• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I’m sure it’s not always easy to hear everything thrown at Ubisoft, but we shouldn’t hold back criticisms of greedy and, at times, malicious corporations just to protect their employees feelings.

    Ubisoft has had a large hand in pushing and normalizing a bunch of the worst aspects of todays gaming industry:

    • forcing users to be always online while playing
    • invasive and harmful DRM
    • overpriced and under-developed DLC
    • unfinished and buggy games
    • boring and predictable writing
    • repetitive and checklist-style open worlds
    • extra launchers in addition to your actual launcher
    • removing access to games you’ve bought

    All of these are things that got worse because of Ubisoft. I won’t stop hating their games until they make up for the damage they’ve caused.

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      21 days ago

      Lol, just don’t buy the games, it’s that easy. They already layoff half of their work force, you won, Ubisoft bad, Steam good.

      And I’m not talking protecting “the feelings” of employee. I’m talking about literal death threat and bomb alert being send to the devs, not the executive, because of “black samurai” in a fictional game that isn’t even out lol.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Just not buying their games doesn’t prevent them from moving the industry further into a bad direction, especially as they get more desperate.

        I haven’t been buying their games since before AC2, yet they’ve had a terrible impact on the industry.