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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

How much do the Ubisoft executives earn annually? Exactly, f-them. Cliffs Over Dover may have been the last Ubisoft game I purchased.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

extaticly clapping hands

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

My steam and backloggd descriptions have been "fuck ubisoft" for a while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope someone good gets the Might and Magic license. Ubisoft just used it as a logo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They will probably will get bought by a chinese company or Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ubisoft is clearly a tone-deaf company. But that doesn’t change that this comment has been frequently cited in some very out-of-context ways.

For those who don’t know, the not-owning games comment was in reply to an investor asking why people were reticent to try out Ubisoft+, their monthly service that lets people play pretty much all their games. He was suggesting many people are not used to the option of mass rental as opposed to ownership. But, many Game Pass subscribers (at least before their price increase) can attest that when the value proposition is good enough, it is an appealing option, wherein you accept impermanent access to get more games. In that sense, he was right.

So far as I can see, the intent of the comment had nothing to do with people who buy “lifetime” copies of their games. There’s separate criticisms to make about poor online implementations leading games like The Crew to be yoinked, and I’m in favor of that regulation. But Ubisoft is hardly alone in the way they’ve mishandled that, and the quote had nothing to do with it. I feel like most people pointing to it have only a vague idea of what corporate greed it represents, as though CEOs just want a way to delete your library and somehow make money from it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The opinion isn't even incorrect. I have the XBOX game pass and the value is pretty great for pc users.

I usually pick up a game and play a while then drop it when I get bored, so having a lot of options is great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ubisoft Execs Need To Get Comfortable With "Not Owning My Money".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

A lot of company's should prepare for that, been running out of money for overpriced entertainment related stuff.

It used to be affordable so i had no issues with it, but now even the basics are overpriced.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not existing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When did we get to the point where a Lemmy post got 1000+ upvotes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's been that way for a while now, but I don't remember when I first noticed it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone who posts a lot, here's my general scale for Lemmy posts by upvotes:

0-99: Niche or a joke that only sort of landed

100-250: Average

250-400: Good post

500-999: GREAT post

1000+ : Hit post!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I find it fascinating that they're supposedly going bankrupt.

Aren't they... big? Don't they have tons of assets? Shouldn't they be, still, sitting on a pile of cash?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This article is from That Park Place, a right-wing website, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. It's coming from "anti-woke" people who salivate over the idea of "go woke, go broke."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Big assets also means Big liabilities.

1bn of short term and 2bn of long term debt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Favorite ? No, Not really The real question is, who's going to buy them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a whole? Hopefully no one. But a fire sale of all their properties and équipement might be interesting.

Also times like this experienced developers often start their own companies and snatch up their co-workers. Probably already happening from the mass layoffs earlier, that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As long as I get more proper Prince of persia & SplinterCell games, Me good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Suckerpunch buying assassin's creed would be great, considering GoT was the best assassin's creed game to date.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ubisoft needs to get comfortoble with not owning their company

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And nothing of value will be lost.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please die, please die, please die, please die

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know people working there, in towns where little other opportunities for such jobs exist. I.. really don't fancy the prospect of Ubisoft going bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I know people who work there that used to steal my parking spot with their baby Blue Ford Mustang, on a residential street two blocks from the Ubisoft building. They can all go away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Don't you mean.. AAAA company?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah but... You do get that you don't own any of your games on Steam, Epic, whatever either?
Just GOG is DRM free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

steam can be DRM free as well but it depends on the game to use or not the Steam API for license...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You're not wrong, but Ubisoft were absolutely tone deaf for saying that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Id just like to point out when you read the full article the context is different than the headline as usual. But regardless Ubisoft deserves their demise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

itch.io as well

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