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Ubisoft has added a cash shop and weekly challenges to its 'faithful' remake of the 13-year-old Black Flag, because of course it has (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 157 points 4 months ago (12 children)

  • Cash shop in a single player game.

  • Contains Denuvo and requires a Ubisoft account to use their shitty launcher.

  • Has adverts in-game.

  • Launched with $85 of DLC.

  • Immediately started laying off workers after launch.

Fuck Ubisoft, and if you bought this game, fuck you too.

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Honestly the "laying people off after launch" speaks volumes of the teams that do the same; can you not work multiple projects and shift people to the other one until it's complete?

    The layoffs seem more like "line must go up'" than any kind of "we can no longer afford you now the job is done".

    I'm probably preaching to the choir.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, totally.

    I really dislike the dishonesty. If you're always going to lay-off/downsize/insert-capitalist-euphemism-here after each project is done then stop hiring people as staff and hire them as contractors instead. Make it clear from the start it's not a permanent position.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The layoffs seem more like "line must go up'"

    This is literally always the case

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    It's self-cannibalizing also. Layoffs are now the only way for them to maximize profits enough for their shareholders to get their ROI, and in the future even that won't be enough. They will be drained of every ounce of value that can be extracted of them and then discarded. Such is the fate of every company that gets in bed with wall street.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Running AC4 on my modified Xbox console. 0 issues, 0 bucks paid for the game, 0 fucks given.

    Ubisoft ruined one too many games. My beloved Rocksmith now is a useless microtransaction shell of its former power. I won't buy a single ubisoft game in the future. Time to lay rest to the cancer they brought into gaming.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I should figure out what to do with my modded PS3 before the shop shuts down. I think the modded software pulls from the official store servers for some things like games?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    AFAIK any ps3 is able to be Software hardmodded (though some sort of a program, permanent effect). There are a few series that allow to pull games off online for Xbox (some degraded and won't work anymore) and I bet something like this exists for ps3 too. Check consolemods.org. They have plenty of info there

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Ooo thank you, I actually installed CFW on my PS3 already recently! I was lucky that my slim is a model that can be permanently CFW’d. I should do my 360 as well… only issue is, it doesn’t have HDMI so none of my screens work with it unless I get a capture card D:

    Quick edit; oh, in my previous comment I was saying I should utilize the CFW to get some things that might not be available as easily when the store closes, which I believe in next year.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago
    • Immediately started laying off workers after launch.

    Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.

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