Followers of the penguin, witness with me the insolence that is Ubisoft's most recent tomfoolery. Speaking to GameSpot, Ubisoft VP of digital publishing Chris Early enlightens us with what many of us knew years ago, namely that any game will be cracked and made available online given enough time and effort. Here's the kicker! Developing games that people actually want to pay for fixes this! No way!
Sounds reasonable, right? Well, as is logical, take one step forward, two steps back. As this visionary goes on, it is eventually revealed that the focus shouldn't merely be on developing better, more compelling games, rather, that Ubisoft's games should have more online services (which pirates do not have access to) built into them.
Ahhh, what Ubisoft really means is that current DRM is failing, so new DRM needs to be brought in to fix this. Got it. To my knowledge, Ubisoft does not yet have a presence on Linux, but with Windows gamers constantly getting shafted, do Linux gamers want such a company to join the fray? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Ubisoft VP of digital publishing Chris EarlyWhat becomes key for us is making sure we're delivering an experience to paying players that is quality. I don't want us in a position where we're punishing a paying player for what a pirate can get around. Anything is going to be able to be pirated given enough time and enough effort to get in there. So the question becomes, what do we create as services, or as benefits, and the quality of the game, that will just have people want to pay for it?
Sounds reasonable, right? Well, as is logical, take one step forward, two steps back. As this visionary goes on, it is eventually revealed that the focus shouldn't merely be on developing better, more compelling games, rather, that Ubisoft's games should have more online services (which pirates do not have access to) built into them.
Ubisoft VP of digital publishing Chris EarlyI think it's much more important for us to focus on making a great game and delivering good services. The reality is, the more service there is in a game, pirates don't get that," Early said. "So when it's a good game and there's good services around it, you're incentivized to not pirate the game to get the full experience.
Ahhh, what Ubisoft really means is that current DRM is failing, so new DRM needs to be brought in to fix this. Got it. To my knowledge, Ubisoft does not yet have a presence on Linux, but with Windows gamers constantly getting shafted, do Linux gamers want such a company to join the fray? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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What kind of question is that? ;p
When all is said and done it's not the companies that are ruining gaming with their online stores and pay to win features, it's the gamers who buy them, and there are a lot of them. Enough of them to actually earn those companies more money through online stores then they make off of game sales.
Apparently those of us who expect the full product of a game to be uneffected by their business model are a minority
(even buying everything isn't good enough because they've probably chopped the game up forcefully into pieces where it might not even make sense to do so. One example is taking a weapon that was already balanced and splitting it's features up into multiple separate weapons which are all now unbalanced just so they can put more items in their store)
Especially in online gaming. The people who can buy advantages and not be bothered by it disgust me.
As far as I can tell it's basically the exact same mindset of a person who can download a hack to win in a game.
I'm not cheap either, I'd pay $100 for a game much sooner than I would spend even a single dollar in a free to play game that gives me an advantage in any way.
Although I'm going to have to by a PS4 just for uncharted 4, so might as well play FIFA on there. I will put a caveat on my EA thing though, I'd want stuff like Mirrors Edge and Mass Effect, but directly on Steam.
EA's "origin" can burn in the same fire as Uplay for all im concerned!
£7 to play online on a two year old game.
I never agree that second hand buyers need to pay again to play online, why should they? Ubisoft got their money on the first purchase.
They are not a nice company to deal with.
You got burn and I understand your distrust. I bought from them heroes, settlers and anno series and had a lot of fun playing them. So yes I would like to have these games in future fore Linux.
Because of games. Because I like anno and I like heroes and I like settlers. And I can not do nothing about that :(. And I agree that uplay is pain. That settlers VII always online policy was same pain and discomfort as Diablo III. But still It would be better that they are here and make Linux games ad we complain about they DRM policy than they are not making games for Linux and we do not complain about that.
Uplay? No.
As a side note, there hasn't been a western AAA title released in the last 5 years that I care about. I'd rather have From Software on Linux. Or some older games like Final Fantasy VIII or Wizardry 8 or Recettear.