I am very comfortable not owning ubisoft games, because I am not buying them. :)
Every company that is hostile towards their own customer will soon have no customer (hopefully, lol).
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I love hearing these stories of big gaming companies being shitty as usual, knowing I only play indie games and I'm not giving theme a dime
Not really, Ubisoft.
Much like music, movies and TV, you just need to make sure your content is both available for purchase for people who don't want a subscription and consistently available on a subscription service for those that do.
It's when you start fucking around and taking them off again because somebody else is offering you more for exclusivity that we get pissed off and just pirate things. You can't expect Assassin's Creed Black Flag to still be making you a noticeable amount of money, but a subscriber can rightfully expect it to be on your service.
I'm of the opinion that if a game is on a subscription service, be it PSN or Game Pass, then it should stay there except in very extreme circumstances. A game can take weeks to play through, and it's only going to take one large game going AWOL at 90% completion for me to sour on the whole idea.
Pretty easy to not own a Ubisoft game. Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series are pretty boring IMO.
Get to vantage point.
Explore actionable map points.
Go to next area.
Repeat.
Which game am I talking about? Doesn't matter, it's the Ubisoft formula these days and has been for a long time.
Wake me up when Ubisoft metaphorically burns to the ground, or they do something innovative.
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Ubisoft needs to get used to me never buying their repetative lazy games every again.
What a shame. FC3, 4 and primal are some of my favorite games..
What a fucking piece of shit. Yuck.
Ubisoft doing God's work.
And by that I mean not having their games available on steam so I cannot purchase them.
oh, i forgot that it's 2024 and video games haven't really "taken off" yet
UbiSoft needs to get comfortable with execs not making sales targets.
These guys need to remember they are selling a novelty...a toy. It's not an essential good. Their consumer can just "stop" seeking new games
This is one positive about the Switch, cartridges are still a thing and I hope this trend continues with future Nintendo releases. Other than that fuck this, if that's their stance I will be comfortable to sail the high seas.
It's hard to not be cynical about this pattern. To me, it's starting to look like a lot of companies are setting up long-term plans to weather a recession, and patiently wait for baselines to shift in order to normalize stuff like this.
Another way to frame it is, given enough time, a business will ultimately engage in rent seeking behavior if they see no alternative to adding value. Which kind of makes sense, as Ubisoft now builds absolutely monster sized games (e.g. Assassin's Creed 22 - Find all the Things Edition), with all the DLC, online content, and cosmetic bolt-ons imaginable; they've saturated that market. There's literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they take on much bigger risks like building a whole new franchise or two.
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I am comfortable, it is called piracy. Just try me.
That's okay, you just need to get comfortable with me pirating your games... Then again that's Ubisoft, I don't think I even want to pirate their stuff.
But I don't want subscriptions to take off...
Just downloaded the original Assassin's Creed from JC141 and I'm having a blast.
It's crazy how much ubisoft games have fallen.
MMO without the MM
We need time get comfortable trusting games companies that have the track record they do not to fuck customers that have trusted they'll continue to provide access to their games rather than arbitrarily removing them, adding game-ruining monetisation, fucking with subscription prices gating access to their libraries and generally acting like shady arseholes?
Suuure - sign me up.
be careful what you wish for ubisoft
The last game I bought was Outer Wilds in 2022, on sale, for like ten bucks. Maybe I bought Firewatch in 2023 as a rebound, but I don't remember. After that, I decided to finally play through the MCC for most of 2023, which I'd bought years earlier for like 50 bucks, maybe. And how much would I have to have paid to keep acces to these games for so long with a subscription model? Well, just to keep acces with Ubusoft would have cost me nearly 300 dollars since late 2022, for less than 80 dollars worth of games. Of course they want us to have subscriptions.
I think he said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet....
I dont want to pay a subscription for a bunch of games I'm not interested in. I want to buy and own the specific games I want to play. Fuck off ubisoft
Fuck subscriptions. I pay you $5 for groovy Zilean as a magnificent hippy grandpa and you change him into a cranked out meth head because the Chinese government told you to. Fuck you for your control over what you took my money for!