This statement was made by Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions, Phillipe Tremblay, who recently spoke to Gamesindustry.biz about the digital future and Ubisoft Plus specifically. Tremblay states that people eventually “got comfortable” with not owning their CD or DVD collections, and that a similar shift in attitude “needs to happen” in gamers.
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“You will own nothing and like it”
If I can’t expect to own it, then you’d better not expect me to buy it.
Thats fine, the normies will, and then it will become normal just like everything else awful that is their fault for going along with it.
That’s ok for them though, you and me will sail the seas finding adventure and friendship and shit while they sit on their doodoo drm islands
Remember how the ps4 mocked the Xbox one for not being able to lend games, then the PS5 launches with a digital edition, and then a slimmer version launches with only digital and you have to buy a separate disc drive?
I Rather pay more once. And actual own my games. Than get nickeld and dimed. And own noting…
You can’t steal something if you can’t own it Arrrr…
And really most of these AAa companies don’t make any great games anymore, just cheap cash grabs, why would even care about them
AAAAAA FUCK COPYRIGHT, FUCK INTELELCTUAL PROPERTY, FUCK CORPORATIONS
While i would sate that in a slightly different way i do agree with you, also i recommend you to remove word these, it would enhance quality of this statement.
THANK YOOU!
Tremblay’s view on physical games isn’t that shocking, considering he’s a director of subscriptions, but he does leave out some concerns shared by many when it comes to subscription services. For starters, games actually do come and go on these services right now, with the most recent example being Grand Theft Auto 5 leaving Xbox Game Pass. If you play games only via subscription services, you can very easily lose access to certain titles on a regular basis.
Secondly, games that are pulled from online stores, for one reason or another, would mean they cease to exist in an all-digital future. Two high profile example are the original Alan Wake and Ubisoft’s very own The Crew, both of which were pulled due to licensing issues. While the former eventually returned to digital storefronts thanks to the recent remaster, The Crew can no longer be bought and will poof out of existence on March 31, 2024.
I can see a lot of people being fine with that idea when it comes to subscriptions. I think people have kind of gotten used to the idea with content coming and going off of sites like Netflix.
I thought this has to do with DRM and license agreements when I first saw it.
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Ubisoft directors might need to become comfortable hiding quietly in dark attics when the revolution comes.
Somewhere they don’t own, apparently.
Sadly this “own nothing and be happy” world only exists for those who don’t make hundreds of thousands for the great gift of destroying the world for everybody else.
I have gamepass and it’s fine. Large library, no penalty for choosing a stinker means I can experiment with games I wouldn’t have before, and I can still buy games if I want. I think that’s a reasonable middle ground that benefits everyone to some degree.
Until they remove a game you like from gamepass with no recourse and no explanation.
They’ve removed plenty of games. At least so far, there’s always been notice a few weeks before they leave and the game remains in the store for purchase.
I’ve actually bought a few games on steam because I could try them on gamepass. No man’s sky, last call bbs, and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night come immediately to mind.
So maybe a good adjacent, but I wouldn’t trust my primary games to them.
He better get used to not making money…
But who am I kidding gamers have 0 impulse control.
Either way I have enough retro games to last me a lifetime.
I still don’t understand how people can look at the Ubisoft logo and not throw up in their mouths a little. Like, how is AC still huge after 15 years of putting out the same game copy and paste style?
Because they copy paste the gameplay, in different environments. Like “travelling to the past”. I recall AC being praised for the accurate portrayal of the environments they presented. Idk if that has persisted.
I have never played the game and never will because playing a game where your dude gets into a machine to watch the memories of an antecesor of you who was a kick ass assassin and then playing as the assassin doesn’t really call me, but it did to plenty people.
Either way I have enough retro games to last me a lifetime.
same tbh, there is a reason [email protected] is up in the lemmy explorer
Tremblay’s gotta get used to people pirating ubi games.
points a tall bookshelf in his house
Those are board game I got to quit playing video games. Bonus points here…drumroll…I own all of them.
DRMs your board games
Let’s not give them any ideas. My brother actually has a board game (can’t remember the name) where in order to get the story/scenarios/etcetera for each playthrough/mission/whatever, you actually need the official board game app.
Which will lose updates soon
They did that in the LOTR Journeys in Middle-Earth game and in the new editions of Descent. The scenarios, spawns and enemy movement are all managed by the app, which is fine, but they don’t have an alternative way to play without it, which is crappy. But I’m sure that if they stop support someone will reverse engineer it and make a ruleset to admin these things.
Shit. You’re right. Fucking Werewords.
Sooo, over 10 years ago, somebody came up with the idea for a hybrid board game: Golem Arcana. It’s a board game…that requires an app to play.
Of course, the app was proprietary, and it’s no longer supported, so now the game is dead, because the app won’t run on modern phones.
It’s nice that he’s being honest about the bullshittery but all the same he can shove it. Glad I haven’t bought a Ubi game in years and it doesn’t look like that’s going to be changing any time soon.
It strikes me that this attitude might carry more weight if it came from a company with a better library… I mean, they have a handful of good games, most of which are quite old, and otherwise, mostly act like a cheap sequel machine.
If it came from sony than sony fans gonna make it norm for everyone
I really wish I didn’t agree with you though same could be said of the Xbox or Nintendo fanatics. Whichever tyrant dictates it will find a following among the fanboys
I feel no need to own any further Ubisoft games. That’s for sure.
That’s fine. I don’t really claim to own the things I pirate.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
If we have to be comfortable not owning games, then they have to be comfortable us pirating them.
If buying is owning, piracy is still not stealing. Theft involves a tangible loss for someone else.
Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.
Where’s that greentext with the guy who takes over a company by pirating their game 100k times?
According to their logic, you can set up a shellscript that repeatedly copies an ISO of theirs to /dev/null. That should bankrupt them after a week or so.
