The only reason he apologised (if it was even the same operator) was because someone slapped him upside the head and said "do you know who the fuck that is?!"

If it had been a regular nobody that didn't have the potential to publicly tell thousands of people their game was a shitty, broken mess, then they would not have thrown out that weak apology and pathetic suck up at the end.

if they cant get stuff fixed, just call vinny and give him a copy of sleeping dogs

@Vegetable_Side_Dish: Yes, actually.

YES YES YES YES

@Alexandru said:

if they cant get stuff fixed, just call vinny and give him a copy of sleeping dogs

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

@jozzy said:

but moreso for not (at the very least) doing a tiny check on the number of followers someone has before calling them buddy.

Followers mean nothing.

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

@jozzy said:

but moreso for not (at the very least) doing a tiny check on the number of followers someone has before calling them buddy.

Followers mean nothing.

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

@Alexandru said:

Assassin's CreedVerified ‏assassinscreed

H2Oyeataswellgiantbomb Buddy, if we get a 1-star just because... OH NO I DID IT AGAIN!!! Sorry sorry sorry. :o

Teeheehee, that was moi.

What is this twitter thing and why do people use it?

Spoke too soon as PSN is down as well (though supposedly it's PSN related and not ubisoft). No clue what name colors mean, but I do find neon green a tad revolting (if an amusing color to customize something with so it looks retarded).

@TeflonBilly said:

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

So what do red, white and grey mean?

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

By definition it means more people will see what is being said, so it does mean something, albeit not as much as the fact a public and respected game critic is on the receiving end of some public prickish behaviour

I know that, but it's still not important. Stupid tumblr teens and pornstars have way more followers than Ryan and they aren't important.

@TeflonBilly said:

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

Then what does gray mean?

@SMTDante89 said:

@TeflonBilly said:

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

So what do red, white and grey mean?

Angry/PC pure master race/ Indifference

@SMTDante89 said:

So what do red, white and grey mean?

Red= Burning periods

White= Sperm

Gray= Unknown

To be honest, a PR person should never talk to anyone like that, regardless of their occupation. It's just as bad to mouth of to a reviewer than it is to a regular player. Even if a twitter comment is being brutally harsh, which Ryan's was not, the account should not have answered.

In the end, dude should have been less of a jerk. But then again, he could have been from Quebec and in that case he was actually being fairly nice.

@awesomeusername said:

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

By definition it means more people will see what is being said, so it does mean something, albeit not as much as the fact a public and respected game critic is on the receiving end of some public prickish behaviour

I know that, but it's still not important. Stupid tumblr teens and pornstars have way more followers than Ryan and they aren't important.

@TeflonBilly said:

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

Then what does gray mean?

It means they have grey hair , duh !

Scandalous!

@Viking_Funeral said:

@Funkydupe said:

The guy said he was sorry, give him a break, his job is probably to answer people bashing their game 24/7.

His job is be the face of the company on the internet/twitter. He, of all the individuals that wanted and could have done the job, was chosen for being able to respond to people online without giving the company a bad image or (especially) getting upset at people who review their games.

The guy was fired. No question. His entire job description was to not make slip-ups like that.

He also had shit flung at him by a member of the games press. Ryan didn't exactly handle himself in the most professional of manners, especially when as a member of the games press, he should know that week 1 launches for multiplayer can have server issues. Hell, for all anyone knows, the servers are located somewhere that Sandy ended up hitting!

So overall, it was unprofessionalism from both sides, but people are going to take one side because the person is an editor here on the site moreso than look at it from both directions.

Ya know, unless all this was just Ryan knowing that he's shouting at someone he knows over at the AC PR...which it doesn't seem like.

Nonetheless, the AC PR on Twitter responded with something a bit more light-hearted with their "one-star review" tweet.

@spankingaddict: But @TheHumanDove said indifference! So it's not knowing what color to dye your hair???

God damn right Ryan. You tell those fuckers.

Hm, after Ocean Marketing and Diablo III developers talking shit about David Brevik, this really doesn't merit a response. Even if it was directed at Ryan.

@jakob187 said:

@Viking_Funeral said:

@Funkydupe said:

The guy said he was sorry, give him a break, his job is probably to answer people bashing their game 24/7.

His job is be the face of the company on the internet/twitter. He, of all the individuals that wanted and could have done the job, was chosen for being able to respond to people online without giving the company a bad image or (especially) getting upset at people who review their games.

The guy was fired. No question. His entire job description was to not make slip-ups like that.

He also had shit flung at him by a member of the games press. Ryan didn't exactly handle himself in the most professional of manners, especially when as a member of the games press, he should know that week 1 launches for multiplayer can have server issues. Hell, for all anyone knows, the servers are located somewhere that Sandy ended up hitting!

So overall, it was unprofessionalism from both sides, but people are going to take one side because the person is an editor here on the site moreso than look at it from both directions.

Ya know, unless all this was just Ryan knowing that he's shouting at someone he knows over at the AC PR...which it doesn't seem like.

Nonetheless, the AC PR on Twitter responded with something a bit more light-hearted with their "one-star review" tweet.

In an industry that puts SO MUCH emphasis on pre-orders and buying on Day 1, I think consumers have every right to be peeved when the thing that's been so hyped and heavily marketed doesn't work.

@awesomeusername said:

@spankingaddict: But @TheHumanDove said indifference! So it's not knowing what color to dye your hair???

Yeah...... Sure that makes sense :P

If you read AC's tweet in the voice of Nolan North -who is obviously writing them- it doesn't seem so bad. Kinda reassuring actually.

Also, this might be the most tenuous cause for internet drama I have ever seen.

@jakob187 said:

He also had shit flung at him by a member of the games press. Ryan didn't exactly handle himself in the most professional of manners, especially when as a member of the games press, he should know that week 1 launches for multiplayer can have server issues. Hell, for all anyone knows, the servers are located somewhere that Sandy ended up hitting!

So overall, it was unprofessionalism from both sides, but people are going to take one side because the person is an editor here on the site moreso than look at it from both directions.

Ya know, unless all this was just Ryan knowing that he's shouting at someone he knows over at the AC PR...which it doesn't seem like.

Nonetheless, the AC PR on Twitter responded with something a bit more light-hearted with their "one-star review" tweet.

I agree with Jacob. (Spelled it wrong on purpose.) What games don't have issues on launch week? Hell, some games stay broken. People still complain about Max Payne 3's multiplayer and MW3 spawns are still broken as all fuck. So at least they're working on it.

@Jimbo said:

If you read AC's tweet in the voice of Nolan North -who is obviously writing them- it doesn't seem so bad. Kinda reassuring actually.

That helps for anything :D Man , dat voice !

Has a new game been released that did not have some sort of server issues the first week? Thats kinda when they tend to happen.

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

By definition it means more people will see what is being said, so it does mean something, albeit not as much as the fact a public and respected game critic is on the receiving end of some public prickish behaviour

I know that, but it's still not important. Stupid tumblr teens and pornstars have way more followers than Ryan and they aren't important.

@TeflonBilly said:

@awesomeusername said:

@TheHumanDove said:

@awesomeusername said:

@Fredchuckdave said:

Hurray for not having a 360

But your names GREEN!

It's his favourite colour!

Greens for HIPPIES!!!

It means he's high, just like yours means you're cold.

Then what does gray mean?

Also, I guess that's why the review's not out yet.

@jakob187 said:

So overall, it was unprofessionalism from both sides, but people are going to take one side because the person is an editor here on the site moreso than look at it from both directions.

it's all silly, but the dude was being smarmy. i don't think anyone's opinion would change if it wasn't ryan.

I bet that dude had a fun morning on Twitter

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

I get that it's PR, but is it really as big of a deal as people are making it out to be? Guy was rude, apologized, and that should be the end of it, right? Does it really need a thread dedicated to it?

But if there wasn't a thread, then I would have never known and I couldn't wag my finger!

how many GB white knights going HOW DARE YOU INSULT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR RYAN DAVIS flooded there twitter?

@Chuggsy said:

Dude or lady was clearly having a bad day, wow. Broken launches really shouldn't be excusable; paying $60 for a product and having it be partly unusable isn't ok.

Tell that to Diablo III reviewers.

Just sounds like two children bickering to me.

@John1912:The Halo games never seem to have many problems on release that I can think of, Bungie always seem good with that sort of stuff, kind of interesting to see if it goes as smoothly with 343 in charge (not that I want it to go wrong since I'm getting it myself at launch)

Lol I like the attitude of that AC guy, at least he/she is not being fake, just telling it like it is

Unprofessionalism from someone in another part of the videogame industry? Raise the pitchforks!

Unprofessionalism from GiantBomb? Oh you Giantbomb guys so crazy :D

People taking this so seriously is honestly worrying, let's discuss something more important to humanity like; is rum and orange juice an okay drink for a man to order?

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

I get that it's PR, but is it really as big of a deal as people are making it out to be? Guy was rude, apologized, and that should be the end of it, right? Does it really need a thread dedicated to it?

Yes, of course, because anyone calling out our dear leaders on their own bullshit deserves the utmost scorn and condemnation, duh.

@Freshbandito: No, as far as I'm concerned, the only alcohol that belongs in OJ is vodka and tequila. Is it ok for a man, though? At home, yes. In public, eh, debatable.

Both were being dicks get over it people.

I've gotten into a pissing contest with the @tacobell account but saddly he/she running the account deleted it before I could get a screen grab. Most twitter accounts by these large corporations are run by what are called "young professionals" basically actors paid to come up with hip and exciting things to say. They're usually pieces of shit. The tacobell account is a prime example of the young professional at work.

...nothing to see here?

They were being mildly rude to each other, I wouldn't call that yelling. This thread is dumb.

it's pretty funny what they came back with once they realized who ryan is.

anyways, whatever. sure they're under a ton of stress right now. shit happens.

Video games.

Yep, that's Ubisoft alright.

Let's all have a circle jerk about Ryan Davis being a bit of a twat on Twitter.