• pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      38 minutes ago

      i quit after AC4. kept up with the news and reviews, seems I never really missed anything good.

  • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    kinda unrelated but I’d love it if valve sold physical copies of their games to use with the successor to the steam deck

    • Verqix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

      It is difficult to know where to start, since there have been a lot of unpopular actions. A lot of these are pretty standard for the triple A studios unfortunately. Think DRM with always online and authentication server issues, toxic workplace, decommissioned games by removing the servers for them and not giving ways for people to self host, rehashing existing properties to milk success, having their own launcher so having double layers of authentication, microtransactions, subscription based model pushing, game variants locking out certain content unless more money is payed etc.

      • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        and I was mad when I couldn’t local host StarCraft anymore.

        I really try to avoid recreation companies with human right ‘challenges ’ like abusive working environments.

        So is Ubisoft worse than most others ? Do they do that junk on console games as well? Like if I got an Ubisoft game for switch would I need a non-Nintendo account?

        Based on the words of internet strangers I will not purchase their games. Sounds like way to much to go though just to play a game. Do people really go though all of that to game?

        It sounds like way too much effort

  • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Man Ubisoft could be so great but they just land so meh. Watchdogs, tom Clancy wildlands, the division, farcry. They all have potential but just don’t have that last 15%

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    It feels tragic. On the one hand, they made some of my most favourite games especially the Splinter Cell series, and it would be sad to see a once great developer to go. But then on the other, the greedy bastards deserve to go under for ruining some of my most favourite games including the Splinter Cell series.

    But seriously though, if Ubisoft do go under, I hope that their IP would go into safe hands, like how Baldur’s Gate franchise has been handed over from Bioware to the competent team of Larian (and I do hope Larian does not enshittify unlike the fate of other companies, such as Ubisoft and EA).

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    14 hours ago

    “Company fails to generate infinite revenue even after implementing every abusive tactic known”.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      13 hours ago

      More like, company keeps pushing for short-term profits, runs out of goodwill built up in the past.

      • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        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.

      • Aurix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 hours ago

        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.

        • CaptKoala@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          8 hours ago

          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.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    12 hours ago

    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.