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Maybe if they made some good games instead of cash grabs with game design engineered by committee.
Boohoobisoft
What baffles me is how they intentionally make their games unplayable on Linux, and the same can be said about EA.
What part of it baffles you? I don’t like it either, but in order for them to get the same level of security on Linux that they do on Windows, they’d have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel. I don’t know if the license of the kernel even allows for that, but good luck getting Linux users to agree to knowingly installing a rootkit to play a video game.
they’d have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel.
Prime example here is Rainbow Six Siege, they use Battle-Eye for their anti cheat. Battle-Eye has supported linux since 2021 and all the developers have to do is phone up Battle-Eye and enable Proton support.
Ridiculous right?
Because even when it’s supported, the people who tend to circumvent it find ways to do so on Linux, because it’s less secure. They choose instead to just not deal with it rather than trying to hire or build up that expertise, which would come at a high cost for little benefit.
Personally, my problems with this type of game go beyond its anti cheat support, so enabling Linux support for their anti cheat still wouldn’t earn my sale anyway.
It’s sad because this company used to make good games.
I think their only good modern game is Anno 1800 and that is soon a 5 year old game.
I’m not sad. Ubi doesn’t respect it’s customers anymore. Let them sink.
A few people said that last year’s Prince of Persia game was pretty good. But I didn’t play it.
The 90s and 00s version of Ubisoft was phenomenal. Remember the original Far Cry, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Rayman? Everyone loved those games, and they were actually innovative.
But now Ubisoft is formulaic and seems hostile towards the people who buy their games.
Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown was probably the best Metroidvania I’ve ever played. A lot of critics agree.
Ubisoft dismantled their team after they didn’t meet sales expectations.
The game itself was amazing and made its way onto a lot of Game of the Year lists. If it underperformed, it was either a failure of their marketing department, or a failure to set realistic sales goals.
Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee
Whatever
Garbage company with trash games
Tower slop
The schadenfreude here is delicious, alas the perils of being such a vehemently player-hostile game publisher 😂
what, people don’t enjoy gray sludge as much as they used to?
Well, if we can’t “own” your games, then why buy them?
oh no whatever will they do, only having 990m revenue instead of 1.4b revenue.
Granted yeah that’s fair, a 31% revenue loss is a drastic change. Too bad they’ll never understand why and blame others. I’m sure they still were net positive in income though
Well, first of all, the CEO needs a raise. That much should be obvious.
What comes after is unsure, but layoffs are always on the table.
Good
