The last game I bought was Outer Wilds in 2022, on sale, for like ten bucks. Maybe I bought Firewatch in 2023 as a rebound, but I don't remember. After that, I decided to finally play through the MCC for most of 2023, which I'd bought years earlier for like 50 bucks, maybe. And how much would I have to have paid to keep acces to these games for so long with a subscription model? Well, just to keep acces with Ubusoft would have cost me nearly 300 dollars since late 2022, for less than 80 dollars worth of games. Of course they want us to have subscriptions.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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be careful what you wish for ubisoft
I genuinely hope this guy doesn't get "comfortable" not having a job.
Fuck subscriptions. I pay you $5 for groovy Zilean as a magnificent hippy grandpa and you change him into a cranked out meth head because the Chinese government told you to. Fuck you for your control over what you took my money for!
Hey now, that's they're prerogative -- just like it's my prerogative to never give them a cent of money again.
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!
I think i'm done with Ubisoft games.
WE.DON'T.TRUST.YOU.
Ubisoft exec is a cunt says me.
If the way things are going is no one owns anything they buy, then the incentive to buy things drops significantly.
This is why digital media corporations make up convoluted agreements but they don't ever change the little button saying "Buy". If more people realized they are not actually purchasing and getting to own it, they wouldn't spend their money.
But it's even more revolting that the law and governments validate this obvious false advertising.
Is Ubisoft just like…. Enjoying shooting itself in the foot? Haven’t they suffered enough scandals?
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People don’t have a problem with subscriptions, they have a problem with companies like Ubisoft charging ridiculous sums to play low quality games.
Subscriptions would take off just fine if they were reasonable and fair, and not trying to exploit their customers.