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Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Game seems cool, but it requires a download to play. They don't meet my basic requirements for a game I'd even consider buying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My basic requirements is that it's a good game from a respectable company.

And even if it is a good game by reviewer standards, Ubisoft has been an awful studio to the game industry for the past decade. From sexual harassment lawsuits to investing in web3, shutting down servers that causes single player games to lose features, having their own storefront, being creatively bankrupt with their releases, nickel and diming their product...

Not the worse mind you, but easily the bottom.

Buy it when it's $5 on steam in a few years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"doesn't have to be downloaded" is a basic requirement of a game for you in 2025?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep! And it's really surprising to me that so many people are OK with that sort of defective-by-design anti-feature. It's a single player game, why would it have any dependence on networks or servers of any sort?

Not to say that I'm against digital distribution altogether, I think that's a perfectly valid preference w/ pros and cons.

But if you are going to sell the video game on a disc? Shipping a whole playable game seems like a pretty low bar to meet. Most games (that get a physical release) in [current year], for every year that exists so far, don't have a problem managing to do this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

... Are there discs that can contain 123GB of data? Should they just start distributing tiny solid state drives you plug in to your pc and play from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They fit GTA V on a single disk on launch. Sure, textures were blocky and effects looked like piss but you could play the entire game offline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Fair point, some games are very big. FFVII Rebirth and Baldur's Gate 3 shipped on 2 discs though, it's not unheard of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The highest capacity blu ray disc can hold 128GB