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The most disgusting thing is that they want us to still pay $60. Not even a, "Hey buy this game for $30, and pay they other $30+ in optional content we teared out of the game."
*spit*
EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, etc take shit(f2p model), and spray paint it with gold without even using ferbreeze.
*spit*
EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, etc take shit(f2p model), and spray paint it with gold without even using ferbreeze.
So they want us to pay money for the privilege to pay them more money?
Only Ubisoft could hear “free-to-play” and twist it into “pay-to-pay”.
Only Ubisoft could hear “free-to-play” and twist it into “pay-to-pay”.
Nope, never bought an in game item yet, not gonna do so in the future, no mater how much content you keep away. I will just not buy the game, or wait until is used and very cheap.
I havent bought in game items from valve... why would i from ubisoft.
I havent bought in game items from valve... why would i from ubisoft.
It's ok, we've still got good old Tecmo Bowl.
$5 to score a touchdown? Dammit! At least the end zone dance I do is free
$5 to score a touchdown? Dammit! At least the end zone dance I do is free
Bahahaha, greedy motherfuckers. F2P already milks you for each little thing, but now they want to charge you $60 upfront and still milk your dry? Fuck these ass mongers.
Yeah, imma guess piracy will mysteriously rise to historic levels when this bright plan gets implemented.
There is nothing new here from when DLC/Multiplayer in everything was becoming the rage three-four years ago. The video game industry remains bloated, over-expensive, and artificially expensive to run. It has avoided the painful contraction and reshaping that other industries have had to undergo to stay viable in today's world.
Rather than fixing the bloat in the the business model and corporate structure, they abuse revenue-generating schemes to serve as a crutch. 'Micro-transaction' is the new Multi-player flavor. The companies with the most success so far have been those whose products take advantage of the more 'social' aspects of games (collecting things, competing against friends, online status,etc.). It's why we see so much power in the hands of companies like EA, and why multi-player/on-line is coming to dominate the landscape at the expense of great single player experiences.
I don't think the market will bear this forever, but speaking as a 30-something gamer, it's creating a fairly depressing gaming landscape.
Rather than fixing the bloat in the the business model and corporate structure, they abuse revenue-generating schemes to serve as a crutch. 'Micro-transaction' is the new Multi-player flavor. The companies with the most success so far have been those whose products take advantage of the more 'social' aspects of games (collecting things, competing against friends, online status,etc.). It's why we see so much power in the hands of companies like EA, and why multi-player/on-line is coming to dominate the landscape at the expense of great single player experiences.
I don't think the market will bear this forever, but speaking as a 30-something gamer, it's creating a fairly depressing gaming landscape.
"This will benefit our games' profitability"
Not if no one buys your games because it had microtransactions
Not if no one buys your games because it had microtransactions
wow just wow god damn Canadian bastards, hmmm assassin creed 4 i see you paying for it for 60 then another 50 cents to upgrade your weapons genius move ubisoft
Wait. What's the difference between with this and 60$ games having a bunch of DLC.
That's not a new idea, it's what everyone's been doing now.
That's not a new idea, it's what everyone's been doing now.
@GREENGUY
Retail DLC: Full game sold with additional content that should be considered as 100% optional.
F2P: Microtransaction based content that is encouraged by making free upgrades more difficult than usual to collect.
Imagine if Activision sold CoD then, rather than give you gun upgrades on a regular basis, made them take twice or three times as long to get and sold them for $1.99 a pop. That would be what Ubisoft is looking at, if I'm reading this right.
Retail DLC: Full game sold with additional content that should be considered as 100% optional.
F2P: Microtransaction based content that is encouraged by making free upgrades more difficult than usual to collect.
Imagine if Activision sold CoD then, rather than give you gun upgrades on a regular basis, made them take twice or three times as long to get and sold them for $1.99 a pop. That would be what Ubisoft is looking at, if I'm reading this right.
Plenty of difference between this and DLC.
Microtransaction = weapon, upgrade, whatever.. something fairly inconsequential if looked at but something people will buy. It means nickle and diming. The worst F2P games make the "free" bits extremely difficult or annoying to play and then throw stuff at you to buy to make it playable. Usually priced so you pay way more than you would for the complete game.
DLC = SHOULD be, expanded content. Something much more substantial though this is getting to be less and less the case with crap like what (recently) the Transformers game is doing with transformer customization parts.
Microtransaction = weapon, upgrade, whatever.. something fairly inconsequential if looked at but something people will buy. It means nickle and diming. The worst F2P games make the "free" bits extremely difficult or annoying to play and then throw stuff at you to buy to make it playable. Usually priced so you pay way more than you would for the complete game.
DLC = SHOULD be, expanded content. Something much more substantial though this is getting to be less and less the case with crap like what (recently) the Transformers game is doing with transformer customization parts.
@GREENGUY
Because unlike most console DLC, Ubisoft (and others) may end up using it in the manner that some iOS and Android games do: After a few levels, the difficulty shoots up so much that you can't go further without buying something, such as an XP gain or weapon.
Because unlike most console DLC, Ubisoft (and others) may end up using it in the manner that some iOS and Android games do: After a few levels, the difficulty shoots up so much that you can't go further without buying something, such as an XP gain or weapon.
I wonder if they seriously like announcing shit like that just to go on a video game blog and lol at us flipping tits, or if they honestly truly are that fucking stupid and think that people won't have a problem with this.
Wait what the fuck?
Did they just say they want more DLC in full $60 MSRP games then try to somehow sugar coat it by somehow appending F2P to this for no apparent reason?
OK Ubi you were off my shitlist for fighting your addiction to DRM but you just went right back on it for this ...
Did they just say they want more DLC in full $60 MSRP games then try to somehow sugar coat it by somehow appending F2P to this for no apparent reason?
OK Ubi you were off my shitlist for fighting your addiction to DRM but you just went right back on it for this ...
I thought Ubisoft was going on a path of redemption, claiming it was abandoning its usual shitty DRM but no they had to fuck up like always. Free to Play is wank anyway and yet again ignoring the customer's needs and wants is top priority for ubisoft... so angry can't even type straight....
When he said free to play... I thought he meant like having some multi-player features of a $60 game open for free download to anyone, so that they can enjoy it and possibly in turn buy the full game if they like it enough or at the very least just provide more competition.
Why did I think that? Because actual $60 F2P games make no fucking sense what so ever.
Why did I think that? Because actual $60 F2P games make no fucking sense what so ever.
Stop dragging the amazing Sleeping Dogs in the mud here, it has NO PLACE in this story. For one, its not UBi published, and it IS NOT FREE TO PLAY or any some such bullshit. It just has a small bunch of completely optional and pointless DLC packs that in now way add to the game, just like most other games do these days.
Why on earth do these guys let these statements loose in the public? Why not just lie to us until their shitty plans are ready to be released into the wild? Its like they think they can be a good guy sociopath
It's getting to the point that I want the industry to crash again, so indy devs who are being crushed under the overwhelming shadow of the AAA model can rise up and bring us back to our former glory.
From a consumer standpoint, things just aren't looking good for the future of the industry right now.
From a consumer standpoint, things just aren't looking good for the future of the industry right now.
Not surprising, a good F2P game tends to bring in way more money than a flat 60 release, really it was only a matter of time till executives got wind of it.
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