Dealspwn: "Maybe Ubisoft just wants to follow in EA's footsteps and consolidate their own online platform.
Needless to say, the internet was not happy."
The Outerhaven writes: With the closure of The Crew's online servers, Ubisoft has started removing access to the game from anyone who owns it on Ubisoft Connect.
Wait. I don't get it. I reported on something that I recently noticed. I did mention in my article that I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't gone to play The Division 2. That said, if this was nearly a week ago, I wouldn't know, as NO ONE REPORTED ON IT! Not IGN. Not Gamespot. Not Kotaku. No one.
You got people here complaining that there are any real gaming journalists and game journalism sucks, but when someone is acting, doing something to make something known to the public about what a company is doing. What do you do? You poke fun at it. What is it that people want? Do you want to complain for the sake of it? Or do you actually want people to do something to make those who aren't in the know aware of the shady stuff that's happening and to sound the alarm?
It's the "oh well" setting in on digital users. They don't care they don't own their stuff for some odd reason. 🤷🏽.
Good for you! People sometimes just feel the need to show how little they actually have to say. Very respectful dressing down, btw, which is another thing we need more of.
I appreciate your article,
- "If this isn’t considered both a “WTF” moment and setting a dangerous precedent, I don’t know what else it would be"
- "it could also signal other publishers that removing games from our accounts would be okay"
- "Maybe those firmly against this digital future have a point after all"
- "This. Is. Fucked. Up."
As someone against an only-digital/streaming future for entertainment content (movies/TV shows/games/books), it feels like talking into a void about the points above on this website, or on Twitter, or with my friends, etc. People don't get it. I'm strongly contemplating whether this will be my last generation of PlayStation & Xbox consoles (I'm confident enough that Nintendo's next system will still support physical media and that their 1st-party games won't have online-required installation or usage restrictions).
He is one of the long running trolls of this site, he never says anything positive. Every single one of his posts are either incorrect or flat out stupid. Pay him no mind.
I'm so done with Ubisoft, removing games one paid for is a new low...
Bye Ubisoft,
You've done f#c*ed it up !
This was me 9 years ago, when I realized all they wanted to make were filler boring games that are packed with micro-trash-actions.
Snooze! Moving on from Ubi-junk!
I see they're trying their best to surpass Activision Blizzard for being the most hated gaming company. Keep at it, Ubisoft, I believe!
Far Cry debuted on March 23, 2004, meaning that next week, it will have been 20 years since Jack Carver first washed up on the shore of a tropical paradise teeming with hostile mercenaries.
Yeah, 4 was good, was hard choosing which Golden Dawn member to side with, when they were both pieces of sh!t.
I've beaten all the main entries except 2 and 6, ended up uninstalling 6 to download something else instead.
I'd love a far cry pack with the original PC game (not the half assed port on ps360) instincts, predator even a port of far cry 2 to modern consoles back when these games had their own identity and weren't far cry 3 cut and pastel
Same here, I don't know why these games get so much hate. I've thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them, with only a couple of exceptions. I wish they'd hurry up and announce Far Cry 7. The only thing I'm concerned about is the rumoured time limit.
Shaz from GL writes: "Assassin’s Creed Unity is looked at as one of the worst in Ubisoft’s iconic franchise. But playing it nearly 10 years later reveals it may just be the best"
I've got a reaction right here.
Are you high, Ubisoft?
£50 for a digital download. A standard edition digital download (oh call it the limited edition if you want, but it isn't a limited edition, it's just pre-order DLC).
£50.
If Uplay isn't absolutely positively 100% perfect at launch, day one, minute one, for Far Cry 4 and The Crew, then Ubisoft will be a laughing stock. I don't pirate games, but Ubi deserves it if Uplay screws paying customers who fork over £50 for the privilege.
Yeah Ubisoft really crapped the bed with that decision. People who didn't want to buy games off of Uplay certainly aren't going to do it just because you restrict them to it. They'll just pirate the game and in the end nothing of value was lost to them.
Ubisoft is really starting to piss off legitimate customers now.
This will increase pirating and not increase sales. Any idiot can understand this.
Ubisoft must be high on something lately, because of all the terrible decisions they're taking(worse than before). No matter how much they push it, Uplay isn't going to magically turn into something amazing.
Either way, i won't be missing their games on Steam. Their value has dropped significantly over the years. Truth be told, the last one i played was Assassin's Creed 2, which is before it turned into the annual IP today.
Steams easy street couldn't last for ever.
Let's see what you got Ubisoft, I wait for you're store or sub based business.