https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-plus-subscription-exec-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-your-games/
Thanks Ubisoft exec, but I've been comfortable with piracy the whole time
: "Phew, thought it was news about a game with a black protagonist for a second."I stg i am going to do an adventure if windows becomes a webservice/os as a service
Oh you don't have an Internet connection? Sorry you can't use your OS
1000 years from now the post apocalypse humans will attempt to learn from our time by analyzing ancient data caches only to discover that they need to create The Internet in order to access them. They will give up. Nothing will have been lost.
might be the only reason some U.S. states are doing "rural broadband initiatives". i mean we know it's not because the state wants to do infrastructure for any greater social purpose
hit some arbitrary percentage of access, fudge it with starlink numbers, declare victory and watch everything move to the cloud.
well, that aint fair is it? i haven't played a Ubisoft game in years
The new Prince of Persia game looks like a banger, but otherwise yeah
Everyone ive seen online is saying it looks really good. And its not the normal Ubi open world slop so why not.
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Fuck Ubisoft, does nobody have principles as far as not supporting dogshit companies?
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Reviving a dead IP that was pretty much the exclusive representative of tightly-designed linear 3D platformers, as well as generally cinematic platformers, and just going "We want the Hollow Knight audience. We want the Dust An Elysian Tail audience. We want the Dead Cells audience." is a really pro move, fuck them for that.
This is sort of tied to my insane rant about Symphony of the Night rant and you can see that here so I have bias I guess, and also I take viddy james way too seriously. I've been waiting like a decade for these jackasses to make a new game I like, and the best they can do is shitcan an underbaked remake (which seems to have destroyed the studio they originally assigned to it) and pony up this goofy metroidvania thing.
Didnt say i was going to support them. Just that the game looks good.
Also isnt 2D Prince of Persia a return to series roots?
Good dont 😤
Also yes but no, like PoP Fallen King is also a 2D game and that does nooot make it a return to form. While the 1989 game has some roundabout pathways and a little backtracking, it's a very methodical game with heavy movement and a somewhat complicated control setup for a basically one button game. It's much more of a navigational puzzler, and combat is basically an afterthought in it.
Every PoP aside from Two Thrones has fallen on its face by including dogshit combat so at least they're continuing this tradition...
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It's especially weird that companies are still like this after seeing the success of a game like Baldurs Gate 3. The runaway hit of the year, and biggest earner on Steam, doesn't even implement the basic Steam DRM. I tried it. The game launches and runs just fine when Steam isn't running at all. It's so messed up how capitalism leads to that (providing good products at fair prices and respecting your audience) being seen as an "unsustainable business model."
Yeah but that would require them to actually invest in making genuinely good games, which is a nonstarter.
then they should get comfortable with everyone pirating their games
or better yet, just not playing their shitty games
It took 5-10 years but eventually I got to a point where I never touched a torrent. It took less than a year for me to go 100% back, and with bigger and better resources than ever. If the internet shuts off I still have all my music, movies, shows, games, even info like Wikipedia I have stored as real 1s and 0s and spinny metal plates.
I made the mistake of getting Child of Light on Steam because it was on sale for like $5 and then got stuck in a recurring loop of needing to log in through Uplay only to run into some error code.
Uplay is a great deal. When there is a Ubisoft game you want to play, you subscribe for a month, then you cancel.
They also have a remarkably inane DLC protection scheme for several games, which means for those you can simply buy the base game then unlock all the DLCs yourself.
What if it takes you more than a month to get through the game? What if you take a break? Better make sure that subscription is paid for when you get back to it
Fuck this pay per minute shit
I’m generally “done” with their games pretty quickly. So a 1 month Ubisoft + subscription when I have an urge for one or more of their games works for me.
I also find the rental model to be more honest than “you’re buying a limited license that lasts forever or until we say it doesn’t”.
As even a lot of games on disc aren’t fully on the disc.
It sucks for preservation. I also don’t understand how it’s remotely profitable based on the subscription price and how much it costs to make games.
Presumably Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA et al are currently all eating the cost until they have enough of the userbase used to the subscription model so they can start jacking up prices, introducing ad-supported tiers or whatever else awful shit they've got cooking
This current honeymoon period with its quote unquote incredible value will not last
Yeah. Everyone is doing the Netflix.
- Undercharge
- Run competition out of business
- Become monopoly
- Jack up prices to where it’s profitable
It’s going bad for everyone trying it as it’s taking too long to work.
I mean Netflix is failing at the monopoly part considering how balkanized video streaming is now lol.
Other companies figured out how to do streaming faster than Netflix expected. Hell, Hulu started same year as Netflix.
Still was the premise Netflix was operating under.
- Disrupt a industry/business model by doing something different (or illegal like Uber)
- Spend a lot of money on growth (subsidized ride costs, ads, features)
- Run competition to death (taxis)
- Jack up prices when there are no choices left! (Cabs are coming back, other Uber-likes can still exist and undercut Uber and make a profit.)
Streaming tv is so split because there is no reason to not make your own app. The only stupid things were the ridiculous number of “exclusives”.
But movies and TV shows have much better preservation of history than games. Despite globally a lot of movie industries having poor preservation due to costs. Every game that released on PC should be preserved and playable in some form, but many aren’t due to DRM and client/server setups (you can’t play ff14 -original).
Rental-only /subscription works for games as a Service - as in the concept that games are a Service/product, not for games as art.
As services aren’t art, and can go away. Art should be shared.
