• CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
    40·
    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

    • RampageDon@lemmy.world
      191·
      11 months ago

      The biggest part about that is that it seems to be Microsoft pushing that and not Walmart.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

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

    Ok! 🏴‍☠️🦜

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    334·
    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
      7·
      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
    23·
    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.

    • 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
        2·
        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
    111·
    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
      2·
      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.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
    4·
    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.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    11 months ago

    I honestly wonder, if there was a stock ticker for the used game market to analyze, anytime an article like the Ubisoft thing comes out, if it makes game resale prices spike.