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    3 months ago

    This is why you don’t pay extra to play early, and you don’t preorder Ubisoft games ever.

    If you haven’t figured that out yet, that’s on you.

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      3 months ago

      *dont buy ubisoft games ever until they are on sale 75% off

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        Never buy them EVER: If you don’t sign in to your ubisoft account for a year, they delete your catalog. The things you paid them for. They remove.

        If buying isn’t owning…

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          So it’s been over a year since I’ve played AC: Valhalla on Uplay or Uconnect whatever it’s called now.

          Are you saying I won’t be able to play the game I paid $70 for a couple years ago, if the feeling hits me?

          ETA: just looked it up, and apparently if you bought something with said Ubi account, they won’t delete your shit.

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      I agree that it’s a bad idea to preorder or pay extra, especially with Ubisoft. However, following that logic they are basically preying on people new to the hobby, which sucks and deserves to be called out.

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          Excited teenagers definitely would. Honestly, I bet anyone that sees the marketing for a game they’re excited for and hasnt been burned before in that way is a prime candidate for preordering.

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          I would have figured people new to the hobby would go to used game stores first, then new game sections of regular retail stores… maybe swap those around.

          I don’t even know that many long-term gamers who preorder…? They might pick it up on launch day but… typically not preorder.

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    1: holy shit that title is a… It’s something, alright.

    B- if you spend extra money on top of normal costs on a game that’s still not even released, you get what you fucking deserve.

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    Hate to be that guy, but well deserved for buying into this late stage capitalism shit, sorry!

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      I’m not sorry at all!

      They get what they fucking deserve. Hell, I wish everyone who bought into that crap not only lost the save, but also lost access to it for minimum a week.

  • There’s a reason I no longer play Ubisoft games, even the ones I own.

    This instance isn’t it. I stopped when the big sexual exploitation and harassment ring was reported and became news.

    But when shit like this happens, it reminds me that I should have no regrets, even when I miss a specific moment in a game.

    Sorry Ubi, you’re just too toxic for me.

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    I’m still surprised they couldn’t (or decided not to put the necessary effort to) get the save games fixed. Telling your players to start over is brutal.

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    I am glad Ubisoft took a dump on these people for subsidizing their trash business practices. Maybe they will finally learn.

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      Late-stage capitalism, not “neocapitalism”.

      There is nothing new, unexpected, or unique about late-stage capitalism. It’s just greedy fucks thinking they’re the smart ones.

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    Reminds me of the people that paid to play early Suicide Squad and Payday 3, and in both cases the servers weren’t working day 1, or in the latter’s case not even day 6.

    Also this is so bad even giving nothing besides the apology would be better than some trinket.

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      That was 4 years after the release date, tho. And the original price was 20$ not 110$. And it had been on sale for as low as 2.5$ before going f2p.

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    The comments regarding this are really disappointing. People hate Ubisoft so much, for fucking customers over, that they are glad that customers are being fucked. What is wrong with you lot? People look forward to things, they side with optimism over pessimism, but fuck them right! What a bunch of angry and frustrated individuals you seem to be.

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      Breaking News!!! Man repeatedly gets diarrhea from street vendor; “Maybe this time will be different”. Street vendor says, “he just keeps buying it so I just keep making it”.

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        And that is fine. But feeling no sympathy, and being happy, are different. People being happy about others misfortune was the point of my comment.

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          Early entry happens because they buy it, these buyers are part of the problem, I’m glad they got fucked over.

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      I don’t understand the vitriol either. Must be a lemmy thing ( see every thread about microsoft doing something shitty and people going “you deserve it if you use windows/don’t use linux” ). Even the reddit threads related to this issue aren’t this bad, they’re mostly friendly and helpful towards the guys that got grifted.