Ubisoft should get comfortable with not owning my money.
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Ha I really want to see the current Ubisoft reaction to their incredibly shit take from before.
It was a good take
For game subscriptions to work people will have to be comfortable not owning games
How is that any less true now?
Fuck around and find out moment
What was their latest debacle? I lose track of which gaming company screwed what up.
NFTs in game. Said they had made the first AAAA game. Then the CEO said gamers have to get used to not owning games, which pissed a lot of people off and was an incredibly dumb thing to say. Ubisoft seems to be very much out of touch with gamers.
They also had their most recent assassins creed game have a choice between a black man and an Asian woman as the main character, so some Gamers™ are upset about that I guess.
Ohhhh they were the idiots with the AAAA claim! Haha ok yeah now I remember hearing that and rolling my eyes.
Ehehehe
We're all just getting comfortable not owning games. Ubisoft games, specifically. This is what they asked for, right?
Ubisoft should feel a sense of pride and accomplishment for 1. Stealing the title of worst game publisher and 2. Stealing the title of most evil quote from EA.
whats the new evil quote?
https://80.lv/articles/ubisoft-executive-players-should-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-games/
"One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That's the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That's a transformation that's been a bit slower to happen. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect…".
Interpreted as "Players Should Get Comfortable with Not Owning Games"
The real context was they wanted more subscriptions.
honestly i see the industry moving in that direction, not unlike the "pride and accomplishment" thing of yesteryear. i hate this so much.
Ah yes. (Barf) GamePass.
It seems to be the thing for those adrenaline dopamine shooter games, but why must they abandon the good rpg and strategy games to do only that? I mean in general, they all do.
I bet a new C&C, even isometric, would gain enough for a studio to thrive. But no, subscriptions it is.
As an old game dev I hate this even more.
Pff.
If only they fired as many CEO as they fire devs.
Thanks to all these bad decisions, hundreds of jobs are gone, our stock is shit, our games aren't selling.
But fortunately, we gave those bad upper management a nice severance package and they'll be taken care of!
Thanks Ubisoft!
Man, if the new Assassin's Creed isn't a banger Ubisoft is cooked. They've had nothing but flops for the past 4 years or so. Even the newer Far Cry games kinda flopped.
FC5 was very interesting, but I definitely lost interest after that.
5 was cool but I think I got whiplash from how hard the ludo narrative dissonance hit me. At this point I don't even think they realize why FC3 was so well received (which a snarky french games journalist was already joking about when it came out)
I think 5 is my overall favorite from the series but 4 is probably the most "far cry" of all the far cry games. I really did not enjoy New Dawn or 6 at all. I actually had to force myself to finish 6. I kept starting it and losing interest after like an hour. I went back and played 4 and 5 again after I beat 6 just because I felt like I needed to wash out the bad taste 6 had left in my mouth.
I liked New Dawn more than I thought I would, played coop.
Really? The coop was the most frustrating part. Only the host can get the super powers? You gotta play the whole game basically twice on both people's saves in order for everyone to have super powers. That's just lame and poorly designed coop.
It didn't bother me I was just sightseeing old FC5 locations and shooting bad guys.
4 is what got me into the series! I agree it fit most with the previous titles. Good on you for finishing the game. I played a couple hours and never opened it again.
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I thought far cry 6 was good.
Was 6 the only Far Cry game you've played? Because I've played all the far cry games and 6 is one of my lowest ranked games from the series personally. I'm curious why you liked 6.
It was a large open map rpg with a well polished UI. Decent story, cool aesthetics. Wasn't groundbreaking awesomeness, but we can't all be FNV. What's not to love?
Did you play any of the other far cry titles or was that your first? Because in a vacuum I could see 6 being fun, but when you go into 6 expecting a game like the other far cry titles it really fell short.
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Suck for the innocent employees but also fuck Ubisoft. Can't wait for them to crash and burn
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Couldn't have happened to a better company. Fuck you Ubisoft. I don't care that you have made some of my favorite games ever. You'll never get a fuckin penny from me for the rest of time.
It's so sad how they ended up, we need more European companies in this field
Turns out pushing out really high quality games, and then pushing out crap makes people not wanna buy the crap. Your name only carries you so far. But, the executives responsible for this shit will just close up the studio, run away with a golden parachute to the next company they're planning on ruining.
Just slam another launcher on it 🤡
We need more lootboxes
I think it's time to implement the shovel
Feels bad for the developers, but fingers crossed that the new AC is a disaster and Ubisoft is over.
Oh well. Buy the ticket, take the ride
All thanks to rainbow six siege not being on linux!
hey! do you think they'll show anything regarding a siege 2 on Sunday? its the only game I've played religiously since the alpha and I'm hoping they at least do a facelift of the graphics, lol
Sorry I haven’t kept up with the game’s news since 2020.
I always thought the graphics looked perfect hehe =)
It's odd to realise other people can also be gamers and I may not even be aware of the games they play, can't even remember the last ubisoft or EA game I bought. Maybe for EA it might be battle for middle earth. Do they make battlefield? Think I got 3 in a humble bundle and some other games.
~Oh no. What a shame.~ Moving on...
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