Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services

BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s sorrowful to know you, or that “pirates”/people like you have guts to admit your sorrow on public.
  Piracy is never ever good unless for history/archiving, and still is questionable.

  You? You are a simple infant robber, a spoiled child, who stole money, or just did not pay people for their life work. A work on ineffably magnificent art…

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Piracy is a service problem, not a price problem.

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    • artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These are not your words. You should quote references properly.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pass. You’re either a troll or very naive, either way I don’t respect your take.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I pirate my quotes

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      • Kaligalis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thise aren’t your words either. I read them before somewhere else.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You seem to be the one creating hatred here.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The artist still got paid for their work. They don’t get a bonus if more copies are sold. The only one not getting money is Ubisoft corporate executives and shareholders.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find he’s dramatizing the dichotomy, but I always found this arranged argument lacking.

      Imagine you have a budding farmhand, a hard-working local, in mind when you go to the local farmers’ market to “support local farms”. But that’s wrong, isn’t it? Because the farm owner pays that hand a static salary. Their exact success or revenue off one extra bag of apples isn’t going into that hand’s pocket.

      But it’s also related; that farmhand has better job stability, more chance of a bonus, less pressure to advertise well, if the farm is making a comfortable salary.

      Now, the one part I’ll admit is this logic doesn’t work as well in corporate atmospheres; where CEOs fire as many people as possible, reward no one for good performance, and would rather fudge numbers than sell a good product.

      But I’d also wager a lot of commenters shortcutting their logic to “company bad, pirate games” aren’t always taking a critical investigative eye to how companies treat their people. After all, “I get free game” is a strong motivator to believe a certain way.

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The videogame industry specifically is a bit unique I think I’m that most of the time the majority of the artists just get laid off after a large project gets released so there really isn’t any job stability, chance of bonuses, loyalty, etc.

        I would never pirate an Indy game but Ubisoft, EA, rockstar, fuck em.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Now, the one part I’ll admit is this logic doesn’t work as well in corporate atmospheres; where CEOs fire as many people as possible, reward no one for good performance, and would rather fudge numbers than sell a good product.

        So you agree with the person you’re replying to, and the two paragraphs before this one are irrelevant to what’s being talked about?

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  • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol. Lmao even.

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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would pirate your work too.

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  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are either insufferably stupid or this is bait.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      its bait.

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    • verifiedbyme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t explain with malice what can be explained with stupidity. Except this guy.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    guy who thinks he’s an artist but is just maladjusted

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  • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lmao

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  • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody who actually made the game is gonna see a dime of the money from your sale. Why the fuck do I give the slightest shit about contributing to some Ubisoft exec’s yacht?

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  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get a load of this guy!

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m so tired of your shit Mr Guillemot. There’s no need for you to come in here and talk down to us. You’re the CEO of Ubisoft, you can literally do anything you want. Go fly a kite, go hug your family, go do something that brings you joy and please leave us poors alone.

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  • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you Japanese?

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  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Master-Baiter

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re right.

    One time I pirated a iPhone app and Steve Fucking Jobs came up to me holding a child. He then held the kid upside down by his legs, shaking him, shouting, “This is what happens when you pirate! This is what happens!”

    Then he ate the child.

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