c/games · by commander@lemmy.world · 148d

Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ubisoft-could-rely-heavily-on-microtransactions-and-live-service-Assassin-s-Creed-games.1246989.0.html

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23 Comments

muhyb@programming.dev · 39 pts · 148d (2 replies)

I guess they can't bankrupt fast enough.

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · -13 pts · 148d (1 reply)

Honestly I hope they don't. There are still talented people working and creating games, not always the best ones, but still. And they own lot of beloved franchises. Bankrupt would be the worst case. If they go down, then I hope another company (Tencent?) will buy Ubisoft.

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 147d

Them shutting down would be one of the best things that could happen to gaming. They wouldn't be able to screw up their IPs any more.

LostWanderer@fedia.io · 26 pts · 148d (2 replies)

LOL Sony just canceled a whole bunch of live service games, having read the fucking room and pivoting to other game types. Yet Ubisoft, is going to drive their franchise off a cliff. The bold faced incompetence of that choice (or actively considering that choice), is chilling.

TALL421@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 148d (1 reply)

going to

Hey that isn't past tense!

LostWanderer@fedia.io · 3 pts · 148d

They still have plenty to fuck up before it's truly over for them. As it seems gamers are weirdly wanting to trust that pile of filth known as Ubisoft.

network_switch@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 148d

Ubislop 2.0

I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 148d

Pretty sure these guys want to make an Assassins' Creed gacha game.

Ezio limited banner is up for the next month! Soft pity (odds increase) at 80 pulls! Hard pity (guarantee pull) at 160 pulls! Pull for Ezio today! Ezio will not go to standard when his banner ends!

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 148d

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Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 147d

Bye Ubi

sturmblast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 147d

Let it burn

zecg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 147d

Just beautiful, I love a nice corporate self-immolation.

tal@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 148d (2 replies)

I never really got into the Assassin's Creed series, but I did enjoy Saboteur, which I understand is somewhat similar, albeit getting a little long in the tooth these days. I don't think that there are going to be any new games in that series, though. Users might consider taking a glance at it.

On another note...the live service elements going in also highlights one major concern I have with games purchased on platforms like Steam or on console download services or whatever. Publishers can push updates. So, normally you sell a game once, and there's no future revenue from it. But...if you go out of business or just want to sell the rights, you can sell it to someone else, who now has the ability to push updates to the software to the computers of people who own the game, and can include, say, ads, data-harvesting, live-service stuff, microtransactions, or whatever else might generate money.

Traditionally, that's not how games worked. A player buys a game on physical media, he can always use that game. It won't be worse in the future.

leave_it_blank@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d

One of the reasons to make gog your primary platform. Download the installer, even older versions if you prefer. Voilà.

It's the most friendly platform for consumers at the moment.

TalkingFlower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d

Or go with the No Man's Sky model free update model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.

But since it is the developer's only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated; too many ideas don't fit the original idea, so it becomes your problem to ignore them.

That's why I don't play live service games; the product is never finished, and gets worse over time due to milking.

devolution@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d

Tone deaf as always.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 148d (1 reply)

Water might also be wet.

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 148d

Water is not wet, water makes wet.

Enzy@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Already did with Unity.

Zero change since then.

MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

Imagine if Steam bought Ubisoft and made