Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative
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And then we kill Ubisoft. Murder by no purchases.
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That’s about stock market tho, a entirely different kind of game.
Yea but if people aren’t buying your games because they’re shit, shareholders aren’t gonna be happy about it. And Ubisoft hasn’t made a breakout hit in a while. Their normal is „tolerable if you get it on sale, if you don’t care about the franchise“, and even shareholders notice that.
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It’s fair to say they can’t support games forever. But in that case make games that don’t need support forever or provide the software to run the games for free after some time.
I agree. I don’t expect companies to perpetually support these games. When they feel like no more money is to be made, then they should release it from lock down or release the server software and let someone else host it. Used to be a time where mod tools and dedicated servers were released with the game and whole new games were made. Counter Strike and Team Fortress are examples of this.
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Ironically, I think Ubisoft has a good example of a multiplayer game with a good end-of-life despite not reaching its sales expectations with BattleCore Arena, where the last update allowed P2P play after the servers went down. Meaning that the game wasn’t totally killed off, even if it was thought as yet another service game, which is always appreciated.
That said, given the lack of marketing that was done around the game, it was perhaps a “not too expensive game that could maybe work on a fluke”, where Ubisoft’s lack of attention potentially left the devs quite free with their game. Devs who thankfully respected their players and made good end-of-life decisions.
The whole reason Stop Killing Games exists is because of Ubisoft, because they killed off The Crew.
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Greedy old man attempting to persuade other ignorant old men in whatever body of government that somehow videos games are finite and expire when we clearly have original Pacman and Pong arcade cabinets still in existence and completely functional. That whole “we can only provide service for so long” is a bullshit argument. I hope the EU puts him and other assholes like him in their place. “Woe is me” dev excuses are getting really old.
Your unwarranted sexism here is weird, gross, and unnecessary. The EU parliament is not perfectly 50/50 but it’s not that far off.
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Your unwarranted sexism here is weird, gross, and unnecessary. The EU parliament is not perfectly 50/50 but it’s not that far off.
Cool. Wasn’t ripping on women or anything. You do you!
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Oh, I am not surprised about that. Ubisoft were never really known for respecting their customers.
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Incredible that they got over 1 million signatures, and this shooting target gets just as much of a say.
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They were really selling VHS cassettes as the definitive format you would keep and treasure for the rest of your life.
Yeah and now I own them all. I did not pay for a single one as VHS is treated as trash most of the time. Don’t play them just have them sitting in a closet due to their stupid giant plastic boxes that become brittle and crunchy when exposed to sunlight (kinda like the corporate ghouls that made them).
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Your unwarranted sexism here is weird, gross, and unnecessary. The EU parliament is not perfectly 50/50 but it’s not that far off.
Imagine speaking up for a parasite
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The EU parliament is a parasite?
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The EU parliament is a parasite?
Full of them, yes, useless regime whores working on
half of the owner classMay luigi bless all of them
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The whole reason Stop Killing Games exists is because of Ubisoft, because they killed off The Crew.
That’s true, and i’m not trying to say that Ubisoft is a good actor here, I just think that the example of BattleCore Arena quite unusual and ironic here.
That being said, that’s probably because the game did not receive a lot of attention from the higher ups at Ubisoft, so the devs could make decisions that are respectful towards the players.
