• PointyFluff@lemmy.ml
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    Meh. Their games are mediocre at best and the bullshit they attach to playing a game makes it totally not worth bothering to give Ubisoft any money.

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    Nobody deserves insolvency more than Ubisoft. They are not just greedy. They’re also incompetent and delusional. They took solid gold franchises and fucked them to death.

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    Close another studio? Cancel some more games? That’s the best way to make more money, right? Lay everyone off and stop making products?

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        Its why their stock was so high and at least partially why theyve been suffering as of late. They’ve completely enshittified their portfolio and cant milk any more out of fed up users. They chose not to innovate content and instead found new ways to pump up numbers for short term shareholder returns.

        Im sure they haven’t learned and will only innovate more ways to enshittify themselves as that is their MO.

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    The markets probably didn’t like all the cancelled games in the pipeline but a reset is probably for the best. Their main franchises have gotten steadily worst. I used to look forward to their games, now I don’t even buy them on special.

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      What about Mirage was shit? As much as I loved Shadows, the story kind of went nowhere towards the end. On the other hand, Mirage despite having a simple story, is the best AC game I have played in ages. That said, I’ve always been a fan of the original pre-RPG AC games.

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        You know, it’s all taste. I don’t even remember what it was about and it was really short. I remember every other game of theirs. I paid full price, so I was salty about that because it was so short.

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    I hate that Ubisoft have Steep and Riders Republic. Hands down my favourite snowboarding/skiing games that aren’t SSX.

    I don’t suppose there are any better alternatives? I much prefer the arcade style over realism. It’s nice to be able to finish work and just freeride to unwind.

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        Thanks, been looking into this and it seems there is Descenders and Descenders Next. The former is really well received but it seems Next is still quite a work in progress. The impression I get from the store page is Descenders only has mountain biking? Still looks great though.

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          Yeah that’s kinda how the devs work. Descenders received a lot of love after its release, Next will get there too

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      Shredders is one of the best snowboard games I’ve played. I feel like it captures the feeling of snowboarding really well.

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      Far Cry 7 is rumored to add a 24-hour time limit (similar to Dead Rising’s mechanic) and lean heavily into multiplayer

      It won’t be.

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    Ahh ubisoft. I have known you since the 90s with classics like B.A.T. 2 The Koshan Conspiracy (a game that still looks beautiful even if i still have no fucking idea what it is about!) And… well… I dont remember what else.

    Anyway, you suck now and you can die peacefully.

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    I don’t get why gamers are so obsessed on hating ubisoft while at the same time praising Steam. Both are evil capitalist business, the difference being that ubi employs thousands of dev while steam as sub 300 employees (while taking 30% of every game sold lol). This goes for all the major studios, no matter how much youn like or hate their games, the executive only care about money and the devs want to work on games while being paid.