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wise_pancake, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

I entirely stopped playing Ubisoft games because they require me to sign in to play.

I tried Anno 1800 because it was free on PS+ and immediately ran into a login wall.

Same thing when I tried Assassin’s Creed.

They’re not even online games. I get needing to log in to CoD because you’re playing online, but blocking the offline mode is asinine.

So why would I bother buying an Ubisoft title when I know I’m going to open it up and hit that stupid login wall and privacy policy.

magic_lobster_party, 9 miesięcy temu

I get needing to log in to CoD because you’re playing online

That shouldn’t be needed either. A PSN or Steam account should be enough.

moody, 9 miesięcy temu

It used to be enough. I played so much COD4 back in the day on Xbox and the only login I ever needed was my Xbox account.

But nowadays, they want more data from you than the platform is willing or allowed to share, so you need to log in to their service.

EldritchFeminity, 9 miesięcy temu

This is why I stopped buying Sony games on Steam. Requiring a PS account for a singlellayer game is absurd.

tacosanonymous, 9 miesięcy temu

That’s why I only buy from the fitgirl store.

ThunderWhiskers, 9 miesięcy temu

I entirely stopped playing Ubisoft games because they require me to sign in to play.

I straight up can’t play half of their games on PlayStation because of this. I had a different PSN account 15 years ago that my Ubisoft account is associated with and apparently your Ubisoft account can only be tied to one PSN account EVER. I’m not creating a new email just to sign up for Ubisoft play. So I don’t buy their games 🤷

wise_pancake, 9 miesięcy temu

And that’s the kind of thing their metrics will never reveal to them.

I think if you just asked players you’d get an overwhelming pushback on the account issues.

Pregnenolone, 9 miesięcy temu

fwiw you can reach out to support and they’ll change the link for you.

msage, 9 miesięcy temu

It fucking dropped my Far Cry game because THEIR servers had an issue, not my internet connection.

Lost progress, replayed it, it happened again, never bought anything from them again.

absquatulate, 9 miesięcy temu

The rest can burn, but man, Anno 1800 really is/was the best in its series, mandatory logins or not. It’s the only game I still hold on to my ubi account for, and I dread the day they’ll go under, because they’ll take the Mainz team and the Anno games down with them.

DoucheBagMcSwag, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Eat shit and die motherfucker

Jrockwar, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

It’s because they’re not AAA anymore. They went AAAA so I guess they’ve had a financial rating overflow and now they’ve gone negative.

Brunbrun6766, 9 miesięcy temu

They’ve gone plaid

happysplinter, 9 miesięcy temu

I always drink coffee when I watch radar.

lemmy_get_my_coat, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

You love to see it

piskertariot, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

I really enjoyed Driver: San Francisco. Then Ubisoft introduced UPlay and I couldn’t play it anymore. That was the last time I installed anything from Ubisoft.

I tried to reinstall it recently and it complained that you can’t install 32bit software from Steam anymore. I guess I’ll never play another Ubisoft game.

theskyisfalling, 9 miesięcy temu

Love this game and that is why I have a pirate copy that doesn’t do any of that crap. I completed it again last year and it was good fun still!

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble, 9 miesięcy temu

it complained that you can’t install 32bit software from Steam anymore

Like 32 bit installers for C++ don’t work or 32 bit games in general? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that error before on windows.

ayyy, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s a Ubisoft broken DRM thing

blindbunny, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Really sad because Ubisoft can make games, good ones even. But with out the freedom or time and now talent best they can do is movie licensed games.

skozzii, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Ubisoft executives need to become comfortable with “not being employed.”

ByteJunk, 9 miesięcy temu

Unfortunately, that’s not how this works.

This is late stage capitalism, execs are judged on how much money they managed to squeeze out before the company died. They’ll be hired immediately specifically to do it again somewhere else.

The company dying in incidental.

kameecoding, 9 miesięcy temu

Some will take the blame, take millions as parachute payments, then the low level workers will have their jobs cut.

Olgratin_Magmatoe, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

They need to get comfortable with losing their company.

JTskulk, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Ubisoft? More like WHObisoft.

merthyr1831, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

insha’Allah

SparrowHawk, 9 miesięcy temu do games w Players Actually Sent Me 500 Word Essays For My Narrative Game (Full Story):

That is so humanly cool!

Road_Warrior_10, 9 miesięcy temu

Yes :) People are weird and I love it :)))

DragonsInARoom, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

This true, because no one is buying their steam games on a USB

FlashMobOfOne, 9 miesięcy temu do gaming w Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Let it die.

alaphic, 9 miesięcy temu do games w I am creating a new horror game called The 18th Attic where you have to take Polaroid pictures of ghosts along with your pet companion!

But how does the pet companion take Polaroids without opposable thumbs?

FapFlop, 9 miesięcy temu do games w I am creating a new horror game called The 18th Attic where you have to take Polaroid pictures of ghosts along with your pet companion!

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