• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago
    • 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.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      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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      4 hours ago

      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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        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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      • 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.