ubisoft needs to get comfortable with nobody ever playing the games they won't sell to people
As much as I wish this were true gamers have shown themselves to be literally incapable of not supporting ahitty business practices.
Go into any thread where they're complaining about how yet another game that everybody pre-ordered came out as an unfinished pile of shit. Try to tell them it's because they keep paying game companies before the product even exists and that removes the incentive for the company to finish the game and also its a digital pre-order which is by deffinition stupid.
You'll get dog piled and everybody will tell you it's their money, they can spend it however they want and how dare you try to tell them what to do and then go pre order another game.
AAA Gaming is dead, gamers killed it. Unfortunately they're still paying for corpses.
everybody will tell you it's their money, they can spend it however they want
unironically being like “it’s a free country”
As always if anyone needs educational help learning about steam emulators like the Goldberg Emulator or the SteamStub DRM remover (Steamless) just let me know/tag me!
Don't forget to check the emulation mega thread for other educational resources about how to play your legally acquired backups too.
SteamStub DRM remover
Why run either Goldberg or SteamStub? Is it so I can download my friend's library or backups and use them myself? Can you play online with them with friends? Idk if I'm really interested but I am curious.
Goldberg emulator is a Steam (steam_api.dll in practice) emulator that allows you to play any game backups that don't have SteamStub (or other) DRM on them. Steamless is for removing SteamStub DRM from game executables (not all steam games have these) where you can then apply the Goldberg steam_api.dll replacement onto to allow you to play those backups.
Certain games (likely any game that has direct-connect features where you punch in an IP address) will be playable with friends online. Some games that use traditional matchmaking can utilize the matchmaking services of other steam games (through making steam think that it's matchmaking for game ABC when it's actually doing it for XYZ) and allow people with backup copies to play together through "official" steam matchmaking services.
Very curious... I have used NES and SNES emulators in the past (of course I own the hard copies). What do the steam emulators do?
daily reminder that there are thousands of independent devs offering games with way more care, creativity, and vision than any Ubisoft product DRM free on Itch.io and elsewhere.
You will live in the pod, you will climb the radio towers and you will be happy
Me whenever I hear a G@mer praising Gabe Newell as if he wasn't instrumental/responsible for creating video game DRM that every company has iterated upon since.
being able to own and play old games, or emulate old good games probably cuts into profit and the amount people are willing to spend.
Why buy ubisoft bland open world game when i already own and can play 10 year old ubisoft bland open world game that does the exact same thing (but with less microtransactions)? Why buy the new cod? The good games with some originality gets lost when they break compatibility and don't let you play the thing you 'bought', but they don't really care.
My understanding about the COD series is that campaign wise it peaked with MW3 and i dont care about multiplayer.
Eta: Sorry it was cod4:mw that was the peak campaign.
the peak of cod was being in high school and playing local multiplayer blops2 zombies until 4am while on mountain dew and gas station snacks.
I then bought the one with kevin spacey and was underwhelmed (but at least it was the one with 'F to pay respects' so it had something going for it)
COD4 (I seen with the correction) was when it peaked, though the 2nd game was a fun WW2 game especially when I beat it on Veteran. The series started to decline (Campaign wise) after 4 and once they shifted more to the online being the draw than the single player side of things.
Yeah and here I am simply not giving a rats ass about multiplayer COD because Ive hated FPS multiplayer going back to when I was in elementary and my friends would play Goldeneye multiplayer and I hated it (love the single player to this day tho) and then later in highschool with Halo when friends wanted to do deathmatch while I was way more interested in the co-op. Though at least then i didnt totally hate it like with Goldeneye. But i did hate when COD became the new thing because I sucked too much to have any fun lol.
Im just not a multiplayer person in general unless its cooperative.
Same! I don't play multiplayer generally either. I only played the dark souls series with my wife in co-op lol but other than that I buy games for the single player. And most that are focused on the multiplayer I won't bother with. I played some multiplayer around 4 but the toxicity and stuff online in those games was enough to put me off online multiplayer for life, at least on a competitive level.
My only exception is a meme that said "fighting games are fun, but only when youre playing someone sligtly worse than you." I give a bit more wavelength to how much of a skill differential in each direction remains fun, but if youre playing someone too much better its no fun at all. And that is often the case. I loved Smash until college where other people there who played Smash were too much better than me to remain fun lol.
Oh and Mario Kart and Mario Party. Those are fun.
tbh i haven't really liked a ubisoft game since like far cry 4. i liked how far cry 5 let you have human companions that could drive you, but i hated the country guitar twang menu music and the 'america except apolitical' setting that somehow portrayed the evangelical christian apocalypse cult as 'hippies' and had you work for an explicitly republican, homophobic guy running for governor or something as one of the 'good guy' sidequests. i have similar writing qualms with far cry 6 but mostly i just didn't like the 'supremo' backpacks and how you couldn't unequip them, like i don't feel much like a real guerilla with 6 LAW AT-rockets strapped to my back welded to a metal box, it looks fucking stupid and impractical and i basically never even use the backpack abilities anyway. plus no more human companions, as cool as the alligator and wheelchair dog are they can't drive my car while i use the super special turrets i spend my hard earned resources to unlock like they could in far cry 5.
ALSO ALSO in far cry 6 the FAL rifle does like significantly less damage than every other assault rifle despite shooting the biggest bullets? (nerd note: the FAL is a 'battle rifle' and shoots 'full sized rifle bullets' unlike assault rifles, which shoot shorter versions of the bullets even if the caliber is the same - the FAL uses 7.62 x 51mm rounds whereas the AK-47 uses 7.62x39mm rounds - the second number after the x being the length of the bullet's case where the propellant is stored) Bullshit! i should be able to use that FAL on single shot effectively, not having to dump my entire 20 round magazine into the basic unarmoured enemy types to get a single kill.
also assassin's creed hasn't been good since like Unity (i didn't like black flag personally either, i don't like dual wielding swords of the same length [let me use a sword and a pistol at the same time! its a pirate game! he's doing it on the cover of the game but you can't do it in gameplay!] and the boat gameplay was tedious imo), but one of my friends has Mirage and it seems pretty ok compared to the recent crap, just not enough for me to spend 70 to 80 american bio-survival tickets on it.
okay full hate to Ubisoft but i would have expected this shit from EA firstt honestly
ubisoft remake sub culture and bring back shadowbane or stfuuuuuuu
