Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games

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• muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess they can’t bankrupt fast enough.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly I hope they don’t. There are still talented people working and creating games, not always the best ones, but still. And they own lot of beloved franchises. Bankrupt would be the worst case. If they go down, then I hope another company (Tencent?) will buy Ubisoft.

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    • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Them shutting down would be one of the best things that could happen to gaming. They wouldn’t be able to screw up their IPs any more.

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• network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ubislop 2.0

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• I_Jedi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pretty sure these guys want to make an Assassins’ Creed gacha game.

  Ezio limited banner is up for the next month! Soft pity (odds increase) at 80 pulls! Hard pity (guarantee pull) at 160 pulls! Pull for Ezio today! Ezio will not go to standard when his banner ends!

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• Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bye Ubi

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Let it burn

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• zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just beautiful, I love a nice corporate self-immolation.

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• Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lol

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I never really got into the Assassin’s Creed series, but I did enjoy Saboteur, which I understand is somewhat similar, albeit getting a little long in the tooth these days. I don’t think that there are going to be any new games in that series, though. Users might consider taking a glance at it.

  On another note…the live service elements going in also highlights one major concern I have with games purchased on platforms like Steam or on console download services or whatever. Publishers can push updates. So, normally you sell a game once, and there’s no future revenue from it. But…if you go out of business or just want to sell the rights, you can sell it to someone else, who now has the ability to push updates to the software to the computers of people who own the game, and can include, say, ads, data-harvesting, live-service stuff, microtransactions, or whatever else might generate money.

  Traditionally, that’s not how games worked. A player buys a game on physical media, he can always use that game. It won’t be worse in the future.

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  • TalkingFlower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or they can go the No Man’s Sky model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.

    But since it is the developer’s only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated, so it becomes your problem to ignore it.

    That’s why I don’t play live service games; the product is never finished.

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  • leave_it_blank@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One of the reasons to make gog your primary platform. Download the installer, even older versions if you prefer. Voilà.

    It’s the most friendly platform for consumers at the moment.

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• Enzy@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Already did with Unity.

  Zero change since then.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imagine if Steam bought Ubisoft and made

    Assassin’s Creed: Godot

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tone deaf as always.

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• FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Water might also be wet.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Water is not wet, water makes wet.

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• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A July 2025 investor’s report argued that microtransactions “make the player experience more fun.”

  youtube.com/…/UgkxlEpXKSUuWG9kW6HdqTT6VcH3Ml5AxP_…

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ah man, not now that I’ve already deleted my account!

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Huh? Haven’t they already been doing this the last decade+? Did I jump back in time?

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Unless they can beat something like trackmania in terms of playable new content, i don’t see a way this would succeed.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ubisoft is probably still rooted from that Christmas mongo hack. I look forward to forking Rainbow 6 once their backup server leaks

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• _Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fucking exhausting

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