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snowdunes said:
I just wanted a AC4/AC:R were you could customize the player model and the crew, and steer other ships (like in Sid Meier Pirates). Apparently technology isn't there yet... I guess I would be delusional to ask for co-op on top of that.
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meanwhile even brotherhood had multiplayer...
 
Snekposter said:
Every day, I become increasingly convinced MacArthur was 100% correct about the Chinese.
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well you cleared cared about his opinions more than the man himself. if he had any real passion he'd have ran against Eisenhower and stopped taking orders and started making them
30+GameOvers said:
The Crew
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its been 9 years, it wasn't a well received game and you have 2 more months.
 
East_Clintwood said:
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Ubisoft Delenda Est.

The original interview the headline her is quoting isn't quite as bad, he's basically talking about how people who stream movies got used to doing that instead of owning physical media like DVDs, and that gamers should follow suit.


The problem with this is there's been a massive backlash about streaming building over the last few years. From the ever greater fracturing of content onto more and more platforms, to the ever increasing costs, to adding shit like advertising even when people are paying for it. Hell it wasn't that long ago people were ripping Sony a new one for removing content people had "bought" on their platform, so why the fuck would I trust them to not jew me on games as well? The switch to digital storefronts and launchers has been bad enough, but subscription models are always worse.
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Inb4 Ubi point-blank quotes Klaus Shwab.
 
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
well you cleared cared about his opinions more than the man himself. if he had any real passion he'd have ran against Eisenhower and stopped taking orders and started making them

its been 9 years, it wasn't a well received game and you have 2 more months.
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It doesn't matter how long it's been as there is no reason this game should have been online only to begin with, the game was actually well received and no, I cannot actually play the game anymore since it's been pulled off all storefronts. You want to defend the big AAA company even more, or are we done?
 
30+GameOvers said:
there is no reason this game should have been online only to begin with
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there is, if you are a game company. it's the same when people consider some business actions illogical, they just don't see it from their perspective (and morals).

first and foremost it's a form of copy protection, you don't have it in your account, you can't play it since it's online only.
it's multiplayer, so it's easy to save everything on the servers instead of having to deal with two layers of save games (local and server-side), which would require certain limitations on how they can be used - similar to diablo 2 back then, because in every client/server interaction you can never trust the client (or at least not with heavy checks). adding to that, most modern "gamers" are dumb as fuck, so trying to explain these two layers to them they can understand them enough to not get it wrong ("why can't I go online with my 100+ hours savegame REEEEE") is it's own challenge, it is the "smarter" move to dumb it down and make it as idiot proof as possible. and with the other two aspects above it's easy to see which direction they chose in the end.
on top of that, of course ubisoft could patch it to be available offline, but then again a) development is long over and b) it possibly had to be redesigned, at least in parts. this means further development which would cost extra money (or had to be included in the budget from the start), and from a company perspective what's the point when it's much more lucrative to "force" the few remaining people onto the sequel to spend their money there - majority who wanted to play it has already done so, the rest is so few it wouldn't make much difference, maybe even loss compared to what they'd gain.
it sucks, but that's just the reality of the market. for the company it's just another product. for a customer the only winning move is not to play.
 
ZMOT said:
there is, if you are a game company. it's the same when people consider some business actions illogical, they just don't see it from their perspective (and morals).

first and foremost it's a form of copy protection, you don't have it in your account, you can't play it since it's online only.
it's multiplayer, so it's easy to save everything on the servers instead of having to deal with two layers of save games (local and server-side), which would require certain limitations on how they can be used - similar to diablo 2 back then, because in every client/server interaction you can never trust the client (or at least not with heavy checks). adding to that, most modern "gamers" are dumb as fuck, so trying to explain these two layers to them they can understand them enough to not get it wrong ("why can't I go online with my 100+ hours savegame REEEEE") is it's own challenge, it is the "smarter" move to dumb it down and make it as idiot proof as possible. and with the other two aspects above it's easy to see which direction they chose in the end.
on top of that, of course ubisoft could patch it to be available offline, but then again a) development is long over and b) it possibly had to be redesigned, at least in parts. this means further development which would cost extra money (or had to be included in the budget from the start), and from a company perspective what's the point when it's much more lucrative to "force" the few remaining people onto the sequel to spend their money there - majority who wanted to play it has already done so, the rest is so few it wouldn't make much difference, maybe even loss compared to what they'd gain.
it sucks, but that's just the reality of the market. for the company it's just another product. for a customer the only winning move is not to play.
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How do you explain the offline mode that's in the game? There is nothing in this game that can't be experienced without the central server, minus DLC missions or cars maybe, if you enabled that.
Hopefully people get that working, I want to see Ubisoft sperg out like Capcom
 
I got the new Avatar game free with my GPU. My God is it obnoxious with the wokeness. Also, for some fucking reason ever since Far Cry 6 they got rid of actual melee weapons. You'd think playing as a Na'vi would be a good reason to re-introduce shit like spears and clubs.
 
Elysian said:
Do you remember that bit of Assassins Creed 4 where one of your pirate besties turns out to be a woman disguising herself as a man so she could be a badass pirate captain because abiding by 18th Century female gender roles is boring and lame? I feel like if Ubisoft made that game today she’d be a pooner and have a whole spiel about how not wanting to do housework and pump out babies constantly means she was actually a real boy the whole time.
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I hate to stand up for Ubisoft or anything, but that's actually based on a real person: Mary Read, a privateer-turned-pirate who posed as a man throughout her life. Details about her life are very scattered and unclear, and a lot of info about her is probably made up by titillated writers throughout history. Final Fantasy V had a character based on her, too, who's revealed to be a woman in like the first half hour of the game.
 
East_Clintwood said:
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Ubisoft Delenda Est.

The original interview the headline her is quoting isn't quite as bad, he's basically talking about how people who stream movies got used to doing that instead of owning physical media like DVDs, and that gamers should follow suit.


The problem with this is there's been a massive backlash about streaming building over the last few years. From the ever greater fracturing of content onto more and more platforms, to the ever increasing costs, to adding shit like advertising even when people are paying for it. Hell it wasn't that long ago people were ripping Sony a new one for removing content people had "bought" on their platform, so why the fuck would I trust them to not jew me on games as well? The switch to digital storefronts and launchers has been bad enough, but subscription models are always worse.
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brb gonna pirate
 
30+GameOvers said:
How do you explain the offline mode that's in the game? There is nothing in this game that can't be experienced without the central server, minus DLC missions or cars maybe, if you enabled that.
Hopefully people get that working, I want to see Ubisoft sperg out like Capcom
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that's not official. officially making it work in acceptable quality is again something ubisoft is not willing to spend money on. same reason there are hardly any official AAA linux games - if it's official, you have to support it, which costs money.

outside of the crew it depends how much is offloaded to the server, again either for copy protection or to make changes simpler without having to update the client (which on consoles would mean certification).
 
I'm just here to say fuck Ubisoft (and also MGSV) for teaching Nintendo all the wrong lessons about open world games for nu-Zelda. If I have to climb another fucking tower just to unlock the map I swear to Deus....
30+GameOvers said:
"Gamers need to be comfortable with not owning their games"
More like gamers need to be more comfortable with knowing where to find a good torrent of said games. Nothing that can't be pirated is worth playing, not like anyone will miss Ubisoft if they put some ridiculous DRM in their games anyways
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Emulation is also key. The sheer deluge of amazing content that is buried in the past for you to dig up. And that is very easy to get and save now.
 
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Project U leaked for a second time, and zero shits were given:
Recent gameplay footage sent to Insider Gaming under the condition that the source remains anonymous and the footage doesn’t go public shows up to 10 teams of four battling it out in PvE combat (40 players total).

The game’s plot revolves around an invasion from the “machines”, who have one goal to ‘machineform’ all life. Players play as the ‘immune’, who are hero characters that seemingly can’t be machineformed. A total of six characters currently exist, which are; Summer, Tau, Z-Rex, Lodestar, Swei, and Gallowglass.

The current game loop of the game is to fight your way to the center of the map, with two walls standing in the player’s way. It’s understood that the Outer Walls gates will open after around 15-20 minutes and the Inner Walls gates open after around 25-30 minutes. Each wall has progressively harder enemies, with teams of players being able to sync up and fight together as they move closer to the middle.

Once players reach the middle, they’ll have to work together to defeat the ‘Pyraguard’, which is a giant pyramid-like boss that has many different weapons and machines.

Originally, Project U was internally called Project Pathfinder, as the game loop involved pathfinding your way to the middle of the map.
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Sparky Lurker said:
Project U leaked for a second time, and zero shits were given:
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The artwork is generic as hell. It's pretty much a ESG-friendly checklist:
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So Massive did their big new Title Update today. Not just the new season but the launch of Project Resolve their huge planned bug fix (supposedly over 2k fixes)/QoL shit that delayed the new DLC by an entire year. So how's it going you might ask? Well let me show you what now greets you when you log in.
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Yes that includes raid exotics, and yes there are already posts about people having lost them. But wait there's more:

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PC, which has been plagued by random unexplained crashes for literally years at this point, now has a new more exciting bug making the experience shit. Every couple of minutes the game will lag and stutter, anywhere from some dropped frames to straight up freezing for several seconds. This is making it literally unplayable, because while you're frozen the enemies aren't. It got so bad earlier I had to put the game down to Normal, and wear an Unbreakable chest to try and get through the new manhunt (which amazingly somehow has even less content than usual for some reason)

It's so bad they broke the fucking monetization ffs:
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There's a million and one other little things that are broken or fucked up in some way as well. For instance the change to the skill mod system means it's no longer possible to share them with your group, something that based on Yannick's reaction to the question during the livestream, literally no-one at Massive thought about or tested while changing the system. Similarly the change to Optimization means, if you're unlucky with your RNG, you can actually fuck up your Capacitor exotic ARs and make them worse while trying to change the 3rd attribute to something that doesn't suck balls the way the original health damage does.
 
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