• kautau@lemmy.world
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      ^ Pretty much the goal of capitalism. “Once we achieve infinite growth we will generate unlimited wealth with no effort. The line will go straight up forever!”

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      inb4 Ubisoft negotiates Trump pardons in advance and starts hiring robbery teams to steal money directly from g*mers’ wallets.

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        g*mers

        Wtf? Where do you think you are that you could possibly need to avoid the word “gamers”? Ubisoft headquarters?

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    Reminder:

    https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-not-owning-their-games-for-subscriptions-to-take-off

    “One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That’s a transformation that’s been a bit slower to happen [in games].”

    I’m totally OK not owning Ubisoft games… but not in the way they would prefer… Where I hand them money and still don’t own anything.

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        A wise someone once said that if you can’t own anything, you can’t pirate anything.

        Hoist the Jolly Roger!

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          I might do that anyway. I bought watchdogs on steam, and it was was really fun, but getting bitched at every time UPlay hiccupped or their servers went down in a singleplayer game was enough to make me never touch their shit again.

          That and Watchdogs2 being infected with Denuvo. Ugh…

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    Ubisoft is listed in euro stock market as UBI.PA

    Their stonk has been nose diving since 2018 ATH of €107/share. The company leadership needs to point at itself for its abysmal performance, not the consumers.

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    How can consumers be a problem in a capitalist, free market economy?

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    do market research and create a product/service that will sell

    keep doing what youre doing and cry about it like a bitch

    Let’s see what the executives of a multimillionaire international powerhouse studio will choose.

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    Sounds like someone is upset that they cannot appease their shareholders by selling uninteresting video games riddled with microtransactions and cash grabs. I think that its time their leadership revisit the Agile Manifesto.

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    Got invited to the Anno Closed Beta, that garbage wouldn’t start even after multiple tries