• @[email protected]
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    • forcing users to be always online while playing

    • invasive and harmful DRM

    • overpriced and under-developed DLC

    • unfinished and buggy games

    • boring and predictable writing

    • repetitive and checklist-style open worlds

    • extra launchers in addition to your actual launcher

    • removing access to games you’ve bought

    Please don’t rewrite history: Always online -> Microsoft started that trend with GFWL et al

    DRM -> Industry standard, at least they don’t persecute people like Nintendo does

    DLC -> No clue, patient gamer, buy the complete edition years later. I was however, under the impression that’s actually a Bethesda special, horse armour and all.

    Buggy games -> Let me introduce you to Cyberpunk77

    Writing -> Jap, it’s shit, like 90% of the games today because writers are expensive so “we use AI”

    Open World -> BOTW is worse than contemporaneous Ubi games, 0 complaints. To this day, The Division 1 is a top 3 atmospheric and designed open worlds ever to release.

    Launchers -> Rockstar, Epic, Origin/EA, BattleNet, GoG-Galaxy, Bethesda, XboxApp, Bedrock Edition, et al.

    Access removal -> Pasmophobia, Destiny 2, GTAIV, any non cracked GFWL game, basically any digital purchase is not owned. The worse is really GFWL, I have a library of over 30 physical disks that I cannot play legally because reverse engineering a game’s copy protection is against the law. I have the physical copy that I paid for! Actual consequences to MS? 0 At least now we have a campaign to stop that from happening thanks to Ubi’s stupid the crew move.

    Basically Ubi is not better or worse than current publishers, shit, ActiBlizz and EA are far far worse but…

    Ubisoft just gets flack because Microsoft wants to buy them on the cheap. They allegedly helped stage an attempted hostile takeover in 2018 but it failed and Ubi ended up enlisting investments from Tencent. Since then MS has allegedly spent quite strongly to acquire the embattled publisher’s catalog on the cheap.

    edit: The comment I’m replying to has been edited. @[email protected] is not a very intellectually honest person.

    • @[email protected]
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      Please don’t rewrite history: Always online -> Microsoft started that trend with GFWL et al

      You apparently don’t understand what “push and normalize” means.

      They never claimed that Ubisoft started these, they only claimed that Ubisoft was a major factor in these practices being popularized

      • @[email protected]
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        Which is absolutely rewriting history, because that is false. I don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about, other than multiplayer I don’t remember always online games from Ubi. Which is funny, because the much loved doom series doesn’t let me play without a Bethesda account and that fucking shit is a single player game.

        The proof that this is a FUD push from a potential buyer is that people like you have access to the Internet but still have an unreasonable position based on false premises.

        GFWL list: the overwhelming majority of these games are single player and yet you needed to be online to play them. Ubisoft didn’t normalize jack shit, that’s all on Microsoft, together with the push to pay to play online.

    • @FooBarrington
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      Please try to read properly. You’re arguing against a straw man.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m arguing against the original comment, not the edited version. I’m amazed this type of deplorable behaviour jumped from reddit to here. What a pathetic human being one has to be to become so intellectually dishonest.

        • @FooBarrington
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          What the hell are you talking about? I edited the comment shortly after posting it, which was 5 hours before you replied. Are you mentally okay? Or are you just an incredibly dishonest person?

          Like, the edit logs are fully open, everyone can see you’re lying. Why even try?

          • @[email protected]
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            02 months ago

            It was certainly my bad, I’ve known the pig wrestling adage for an eternity and I still engaged. Lesson not learned probably.

            • @FooBarrington
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              Dude, are you okay? You’re the only one wallowing in the mud (or your own poo, probably) right now. First coming in and strawmanning my points, then calling me pathetic because I edited my comment multiple hours before you read it?

              Get help, man. Something ain’t right up there.

              • @[email protected]
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                Did you learn the word strawman recently? Do you know what it means? It’s your default reply to anyone calling out your unreasonable emotional outbursts of hatred towards ubisoft.

                • @FooBarrington
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                  Seriously, get help. You literally can’t read and keep insulting everyone around you. Why don’t you spend this time learning how to properly read? You’ll get far more from that than from continuously pissing on my leg.