http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here
Have a read please Ubi. Stop being dense. We don't want it or need it. YOU don't need it. Spend your money and manpower on something more worthwhile.
STEAM ORIGIN UPLAY
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Too bad some of the games sold by them, eg FC3, are so irresitble that just not playin any game sold by them, or require their plattform is not an option.
and very sadly more and more games require these Plattforms. Everybody, besides the Game Producers complain bout them, but ony very few ppl "demonstrate" aganist them.
from the three UPLAY is the least enoying one. If u open bl****y ORIGIN, desktop is spammed with Commercials.
STEAM spyies out every Programm installed on PC.
What a bright future awaits us gamers, if this is only the beginning. **CRYING**
Publishing requires you to split the pie with others. It always has. It did before digital distribution. Retailers, manufacturers, distributors, advertisers, etc. That can't be avoided. That's economics.
Naturally it's a turf war. That hardly justifies it though, especially when it's your customers who get caught in the middle, and you're not likely to get anywhere due to the opponents being more entrenched, better equipped, and better liked.
It's not just that it lacks functionality. It's that it duplicates functionality, and duplicates it poorly. Not a single aspect of UPlay's player-facing functionality exceeds or even matches Steam's. Even Origin doesn't spam me with Twitter feeds and Facebook posts and try to coerce me into participating in a faux-social/advertising 'ecosystem' some marketing consultant had a wet dream over.
The whole point of the NIH syndrome is that it can only arise in the first place if a company places its fears and wishes ahead of what its customers want and find most convenient.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that is how commerce works. Multiple companies involved in similar categories will regularly try to out do each other to capture your dollars. This is not a new concept. It has been going on for hundreds, if not thousands of years.Originally Posted by phanboy4 Go to original post
Not arguing that. There comes a point when the dollars have already been captured by someone else, either because you were too late to market or your product was inferior. So you work with those people. If you keep pushing your own inferior stuff past that point the impact on your profit will start to be negative. You'll be fighting over smaller and smaller groups of people as time goes on, because the rest have moved on.
You can't capture people's dollars by selling them something they don't want. Period. You will lose. Always. The smart companies can see when that point has been reached and rework their strategies.
And is Ubisoft in the business of making games, or trying to be the only distributor of their games? If the former, UPlay is doubly pointless. If the latter, they've already failed and need to re-evaluate their strategy, big time.
They are not looking to only sell their video games. They will not cut profitable channels. They will, however, try to compete. Right now UPlay is in its early stages. Competition could encourage them to make it better. Ubi may find out that this route is not for them or they may end up creating a better service than Steam. We just have to wait and see.
My overarching point in this thread is that trying to dissuade a company from doing what is natural for them is akin to someone telling you to stop eating. It is a silly notion, goes against basic survival principles and is a waste of time.
You would be better of speaking with your money and not buying from them or offering legitimate, concise and mature feedback.
My feedback is legitimate, by virtue of it being feedback. I may have failed to make it concise, but I'll restate it in list form.
1. I do not want UPlay. Few people do.
2. From a consumer perspective, I do not need UPlay, nor does anyone else. Nor does Ubisoft need it to offer me as a consumer the functions it now provides. "Stacking" it with other DD DRM like Steam is lazy, especially for what is basically a glorified email/personal info harvester.
3. It is very clear that Ubisoft's interest in this has more to do with their self interest than their customers interest. And that is a dangerous and expensive ideology to embrace if you're a profit-driven company. it is foolish to sell people something they don't want and don't need, especially when it negatively impacts your main profit avenues.
As to the not buying, I will buy the games I enjoy from the company, and do, and have, because I believe the people working on those games aren't the same people that cooked up this bit of nonsense we call UPlay.
I will however run UPlay in offline mode, as I see no benefit in giving Ubisoft what they really want, which is my personal data and marketing info. As I get older I have less patience with crap that gets between me and my gaming, and the more crap you put between me and my being able to enjoy the game with minimal fuss (with my *existing* friends list and software), the less inclined I am to buy your games. Far Cry 3 was enough to overcome this barrier, but it is a barrier, make no mistake.
Fair enough. I should have clarified with realistic feedback. You might as well be asking for Ubi to send you a weekly supply of golden eggs because the chances of that happening and getting rid of services like UPlay are about equal.
It simply is not going to go away. That is something everyone needs to come to terms with and based on that, give realistic feedback to make the system better.
I will say that with how little I personally care for UPlay, there is one thing I like about it. Having additional content that is unlocked through achievement completion is a pretty nice element. I do have concerns with how it will be adopted, but so long as these unlocks do not impact story progression, they are a fairly nice evolution of the achievement systems we are all becoming familiar with.