I Rather pay more once. And actual own my games. Than get nickeld and dimed. And own noting…
You can’t steal something if you can’t own it Arrrr…
And really most of these AAa companies don’t many any great game anymore, just cheap cash grabs, why would even care about them
“needs to happen” …for what?
It needs to happen in order to increase profits.
They need to get used to not being paid for their games
points a tall bookshelf in his house
Those are board game I got to quit playing video games. Bonus points here…drumroll…I own all of them.
DRMs your board games
Let’s not give them any ideas. My brother actually has a board game (can’t remember the name) where in order to get the story/scenarios/etcetera for each playthrough/mission/whatever, you actually need the official board game app.
Which will lose updates soon
Sooo, over 10 years ago, somebody came up with the idea for a hybrid board game: Golem Arcana. It’s a board game…that requires an app to play.
Of course, the app was proprietary, and it’s no longer supported, so now the game is dead, because the app won’t run on modern phones.
I feel no need to own any further Ubisoft games. That’s for sure.
“You will own nothing and like it”
He better get used to not making money…
But who am I kidding gamers have 0 impulse control.
Either way I have enough retro games to last me a lifetime.
Either way I have enough retro games to last me a lifetime.
same tbh, there is a reason !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works is up in the lemmy explorer
I still don’t understand how people can look at the Ubisoft logo and not throw up in their mouths a little. Like, how is AC still huge after 15 years of putting out the same game copy and paste style?
Tremblay’s view on physical games isn’t that shocking, considering he’s a director of subscriptions, but he does leave out some concerns shared by many when it comes to subscription services. For starters, games actually do come and go on these services right now, with the most recent example being Grand Theft Auto 5 leaving Xbox Game Pass. If you play games only via subscription services, you can very easily lose access to certain titles on a regular basis.
Secondly, games that are pulled from online stores, for one reason or another, would mean they cease to exist in an all-digital future. Two high profile example are the original Alan Wake and Ubisoft’s very own The Crew, both of which were pulled due to licensing issues. While the former eventually returned to digital storefronts thanks to the recent remaster, The Crew can no longer be bought and will poof out of existence on March 31, 2024.
I can see a lot of people being fine with that idea when it comes to subscriptions. I think people have kind of gotten used to the idea with content coming and going off of sites like Netflix.
I thought this has to do with DRM and license agreements when I first saw it.
Being okay with subscriptions is perhaps an unpopular idea on this sub, but I’m okay with that.
To me, it comes down to what your use-case is.
If all I want is to be entertained, then a subscription full of stuff is fine. I don’t care if it changes or goes away, I’ll just watch something else.
But if it’s my favourite show ever, then I need a way to have that permanently, so there’s no risk I lose access.
Same with games. Game Pass etc are fine if you just want a steady stream of new stuff. Not fine if you need to truly own that game forever.
I have zero problem with subscriptions. I only have a problem when subscription is the ONLY way.
Similar to what happened to Netflix, competing services will harm this process. Currently the most comparable to old Netflix is the Xbox Game Pass; which if companies like EA and Ubisoft pulled their games from; it would be way less prefered.
As the profits that come to these companies decrease, they’ll be more tempted to focus more on their own subsctiption platforms. Game industry has this trick up its sleeve that some games can be played 1000s of hours, but even adding games of this nature; satisfying every player with a single subscription service is impossible.
Tremblay’s gotta get used to people pirating ubi games.
That’s fine. I don’t really claim to own the things I pirate.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
If we have to be comfortable not owning games, then they have to be comfortable us pirating them.
If buying is owning, piracy is still not stealing. Theft involves a tangible loss for someone else.
Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.
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According to their logic, you can set up a shellscript that repeatedly copies an ISO of theirs to /dev/null. That should bankrupt them after a week or so.
Ubisoft directors might need to become comfortable hiding quietly in dark attics when the revolution comes.
It’s nice that he’s being honest about the bullshittery but all the same he can shove it. Glad I haven’t bought a Ubi game in years and it doesn’t look like that’s going to be changing any time soon.
It strikes me that this attitude might carry more weight if it came from a company with a better library… I mean, they have a handful of good games, most of which are quite old, and otherwise, mostly act like a cheap sequel machine.
