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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Incredible that they got over 1 million signatures, and this shooting target gets just as much of a say.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I am not surprised about that. Ubisoft were never really known for respecting their customers.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

Username checks out

[–] kubica@fedia.io 88 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Finally seeing them complaining, it was weird that they were so quiet.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago

Thry didnt want to give it attention, but now that its gained some traction and may cause something to actually happen, its a problem for them

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You call that complaining? It was a bunch of vague non-answers meant to not really directly answer any of the shareholder questions

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 week ago (4 children)

During the last sale recently I was looking for an open world racing sim. Ended up getting Forza Horizons 5 over Ubisoft's The Crew 2 because they killed off and removed my copy of The Crew from my library, so they can get fucked.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk if Microsoft Studios is the better choice here lol

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the old delisted forza horizon games are still playable. Can't say that about the crew.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Sure but Microsoft are active participants in genocide

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[–] masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't their driving game a big factor in the campaign in the first place? Guy's out of touch to say the least

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ceo is a massive clown!

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, Ubisoft almost went bankrupt not that long ago. It was only with a $1.3 billion dollar infusion by Tencent they survived. Leadership barely know that the point of the company is to make games.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 43 points 1 week ago

I don't care what this guy has to say. I'm not even going to click on that link because it'll just make me angry. Fuck off, Yves. Get your own house in order.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He should probably concentrate making games people want to play instead. Ubisoft is down the drain.

The Stop Killing Games demands are not hard to meet, unless you’re a greedy little shitgoblin.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/UBI:EPA?window=5Y

You're right, they aren't doing so well looking at this 5 year window.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's about stock market tho, a entirely different kind of game.

[–] accideath@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Guillemot told shareholders that Ubisoft works hard to ensure games stay playable, saying the company offers “a lot of support” and services to keep games accessible “24/7.” However, he stated that “support can’t last forever.”

Ah, the same BS again and again.

Little real life hack:

  • Someone says that.

  • Say: That’s not what it’s about.

  • Leave them standing and refuse to talk to them like they refuse to understand or act like they don’t understand what SKG is about.

Think about it. They either don’t understand it but still expect to be taken seriously or they actively try to hurt the movement and don’t argue in good faith. So why bother?

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Truly so shocked. Anyway, pretty obvious since the biggest reason these companies refuse to even release the server component (as opposed to making the game playable offline) is that they can then either "remaster" the game and release it again in like a decade or just release it again with maybe a couple features added and call it v2.0.

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"And now, available for a limited time from within the Disney vault!"

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They were really selling VHS cassettes as the definitive format you would keep and treasure for the rest of your life.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

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).

[–] ren@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nintendo is doing exactly that (pulling games from stores, letting them die). Now that they have more invasive DRM in their latest console, they might even take a more active approach like Ubisoft wegen it comes to live service games. Let's just "sunset" Mario kart world live service and brick it in a couple of years?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Goat fights back against banning-goats-from-gardener-jobs.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And then we kill Ubisoft. Murder by no purchases.

[–] Nevrome@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We wish but they'll never go away. Die hard fans and whales are going to buy the games no matter what plus all the microtransactions included.

Just make a trend of making fun of losers that play Ubisoft games.

Why tf should anyone play the games if the CEO looks like some old rich white greedy parasite? Fuck him and Ubisoft. I was already boycotting their cookie cutter, external launcher, account needed, crashing, microtransaction bullshit enshitification anyways.

[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The whole reason Stop Killing Games exists is because of Ubisoft, because they killed off The Crew.

[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He's so old. No wonder Ubisoft is so close to bankrupcy.