Heroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the game : nottheonion

[–] notabot@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This may be DLC taken to its logical conclusion. Paying for the game gets you a .exe, the game and everything else, is a paid for download.

Soon they will expand the concept, so that paying for the game only gives you the right to pay to download the actual game and any basic tier DLC. You'll be able to purchase the right to buy higher tier DLC for a very (un)reasonable sum.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 45 minutes ago

When do they start charging us per download?

[–] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I just want Ubi to go under and sell the IPs to literally anyone else

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 14 points 8 hours ago

*Activision taking notes*

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 105 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

Haven't read the article but they just added a 770MB update to the 26KB original download and now the game reportedly works.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4921760/Heroes_Of_Might_And_Magic_III/

[–] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

"Nice job dev team, now enjoy your vacation because you're all fired."

"Wait no shit come back and fix this!"

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. When I read the headline I thought it had to be an exaggeration or complaint about poor game quality. Nope, literally forgot to add it.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 14 points 8 hours ago

A friend of mine until recently worked for their department that also did risk planning and mitigation. Until they were all let go.

So they basically prepared for stuff like this, and now they're gone, and hey, now not even this basic shit works. Well done, Ubisoft.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 22 points 17 hours ago

Hurray! Minimal effort has been achieved!

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 12 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

What on Earth is with the system requirements for this game? It requires a gigabyte of space? Heroes of Might and Magic 3? How's that possible? Judging from the pictures it is not updated or remastered or anything.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It came on a CD, which is max about 700MB; that could easily unpack to a gigabyte.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think I remember its demo being around a 20MB download (for sure under 100) so the full version was probably way less than a whole CD

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm seeing an 848 MB split rar archive in at least one torrent for "complete" edition.

This is an 18 year old torrent too, that's not the remastered version which is more like 3 GB.

PCGamingWiki does show 425 MB in the requirements, but that's likely without the expansions.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe I am confusing it for II

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 points 16 hours ago

It'll be 700MB of electron based emulation to run it.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

what were you expecting?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

The game to not be as large, I assume

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 64 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Hello, just passing by to shamelessly promote !homm@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Also, yeah, usual business when it comes to Ubisoft. Fun story: their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006, had its release date postponed because the fans protested and begged to have it released later. It was horribly buggy, according to the beta players, and the fans wanted the studio to have enough time to fix it.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Heroes 5 was actually a really solid entry, so I appreciate you 2006 fans!

[–] PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006

They also buried the M&M sci-fi storyline there.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Well thanks for that. I had no idea it existed and I love HOMM.

[–] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Its surprisingly easy to fudge up this kind of thing if you've seen Steam's back end.

That being said, getting a miscofigured game all the way to launch is kind of wild.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Yeah exactly, this means not a single person that wasn't already fired and replaced with exec-level managed talking to Claude existed that could try the game out before setting it to public.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

With a QA? Surely download and install a game is the first basic test case?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone play song of silence? It is like a modern homm3, i think, I'm too young for homm3

[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I've not played Song of Silence, but from what I've heard it's closer to Total War then HoMM.

You should try Songs of Conquest, which is heavily inspired by HoMM, with some more modern mechanics and QoL. I find it simpler than HoMM in general - might be a good intro into the genre.

Also vanilla HoMM 3 is not really a great way to play the game these days. I'd say Horn of the Abyss is a must, and there are a ton of mods to improve the game. Have a look at the VCMI project if you want to dig deeper.

My favorite is HoMM 5.5, which improves 5 a lot.

There's obviously also Olden Era, which is not bad and a very approachable intro into the series. I've not played much, so my experience is too limited to comment on it.

[–] upandatom@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Glad you played Songs of Conquest. Their devs did a great job of keeping the homm spirit while also fixing some issues with the games by enforcing new rules and limits. Only complaint is I wish the graphics were just a little bit better.

Do people actually want/like the 3d added to the hmm3 remake? I was pretty instantly turned off by it.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 13 points 15 hours ago

I bought the complete version on Gog and it works on Linux after a small tweak

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I recall purchasing this quite a while ago.

...

Ah, it was the "HD" version. I wonder what exactly's different from this one.

[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

This version has all the content and isn't remastered.

[+] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com -6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

Not a fan of Ubisoft and this is definitely an embarrassing blunder but it seems a little petty to leave a negative review if it was only broken for a day after launch.

[–] NoFearFrontier@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago

If you don't get that, you are a part of the problem

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

see all those downvotes? they aren't petty, people are informing you that your opinion sucks.

pretty apt analogy to the bad reviews frankly.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago

Buy game you want
Install game
Play
There is no game
Complain
"Consumers are a little petty these days"

Dude.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not petty at all if you just bought an empty game file.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

It shows such an absurd lack of care. Bugs are one thing, but you'd think someone would try to at least launch the game one last time before going live with it??

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