• CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
    53·
    11 months ago

    With Walmart pulling physical games from the shelves and not even selling them too? Yeah I’m already looking for a tricorne and a cutlass

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    43·
    11 months ago

    “We want your money, but we’ll do everything possible to discourage you from doing that”

    Ok! 🏴‍☠️🦜

  • Kerb
    41·
    11 months ago

    im already very used to not owning ubisoft games

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    374·
    11 months ago

    I’m okay with just not owning Ubisoft games. Why fucking pirate garbage anyhow? Nothing published by Ubisoft, EA, or Microsoft is worth owning.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      101·
      11 months ago

      Nah, they have a lot of good IP, it’s just they squander them and milk them until each is dead.

      Maybe that’s why they don’t want people owning their games… Everyone would notice how the old ones are better.

  • cottonmon@lemmy.world
    27·
    11 months ago

    Ubisoft seems like one of the shittiest game companies. They were one of the earliest companies that implemented Always-on DRM, requiring an app to open chests, trying to put ads when you paused the game, refusing to put games on Steam because they want more money, sexual assault/harassment allegations etc.

    • example@reddthat.com
      10·
      11 months ago

      requiring an app to open chests? what?

      I’m glad I’ve been avoiding Ubisoft like the plague they are for all the other issues already.

      • XTornado@lemmy.ml
        6·
        11 months ago

        It was some special kind of exclusive bonus chest thingy, it wasn’t as bad as he points it, it was like a bonus thingy you could ignore them. I honestly didn’t care for it at all.

        I think it was similar to the mini game ships thing on Black Flag, but on your phone and sending assassins instead of ships and maybe solving some puzzles, can’t remember.

        It made more sense as a phone app, because it was like on Black Flag you sent stuff and that would take x time and then you would get the results, so in a phone you would easily check the progress and maybe get a notification, instead of having to enter the game to check just that.

        EDIT: It seems Black Flag also used an app, I played later and now it’s a thing in-game I guessed that was the original version honestly.

        • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
          6·
          11 months ago

          I am glad i stopped playing after black flag. Now i remember assassin’s creed as a cool series.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        1·
        11 months ago

        I really feel like I need to learn what games are typically theirs and just evade them as well. Disgusting.

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Oh man, is that the companion app for black flag? I remember not being able to earn off game because you had to use it to command expeditions.

      • XTornado@lemmy.ml
        3·
        11 months ago

        Oh wait that was an app as well? Oh I didn’t know that I just have played recently and the sending ships thingy is in-game now.

        • XTornado@lemmy.ml
          2·
          11 months ago

          It was basically similar, but sending assassin’s instead of ships. And maybe some puzzles, can’t remember.

  • ByGourou@sh.itjust.works
    122·
    11 months ago

    He said that for subscriptions to be more popular, people need to be “more comfortable with not owning their games”. People always forget the first part, if you take the whole quote, he’s right.
    He didn’t say he wanted that to happen. But he probably do, so fuck Ubisoft and him.
    I just don’t like how the whole internet built a narrative around an out of context quote.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      11 months ago

      Even with the extra context, for him to be speaking in those terms, means that it’s something they’ve at least considered. In order for subscription based games to be more popular they need to not suck so much ass.

  • rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
    8·
    11 months ago

    Eh, not really. Always Online DRM is going to be even more of a thing in the future than it is now. It’ll be so baked into the application that any attempt at patching it will take so long that it’ll exceed the normal lifetime of the game itself.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    Funny seeing so many upset people and yet when another feather collecting game drops people will rush to buy platinum exclusive pre-release edition with booster packs for only 100€ and shell out additional money to fix some other problem Ubisoft purposely made to milk people. This is not the first time they had creative ideas on how to take more of people’s money or to rob them of their games, and yet here they are one of the biggest game publishers and developers.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      6·
      11 months ago

      One Piece anime I think

      But it sucks they cut the quote to make it sound like Ubisoft is telling people to stop wanting to own games (which gamers are, look at Steam’s and gamepass’s popularity)

      The quote should say subscriptions like EA Play, Ubisoft +, and Gamepass will only be successful if people are comfortable not owning games

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        11 months ago

        Right, why do you think they were having that conversation? They’re executives. Their job is to increase profits. You do that as a video game publisher by transitioning to digital only, subscription based GaaS.