Ubisoft Wants Us To Get Used To Not Owning Games.....Yes Really

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craigsters (Banned) Jan 16, 2024 @ 4:58am

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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-not-owning-their-games-for-subscriptions-to-take-off

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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need To Get Comfortable With "Not Owning Your Games" https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-plus-subscription-exec-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-your-games/

seen here first at https://imgur.com/gallery/ErK26fr

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Well looks like assassin's creed valhalla and Far Cry 6 well be my last Ubisoft purchases if this happens

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Originally posted by 🍋 Lemonfed 🍋:

Subscriptions for games Is even worst then buying digital, that kind of service is alsmost always on a rotating list and the games that are no longer played just become unavailable on a regular basis.

At least when you buy a digital download like steam you can still access the games you paid for for as long as steam exists.

I hate spotify and prime music and still buy music on bandcamp.

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Hobbit XIII Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:02am

I really liked Black Flag but I hated that I would have to go online and get the extra stuff so I never went online with it.

I did see an article about 8 years ago saying how this is the way gaming will be going forward ie streaming more and more and having to log n and more transactions and a load of it.
The article was all in praise of such so called wonder of the 'future' and all I could think was '♥♥♥♥ off just let me buy the damn game' years on and here we are I'm on Steam because I wanted Shogun and Dawn of War and bought some other titles too.
GoG is where I buy online games now.

Whamarama Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:03am

You will live in the pod. You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing and be happy.

Acetyl Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:03am

Part of a future UBI (heh) system.

TGC> The Games Collector Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:03am

Ubisoft should get comfortable with not getting a profit.

Acetyl Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:03am

You will own nothing, you will be happy, blah blah blah.

Acetyl Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:04am

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:
Ubisoft should get comfortable with not getting a profit.

The entire terrain will change. They don't care if you briefly turn against one particular node. The whole ecology is changing.

Acetyl Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:04am

Originally posted by senshinotabi:
You will live in the pod. You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing and be happy.

Beat me to it.

De Hollandse Ezel Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:05am

if anything with the cancel culture scrapping and editing movjes and books
cancing your subscriptions and owning fysical nedia never was as important

I will grow my food.. i will live lime 1689 if have to
but I wont join in the you own nothing crap.

no ownership = no control.
no control = one push of the button and your locked out.
very easy for dictatorships..
I like freedom
as my frisian forefathers said :
rather death than a slave!

Last edited by De Hollandse Ezel; Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:08am

secuda Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:12am

Its always AAA gaming who jump onto this stuff is it? The very least company that need those money and practice. Meanwhile indies and lonesome coder dosent add those...

Devsman Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:16am

There's a form out there for reporting a publisher. I advised the AC4 forum to use it about all the BS that's been going on with that one.

If you're out of the loop, the short of it is, they're slowly killing the game. And not in the typical Internet "hurr they changed the balance" way; as in, they keep releasing updates that break it more and more. First it wouldn't go full screen. Now the idle minigames is busted. Presumably, the goal is to make it so it won't even launch. For some reason.

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Lady of the Lake Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:17am

And that is why Ubisoft will be light years before Steam for a quite long time, it's their own choice.

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Acetyl Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:17am

Originally posted by Devsman:
There's a form out there for reporting a publisher. I advised the AC4 forum to use it about all the BS that's been going on with that one.

If you're out of the loop, the short of it is, they're slowly killing the game. And not in the typical Internet "hurr they changed the balance" way; as in, they keep releasing updates that break it more and more. First it wouldn't go full screen. Now the idle minigames is busted. Presumably, the goal is to make it so it won't even launch. For some reason.

lol...
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Makes you think.

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Whamarama Jan 16, 2024 @ 5:18am

Last ubisoft game I bought was farcry 5.
They've been anti-consumer for over a decade, truthfully they were always anti-consumer.
Once in a while I check out the trailers for the new games they make and it just looks like the same slop rehashed over and over again.

There's plenty of other stuff to play from people truly passionate about their craft, like the tens of thousands of indie devs dedicating their time to creating better games.
And best of all, the majority of them respect the fans purchasing their games unlike the mega corporations with ceo's that were repeat customers on that one island.

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