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[–] ugo@feddit.it 3 points 2 hours ago

Wait what? Ubisoft “customers should get used to not owning games” ubisoft? That ubisoft? Color me shocked.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 24 points 6 hours 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 29 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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 6 points 7 hours 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 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 51 points 10 hours ago (2 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 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Idk if Microsoft Studios is the better choice here lol

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 7 hours ago

Sure but Microsoft are active participants in genocide

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Microsoft killed Forza Horizons 4 when their licensing deals expired. They're not any better in that regard.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

No they didn’t. It was delisted from stores. The game still works if you own it, or even if you go out today and buy a used physical copy. Same goes for all of the delisted FH games.

Delistings are not what SKG is about and I wish people would stop pretending it is.

[–] firebingo@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 hours ago

You at least can still play the old Horizon games. Just not buy them. The Crew is unplayable and was forcibly removed from people's accounts. Do still agree screw Microsoft though.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 54 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 10 hours 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 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 hours 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 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] ren@reddthat.com 3 points 8 hours ago

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?

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 66 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago

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 36 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The ceo is a massive clown!

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 38 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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