No Mick no buy. Fuck Bethesda right off, those greedy duplicitous cunts. Feel bad for the team tho, I don't believe the decision to betray Mick came from below.
It's refreshing to see people understanding, and so succinctly posing, the shades of grey in this matter rather than the typical kneejerk black and white takes.
Only someone who was never forced to outsource critical software to low pay companies basically sweatshoping software, thinks outsourcing is equal throughout the world. Everyone loses in that chain except the C type that shows nice numbers that quarter for a nice performance number. Meanwhile shit like the one above propagates like wildfire.
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.
Of course the cheapest console which, furthermore, is geared for children, will sell gangbusters. You know what else sells gangbusters? Roblox, Fortnite, CS skins, et al. Also geared towards children and teenagers. It's like there's a pattern there correlating to underdeveloped brains...
Don't get me wrong, I loved Zelda. A link to the past is on my top 10. I am however quite cynical and can clearly see when a company is basically predatory towards the ignorance/susceptibility of its user base.
Nintendo caters to a captive audience of children of all ages that have exactly 0 critical thinking. More than half of Nintendo's releases of the past decade were shovelware leveraging the fanbase for their characters, like Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. It's the pepsi man equivalent of the modern era. For every masterpiece, there are two or three shovelware games with low production cost.
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.
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.
GFWLlist: 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.
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.
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. @FooBarrington@lemmy.world is not a very intellectually honest person.
Playing devil's advocate, could it have been used to avoid persecution of these people now that the Emperor has returned and the crazies think they have mandate to "hunt"? There's a non negligible chance that whoever decided this, lives in California, and thinks of themselves as quite liberal, they're just too greedy to quit the job at Meta because that 6-7 figure income is worth it even when it means being complicit to the 4th Reich.
The United States of America, being a former European colony, has completed its transformation into an African plutocracy lead by a strong man figure, just like other European former colonies.
Also, completing the perfect profile for the average US American, it hasn't realised the country is in North America, a completely separate continent to Africa, so the transition to an African styled plutocracy of the XX century, was quite unnecessary.
When Nintendo does this "genius game design", when Ubi does it, well, the coment section above. We've lost the plot. If the game is good it should be lauded, if it's bad, it should fail. Regardless of who are the main characters...
No Mick no buy. Fuck Bethesda right off, those greedy duplicitous cunts. Feel bad for the team tho, I don't believe the decision to betray Mick came from below.