In the past. Exactly, they are not the Ubisoft they once where. They where fantastic, with top of the line Tom Clancy games, introduced a killer franchise with Assassin's Creed. So far so good. And then they introduced a copy and past regime and purple guns in Rainbow Six and leadership that says gamers should get used to not owning their games.
Except you were. This is literally about not buying Ubisoft games.
Ahh yes they should have taken one of their biggest financial successes and poured their focus into making it a single-player failure. That would have saved Ubi for sure!
Do you just not read what people write in their comments or what? You seem to have fully missed my point about people expressing glee at the demise of a company and the subsequent loss of jobs.I think that message is well received and understood.
Hmm, interesting. But how likely do you think that is? I'm not a stocks expert so sorry if it's a stupid question but to me it seems like no one wants to deal with Ubi and their insane headcount.
Man alive, no wonder gamers have a bad rep. Go back and read what I said - it's fine for people to vote with their wallets, but actively hoping that a games company goes bust and for thousands of developers to lose their jobs is just pathetic.
Just a guess.
How is it immersive when npc's don't even react to you?
If a company doesnt make products that excited you, why would people want them to stay in business?
You don’t have to actively want them to stay in business - that doesn’t mean you should hope for their demise.
Guess they need to learn to coal mine? Those folks were told that the free market spoke and no need for coal, looks like the free market yapped its mouth, yet again.
A company doesn't 'hate' anything. It's not a human. It's a business. If by 'company' you mean its shareholders or board, do you have any actual examples of one of them saying this? If you asked most shareholders of a large business I imagine you'd find most of them are quite grateful to their customers.
You may not like it (I don't like it either) but it's still true - the world has been moving in this direction for many years.
Choice language. Is this just a way to obscure your view that you are actively hoping for their demise?
Did anyone say it wasn't?
Sorry, I thought I was just "discussing the matter on a videogame board"?
Did anyone say it would?
Oh please enlighten us why it is "silly" to not want incompetent, lazy people not be on the payroll of companies that could invest that money otherwise in more fruitful endeavors instead of throwing it out the window for useless employees.
Who says Im hoping for their demise?
this gaming journo logic doesn't make sense either, gaming enthusiasts have only purchase power, they won't just buy and "save the industry" by forcing themselves to pay for shit they don't like
Ideally yeah. Whether it's realistic is anyone's guess.
I have no idea who said you were - I was referring to the multitude of comments from people who are hoping for their demise.
That's one place I'd start.
Why does it matter to you if there are people who think the company should go under, or come under new management?
I agree with all of that. I still find it appalling that people actively want a game developer to collapse and end up with tens of thousands of developers losing their jobs. It’s just my opinion, which is what internet forums are for.
there's no need to jump to this other end of the extreme since there's no obligation for anyone to spend money anywhere, but not caring about their products is not the same as cheering when they do badly or want them to go bankrupt; I don't care about apple products, so I don't buy them, or even really think about them, the idea that I would be cheering if they landed in some trouble sounds completely insane to me.
Well Ubisoft has awesome IP's and people want to see those explored. If they fall, other companies will pick up the pieces and maybe we'll get that new Rainbow Six, or Beyond Good and Evil.
what a great selfless reason to cheer for the loss of thousands of jobs, instead of just moving on with the other countless "awesome IP" you'll never play on your infinite backlog.
It sucks for anyone losing their jobs. In the end thats not on me or on consumers but on Ubisoft.
of course, but this isn't about that, I already said there's no obligation for anyone to spend money anywhere, the person you responded to was talking about hoping for their demise, which is insane behaviour.
