Ubisoft Execs Need To Get Comfortable With “Not Owning My Money”.
When did we get to the point where a Lemmy post got 1000+ upvotes?
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!
Ubisoft needs to get comfortoble with not owning their company
ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not existing.
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?
Big assets also means Big liabilities.
1bn of short term and 2bn of long term debt.
And nothing of value will be lost.
Favorite ? No, Not really The real question is, who’s going to buy them
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.
Suckerpunch buying assassin’s creed would be great, considering GoT was the best assassin’s creed game to date.
Please die, please die, please die, please die
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.
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.
Don’t you mean… AAAA company?
Yeah but… You do get that you don’t own any of your games on Steam, Epic, whatever either?
Just GOG is DRM free.You’re not wrong, but Ubisoft were absolutely tone deaf for saying that.
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.
itch.io as well
I stopped buying games that require online login. It’s a real pain in the ass when I’m traveling and offline. I stopped buying anything from Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar. They made their choice, so I did too.
I hate that Halo:MCC requires my like, 28 digit Microsoft password AND 2FA to play a game from 2007. It should allow you to bypass login and just play as your steam account.
Every time I want to play it, it asks for that, and I just quit and play something that is far less of a hassle, particularly offline.
Hey I have a real easy solution to that.
I’m perma banned because I had the gall to play modded MCC from the steam workshop on the day it released, before the moderation team knew modding was legal. I can’t even log into Halo waypoint to get help from the Halo team.
I now can’t play any Microsoft game, own an Xbox, or use game pass and I refuse to make a new account on principle.
This bugs the hell out of me too. I don’t think I’ve even started it yet for this very reason.
I took their advice and got comfortable not owning Ubisoft games.
They make it so easy: anything they release I’ve already played years ago already.
i quit after AC4. kept up with the news and reviews, seems I never really missed anything good.
Maybe they should just have fewer avocado toasts for a while?
I’ve hated what ubisoft has done to gaming ever since the fc3. Only shining beacons were early siege and rayman games. They have incredible artists and programmers working at it and could make some great games but the directors completely double down on the most generic, most mindeless wide appeal possible. I regret buying wildlands because the setting is unique. The game is as tactical as far cry which is just mindleslly run into camp, use your overpowered character against deaf and dumb enemies and complete the collectable.
I remember “Far Cry Blood Dragon” as the only entry that really stood out. The gameplay was exactly what you described but dialed to 11 (as it should be).
FC 3-6 … same game, identical mechanics, less over the top fun more boring and repetitive tasks. Somewhere at Ubisoft there is someone who is responsible for this, including all the consequences.
FC3 was a game changer. It was absolutely wild in its time. It’s just a shame that all of its successors went the same road… I stopper playing midgame FarCry V because it was… bad. The scenario was shit. The gameplay was shit. The map was huge but lacked substance.
Not for me since i had already played better open world games. Games like stalker which had amazing a life and animals that were programmed to act like real ones rather than spawning a tiger and an antelope 20m infront of you and setting one hostile to other, fc2 which was flawed but the ai interactions were mind blowing like sniping out a guys leg and watching allies drag him to cover, arma, crysis etc. all were better but fc3 was casual, accessable and marketed.
kinda unrelated but I’d love it if valve sold physical copies of their games to use with the successor to the steam deck
Maybe they should come as some sturdy USB stick that you just plug in the back and start playing.
