Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative

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Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative - Dexerto

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillermot commented on the Stop Killing Games campaign during a shareholder meeting on July 10.
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Least surprising thing. They did say that "You should be comfortable not owning your own games" If you can't play their old games, then they can sell you on hot garbage like Forza Horizon from Wish oh i'm sorry i meant The Crew: MotorFest or Assassin Creed 2944
 
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Dumbass title for the article. Guy didn't fight at all. Said it's a real issue and they are trying to do what's best and keep games going. Whether they do a good job of that or not is debatable but he hardly "fought back". Seemed like he was sympathetic to it.
 
TerribleAtThisGame said:
Cuckihard?
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Three said:
Dumbass title for the article. Guy didn't fight at all. Said it's a real issue and they are trying to do what's best and keep games going. Whether they do a good job of that or not is debatable but he hardly "fought back". Seemed like he was sympathetic to it.
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Well said. Noticed a lot of grifters and clickbait journalists making bank on misinterpreting everything the CEO said in that earnings report.

Unfortunately, people will just go off the headlines.
 
Three said:
Dumbass title for the article. Guy didn't fight at all. Said it's a real issue and they are trying to do what's best and keep games going. Whether they do a good job of that or not is debatable but he hardly "fought back". Seemed like he was sympathetic to it.
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He is not sympathetic to this matter, he is outright lying.
Ubisoft under his management has been killing games, taking them out of people's accounts.
Ubisoft is probably the main reason why this movement started.
 
winjer said:
He is not sympathetic to this matter, he is outright lying.
Ubisoft under his management has been killing games, taking them out of people's accounts.
Ubisoft is probably the main reason why this movement started.
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...but Ubisoft's position is not in any way different from many other publishers who've made online only games that have failed.

Anyone claiming Ubisoft as a major reason for kicking this off is flatly dishonest. They're no outlier.
 
Loomy said:
They both went to the "I don't know how to read" school of reading.

No one is saying Ubisoft has to support it forever.
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Or he is able to read and went for the strawman angle.

He actually really said that they "proposed" a solution by "upgrading" to the next version for one dollar. Having had the sequel to the game on sale for a dollar at some point does not mean you "proposed a solution" for delisting a different game. He has framed "supporting games" in the context of supporting software where the next "version" and can be reasonably expected to replace the last one. Dude games are content not software tools. No one is "upgrading" an old movie or book to its sequel. Content does never has never worked liked that.

But he knows that though, he's just a CEO, CEOing
 
Ubisoft is the reason this movement got so much steam, this company is simply too much full of garbage to be taken seriously anymore.

I guess we should thank them
 
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Ozriel said:
...but Ubisoft's position is not in any way different from many other publishers who've made online only games that have failed.

Anyone claiming Ubisoft as a major reason for kicking this off is flatly dishonest. They're no outlier.
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So are Ubisoft sympathetic to the Stop Killing Games cause or not?

It seems like you are following a pattern of:

They do not hate the movement they support it…

Ok they do hate it but so what others do it too and they are not a big reason for it

Ok they are a big reason for it but not the only reason this kicked off so what…

…
 
LoL, everything he is doing now and also again! IS the exact reason Ubisoft ended up in the position they are in and it's just De Ja Vu , a lot of us said keeping Guillemot in charge wouldn't change a thing after that deal, and here we go lol.
 
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winjer said:
He is not sympathetic to this matter, he is outright lying.
Ubisoft under his management has been killing games, taking them out of people's accounts.
Ubisoft is probably the main reason why this movement started.
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Yeah, their effort is debatable especially with what happened to The Crew. so his sincerity might not be there now either but he wasn't really fighting back with those comments.
 
Drell said:
Funny that you laugh at the whole country when you know that modern ubisoft is mostly just like any US corporation. But sure, France is to blame for any ultracapitalist decision that is made in our modern world...
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You're right, the country is already gone. I shouldn't be laughing at it. My bad and might it rest in peace.
 
Sensationalist thread title.

Guillermot explained it was a difficult issue for the industry and what they are doing to address the issue. He never addressed whether he supported preservation or not.
 
winjer said:
He is not sympathetic to this matter, he is outright lying.
Ubisoft under his management has been killing games, taking them out of people's accounts.
Ubisoft is probably the main reason why this movement started.
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Then a different article should be cited in which he addresses the crux of the thread. The thread title has nothing to do with the article.l even though the article itself has a misleading headline.
 
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Panajev2001a said:
So are Ubisoft sympathetic to the Stop Killing Games cause or not?

It seems like you are following a pattern of:

They do not hate the movement they support it…

Ok they do hate it but so what others do it too and they are not a big reason for it

Ok they are a big reason for it but not the only reason this kicked off so what…

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Perhaps you can try reading?

I've merely pointed out that the article title is sensationalist and is clickbait.
 
GaaS and the industry are broadly refocusing on the "here and now" and FOMO vs collection/library building.

Which sucks, but even if I never bought another game again my existing library has enough to play for the rest of my life.
 
Once again, the article's title is misleading. Guillemot doesn't fight back so much as make a few excuses and no promises.

He says the problem is not unique to Ubisoft, which is true, and that the industry is seriously looking at the issue, which is most likely false. Big gaming companies, by and large, have no interest in letting you continue to play old games for free when you could be engaging with new ones. Unless someone forces them to start making abandoned games playable via sunset patch with legislation, you can expect things to continue as they are, with one or two companies making an effort and most ignoring software and its fans as soon as it stops pulling in money at an acceptable rate.
 
This whole thing just limits the types of games that people can make. I don't want a visionary developer (none work at Ubisoft currently btw) to be limited by artificial constraints like this.
 
Three said:
Dumbass title for the article. Guy didn't fight at all. Said it's a real issue and they are trying to do what's best and keep games going. Whether they do a good job of that or not is debatable but he hardly "fought back". Seemed like he was sympathetic to it.
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Three said:
Dumbass title for the article. Guy didn't fight at all. Said it's a real issue and they are trying to do what's best and keep games going. Whether they do a good job of that or not is debatable but he hardly "fought back". Seemed like he was sympathetic to it.
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Yeah, he said it is a problem and they wanna fix it.

People want the anti-Ubisoft narrative so bad that they create it out of nothing.
 
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