Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.
And of course they won’t compete over which service provides the better app\features\catalogue but will try the same exclusivity game the video streaming platforms started… No thanks!
Ubisoft doing God’s work.
And by that I mean not having their games available on steam so I cannot purchase them.
oh, i forgot that it’s 2024 and video games haven’t really “taken off” yet
Okay. I will be sailing to the high seas 🏴☠️🏴☠️
As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don’t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That’s not been deleted. You don’t lose what you’ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it’s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.
Yeah, you know I don’t lose my game either saved on my CPU or Xbox with a copy of the game I don’t have to pay for more than once for a predetermined value.
Oh no…so anyway…
As long as they get comfortable with the idea of if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.
That’s okay, you just need to get comfortable with me pirating your games… Then again that’s Ubisoft, I don’t think I even want to pirate their stuff.
Remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft.
I’ve seen this saying going around and while I do like it, something about it bugs me. These corpos want to treat everything as a service. If you acquire content from a service via illegal means you are indeed still stealing, no?
You’re either selling a service or a product, you don’t get to lay claim to both, and you don’t get to walk with peoples money by using linguistic tricks
I’d rather remain comfortable not buying games from Ubisoft and EA.
I refuse to waste a single dollar on every game from both companies, since we were all bent over and continue to get bent over because they just don’t care about anything but making more money.
A good example from Ubisoft is the handling of the Driver series. They kept on releasing the games in the series in a near unplayable state before when most people had dial up.
A good example with EA was the failed DRM with Spore. They only let you install the game 3 times, which glitched out to the point where people had to turn to piracy (warez and crackz) to play a game they paid for.
We vote with every dollar spent, which gives me hope when people rally around good companies that do the right thing.
In this thread: People that disagree and then turn around and play games they don’t truly own on Steam
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Gamers says CEOs need to get comfortable not having a subscription model for their sales to take off.
These guys need to remember they are selling a novelty…a toy. It’s not an essential good. Their consumer can just “stop” seeking new games
Subscribe to my nuts Ubisoft
gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.
So subscriptions won’t take off if we demand to own what we buy? I accept those terms.
If it ain’t a sale, it’s not piracy.
