• ByGourou@sh.itjust.works
    112·
    2 years 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·
      2 years 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
    5·
    2 years 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
    4·
    2 years 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
      5·
      2 years 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·
        2 years 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.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 years 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.

  • cottonmon@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years 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.

  • Bipta@kbin.social
    06·
    2 years ago

    Pirating games is too risky these days. Malware has become terribly dangerous.