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I've remained relatively silent for a while with regards to the company's micro-transaction strategies with regard to the Crates, however the outright, in-your-face advertisement that I just got hit with upon starting the game is simply ridiculous. I didn't even get to the main menu to continue my save before having my screen blasted with an add about weapons packs at a premium discounted rate. Look, I get that Ubisoft wants to make their money. I may not agree with their predatory methods, but I understand. This, however, is simply unacceptable. Throwing an add to buy more credits for packs down my throat does not motivate me to open my wallet. It irritates me towards the complete opposite reaction. Just some advice? Save those types of adds for when we open the store; you know, the place we go when we intend on spending money.
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The low vision and the tunnel-like egoism of today's generations is more than scary.
People buy a game for an acceptable price. Mostly they are waiting for discount campaigns.
So then you have a game for 35 euros and can spend a lot of time and have fun.
Who writes such articles, probably think only of himself and his well-being.
Such people do not care that hundreds of people in the development spend thousands of hours into working for developing and programming a game so that we players can have fun
But this work is the profession of these people. They want to earn money for their daily bread, but also to give their loved ones something for Christmas and to treat themselves to a holiday.
The way to generate funding within a game so that it can continue to develop and keep us entertaining enough for gamers, or to pay the salaries of many programmers and developers, is absolutely legitimate and it is very bold and selfish, if you are upset about it at all.
I always like to buy something so that I can still play the game in a year. A game with fascinating landscapes, good missions and interesting PvP rounds.
I can not really accept or understand articles like these of the OP. Such is selfish thinking in its purest form, as it is increasingly encountered nowadays and especially among the younger generations.
By the way... I am born in 1960 and such a egoism way of thinking for me is a foreign word.
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I've no problem with the ad either.
I don't buy this stuff or much care for it, but many do. Letting people who might be interested in the weapons know that they are on sale with 80% discount seems reasonable to me. Not having the advert would have meant that some might miss out on a deal they would have liked.
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You have a very good perspective with regard to workers needing to earn their keep for their work. With that said, I would expect someone of your age to have the life experience to know the difference between someone who is being selfish and entitled as opposed to someone providing feedback to a company with their displeasure of how that company is choosing to deliver their advertisements. If I were complaining about how I shouldn't have to pay money for any of the additional content since I had already purchased this game and how it isn't fair, I would agree that I would've been acting selfishly and entitled. I even acknowledged how I can understand Ubisoft trying to gain revenue. So, I'm failing to see the selfishness, entitlement, and egoism you're alleging.Originally Posted by MK48-Sentinel Go to original post
As for everyone else, thanks for the input regarding this. I hadn't even considered the offline mode, so my foot's in my mouth.
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I DO have a problem with ads delivered in that way, it's potentially intrusive and immersion breaking. I'd rather have them sent as emails you can either choose to peruse through, or unsubscribe from. It's also just a matter of letting us have the freedom to focus solely on the game while playing the game.
I mean seriously, how many people when they set aside time to play games are simultaneously thinking about buying more stuff for the game? Delivering it via email makes more sense, that is the way a LOT of ads are sent, because you're in internet mode when accessing them, not playing mode.
I don't want any extra clutter in the load screens that can potentially make it take longer to access the game. It's bad enough they left Koani Bravo so broken it takes over 2 minutes to load it even with a NVMe drive that's 3,400 Mb/s! Every other safehouse loads in about 7 seconds.
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Look wanting to support all the devs and artists is a great line they tell you to buy micro-transactions and feel better about spending 30 dollars for a digital shirt or item that takes a year to function properly (gotta give them some credit for finally fixing the predator helmet thermal vision, which came out last years Halloween, timely service) that will likely only exist for 3 more months before Ubi kills the game off early next year. That money really goes to the shareholders and CEO's while those devs and artists who made the parts of the product you enjoy are fired before they can claim benefits (like dental or medical insurance) before getting full time employee status. Full price games should not have any micro-transactions whatsoever in them, we already bought the game, they got the money but they didn't get ALL the money. Stop claiming gamers are entitled while defending these very ridiculously entitled decisions from a publisher, its short sighted, greedy and i hope many others like myself are done buying games from any publisher that treats us as a product to sell and that really exploit us instead of entertain us.
If your game is free and your micro-transactions are fairly priced , non pay to win and obtainable within a reasonable effort in game then go nuts. otherwise f* right the f* off.
