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[–] warm@kbin.earth 100 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What did we learn?

That's right! Stop buying games when or before they release!

Seriously though, what do people expect? Just wait a couple weeks after release and see what happens, it won't kill you.

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, don’t buy any products from Ubisoft, EA, Activision, or pretty much any other AAA developer/publisher

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Don't buy corporate games.

[–] Liome@pawb.social 24 points 2 months ago

I didn't learn anything. I was right all along.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 18 points 2 months ago

People don't learn a damned thing.

Some know and stay away from this type of shit. But everyone else will keep repeating the same mistake over and over again.

And that is why non of us get to have nice things.

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People say this every time it happens, and AAA game developers have been putting out unfinished broken crap for exorbitant prices for well over a decade, now. Don't preorder after starfield, don't preorder after cyberpunk, don't preorder after fallout 76, don't preorder after anthem, don't preorder after...

Oh wait, there's a new game coming out soon, I should preorder, can't wait to play it!

[–] warm@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago

The people saying it are generally not the ones supporting the practice, unfortunately the vast majority of gamers just don't care and buy whatever big thing is marketed to them or hyped up through streamers/youtubers.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

See, I'm reading this while contemplating buying the space marine 2 pre-order so I can bring justice to heretics before I realize the game has flaws at all.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Frankly at this point if you're preordering a game (especially one which they started selling before even revealing gameplay footage) you need to see a finance counselor.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Works for all Ubi games, even those fully released 🙄

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Early access = inofficial beta.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah who tf would spend $110 on that lmao

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who TF would spend that much on any game? Steam set the standard price for a fully developed, AAA game at $50 back in the late 2000s. To this day I refuse to pay more than that for a game. If a game is more than that on launch, I wait for a sale.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That's because Ubisoft makes AAAA games now, their CEO said so and we all know CEOs never lie.

/s 'cause you never know

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Didn't Ubisoft say that they want people to get used to not owning games?

I guess I'll start by not purchasing any of their games.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

that tracks because they always made their AAA games shitty so I already assumed AAAA means extra shitty. and I'm yet to be proven wrong.

[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When you preorder a game you’re paying for something a bunch of people in San Francisco haven’t even finished making yet. You know what you get when your preorder a game Kyle? A big dick in your mouth.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The market for dick is saturated, should be easy to get! Go get 'em tiger!

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago

Ubishit doing Ubishit stuff

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Personally I'm glad. I hope they had a bad enough experience that Ubisoft stops being a fucking money factory with it's terrible products.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Looks almost like patience gets rewarded.