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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That's enough for me to never buy any of their games ever again.

Remember when they said that if we pay for the product, we dont get ads? :)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I also remember when they ~~artificially~~ deliberately reduced XP gained after certain time in game so you either had to grind harder or buy booster packs. And they said it was adding value to the game because you get more playtime.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is such transparent bulshit excuse. Who wants their playtime to be more grind? But it's probably why Assassins' Creed even adopted XP systems at all.

If anything I want to go back to the days games had baked in cheats to become invincible and unlock everything so we can fuck around when we feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And yet franchise is thriving. AC was never my thing, especially because of boring fetch quests and collect-a-thons. WoW also had bunch of annoying quests like that, but at least the world building was awesome and lore was plentiful to enjoy the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I like the franchise because I'm into history. I was really looking forward to Mirage after the grindfests that were Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla, but news like this make me consider not even waiting until Mirage is 50% off at some point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to say "artificially" here because the whole game is made by humans.

Deliberately or maliciously is more like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

True true.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Sometimes you don't even get the product if you pay for the product. AC: Odyssey will be in my Steam library forever unplayable because I had to delete my Ubisoft account for being hacked into and their support team absolutely refused to let me associate the game I purchased and thought I owned to a new Ubisoft account.

Fuck those guys. I will never pay money for their games ever again.