Angry at Ubisoft’s silence, the For Honor subreddit organises a boycott of For Honor

The “goal,” as poster jbaayoun put it, is to obtain a response from Ubisoft about various points. Most notably, they need to see extra communication about points with the sport, claiming that beforehand issues have been “very vague and have left us with more questions than answers.”

Beyond that there are particular calls for for solutions on future plans for the sport, plans for the Steel micro-transaction forex, matchmaking issues and precise ETAs. Jbaayoun concludes with “In general, Ubisoft, we want you to communicate with us. We know you can do a good job with this game and we have faith in you. Just give us a reason to stay faithful.”

The thread is a results of jbaayoun seeing help for the concept in a thread just a few hours earlier than this one was made, studying all of the feedback and arising with the listing of calls for. Ubisoft are but to reply to the thread, or reference it on social media.

Whether it would work or not we’ll discover out on Monday. It’s unlikely that the 10k-or-so people who’ve upvoted the the thread will all boycott it, however they might have a big impact on the sport’s playability on the day. The Steam PC community – which represents solely a few of the gamers, as the sport is out there by means of uPlay – has dropped off since launch, however maintains sufficient concurrents to discover a match.

For reference, there are common tweets from the official For Honor account about deliberate upkeep. Eric Pope, who did a lot of the pre-launch speaking on Reddit, is on parental leave till late April however was a daily contributor earlier than that. His substitute has made common posts on the subreddit about a wide range of subjects. Their thread a couple of livestream designed for neighborhood content material was downvoted and locked. Various threads on the Ubi-hosted boards additionally see official responses.