjoyed fable as much as i did, and we all know how they overhyped that game.

DemonChicken3621d ago

I found Final Fantasy ok at launch, queues weren't that bad although this maybe due to the server I was on since this is where all my friends were.

Simcity and BF4 was literally unplayable for me =/

But hey what a surprise this is EA

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark Software

Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.

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Xbox Profanity Filter Is Ruining the FFXIV Chat

The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.

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Snookies1227d ago

Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.

gold_drake27d ago

wanted to say the exact same thjng.

VenomUK26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?

RedDevils26d ago

*insert gift*
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."

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DivineHand12526d ago

I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.

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TheGamingHounds26d ago

Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched

Eidolon26d ago

it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape

Aphrodia26d ago

Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.

shinoff218326d ago

What happened to just reporting people

NOMATICENIGMA26d ago

This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.

NOMATICENIGMA26d ago

You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.

CrimsonWing6926d ago

Geezus, Xbox, you get gifted gold and still f*ck things up.

NOMATICENIGMA26d ago

It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.

CrimsonWing6926d ago

Does this affect PC and PS4/PS5 users, too? Or is it only happening on Xbox?

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