They don’t know gamers.
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?
🤔
Further cementing my Ubisoft boycott.
Eat shit, Ubisoft.
Don’t buy Ubisoft games. They’re the epitome of trash culture in game publishing
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.
To be fair, they’ve made some good games before they turned sour, like Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, uhh…counts on fingers
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
Far cry 3 was amazing. Blood dragon “expansion” was the shit too.
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 a multiplayer playground for a potentially awesome experience. The Far Cry series can often feel like a sports game franchise in that it is hard to point to a single release or moment Far Cry has been The Best Big New Thing, but it is undeniably a very solid series in terms of open world FPS action. I mean the fact that Far Cry Primal exists and is a decent game really speaks to how much potential there is in Ubisoft’s craftsmanship, they just ruin their own games by having them be associated with the company Ubisoft.
In general the physical open world design of many Ubisoft games is extravagant, gorgeous and intimidating in extent (though ultimately the “map janitor” style design undermines the physical beauty of Ubisoft’s alternate worlds… which I imagine is another higher level choice forced upon game designers working for Ubisoft).
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.
Literally the only reason I haven’t bought quite a few games from Ubisoft is Ubisoft, they reduce the value of their own games by being associated with them, I cannot understate this enough.
I believe Ubisoft 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.
I remember booting up AC2 on my Windows 7 powered by my Nvidia Geforce GTX460. Maybe it was my gullible teenage perception, but back then - just seeing the logos of these companies really hyped me up before the experience
Well yeah but back then was different, we were way less farther along in the enshittification process.
Back then those logos represented inspiring adults who found a way to make art their career, now they represent instruments of the ruling class that crudely extract content from artists and designers until they burn out and are discarded.
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.
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.
splinter cell, tomb raider, call of juarez
Rayman Legends was fucking great. Damn that was so long 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.
Anno is the only series I can’t hold myself off from buying :(. Somehow it doesn’t actually feel like a Ubisoft game
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.
I have (and love!) Manor Lords! Admittedly I haven’t played it since it first came out though. Has the dev added more content? I remember later game feeling a bit directionless
Well our latest focus group suggests that people actually like the shit we did in the bed
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.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.
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!
Not buying Ubisoft games makes the player experience more fun.
For the people getting the money, sure, that makes sense
Yeah, who doesn’t enjoy getting money…
Didn’t French aristocrats learn to not say this shit after 1793?
Maybe he needs a refresher.
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 miss the days when companies smugly lying to our faces wasn’t the norm (or at least, wasn’t this bad).
Fuck you Ubisoft.
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.
“…for us”
Us playing the games, or them playing us?
