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Submitted 5 weeks ago by CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
That would be 30 cents. 🤑
laxe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It makes them money. But they don’t want to say that so instead make up BS
sidelove@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I miss the days when companies smugly lying to our faces wasn’t the norm (or at least, wasn’t this bad).
Fuck you Ubisoft.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This shit is embarrassing. One of the many reasons I’m sticking to indie games
dil@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I’ve been opening up foss shooters more, like assault cube reloaded, alien arena, xonotic, rexuiz, red eclipse, cube 2, etc.
and older arena shooters like quake 3 arena, quake live
Its dead 90% of the time but its resally fast to flick through them and find one with an active lobby.
dil@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Really wanna play a 2d sidescrolling shooter but they seem dead
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Sauerbraten was really weird but I screwed around with it a lot as a kid.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Bit of a clickbait, the full quote is:
At Ubisoft, the golden rule when developing premium games is to allow players to enjoy the game in full without having to spend more. Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.
So still sniffing their own farts, but not quite as deluded as the out-of-context quote makes it sound.
Plagiatus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ah yes, making games deliberately more annoying so I can pay more to play less of it. Love it.
blobchoice@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Not buying Ubisoft games makes the player experience more fun.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ubisoft? The very same ubisoft that’s been getting outsold by indie studios making games with no monetization often times these studios being comprised of ex ubisoft employees?
🤔
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Didn’t French aristocrats learn to not say this shit after 1793?
Maybe he needs a refresher.
chromodynamic@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Quite the opposite in fact. Microtransactions offer the promise of fun, but never deliver, because in order to incentivise users to purchase them, the player must feel like the game is 90% of the way to being fun and that tiny additional purchase will get it there.
It's like the cartoon image of the donkey rider holding a carrot on the end of a rod. The donkey keeps moving to try to get the carrot, but never quite reaches it.
jontree255@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ubisoft can go fuck themselves.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.
If it’s more fun to progress more quickly, that should be the default.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 weeks ago
Interesting how those more fun aspects used to just be called “the game”
Shape4985@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
So fun that i dont even want to buy them, incase i enjoy myaelf to much.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Company who makes shitty mattresses says people love sleeping on shitty mattresses”
Mac@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
And they’re right, because the modern ethos of game design is to lock the customization and fun shit behind a paywall.
The greedy bastards are doing this on purpose.
Boycott games with egregious mtx.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
“…for us”
rozodru@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ok Ubisoft. I can’t recall the last time I had “fun” playing one of your games, monetization or not. Might have been Beyond Good and Evil on the Gamecube.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Damn! No wonder I wasn’t having fun with Ubisoft games lately!
I’ve been pirating their crap out whenever they made a game I wanted to try and, I rarely played past the first hour! Now I see why! Since I was pirating and everything was unlocked for free, I couldn’t enjoy the player experience of spending money in their ingame store!
Spoomis@toast.ooo 5 weeks ago
Us playing the games, or them playing us?
st3ph3n@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Eat shit, Ubisoft.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
For the people getting the money, sure, that makes sense
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, who doesn’t enjoy getting money…
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Something something “sense of pride and accomplishment”
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.
Abraxas@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Far Cry 3 is one of my favourite games of all time but Ubisoft make so many mid games.
lath@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
It's a shame. Once upon a time, Ubisoft helped and sponsored many a young tentative developers and held classes for game development.
Whatever the reasons and end result, they inspired dreams back then.TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Okay. Let’s vote with our wallets.
Auth@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I swear EA is intentionally pulling gamers agro to tank for the rest of the industry.
Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I imagine you meant UbiSoft but feels the same way with EA too as well haha.
Almacca@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah, well ubisoft says a lot of things. They also enable and protect sexual predators, so forgive me if I continue to not listen to them.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It’s so fun that I haven’t bought a single Ubisoft game for some 20 years… Because they suck, their games are generic made on exact same design and their always-on DRM bullshit is just cancerous. Ubisoft was cool in the 90s and early 2000s and then became rotten to the core.
Sho@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And that’s why your company is failing.
commander@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Don’t buy Ubisoft games. They’re the epitome of trash culture in game publishing
Spoomis@toast.ooo 5 weeks ago
To be fair, they’ve made some good games before they turned sour, like Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, uhh…counts on fingers
Piatro@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Prince of Persia sands of time, Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman, Splinter Cell, etc. They were very prolific back when they and the rest of the industry understood that you couldn’t just bet all your money on a single title all the time, you had to have some dog-shit movie tie-ins and terrible Barbie games to keep the lights on.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Nah the hilarious thing is that Ubisoft has some games that are awesome. Steep has incredible mountain design and general design flow to the game, Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Wildlands both look really fun especially with the first person mod. Without all the stupid nonsense attached Riders Republic is awesome playground for a potentially awesome experience.
What makes it hilarious is that the apparent value of a company like Ubisoft is that it makes the value of game ideas and projects under its umbrella more valuable, more polished and more likely to be purchased by customers… and yet I can say with certainty there are 5 or so Ubisoft games I would spend $10+ no question if I woke up tomorrow and they were no longer owned by Ubisoft and were owned by an indie developer.
**Ubisoft literally, probably quantitatively makes the value of IPs under its company name less valuable to people, if the function of a business is to bring value that can be turned into profit Ubisoft is an anti-business. It takes in raw materials and makes them less valuable on the marketplace after it has processed those raw materials for a high production cost.
commander@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ya but they started the always online DRM for single player games back with AC2 and the lawsuits about the companies culture of sexual harassment/assault
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rayman Legends was fucking great. Damn that was so long ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
splinter cell
Signtist@bookwyr.me 5 weeks ago
I loved the original Rayman game so much as a kid that I'd specifically look for that old rainbow logo on other games to figure out which ones I might like.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Far cry 3 was amazing. Blood dragon “expansion” was the shit too.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 weeks ago
Anno is the only series I can't hold myself off from buying :(. Somehow it doesn't actually feel like a Ubisoft game
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are alternatives like Manor Lords that can scratch that itch. Ones that aren’t by a predatory, anti-consumer company and aren’t infected with Denuvo malware.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same. They’re thw only games I’ve actually bought from them.
Not sure how they haven’t fucked it up so far - maybe because anno is a small franchise in the grand scheme of things, and has a cult following particularly in Germany, so apaet from online requirement and denuvo added to the latest entries, they let it be. I’m actually more amazed that bluebyte/ubi mainz haven’t butchered the anno games like they did with the settlers series.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well our latest focus group suggests that people actually like the shit we did in the bed
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Sadly I did. Bought the first 5 far cry games and some expansions because I wanted to show my support. Far Cry 6 didn’t work on my old assed PC because of the DRM so I pirated it instead (TY Empress and Fitgirl) and it worked like a charm.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I havent even played a ubisoft title since before 2010. I just had the advantage of not being particularly attached to any of their IP to even reconsider it.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I wish Nadeo was still independent. They finally got a popular Trackmania release but it's live service tied to UPlay ugh.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’m so sad that they bought blue byte. The rest of their catalogue I can take it or leave it but Anno games…