I've been comfortable with not owning Ubisoft games for years 
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If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing
Thanks Ubisoft exec, but I've been comfortable with piracy the whole time
Game companies need to get comfortable with piracy
: "Phew, thought it was news about a game with a black protagonist for a second."
Gamers will make no excuses for the Terror...
I stg i am going to do an adventure if windows becomes a webservice/os as a service
Oh you don't have an Internet connection? Sorry you can't use your OS
1000 years from now the post apocalypse humans will attempt to learn from our time by analyzing ancient data caches only to discover that they need to create The Internet in order to access them. They will give up. Nothing will have been lost.
might be the only reason some U.S. states are doing "rural broadband initiatives". i mean we know it's not because the state wants to do infrastructure for any greater social purpose
hit some arbitrary percentage of access, fudge it with starlink numbers, declare victory and watch everything move to the cloud.
Get comfortable with me not buying any of your games
well, that aint fair is it? i haven't played a Ubisoft game in years
It's especially weird that companies are still like this after seeing the success of a game like Baldurs Gate 3. The runaway hit of the year, and biggest earner on Steam, doesn't even implement the basic Steam DRM. I tried it. The game launches and runs just fine when Steam isn't running at all. It's so messed up how capitalism leads to that (providing good products at fair prices and respecting your audience) being seen as an "unsustainable business model."
Yeah but that would require them to actually invest in making genuinely good games, which is a nonstarter.
then they should get comfortable with everyone pirating their games
or better yet, just not playing their shitty games
It took 5-10 years but eventually I got to a point where I never touched a torrent. It took less than a year for me to go 100% back, and with bigger and better resources than ever. If the internet shuts off I still have all my music, movies, shows, games, even info like Wikipedia I have stored as real 1s and 0s and spinny metal plates.
when was the last time ubisoft made a game worth playing? last decade?
Yeah probably Valiant Hearts or something? So like 2014.
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I made the mistake of getting Child of Light on Steam because it was on sale for like $5 and then got stuck in a recurring loop of needing to log in through Uplay only to run into some error code.
Uplay is a great deal. When there is a Ubisoft game you want to play, you subscribe for a month, then you cancel.
They also have a remarkably inane DLC protection scheme for several games, which means for those you can simply buy the base game then unlock all the DLCs yourself.
Only concern is potentially getting banned on the account later.
What if it takes you more than a month to get through the game? What if you take a break? Better make sure that subscription is paid for when you get back to it
Fuck this pay per minute shit
I’m generally “done” with their games pretty quickly. So a 1 month Ubisoft + subscription when I have an urge for one or more of their games works for me.
I also find the rental model to be more honest than “you’re buying a limited license that lasts forever or until we say it doesn’t”.
As even a lot of games on disc aren’t fully on the disc.
It sucks for preservation. I also don’t understand how it’s remotely profitable based on the subscription price and how much it costs to make games.
Presumably Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA et al are currently all eating the cost until they have enough of the userbase used to the subscription model so they can start jacking up prices, introducing ad-supported tiers or whatever else awful shit they've got cooking
This current honeymoon period with its quote unquote incredible value will not last
Yeah. Everyone is doing the Netflix.
- Undercharge
- Run competition out of business
- Become monopoly
- Jack up prices to where it’s profitable
It’s going bad for everyone trying it as it’s taking too long to work.
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oh, ok 
Okay, then I won't buy them.
Game companies, like other media companies (eg film), need to realize they can't act like landlords. Entertainment is a discretionary expense. People will just stop paying for trash games eventually. Kind of like how most streaming services just didn't make it. Also fuck landlords
Judging by the number of people playing games like Destiny 2, I'd say they are already pretty comfortable with the idea.
Execs will have to get comfortable with the idea of us beheading them with a guillotine, soon.
If ubisoft doesn’t like people to own stuff then why do they like to get owned by critics all the time?
Hey Ubisoft you could just try making good games instead
Hello it me Ubisoft we've cranked out 30 new assassins creeds between when you made this comment and now please subscribe
a frenchman has said some silly things (such is the nature of frogs), just ignore
Ubisoft execs will need to get comfortable with "people not buying [their] shitty games."
The idea of paying premium prices for a product that you don't actually own, and that gaming companies in the past have screwed their users out of by de-listing games from various storefronts, is absurd, but especially absurd coming from a company that hasn't released a worth-a-shit game in about a decade or more.
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No lose, Ubisoft games are overproduced garbage.
I dont own any ubisoft games so i guess in way i am used to it 🤗
And sadly they're gonna get away with it because gamer boycotts are laughable and denuvo seems to work. :/
They need to get more comfortable with me not paying for my games 
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