Games

Good reminder to never buy an Ubisoft game.

Things like this make it really easy for me to not buy anything from Ubisoft.

If you never actually own a Ubisoft game that logically pirating them isn't theft right? Right?

Lol, everyone here sucking Ubisoft toes at every negative mention of Avowed and ACS for the past few months and now y'all get outraged?

Lmao, what a performative level of virtue signaling🤣

What I love about being a broke bitch retro gamer is that I own my games. I have a Tetris cartridge that is older than I am and still works. The batteries on some of my GB and GBA carts have died, but that’s something I can fix. No one can send a stealth update to my Sega Genesis that forces me to create on an account to play or even bricks it somehow. There’s no room for human shit behavior, just a war against the realities of mechanical decay. (And it’s easy to rip ROMs in case of the inevitable.)

Older generations of gaming are well preserved. I don’t think the past ten years or the future will be. “Games as a service” is too big a draw - the goal is to turn everything into a subscription model because why make money once when you can make it forever?

We should all start a boycot and stop buying anything ubisoft, then release a statement when they go down saying: "cannot complain" and weren't "deceived" by the lack of "access to our decade-old money".

But that will never happen.

Would be funny tho.

EU cutizens can sign European Citizens' Initiative that aims to prevent publishers using killswitches to permanently disable games. If it gets 1M signatures, it will be discussed in European Comission.

Let's see if the physical disc once said anything about needing an online connection for single play. Oh look, it did not, the subscription required was only for 2-8 players network play.

Let's compare with Destiny 2's back cover, a game that is a MMO and thus "cannot be owned" by the players. Hey, a "Online Play (Required)*" sticker that is not present on The Crew! The fine print has a bit that states that "Activision makes no guarantee of regarding availability of online play or features, and may modify or discontinue online services at its discretion without notice."

FF14 also had a "Online Play (Required)*" sticker on its back cover. It clearly states on the rectangular bit above the T Rating: "Users are granted only a limited, revocable license and do not own any intellectual property in the game or game data"

You deceived consumers, Ubisoft. "Online Play Required" is not there, so the game should remain playable offline.

When does Ubisoft realize that "you never owned it" and "you can't complain" are arguments for not buying their next game?

Oh look. Yet another reason to continue my Ubisoft boycott.