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[Pimpbaa]

Single player games shouldn't need updates.

Source: Final Fantasy VI SNES cartridge and Xbox KOTOR disc.

KOTOR was kinda buggy, KOTOR 2 even more so. Both needed patches badly but were stuck in a patchless console world. Not having updates was a bad thing for that generation, a lot more buggy games than previous gens.

 

[MonkD]

I'm not that opposed to skins and shit as dlc, but why use the predatory currency if you're pretending it's good for the customer?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I absolutely adore hearing fame executives they are completely delusional about their audience. Even better - said audience is buying DLC in droves, gg.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

MTXs pay for updates that Ubisoft then goes on to sell to the userbase? Wut?!!?

The updates are free...

 

[Miles708]

Friendly reminder that MTX exist only because you buy them.

That's it.

It's your fault. Not Ubisoft, not the market, not the industry.

You suckers.

 

[BlitzerRadic]

Those should be FREE unlockables, as in Stellar Blade and Expedition 33, among others.

A retail price game should not have ANY more content chopped off the game on release.

Precisely, the embrace of mediocrity goes hand in hand with this kind of policies. It all comes from the same brainrot.

So ubi makes all this extra content for people who actually want it but now you want it back in the game after complaining for how long now that the game is too bloated? Yall need to make up your minds what you wanna be mad at ubi for lmao

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Stop buying ubislop

 

[Guilty_AI]

I defend not buying their games

 

[icecold1983]

Have yall seen the attack on titan content? Completely justifies any and all microtransactions.

 

[calico]

you buy them

 

[winjer]

Just one more reason not to buy Ubisoft games.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Yall

*fatigued sigh"


Bloating the game has nothing to do with selling cosmetics or any other items that should be unlockable by playing the game or completing special quests. These are two different concepts. There's no justification in paywalling some of the coolest stuff in the game while bloating it with mid tier stuff.

 

[RoboFu]

Micro transactions have never bothered me. I've always just ignored them and they are usually set aside somewhere that makes them very ignorable.

So to complain about them is very weird to me.

 

[Hypereides]

Friendly reminder that MTX exist only because you buy them.

That's it.

It's your fault. Not Ubisoft, not the market, not the industry.

You suckers.

I'm inclined to say its a combination of both. Uninformed consumers making poor purchasing choices combined with opportunistic greedy suits who amplify the effect and promote the habit.

There's a fair bit of guilt on both sides.

 

[Miles708]

I'm inclined to say its a combination of both. Uninformed consumers making poor purchasing choices combined with opportunistic greedy suits who amplify the effect and promote the habit.

There's a fair bit of guilt on both sides.

I thought like this too but not anymore. This is not new stuff anymore, this garbage have been here for years, and users have to know better and must exert their willingness to not impulse-buy every piece of shit content spoon-fed to them.

The soulless corporate drones in Ubisoft are doing the only thing they know to, which is to make the world a worse place for everyone. But they can because it works, and it's 100% the users fault at this point.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

So ubi makes all this extra content for people who actually want it but now you want it back in the game after complaining for how long now that the game is too bloated? Yall need to make up your minds what you wanna be mad at ubi for lmao

Who wants this content? Who after slogging 100hrs+ in AC:Valhalla went "oh boy, I would love another 50 hours of this!"?

 

[Hypereides]

I thought like this too but not anymore. This is not new stuff anymore, this garbage have been here for years, and users have to know better and must exert their willingness to not impulse-buy every piece of shit content spoon-fed to them.

The soulless corporate drones in Ubisoft are doing the only thing they know to, which is to make the world a worse place for everyone. But they can because it works, and it's 100% the users fault at this point.

Those very same corporations could choose to stop engaging in this dark programming of consumer habits, y'know, and reverse this path. They deliberately prey, manipulate and hunt on some folks' impulses. Often through psychological pressure points.

Its like that quote from Jurassic Park:

I stand firm that its both. They both partake in a vicious loop and cycle that's causing self-inflicted damage in the long run.

 

[Gambit2483]

There is not a single good Assassin's Creed game. Not one.

Idk, I liked Origins, Black Flag and the one based in London was decent...

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

If you want to know why the industry has pivoted to GAAS, look no further than SP gamers unwillingness to support the games they enjoy.

 

[calico]

It's easier and more lucrative to sell to addicts than connoisseurs. Many such cases. Encouraging the ruination of SP games by supporting those corrosive forms of monetisation is not the answer.

Better to reward those who exercise restraint in this respect with better word of mouth and better sales, which is usually not difficult, as the absence of those forms of monetisation tends to naturally result in a better game and vice versa.

 

[simpatico]

KOTOR was kinda buggy, KOTOR 2 even more so. Both needed patches badly but were stuck in a patchless console world. Not having updates was a bad thing for that generation, a lot more buggy games than previous gens.

We all enjoyed KOTOR in its unpatched state. Leagues of difference between that and some of the stuff that comes on PS5 or Series discs.

 

[JayK47]

Sometimes I think they are trying to go bankrupt on purpose. They are already morally and creatively bankrupt, may as well go all in.

 

[LordCBH]

An entire microtransaction store for single player games is just nasty fucking work. Ubisoft will never escape the allegations of being dogshit from top to bottom.

 

[Brakum]

It was only ok when Expedition 33 did it.

Did what? Release a game for 50$ with no microtransaction to this day and with a big content update announced that'a gonna be free?

 

[hussar16]

What updates? Ubisoft just now started doing free updates after being bought out and nearly going bankrupt. Before tht fir a decade they only released dlc

 

[Hypereides]

If you want to know why the industry has pivoted to GAAS, look no further than SP gamers unwillingness to support the games they enjoy.

You're conveniently ignoring indies and AA games as if they aren't being made.

The industry doesn't revolve around AAA.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Microtransactions wouldn't have to pay for Assassin's Creed updates if Assassin's Creed came out as a complete and properly functional game in the first place.

So fuck 'em.

They need to hire gamers instead of mid management bs who are clueless about video games.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The industry doesn't revolve around AAA.

And now we know why.

 

[Hypereides]

And now we know why.

Come again? Elaborate on this non-answer.

 

[ReBurn]

It's Ubisoft. Just wait for the complete edition to go on sale for 90% off.