I don't know what planet he's on but we already don't really own our games. Hell if Steam goes down I'm going to lose access to pretty much everything.
The problem is more that I don't trust Ubisoft to not change the terms of the agreement halfway through. I can totally see them pulling a rockstar and getting rid of an old version of the game if they decide they want to do an HD release.
oh, i forgot that it's 2024 and video games haven't really "taken off" yet
Ubisoft needs to get used to me never buying their repetative lazy games every again.
What a shame. FC3, 4 and primal are some of my favorite games..
UbiSoft needs to get comfortable with execs not making sales targets.
This is one positive about the Switch, cartridges are still a thing and I hope this trend continues with future Nintendo releases. Other than that fuck this, if that's their stance I will be comfortable to sail the high seas.
I am comfortable, it is called piracy. Just try me.
That's okay, you just need to get comfortable with me pirating your games... Then again that's Ubisoft, I don't think I even want to pirate their stuff.
These guys need to remember they are selling a novelty...a toy. It's not an essential good. Their consumer can just "stop" seeking new games
Ubisoft executives need to get comfortable being unemployed.
Just downloaded the original Assassin's Creed from JC141 and I'm having a blast.
It's crazy how much ubisoft games have fallen.
But I don't want subscriptions to take off...
It's hard to not be cynical about this pattern. To me, it's starting to look like a lot of companies are setting up long-term plans to weather a recession, and patiently wait for baselines to shift in order to normalize stuff like this.
Another way to frame it is, given enough time, a business will ultimately engage in rent seeking behavior if they see no alternative to adding value. Which kind of makes sense, as Ubisoft now builds absolutely monster sized games (e.g. Assassin's Creed 22 - Find all the Things Edition), with all the DLC, online content, and cosmetic bolt-ons imaginable; they've saturated that market. There's literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they take on much bigger risks like building a whole new franchise or two.
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
A shifting baseline (also known as a sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system.
The concept arose in landscape architect Ian McHarg's 1969 manifesto Design With Nature in which the modern landscape is compared to that on which ancient people once lived. The concept was then considered by the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly in his paper "Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries". Pauly developed the concept in reference to fisheries management where fisheries scientists sometimes fail to identify the correct "baseline" population size (e. g. how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus work with a shifted baseline. He describes the way that radically depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its untouched state.
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I’m not necessarily against one subscription service having a ton of games from a lot of developers. The problem is that a ubisoft service isn’t gonna have games from everyone and that playing a full game takes me 2-3 months with the time I have. Just buying the game is probably cheaper for me and gives me more guarantees.
Okay. I will be sailing to the high seas 🏴☠️🏴☠️
MMO without the MM
Makes one want to sail the high seas out of principle.
I think he said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet....
be careful what you wish for ubisoft
Ubisoft and EA are the only games I pirate. Fuck those shitty cancer companies.
Ubisoft exec, you should get comfortable sucking our collective dicks
And of course they won't compete over which service provides the better app\features\catalogue but will try the same exclusivity game the video streaming platforms started... No thanks!
I love hearing these stories of big gaming companies being shitty as usual, knowing I only play indie games and I'm not giving theme a dime
I genuinely hope this guy doesn't get "comfortable" not having a job.
I dunno man, I get a pretty solid sense of pride and accomplishment after pirating a thing, so I think I’ll stick with that.
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