An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.
Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.
I really don’t need a subscription service to give me access to even more games that I’ll just launch and play for about 20 minutes before I go back to playing battlefield 4
This is why digital media corporations make up convoluted agreements but they don’t ever change the little button saying “Buy”. If more people realized they are not actually purchasing and getting to own it, they wouldn’t spend their money.
But it’s even more revolting that the law and governments validate this obvious false advertising.
It’s hard to not be cynical about this pattern. To me, it’s starting to look like a lot of companies are setting up long-term plans to weather a recession, and patiently wait for baselines to shift in order to normalize stuff like this.
Another way to frame it is, given enough time, a business will ultimately engage in rent seeking behavior if they see no alternative to adding value. Which kind of makes sense, as Ubisoft now builds absolutely monster sized games (e.g. Assassin’s Creed 22 - Find all the Things Edition), with all the DLC, online content, and cosmetic bolt-ons imaginable; they’ve saturated that market. There’s literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they take on much bigger risks like building a whole new franchise or two.
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
A shifting baseline (also known as a sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system.
The concept arose in landscape architect Ian McHarg’s 1969 manifesto Design With Nature in which the modern landscape is compared to that on which ancient people once lived. The concept was then considered by the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly in his paper “Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries”. Pauly developed the concept in reference to fisheries management where fisheries scientists sometimes fail to identify the correct “baseline” population size (e. g. how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus work with a shifted baseline. He describes the way that radically depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its untouched state.
Thank whatever is sacred to you that these mindless drones picked video games. Have no doubt that it this same person hadn’t flunked out of medical school, they’d be running a chain of hospitals somewhere saying, “patients need to just get used to bleeding more and for longer to support our profit model”.
Medicine has been corrupted for just as long as video games, if not longer, unfortunately. These soulless husks in business suits are everywhere, unfortunately.
The problem are the investors and executives that are there solely to suck money, that don’t care about quality or sustainability and will instantly jump ship as soon as they finish destroying the company, to latch on the next thing.
To them it’s not good enough for a business to be stable, it’s not good enough for it to be profitable. No, it has to be always more profitable than before, infinitely. If they reached the limit, then they will take it apart to get more money.
Game Pass is going gangbusters. A monthly fee to play shitloads of games, including first party titles at launch, with a discount on purchasing those games if I decide I want them? Awesome.
I think the problem is you, Ubisoft. No one trusts you. And you keep releasing the same game.
I dont want to pay a subscription for a bunch of games I’m not interested in. I want to buy and own the specific games I want to play. Fuck off ubisoft
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“Ubisoft director of paying them money every month says gamers should pay them money every month”
One more reason why it’s morally acceptable and necessary to torrent Ubisoft games
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I really don’t need a subscription service to give me access to even more games that I’ll just launch and play for about 20 minutes before I go back to playing battlefield 4
ubisoft should get comfortable with people just not buying their crap at all.
If the way things are going is no one owns anything they buy, then the incentive to buy things drops significantly.
This is why digital media corporations make up convoluted agreements but they don’t ever change the little button saying “Buy”. If more people realized they are not actually purchasing and getting to own it, they wouldn’t spend their money.
But it’s even more revolting that the law and governments validate this obvious false advertising.
Ubisoft needs to get used to me never buying their repetative lazy games every again.
What a shame. FC3, 4 and primal are some of my favorite games…
It’s hard to not be cynical about this pattern. To me, it’s starting to look like a lot of companies are setting up long-term plans to weather a recession, and patiently wait for baselines to shift in order to normalize stuff like this.
Another way to frame it is, given enough time, a business will ultimately engage in rent seeking behavior if they see no alternative to adding value. Which kind of makes sense, as Ubisoft now builds absolutely monster sized games (e.g. Assassin’s Creed 22 - Find all the Things Edition), with all the DLC, online content, and cosmetic bolt-ons imaginable; they’ve saturated that market. There’s literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they take on much bigger risks like building a whole new franchise or two.
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
A shifting baseline (also known as a sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system.
The concept arose in landscape architect Ian McHarg’s 1969 manifesto Design With Nature in which the modern landscape is compared to that on which ancient people once lived. The concept was then considered by the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly in his paper “Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries”. Pauly developed the concept in reference to fisheries management where fisheries scientists sometimes fail to identify the correct “baseline” population size (e. g. how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus work with a shifted baseline. He describes the way that radically depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its untouched state.
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Fucking, brain dead tool.
Thank whatever is sacred to you that these mindless drones picked video games. Have no doubt that it this same person hadn’t flunked out of medical school, they’d be running a chain of hospitals somewhere saying, “patients need to just get used to bleeding more and for longer to support our profit model”.
Medicine has been corrupted for just as long as video games, if not longer, unfortunately. These soulless husks in business suits are everywhere, unfortunately.
The problem are the investors and executives that are there solely to suck money, that don’t care about quality or sustainability and will instantly jump ship as soon as they finish destroying the company, to latch on the next thing.
To them it’s not good enough for a business to be stable, it’s not good enough for it to be profitable. No, it has to be always more profitable than before, infinitely. If they reached the limit, then they will take it apart to get more money.
They do.
I don’t think I’ve ever hated reading anything more than that.
Good god.
Hey now, that’s they’re prerogative – just like it’s my prerogative to never give them a cent of money again.
Game Pass is going gangbusters. A monthly fee to play shitloads of games, including first party titles at launch, with a discount on purchasing those games if I decide I want them? Awesome.
I think the problem is you, Ubisoft. No one trusts you. And you keep releasing the same game.
I dont want to pay a subscription for a bunch of games I’m not interested in. I want to buy and own the specific games I want to play. Fuck off ubisoft
And if anyone needed to know whether these companies are run by entitled idiots, this is the proof.
We show them with our wallets how out of touch they are! It’s to the high seas, yarr!! 🏴☠️
There may be enough of a super fan base to keep their titles alive even if they never innovate again.
Ubisoft exec is a cunt says me.
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