Leading up to release week, Assassins Creed: Unity was easily one of the most anticipated video games of the year. Not only is Unity the latest entry in one of the most popular video game franchises in the world, but it also had a plot setting (the French Revolution) that intrigued gamers greatly. According to a report from BBC News, though, that anticipation has now crashed headlong into disappointment: Unity, it seems, is a buggy, unfinished mess.

Ubisoft, the company behind the development of Unity, has recently had difficulty hitting deadlines for its games. One of the company’s recent projects ended up making its way to the market a year later than expected, while another is currently nine months behind schedule and counting.

Unity, meanwhile, hit scheduled dates as it was supposed to. However, based on the bugs inherent in the game, many players and reviewers alike are speculating that Ubisoft forced the game out before it was finished, solely for the purpose of meeting a deadline.

The bugs are severe, and are not likely to be completely fixed by patches or updates for the game. Players have reported floating characters, invisible walls, disappearing faces, and more. The game’s protagonist can supposedly start walking in mid-air at random moments. Other times, he falls through the floor or gets stuck inside of hay carts. These are all glaring issues that a developer at Ubisoft’s level could not possibly have missed.

In fact, most critics of the game are fairly sure that Ubisoft did not miss them. Where most review embargoes for games only extend to midnight the night before the game’s release – if not earlier – Ubisoft did not allow journalists to post reviews about Unity until nine hours after the game went on sale in the United States.

Ubisoft claims that the later embargoes for Unity had to do with the online multiplayer aspects of the game. The explanation is that reviewers would not be able to get a proper sense of the game’s online component before it was populated with players. Ubisoft’s critics, meanwhile, claim that the company maliciously “weaponized” the embargo so that fans would purchase the game before negative reviews started coming out and criticizing its flaws.

In any case, Ubisoft is not coming out of this looking good. Stock shares for the company have dropped nearly 13 percent since Unity released on Tuesday.