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    "Ubisoft's free-to-play turn...

    ...could be the new normal for big franchises [...]", - source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...chises-opinion

    Plus, "The cannibalization takeaway [...]", - source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ek-in-business
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    Clickbait title shouldn't obscure this point:

    Originally Posted by gamesindustrybiz
    The audience for free-to-play games overlaps with the audience for premium games somewhat, of course, but the real opportunity for free-to-play, especially for established franchises looking for ways to grow, lies in the significant audiences who engage almost exclusively with free-to-play games -- not in trying to use these systems to nickel and dime the existing premium audience.
    Fewer micro-transactions in premium games? Sign me up.

    [edit] and before some muppet jumps all over me, note how I said "fewer". I'm realistic enough to recognize they won't go away at this point
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    I'm out if it is I find in these free to play games you have to spend money to get anywhere or anything decent and it will cost more than buying a game such as division 2- if thats the path then I am done.
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    An in-game menu centered around battle pass and store rubrics tells it all, doesn't it?
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    Both articles are informative, nothing else. At least for me.
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    To the mods and Ubi in general...
    The cat is out of the bag, and it won't go back in. You won't be able to put a lid on this, that's how the internet works.
    Better to ride the tide and release details and some quality footage, so we can all appreciate it and not form first impressions based on that really low-quality stuff.
    Fighting it at this point will just make it spread further and faster, with more damage than good. I know you wanted a proper unveiling in June, but that ship had sailed. Ship happens with random testers.
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    Originally Posted by Bursucul Go to original post
    To the mods and Ubi in general...
    The cat is out of the bag, and it won't go back in. You won't be able to put a lid on this, that's how the internet works.
    Better to ride the tide and release details and some quality footage, so we can all appreciate it and not form first impressions based on that really low-quality stuff.
    Fighting it at this point will just make it spread further and faster, with more damage than good. I know you wanted a proper unveiling in June, but that ship had sailed. Ship happens with random testers.
    It's exactly the game I figured it would be, and exactly the game I hoped it wouldn't be.
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    Originally Posted by Bursucul Go to original post
    To the mods and Ubi in general...
    The cat is out of the bag, and it won't go back in. You won't be able to put a lid on this, that's how the internet works.
    Better to ride the tide and release details and some quality footage, so we can all appreciate it and not form first impressions based on that really low-quality stuff.
    Fighting it at this point will just make it spread further and faster, with more damage than good. I know you wanted a proper unveiling in June, but that ship had sailed. Ship happens with random testers.
    Can't agree more! Sharing is caring. I shared the leaked footage on my channel for few hours before Ubisoft raided my channel. Lotta people were happy to see it, mixed feeling but mostly postive.
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    Great, another thread that will get deleted because some of you haven't discovered other places to discuss things.

    Originally Posted by Stardust.One Go to original post
    Both articles are informative, nothing else. At least for me.
    No knock on you, just the title for the first article.
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    Well, it was running on a potato with everything on low, on dial-up, so we have a general idea but still difficult to fully appreciate it. Plus, the guy didn't seem to know what he was doing.
    But that's exactly my point... better to get ahead of it than fighting a useless, hopeless, damaging fight.
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