You’re right Ubisoft, I am pretty comfortable not owning your games 🥰
They ran Ass cRee into the ground and launched Uplay with privacy violations.
I boycotted them after thinking they were one of the few good AAA companies.
Now they’re going to die.
Great. Maybe a better studio can reboot Ass cRee and make it wothwhile. Or you know, just leave it the fuck alone.
Same with Far Cry which is a shame because it used to be a really fun dumbshooter series. I got FC6 on sale last month and had to slog through it, I swore off the franchise after finishing the game and haven’t touched it since, even though there’s plenty of post-game content left for me.
“Company fails to generate infinite revenue even after implementing every abusive tactic known”.
More like, company keeps pushing for short-term profits, runs out of goodwill built up in the past.
Ubisoft had many long standing issues, but disowning The Crew users was the worst possible move they could have made in their already dire situation.
I played and enjoyed both of them, shutting down the first one instead of giving it offline functionality really pissed me off and was the final straw for me with Ubi. It had a fully offline playable story, NPC vehicles to race etc. and the game would’ve been preserved forever.
Instead we got the crew 2, always online AAA signature garbage.
I want to say the same thing…
But then you have like every other corporation on earth doing the same, and most of them see their stock price soar.
Literally all they had to do was make good games
Hey, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was great!
Sadly, that’s not necessarily true: https://youtube.com/shorts/IHZru-6M8BY
Gamers say that Ubisoft execs need to get comfortable with not being solvent.
Ubisoft execs need to get comfortable flying coach.
I guess shareholders got used to not owning their stock?
I took their advice and got comfortable not owning Ubisoft games.
They make it so easy: anything they release I’ve already played years ago already.
i quit after AC4. kept up with the news and reviews, seems I never really missed anything good.
Ubisoft just needs to get comfortable with no longer owning their games. 😈
I really enjoyed Driver: San Francisco. Then Ubisoft introduced UPlay and I couldn’t play it anymore. That was the last time I installed anything from Ubisoft.
I tried to reinstall it recently and it complained that you can’t install 32bit software from Steam anymore. I guess I’ll never play another Ubisoft game.
Part of me is sad because some of my favorite games might get shitcanned as a result, but it’s a loss I’m willing to accept if it kills such a parasitic company.
I’ll be sad if For Honor stops being supported
Nah, the IP will be sold off and someone else will take over your favourite tower climbers.
I’m a degen still playing rainbow 6 siege. Here’s to hoping someone carries that torch.
Oh no.
Anyway
Came here to say this.
You love to see it
Yeah but… You do get that you don’t own any of your games on Steam, Epic, whatever either?
Just GOG is DRM free.itch.io as well
Id just like to point out when you read the full article the context is different than the headline as usual. But regardless Ubisoft deserves their demise.
steam can be DRM free as well but it depends on the game to use or not the Steam API for license…
Get rid of uplay. I might buy ubisoft games if they weren’t tied to that horrible service
Not just Uplay, but also their activation servers. Their games make calls to their endpoints to authenticate if you own/access the game and DLC. If those activation servers are decommissioned without a replacement, your game won’t activate and you’ll lose access to DLC.
They announced they would do this for legacy games several years ago, and I was going to lose access to all the DLC I paid for with my Splinter Cell Blacklist game that I physically owned on a Wii U disc way back in 2013. Bought all the DLC because I loved the game. After enough gamer backlash, Ubisoft backpedaled and the activation servers remain for now. However, the concern is still there that I’ll lose the stuff I paid for when they decide they can’t serve it anymore or if they go bankrupt. Without them updating the game code or open sourcing it, I lose updates, DLC, etc.
We need digital ownership reform, or else it’s piracy time again. This will especially be critical when Gabe steps down from Steam and new owners are appointed, or if Steam goes public.
The US is kind of a lost cause, but there is an effort out there!
My god I dread that day.
Maybe they should just have fewer avocado toasts for a while?
When did we get to the point where a Lemmy post got 1000+ upvotes?
As someone who posts a lot, here’s my general scale for Lemmy posts by upvotes:
0-99: Niche or a joke that only sort of landed
100-250: Average
250-400: Good post
500-999: GREAT post
1000+ : Hit post!
