To be fair, given how a lot of Gamers have gone digital (For Games, Movies, Subscriptions etc)I can see why Ubisoft pulled this crap. The problem for Ubisoft is everything they have made has been below subpar and caused Gamers to just flat out reject Ubisoft.
Never buying anything from Ubisoft ever again unless the leadership completely changes. In the current state I hope that Ubisoft gets bankrupt or bought and cleaned up by another company that cares about the gamers.
I got used to that around the time they started demanding we install Uplay to play their games. And "their games" is the apt description, because clearly they were never ours.
We do have a lot of great and fun games that MANAGES TO HIT 1 MILLION BEFORE THE GAME RELEASES THIS YEAR... (Looking at Silent Hill 2, Sparking Zero, and Shadow Generations. All of them have huge modding potential.)
Agreed. Some actually seem to be gamers themselves and seem to be able to relate to us. Sadly others seem to not only not relate to us but seem to despise us.
Don't be surprised if in a few years, he starts spuing nonsense. A lot of previously based developers have come out as out of touch over the years. It's sad, but it happens.
Prince of Persia is held in a lot of players memories due to Sands of Time and its sequels involving the warrior prince. Then they release a new game with a dude with killmonger hair and energy effects on the cover that look like graffiti... Imagine getting a new Splinter Cell, but instead of playing as Sam Fischer, your playing as a brocolli hair TikTok zoomer who chokes dudes out while saying how 'bussin frfr' it is.
Oh hell yeah. I WAS interested in PoP until I saw that freaking hair cut and went, "Yup. Nope. No way." There's only ONE person that cut looked good on and that was Killmonger.
@@edithrose2474 Even without rocket science, it is still possible to succeed in other stuff. Marty Friedman is an accomplished guitar player and a tourist who respects Japan as Japan.
People are sick of subscription services. Ubisoft tanking their own IPs trying to push a dead store front by withholding games from Steam. UBISOFT NEED TO GET USED TO GOING BROKE.
I currently work in real. Imagine the retail industry flat out telling customers “If you don’t like our sh*t then don’t buy anything from us” and then compare against the entertainment industry 😂😂😂 If I told customers “don’t ever spend any money here because don’t like you” that’s a literal death sentence for your business!!! How is this all not a huge joke. What timeline are we in lol. Imagine making enemies with customers. Still can’t really believe I wrote this 💀
If someone is paying money for it and previously they had the ability to own something(like a movie disc, game disc, a book etc)... Then yes, they should have the right to own it. And anyone trying to take away their right should face consequences. If I'm paying $80 for it, I better get the ownership not just some license that can be taken away from me or altered at any time
Albert Einstein: " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". You would think they would have learned by now. You gotta produce a product that your consumers want to own. It ain't rocket science.
Insanity is actually the best part of FC6. The main story, gameplay and technical aspects are all just bad, stale and mediocre. The voice acting of both the main game and the DLC are one of the only few strong points...
@@boinggerss1560 Yes, but even FC itself is getting very stale without any innovation (meaningful story-choices, way better side-quests, game-play mechanics), filler-content and all the immersion-killing modern 'fantasy' politics.
Ubisoft going on that Bait n Switch very Heavily. PoP weren't even the Prince Ass Creed Black Samurai Beyond G&E replaced Jade for a PoC lead. It's all black led huh?
It is not problem in imaginary character race, problem is how you implement it "asShadow" is good example of doing it terible (if we are being genorous)
@@ah526 They're all intended as such. They're lazy to create new IPs and tokenized an already established one. The pattern is there, don't justify it. ruclips.net/video/pRq63V24ygQ/видео.htmlsi=0L_z8Xj371VC1DD6
Ubisoft's marketing strategy is so scummy. Like season passes for Outlaws and Shadows seem so odd and just screams mtx. I wish we could go back to paid DLC instead, sell a good game, make profit, sell a good DLC a while later and make more profit
They still do have paid dlc. Lol. The season pass just saves you a small amount of money by buying the dlc's before they release. You can still buy the dlc's separately at the regular price when they come out. You're upset about something that isn't an issue. Paid dlc is still there. Lol.
Larian Studio is highly underrated, and always customer focused. From Divine Divinity, to the Dragon Knight saga, to BG3. Great studio. They should take over for TES6
Prince of Persia TLC is good but one of the main issues is the price. Not a lot of people will pay 40-50euro for a metroidvania game...Most are 25 and lower. Hollow Knight one of the best metroidvanias is 15 EUR for example.
In my opinion at one point Ubisoft was the best of the big publishers. Around the launch of the 360 and throughout that generation (and the previous) they put out a very diverse catalogue across many genres. Assassins creed seemed to change everything.
Not playing Baldur's Gate, but this dev is a legend and he won me instantly with this. Scummy companies like Ubisoft will go down, and that's the best for EVERYONE.
I see no problem if one happens to 🏴☠ sail into a backup copy of a game they already own. It's funny, the cracking scene is doing more for game preservation than the official companies.
You don't buy licences either. There is not much of a difference between buying a license and buying a game. You can do less with it (for example, you cannot modify it), but a license that is bought is permanent and the side that offers said license must adhere to it indefinitely (until they go bankrupt). Seeing as they can change the terms of license (which is NOT POSSIBLE when buying a license...only with your permission can the license be changed if you own said license to a given product), for example with how they cut a game off that they didn't want to offer anymore, you don't even buy the license. You buy temporal access to a service. Of course, the 'permanency' does not apply to buying time-limited licenses, which are...well...limited by time. But everything else still applies to them WITHIN that time, so for example, they cannot be changed without your permission and the product cannot be arbitrarily be made unusable within the licenses duration.
That last game ive ever purchased from ubisoft was far cry 6 and i bought that used so no money went to ubisoft. Let them go under i don't care no more every game they release now is more broken and ugly. Plus the final straw for me was when they removed the crew game from my library.
Contrary to feeling guilty for not buying a game, people should be aware this is the best way to educate the industry on what they (the industry) is doing right or wrong. Going out of business is a pretty clear indication something's wrong with what they're doing 😼
Why call it PoP when there is no Prince in it? It certainly didn't help sales to have a no name DEI character as the main protag. I doubt fans of the franchise found that interesting.
Still havent played baldurs gate 3 as they refuse to make physicals available in my country. I live in europe but my country isnt part of the european union so they cant ship here. And the japanese version is censored.
There are sooo many games on Steam and sales all of the time. I've NEVER paid $70 for a game and there will always be an endless backlog for casual gamers to play. A new game with a large budget has to be REALLY good to have any hope at this point and most of these products by AAA these days are uninspired at best.
Not only you don't own your purchased games, but at the same time, you give up all your personal info the moment you agree to their service, so they can own all your info, sell I, but God forbid you ask for a game in return.
Part of the cost of games is on the players that are stupid enough to buy digital games for physical media prices. For example, Red Dead Redemption 2, still at $59.99. Which is what I would expect to pay for it, if I went to the store 10 years ago to buy a physical collectors copy of it. If it's a single player game, there should be no DLCs for it. This should only be for multiplayer online games. Especially since you have to generally pay as much as you did for the base game for it. This is why I don't buy games any more. I'm not going to let them rip me off with their prices.
As an old fossil who remembers when games came on cassettes for the spectrum, amstrad etc i see the digital future as inevitable at this point and the data shows this epically with casual and younger gamers digital makes up the vast majority of that demographics purchases.
AAA model just need to go away, this model is relatively new compared to the whole history of gaming, and just proves that 2-300 million budget games are just not viable, in the current model….
I feel the real reason why the Team behind the new Prince of Persia game got illegaly fired, is because they also went on Strike as part of the larger Ubisoft workforce strike and Ubisoft only use the poor sales as an excuse. Worker’s rights in France aren’t as shit as they are in the US, so this firing of striking workers is going to cause more issues at Ubisoft.
Honestly, PoP would have flopped even if it wasn't released the same time frame as Palworld. The protagonist wasn't the Prince and it was a metroidvania game (a niche genre) so sales expectations shouldn't have been high.
Why should I be sad that a company that made a bad product doesn't sell well with those products! If they keep making the same bad products why do they expect that customers buy that product? Make a good product and people will buy it! If it is not a necessary product to live, its entertainment after all, so why buy it at all if its bad? people will not buy moldy bread willingly!
I like seeing devs clown on other devs for their mistakes. Corporations, businesses, companies & publishers should be competing with each other for our hard earned money. These publishers should be dunking on each other & not dunking on the fans or paying customers.
If game is being made to expensive that is the fault of the makers not tech or customer. This goes to movies + tv shows as well. There are still countless games made with lower tech or gofundme, and countless even say they don't want the current graphics that end up doing poor jobs any ways (even before modernization makes the further costing uglify edits) and those that do rely more and more on graphics can accept lower ones if game is great and the graphics are not awful just less.
The reason subscription services are more attractive (to corporations) is the same reason why loot boxes are more attractive than outright buying a cosmetic. Why charge a fixed value for something when you can get people to pay potentially more? While I like Game Pass, there is a danger that not a lot of people are aware of with it. Putting aside the integrated multiplayer access which is a bit of a confounding factor, it only has value as long as the amount of subscription fees you pay is less than the number of months you play a game. For example, you play a game that costs $30 to buy outright for 3 months of $15 subscription. You have now paid $45 for that game. Those 3 months don't have to be contiguous either, you could play a game one month, then play it again 6 months later, and again 6 more months down the track. You've still paid more than if you just paid outright at the start. TL;DR Game subscription services require you to constantly be ensuring that your ratio of time played vs. subscription paid results in paying as much as or less than the outright cost to be of value for you otherwise corporations win and take more money than they should.
And ... This is why I ditched Steam regardless of how few of the games I had paid for I managed to play and embraced GOG. I just don't want to depend on their "good will" to have access to things on my account. Note I never said games I own, again the reason I walked away. Its bad enough not to be able to sell GOG games, making any expenses a complete loss of capital, but the idea of depending on Steam to be granted access to them because of DRM. BTW Ubisofts treatment of Rocksmith is a perfect example of why that company is dead to me. I have a Rocksmith DVD and ... I can't play without Steam. Those UberSofties suits can eat bugs and sleep in pods for all I care (I do feel bad about the creatives, but really they should team up and do something substancial).
Ibought BG3 collectors editon. I got a figurine (excellent quality), artbook (hardbound), soundtrack and more physicals for it. And of course a good game. Why should I pay money for a mediocre game and some flimsy downloads from Ubisoft?
People are tired of subscription service too cause they get people to buy into them with a low price then very shortly after raise the prices a lot or make a tier system and take stuff away from those that had it at one price point so they can put it into the higher price to make feel like they are force to pay more to have the so benefits they had before. It’s ridiculous and people are sick and tired of it. The government needs to come out and make it so product like games, music, movies bought online are considered like buying the actual physical product. This is getting ridiculous how gamers and others have been screwed cause they pay the same price as a physical product but don’t get the benefit of putting it onto an external device to use later or the company is bought out and they lose everything they bought in one big go or since people don’t actually own the product and only a license the prices need to be way way way cheaper and nothing close to buy the physical product. The people have been screwed over and ripped off long enough.
Studios that support their customers owning their game? Should start by releasing physical copies that don't require network connectivity. Can still obviously release digitally but give the option fof physical copies. Otherwise that is just supporting the ppl who want gamers to not own their games and only purchasing licenses for games. I just stopped purchasing most games all together due to the fact it is a license and not actually truely owned anymore. Even on Steam. I only ever purchase a game now if the game is good enough that it outweighs the fact that I am basically renting it and not actually buying it.
If World of Warcraft Classic were to launch today with a few updates and promises that expansions are coming in roughly six months by three months respectively, if it were met with the same positive public response to the content equivalent to being released today, to provide expansion releases in a timely manner where the players are at with the content, for hotfixes to roll weekly and we witness the same public praise. A company that provides such a service should be allowed to sell for over a hundred dollars for the base game, over a hundred dollars for the expansions and twenty five bucks a month for a subscription to maintain the game itself and to deal with the problems within because the game itself was worth such a cost and the value is there to charge such a fee. On the other hand, to charge over a hundred dollars for that recent Star Wars game is silly, I'm not even sure twenty bucks is warranted as it's not a good game nor does it have any reason to expect a larger purchasing price as the company itself knows society was already criticizing how it looked and the gameplay didn't offer much past early 2010's content. I don't like the current need for AAA video game companies to demand a higher base cost for video games when it's already too expensive for most to cough up seventy bucks nor a monthly subscription fee, people are struggling to afford games while companies want products to be valued as a base higher than they currently are, even when those companies know their products are nowhere near the value such a base cost offers. So, I honestly have different feelings on the matter, I can see games being priced at higher points but I also see many games with microtransactions that shouldn't be allowed to sell the base game, rather they should be forced to give the game out for free even with a single microtransaction within.
Oh man, Elden Ring was absolutely worth it. FROM SOFTWARE is one of the few studios I gladly enjoy having access to my card. Lol Just hope they continue make games THEY want to make, and resist the temptation to let western nonsense infect their designs
I remember when it and Elden Ring came out, and AAA studios were like "Hey, gamers! We have shareholders, you better not make these games your new standards, our shareholders wouldn't allow us to make good games!" Everyone, correctly told them "I don't see how that's our problem. Git gud."
5:44 vara always makes good piunts u love game pass because it starts and stops when i want and saves my data but i know if a game is gone its gone but i also know i didnt buy the games i bought the service!
_"Gamers must own their games."_
The fact someone has to even say this now is just depressing.
@@ShyGuy-op8vd It makes sense that Ubisoft hates modders. (They also hated gamers having fun with mods.)
To be fair, given how a lot of Gamers have gone digital (For Games, Movies, Subscriptions etc)I can see why Ubisoft pulled this crap. The problem for Ubisoft is everything they have made has been below subpar and caused Gamers to just flat out reject Ubisoft.
it's always cute peoppe consider buying a DVD as "owning a game" despite having pretty much zero legal rights over it anyway :)
Well, that's our reality right now.
Never buying anything from Ubisoft ever again unless the leadership completely changes. In the current state I hope that Ubisoft gets bankrupt or bought and cleaned up by another company that cares about the gamers.
Personally, I've gotten very used to not owning Ubisoft games.
I got used to that around the time they started demanding we install Uplay to play their games.
And "their games" is the apt description, because clearly they were never ours.
Ubisoft no one likes you. There are so many companies that went downhill, we need go back to simpler times when games were fun and well made.
Can't wait till they completely shut down.
We do have a lot of great and fun games that MANAGES TO HIT 1 MILLION BEFORE THE GAME RELEASES THIS YEAR... (Looking at Silent Hill 2, Sparking Zero, and Shadow Generations. All of them have huge modding potential.)
esg dollars are like the carrot dangling in front of a donkey... how do you stop people wanting easy money?
You forget , games that we actually own .
Sadly my friend as much as most of us would want that…those times have long since passed us by.
Considering Balder Gate 3 sold 15 million copies to Star Wars Outlaws's 1 million, he probably knows what he's talking about.
It's good to know that not all devs are brain-dead, and some are on our side
Agreed. Some actually seem to be gamers themselves and seem to be able to relate to us. Sadly others seem to not only not relate to us but seem to despise us.
Don't be surprised if in a few years, he starts spuing nonsense. A lot of previously based developers have come out as out of touch over the years. It's sad, but it happens.
This is why dvds still sell.
"Gamers should be comfortable not owning their games"
And we we followed that advice to the T
Prince of Persia is held in a lot of players memories due to Sands of Time and its sequels involving the warrior prince. Then they release a new game with a dude with killmonger hair and energy effects on the cover that look like graffiti... Imagine getting a new Splinter Cell, but instead of playing as Sam Fischer, your playing as a brocolli hair TikTok zoomer who chokes dudes out while saying how 'bussin frfr' it is.
Oh hell yeah. I WAS interested in PoP until I saw that freaking hair cut and went, "Yup. Nope. No way."
There's only ONE person that cut looked good on and that was Killmonger.
Video game companies should make video games for video games for video game players. Easy as that.
Like they must think it’s beyond rocket science at this point
Sadly the majority of them have been infected by SBI and DEI.
They rather go bankrupt than actually releasing fun fun games.
@@edithrose2474 Even without rocket science, it is still possible to succeed in other stuff. Marty Friedman is an accomplished guitar player and a tourist who respects Japan as Japan.
I would pay a lot of money to have every woketivist devs fired.
Ubisoft go bankrupt already. YOU SUCK !
People are sick of subscription services. Ubisoft tanking their own IPs trying to push a dead store front by withholding games from Steam. UBISOFT NEED TO GET USED TO GOING BROKE.
I currently work in real. Imagine the retail industry flat out telling customers “If you don’t like our sh*t then don’t buy anything from us” and then compare against the entertainment industry 😂😂😂 If I told customers “don’t ever spend any money here because don’t like you” that’s a literal death sentence for your business!!! How is this all not a huge joke. What timeline are we in lol. Imagine making enemies with customers. Still can’t really believe I wrote this 💀
If someone is paying money for it and previously they had the ability to own something(like a movie disc, game disc, a book etc)... Then yes, they should have the right to own it. And anyone trying to take away their right should face consequences. If I'm paying $80 for it, I better get the ownership not just some license that can be taken away from me or altered at any time
Own nothing! Eat ze bugz und be güt wurkrz und enter ze podz! WERK MAKES YOU FREE!
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Ubisoft seriously needs to go under already...
As well as Bioware and Blizzard.
I'm waiting for that to happen
and anyone that has SBI in their games
Couldn't be more correct
There's still a corporate monster out there. EA.
Albert Einstein: " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". You would think they would have learned by now. You gotta produce a product that your consumers want to own. It ain't rocket science.
Ironic since Ubisoft used that quote often in Far Cry 3
Insanity is actually the best part of FC6. The main story, gameplay and technical aspects are all just bad, stale and mediocre. The voice acting of both the main game and the DLC are one of the only few strong points...
@@Dawwwgtrue but is it only stale because every game feels like a far cry reskin? Like avatar frontiers of pandora
It's not about the money it's about pushing the ideology as far as they can. They know this stuff isn't popular.
@@boinggerss1560 Yes, but even FC itself is getting very stale without any innovation (meaningful story-choices, way better side-quests, game-play mechanics), filler-content and all the immersion-killing modern 'fantasy' politics.
Most of modern games cost about 70-100 dollars.
Game hobbyists and collector fans hated overprice. lol....
Going digital got rid of the disc(s) and box, but they raised the price anyway. WTF
Man this has not been a good year for Ubisoft it’s hilarious how that one sentence has constantly come back to bite them.
0:57 It's actually quite easy to support devs. Stop buying every new game that comes out, and find stuff you like. Buy that instead.
This is why physicals are important, because remember, when cyberpunk came out, it was so messy that SONY pulled it out of stores
This is why I only buy physical game now. I only buy digital if its only digital available
It was so messy only on consoles , PC run was fine
@@LeftyWick GOG has downloadable installation. I'm gonna get an external drive just for that.
@@ТАДАМ-ю4ж Cyberpunk on PS5 run fine. I have it on both PS4 and PS5. I enjoyed both so much. But the PS5 is a whole different game
@@LeftyWick thing is there people saying game is garbage just over its launch problems , like cyberpunk not masterpiece at all
Ubisoft going on that Bait n Switch very Heavily.
PoP weren't even the Prince
Ass Creed Black Samurai
Beyond G&E replaced Jade for a PoC lead.
It's all black led huh?
It is not problem in imaginary character race, problem is how you implement it "asShadow" is good example of doing it terible (if we are being genorous)
@@ah526
They're all intended as such.
They're lazy to create new IPs and tokenized an already established one. The pattern is there, don't justify it.
ruclips.net/video/pRq63V24ygQ/видео.htmlsi=0L_z8Xj371VC1DD6
Ubisoft's marketing strategy is so scummy. Like season passes for Outlaws and Shadows seem so odd and just screams mtx. I wish we could go back to paid DLC instead, sell a good game, make profit, sell a good DLC a while later and make more profit
They still do have paid dlc. Lol. The season pass just saves you a small amount of money by buying the dlc's before they release. You can still buy the dlc's separately at the regular price when they come out. You're upset about something that isn't an issue. Paid dlc is still there. Lol.
BASED DEV!
I wish we could have more developers come out and address issues like this!
Larian Studio is highly underrated, and always customer focused.
From Divine Divinity, to the Dragon Knight saga, to BG3. Great studio. They should take over for TES6
Gamers First -Jerrel Dulay-
Prince of Persia TLC is good but one of the main issues is the price. Not a lot of people will pay 40-50euro for a metroidvania game...Most are 25 and lower. Hollow Knight one of the best metroidvanias is 15 EUR for example.
Hollow Knight was phenomenal
Can't they think of a different hairstyle?
My grandma told me recently "no matter what they teach you in school, know that the prince of Persia was black and had a modern audience haircut!"
GO WOKE GO BROKE SIMPLE
In my opinion at one point Ubisoft was the best of the big publishers. Around the launch of the 360 and throughout that generation (and the previous) they put out a very diverse catalogue across many genres. Assassins creed seemed to change everything.
Close to what I've been saying they should be used to not getting money and going bankrupt
Not playing Baldur's Gate, but this dev is a legend and he won me instantly with this. Scummy companies like Ubisoft will go down, and that's the best for EVERYONE.
We can make a argument that Gamepass/PS+ has some value. Ubisoft plus, is a monthly donation
I see no problem if one happens to 🏴☠ sail into a backup copy of a game they already own. It's funny, the cracking scene is doing more for game preservation than the official companies.
You don't buy games anymore, you buy licences
You don't buy licences either. There is not much of a difference between buying a license and buying a game. You can do less with it (for example, you cannot modify it), but a license that is bought is permanent and the side that offers said license must adhere to it indefinitely (until they go bankrupt).
Seeing as they can change the terms of license (which is NOT POSSIBLE when buying a license...only with your permission can the license be changed if you own said license to a given product), for example with how they cut a game off that they didn't want to offer anymore, you don't even buy the license. You buy temporal access to a service.
Of course, the 'permanency' does not apply to buying time-limited licenses, which are...well...limited by time. But everything else still applies to them WITHIN that time, so for example, they cannot be changed without your permission and the product cannot be arbitrarily be made unusable within the licenses duration.
i am so proud to say i paid full price for bg3 and have never ever owned a single ubisoft game in my library and intend to keep it that way.
man that Dev is honestly a god send. Say it louder so the people in the back can hear. God I love it.
That headline went hard.
Both sides suck for Baldur's Gate 3 emboldening journos for wanting to do horrific things to Memphis Grizzlies and Ubisoft being Ubisoft.
I think encouraging journos to go try and be intimate with Grizzlies might actually be kinda based.
That last game ive ever purchased from ubisoft was far cry 6 and i bought that used so no money went to ubisoft. Let them go under i don't care no more every game they release now is more broken and ugly. Plus the final straw for me was when they removed the crew game from my library.
Contrary to feeling guilty for not buying a game, people should be aware this is the best way to educate the industry on what they (the industry) is doing right or wrong. Going out of business is a pretty clear indication something's wrong with what they're doing 😼
Ubisoft might not even own themselves soon enough.
All the platforms will fail just like streaming services.
BG 3 dev, just roasted Ubisoft, Lol.
A game must come with a SSD with it installed already... New type of cartrigde!!!
I'm just glad Splinter Cell has been spared from promoting "The Message!"
Why call it PoP when there is no Prince in it? It certainly didn't help sales to have a no name DEI character as the main protag. I doubt fans of the franchise found that interesting.
You clearly didnt play it
Still havent played baldurs gate 3 as they refuse to make physicals available in my country.
I live in europe but my country isnt part of the european union so they cant ship here.
And the japanese version is censored.
There are sooo many games on Steam and sales all of the time. I've NEVER paid $70 for a game and there will always be an endless backlog for casual gamers to play. A new game with a large budget has to be REALLY good to have any hope at this point and most of these products by AAA these days are uninspired at best.
I ussualy buy 1 game at 60€ a year, the rest is 5 to 30€. And pc gaming ussualy demands a better pc so i save money for hardware upgrades.
No physical copy = no purchase
It's literally that simple 👌
Ubislop needs to get used to being out of business
Not only you don't own your purchased games, but at the same time, you give up all your personal info the moment you agree to their service, so they can own all your info, sell I, but God forbid you ask for a game in return.
Part of the cost of games is on the players that are stupid enough to buy digital games for physical media prices. For example, Red Dead Redemption 2, still at $59.99. Which is what I would expect to pay for it, if I went to the store 10 years ago to buy a physical collectors copy of it.
If it's a single player game, there should be no DLCs for it. This should only be for multiplayer online games. Especially since you have to generally pay as much as you did for the base game for it.
This is why I don't buy games any more. I'm not going to let them rip me off with their prices.
As a PC gamer myself, if a game is not on Steam I’m not paying for it.
As an old fossil who remembers when games came on cassettes for the spectrum, amstrad etc i see the digital future as inevitable at this point and the data shows this epically with casual and younger gamers digital makes up the vast majority of that demographics purchases.
If Ubisoft was giving their next Assassins Creed game away for free, no strings attached, I would consider thinking about getting it.
Traitor. I wont play that for free as even then it counts as a download.
This guy understands how the gaming industry ACTUALLY works. More like him.
That Part Place has become That Eco Chamber Place.
And Michael Douse is right... The Lost Crown is a phenomenal game!. :@11:00 nailed it.
they can't even sell a great game, executives and marketing should be fired instead of PoP team
If they weren't gonna make anymore Rayman or Splinter Cell games, then I'll say its for the best they go under soon.
all hail perry the platypus for fighting DEI disguised as Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc
Better to get and own the very few good Ubisoft games before the company becomes extinct. 😅
Wrong. This was the only game from Ubi that click with gamers for the past 10 years.
AAA model just need to go away, this model is relatively new compared to the whole history of gaming, and just proves that 2-300 million budget games are just not viable, in the current model….
Ubisoft, the new Electronic Arts
I feel the real reason why the Team behind the new Prince of Persia game got illegaly fired, is because they also went on Strike as part of the larger Ubisoft workforce strike and Ubisoft only use the poor sales as an excuse.
Worker’s rights in France aren’t as shit as they are in the US, so this firing of striking workers is going to cause more issues at Ubisoft.
Love your videos
gaming now is a side of content with the core being how much can we monetize the game
Honestly, PoP would have flopped even if it wasn't released the same time frame as Palworld. The protagonist wasn't the Prince and it was a metroidvania game (a niche genre) so sales expectations shouldn't have been high.
What's the difference between North Korea and Ubisoft?
North Korea didn't fuck up as many launches as Ubisoft
If I could I would have a seperate modded PS5 just to play pirated Ubisoft games.
Why should I be sad that a company that made a bad product doesn't sell well with those products! If they keep making the same bad products why do they expect that customers buy that product?
Make a good product and people will buy it! If it is not a necessary product to live, its entertainment after all, so why buy it at all if its bad? people will not buy moldy bread willingly!
I like seeing devs clown on other devs for their mistakes. Corporations, businesses, companies & publishers should be competing with each other for our hard earned money. These publishers should be dunking on each other & not dunking on the fans or paying customers.
If game is being made to expensive that is the fault of the makers not tech or customer.
This goes to movies + tv shows as well.
There are still countless games made with lower tech or gofundme, and countless even say they don't want the current graphics that end up doing poor jobs any ways (even before modernization makes the further costing uglify edits) and those that do rely more and more on graphics can accept lower ones if game is great and the graphics are not awful just less.
As of late Ubisoft's smaller games have been better than their flagship titles.
Last ubisoft game I played was for honor, was a great launch and fun couple weeks
Prince of persia 2 is the best. Where's that hd update?
The reason subscription services are more attractive (to corporations) is the same reason why loot boxes are more attractive than outright buying a cosmetic. Why charge a fixed value for something when you can get people to pay potentially more?
While I like Game Pass, there is a danger that not a lot of people are aware of with it. Putting aside the integrated multiplayer access which is a bit of a confounding factor, it only has value as long as the amount of subscription fees you pay is less than the number of months you play a game. For example, you play a game that costs $30 to buy outright for 3 months of $15 subscription. You have now paid $45 for that game. Those 3 months don't have to be contiguous either, you could play a game one month, then play it again 6 months later, and again 6 more months down the track. You've still paid more than if you just paid outright at the start.
TL;DR Game subscription services require you to constantly be ensuring that your ratio of time played vs. subscription paid results in paying as much as or less than the outright cost to be of value for you otherwise corporations win and take more money than they should.
The red is nicer than the orange.
(cough)
Any devs that can help it should abandon the sinking ship called Ubislop now get clear while you can.
someone have to say it to steam, too.
And ... This is why I ditched Steam regardless of how few of the games I had paid for I managed to play and embraced GOG. I just don't want to depend on their "good will" to have access to things on my account.
Note I never said games I own, again the reason I walked away.
Its bad enough not to be able to sell GOG games, making any expenses a complete loss of capital, but the idea of depending on Steam to be granted access to them because of DRM.
BTW Ubisofts treatment of Rocksmith is a perfect example of why that company is dead to me. I have a Rocksmith DVD and ... I can't play without Steam. Those UberSofties suits can eat bugs and sleep in pods for all I care (I do feel bad about the creatives, but really they should team up and do something substancial).
Ibought BG3 collectors editon. I got a figurine (excellent quality), artbook (hardbound), soundtrack and more physicals for it.
And of course a good game.
Why should I pay money for a mediocre game and some flimsy downloads from Ubisoft?
People are tired of subscription service too cause they get people to buy into them with a low price then very shortly after raise the prices a lot or make a tier system and take stuff away from those that had it at one price point so they can put it into the higher price to make feel like they are force to pay more to have the so benefits they had before. It’s ridiculous and people are sick and tired of it. The government needs to come out and make it so product like games, music, movies bought online are considered like buying the actual physical product. This is getting ridiculous how gamers and others have been screwed cause they pay the same price as a physical product but don’t get the benefit of putting it onto an external device to use later or the company is bought out and they lose everything they bought in one big go or since people don’t actually own the product and only a license the prices need to be way way way cheaper and nothing close to buy the physical product. The people have been screwed over and ripped off long enough.
Studios that support their customers owning their game? Should start by releasing physical copies that don't require network connectivity. Can still obviously release digitally but give the option fof physical copies. Otherwise that is just supporting the ppl who want gamers to not own their games and only purchasing licenses for games. I just stopped purchasing most games all together due to the fact it is a license and not actually truely owned anymore. Even on Steam. I only ever purchase a game now if the game is good enough that it outweighs the fact that I am basically renting it and not actually buying it.
I don't care what anybody says Prince of Persia TLC is dope! Really the only Ubisoft game that it's worth it.
look, not a fan of Baldurs gate, but i do respect that dev!
Prince of persia was the one good game ubisoft release in years.
What happened to PR teams that helped avoid this
That's hilarious coming from the same dev that made a game where it lets you make out with a bear and a squid.
If World of Warcraft Classic were to launch today with a few updates and promises that expansions are coming in roughly six months by three months respectively, if it were met with the same positive public response to the content equivalent to being released today, to provide expansion releases in a timely manner where the players are at with the content, for hotfixes to roll weekly and we witness the same public praise.
A company that provides such a service should be allowed to sell for over a hundred dollars for the base game, over a hundred dollars for the expansions and twenty five bucks a month for a subscription to maintain the game itself and to deal with the problems within because the game itself was worth such a cost and the value is there to charge such a fee.
On the other hand, to charge over a hundred dollars for that recent Star Wars game is silly, I'm not even sure twenty bucks is warranted as it's not a good game nor does it have any reason to expect a larger purchasing price as the company itself knows society was already criticizing how it looked and the gameplay didn't offer much past early 2010's content. I don't like the current need for AAA video game companies to demand a higher base cost for video games when it's already too expensive for most to cough up seventy bucks nor a monthly subscription fee, people are struggling to afford games while companies want products to be valued as a base higher than they currently are, even when those companies know their products are nowhere near the value such a base cost offers.
So, I honestly have different feelings on the matter, I can see games being priced at higher points but I also see many games with microtransactions that shouldn't be allowed to sell the base game, rather they should be forced to give the game out for free even with a single microtransaction within.
The only game im looking foward too is Mafia 4. Nothing else peaks my interest. I hate dei corporate policy.
How about it continue to buy physical games and game consoles
Oh man, Elden Ring was absolutely worth it. FROM SOFTWARE is one of the few studios I gladly enjoy having access to my card. Lol
Just hope they continue make games THEY want to make, and resist the temptation to let western nonsense infect their designs
The BG3 crew stays winning
I remember when it and Elden Ring came out, and AAA studios were like "Hey, gamers! We have shareholders, you better not make these games your new standards, our shareholders wouldn't allow us to make good games!" Everyone, correctly told them "I don't see how that's our problem. Git gud."
5:44 vara always makes good piunts u love game pass because it starts and stops when i want and saves my data but i know if a game is gone its gone but i also know i didnt buy the games i bought the service!
Oof the burn
Based Larian takes another W.