We're all just getting comfortable not owning games. Ubisoft games, specifically. This is what they asked for, right?
Ubisoft should feel a sense of pride and accomplishment for 1. Stealing the title of worst game publisher and 2. Stealing the title of most evil quote from EA.
whats the new evil quote?
https://80.lv/articles/ubisoft-executive-players-should-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-games/
"One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That's the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That's a transformation that's been a bit slower to happen. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect…".
Interpreted as "Players Should Get Comfortable with Not Owning Games"
The real context was they wanted more subscriptions.
honestly i see the industry moving in that direction, not unlike the "pride and accomplishment" thing of yesteryear. i hate this so much.
Ah yes. (Barf) GamePass.
It seems to be the thing for those adrenaline dopamine shooter games, but why must they abandon the good rpg and strategy games to do only that? I mean in general, they all do.
I bet a new C&C, even isometric, would gain enough for a studio to thrive. But no, subscriptions it is.
As an old game dev I hate this even more.
Pff.
If only they fired as many CEO as they fire devs.
Man, if the new Assassin's Creed isn't a banger Ubisoft is cooked. They've had nothing but flops for the past 4 years or so. Even the newer Far Cry games kinda flopped.
FC5 was very interesting, but I definitely lost interest after that.
5 was cool but I think I got whiplash from how hard the ludo narrative dissonance hit me. At this point I don't even think they realize why FC3 was so well received (which a snarky french games journalist was already joking about when it came out)
I thought far cry 6 was good.
Suck for the innocent employees but also fuck Ubisoft. Can't wait for them to crash and burn
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Fuck around and find out moment
Ubisoft should get comfortable with not owning my money.
Ha I really want to see the current Ubisoft reaction to their incredibly shit take from before.
It was a good take
For game subscriptions to work people will have to be comfortable not owning games
How is that any less true now?
Feels bad for the developers, but fingers crossed that the new AC is a disaster and Ubisoft is over.
Oh well. Buy the ticket, take the ride
All thanks to rainbow six siege not being on linux!
It's odd to realise other people can also be gamers and I may not even be aware of the games they play, can't even remember the last ubisoft or EA game I bought. Maybe for EA it might be battle for middle earth. Do they make battlefield? Think I got 3 in a humble bundle and some other games.
What was their latest debacle? I lose track of which gaming company screwed what up.
NFTs in game. Said they had made the first AAAA game. Then the CEO said gamers have to get used to not owning games, which pissed a lot of people off and was an incredibly dumb thing to say. Ubisoft seems to be very much out of touch with gamers.
They also had their most recent assassins creed game have a choice between a black man and an Asian woman as the main character, so some Gamers™ are upset about that I guess.
Ohhhh they were the idiots with the AAAA claim! Haha ok yeah now I remember hearing that and rolling my eyes.
~Oh no. What a shame.~ Moving on...
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