They don’t know gamers.
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.
Ah yes, making games deliberately more annoying so I can pay more to play less of it. Love it.
“Company who makes shitty mattresses says people love sleeping on shitty mattresses”
Okay. Let’s vote with our wallets.
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.
Ubisoft can go fuck themselves.
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.
I swear EA is intentionally pulling gamers agro to tank for the rest of the industry.
I imagine you meant UbiSoft but feels the same way with EA too as well haha.
Far Cry 3 is one of my favourite games of all time but Ubisoft make so many mid games.
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.
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.
Interesting how those more fun aspects used to just be called “the game”
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.
Ubisoft - We haven’t read the room ever.
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?
🤔
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.
For the people getting the money, sure, that makes sense
Yeah, who doesn’t enjoy getting money…
