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LOL NO WAY the ad before this video was for Star Wars Outlaws
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Yes way same here. They can't even keep the voice over actor consistent making me think they probably use ai voices as they seem so weirdly emotionless and such
Hahah same brother
Bro same. Lulz
@@wolfboimatt6675I noticed that as well
I remember for $100 you were able to buy halo 3 legendary edition and get a whole fucking helmet with your purchase including the game, poster, behind the scenes dvd, and book. Nowadays for $100 you get to play the game 3 days early and a different haircut style.
Wasn't the helmet cheaply made and couldn't even fit the head of a toddler? I could be mistaking it for another game honestly
@@DOSFrostyes, but you didn’t feel like you’d been r-worded after
The material was pretty good but correct the helmet was only able to fit about 3 game cases inside
@Oblit3rat3d which you put all 3 halos in
@@DOSFrostit was a novelty, not a football helmet. I had the heroic edition and loved it
Remember folks, Ubisoft themselves have stated that "buying isn't owning" so you might as well pirate their games since it wouldn't be stealing by their own logic.
if u go into a store & steal things u don't own then by ur logic it's not stealing either 5Head & let's not forget the fact that Valve introduced this mentality with steam a damn long time ago.
I don’t like the food at your family’s restaurant so I order the food, eat it and don’t pay. Yeah, no.
@@ImmolationBloom i think you got your analogy a bit wrong it's more like ↴ ¨I don’t like the food at your family’s restaurant, so I copied your recipe and made the dish at home, not paying you anything!¨
@@wilize No I didn’t. Ubisoft made the game you ain’t develop a damn thing and you think you’re still entitled to it without pay. Play or don’t play stealing makes you a thief dum dum
@@ImmolationBloom Maybe you should find a better analogy then dum dum 🗿 It's not like i'm gonna go steal a physical copy of a game from a local games shop or anything ! just gonna copycat a recipe of how a few millions 1 and 0 are placed in a certain way maybe change set recipe a bit so i don't have to connect to the internet when running set code
I don’t get why it’s so hard to make a Star Wars game where we can make our own characters. A true RPG game would be welcomed
bioware and obsidian was able to 20 years ago with kotor 1 and 2, sad that those are still by far the best star wars rpg's after all that time.
Kotor remake still in development, so, we can get one atleast
@@lirikaantropa7164 pretty sure kotor remake is cancelled
@@lirikaantropa7164 hopefully its not just another buggy mess with minor graphical improvements like a lot of remakes/remasters these days. But still saddens me another studio wont just make a fresh rpg inspired by those games rather than remake them. Theres sooo much eu lore to choose from in the old republic alone to set a good rpg in. Books upon books. The problem to me is that EA has the rights and have destroyed bioware or any studio's potential to make an inspired game. Minimal effort, maximum profits is the only thing they care about now. Imagine if cd projekt red for example made a cyberpunk style star wars rpg. Or larian made a bg3 style star wars rpg. Even an og bioware style with todays tech. The potential has always been crazy for star wars ip.
Literally all I want is a single player Star Wars RPG with multiple playable races. There are so many cool aliens in Star Wars, why do we always have to play as humans? I play a human in real life everyday, just let me be something else for a change.
>online only singleplayer game >insane price tag that could feed a family of 4 for a week >day 1 DLC >set in a universe that only works because of a few good characters and "cool stuff" >seems to have none of the good characters or "cool stuff" >Ubisoft Yup, the future of gaming is here.
Internet required to install game Edit: I meant the disc version not digital
imagine that the price of the standard version of this game in Brazil is 1/4 of the minimum wage and the ultimate is almost a half.
You can't install any game without internet this days @@UltimateInkling
Hobo Countrys should not buy luxury goods like Games @@OFAMOSO-PeDPano Poor trash Countrys that want cheap Games is same lvl of trash as a Ubisoft Game
I can forgive most of these, but online only in a single player game is a huge a deal breaker for me, I remember when Hitman was on gamepass I installed it and i was having so much fun and I was even going to buy it, but I lost connection somehow and the game couldn’t continue without it and I instantly closed the game and unistalled it
I'm currently employed in the gaming industry, one of the big studios, and recently a colleague shared something regarding this type of monetization, forcing the paying user into a subscription model funnel. While every single colleague who reacted to the post criticized this practice, except for those in finance and monetization who defended it as justifiable given the current economic climate. It's baffling, to say the least. I'm seriously considering boycotting the gaming industry altogether. Personally, I've made the decision to transition to IT (Ecommerce, B2B, etc) by the end of the year. I've had enough of this industry, the last 5 years have been soul crushing and eye-opening- the mediocre pay, long hours, constant layoffs to compensate for poor business decisions that hinder project scope and innovation, and the bad management. I'm simply exhausted.
Time to work for a smaller company or make your own
U know there’s other studios than the one ur at. Just try to find a smaller one that isn’t shitty
I call bs if they are willing to jump the gun on the industry when there is indie teams begging for hires @@THamm-xt8jm
Work for an indie company.
Talk to the other developers that don't want to support those practices and start your own studio with them
ANY game that announces a DLC BEFORE LAUNCH should not even be allowed on the market.
I just don't buy those games until the whole package is available for a fair price OR don't even buy them at all because a lot of those games end up be trash anyway
It's literally content they already made for the game you already bought, sold to you again. How much do you wanna bet the game launches with the entire DLC and one invisible wall that cuts off the entire thing until you pay? This isn't "downloadable content" this is my content being held for ransom
Not all games, some games have a free dlc on launch that is optional things
You mean 95% of games now?
Yeah I mean they could have just put the content in the game.
A Single Player Game, should never have "early access", nor have a "season pass".
what is wrong with a season pass to get DLC later that is already in development?
@@oliknow read your own sentence, i would hate myself if i took part in this self harm, hell no
I remember the day when "special editions" of games that cost over $100 actually included real goods inside the package. Remember the statues and all the little goodies that came with games like Assassin's Creed? Today, they just remove things from a game and use them as special editions.
Bro the original MW2 came with actually NIGHT VISION GOGGLES. And a headstand to put them on your shelf. I think they were modeled after SOAP
My best friend still has the master chief helmet. Man, back then I wished I ordered the special edition too, just for the helmet alone. Now thinking back - I definitely should have ordered it haha
@@serwizzart The helmet was indeed cool looking. Today, you might get a 3D jpg render of the helmet.
No thts not true. Plenty of time those packages cost over 100.
I still have my Halo Reach statue from the legendary edition of that game, same with the dog tags I got with Battlefield 4 and some others. It's almost as if the companies that want you to enjoy their game will give cool physical merch, but the companies that just want your money will give the bare minimum digital merch that they can take away whenever they want.
They ain't getting a penny from me going forward. If we cannot own the game, then pirating isn't stealing. Not that I'd even consider this piece of shit. Fuck Ubisoft.
yup same here, far cry 6 was my last one and since then has just been disappointment after disappointment
The only thing I play from Ubisoft is For Honor and even that is in a bad state.
The games shit but don’t pretend you’re Robin Hood, if you can pirate it you were gonna do it regardless.
Pretty ironic that the people who praise this game are also not going to buy it lol.
So did u buy Dragon's Dogma 2?
Paying for 3 day early access considering every single AAA launch is full of broken bugs and patches has got to be the dumbest thing you can do. "Oh hey, you know how all launches seem to be turning into a disaster? Let's charge people to be a part of that"
7 year game development cycles are ludicrous. In the last 7 years alone, FromSoft have released these titles... Dark Souls 3(2016) Dark Souls Remastered(2018) Sekiro SDT(2019) Elden Ring(2022) And finally Armored Core 6 in 2022. That is 4 straight up massive titles, and a remaster. In 7 years. And Elden Ring is HUGE. These companies need to wake to to reality, fast.
Why do you think Dark souls titles and their iterations all the way up to Elden Ring are so easy to develop?
@@EminemLovesGrapes i don't care. I don't want to wait 7 years for any game. Let alone 12 odd per bethesda title?
further compounds the frustration when those 7 year games release in an unacceptable states. You can tell these devs and/or managers were literally wasting time and "doing their own thing". Very few games need 7 years of development time to be release ready and you can tell if it needed 7 years or not.
Difference in work culture. Japanese devs work, western devs make tictoks about how useless they are.
Fromsoft games reuse assets a LOT
Ubisoft thinking their games are worth $18 a month is just laughable, most aren't even worth $18 to own
We don't own anything, we rent things that can be revoked literally the moment we rent it. Klaus Schwab: "You WILL own NOTHING, and you WILL be happy." Ubisoft is completely behind his statement. Except for themselves, the people dictating the rules are never part of said rules.
Not to mention anyone who would buy that sub already owns a lot of the games on the service. They're just renting access to play something they already own.
At least if you keep on top of your spending ans remember to stop the sub, $18 is alot better than $130 and you can play their other (shi**y) games for that month. Doing that will actually cost Ubi a lot of money. So I say go for it 😅
farcry 3 was really cool tho xd
Yeah, 20 years ago@@Tullmann13
Ubisoft completely destroyed Assassin’s creed, doesn’t want customers to own their games, horrible monetizing, crap and bland gameplay.
Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla were pretty great tho.
@@isturbo1984 The last of which was published 4 years ago. Ubisoft used to make great games - Far Cry used to be good. Now everything they touch turns to turd.
I gave up on assassin's creed after black flag when I realized that they will rehash the same game every year and charge premium prices.
@@isturbo1984 They are the best games ever if you ask me.
On top of that excessive DEI.
I hate Ubisoft for designing single player games to be so tedious that you might want to buy their in game boosts so you don’t have to grind for hours.
3 day early access nowadays is a punishment, you get the worst version of the game for paying extra..
$130 for a game that is going to be broken as shit and take them like half a year patch it into a decent state. These gaming companies have lost touch with reality... stop supporting these games
Don't forget the new articles that they pay for when they patch some stuff to frame the company as the new leading light of gaming.
They gone crazy. It’s almost like they’re testing how much they can punk gamers. Shows a complete lack of respect for the art and for the organization of gamers who actually buy their content and fund them. Without us they’re nothing and yet they stand at the top disrespecting us. There’s people who have done more with less. 130 is completely crazy af. Anyone who buys that is allowing for other games to do the same.
So the game is just a woman Han solo?
@@silverforever15 nah, a woman han solo would be too good of a character, this is just a random woman pretend to be han solo
Even if it was the best game ever made 130 for a single player game to me is just insane
Nah, idc if it was Ubisoft or Hideo Kojima himself, I'll never be ok with never owning a game. If I can't own the game then it's not a game, it's a service and I don't like games as a service, mostly because all these companies suck ass.
It's sketchy even for free games. I believe Warzone 1 shut down and people lost access to all the skins they purchased when they released Warzone 2. I'm sure many people spent 100s of dollars and it was all gone down the drain.
They want to turn off the old purchased games so they can sell you the same thing reskinned.
@@RealEllenDeGeneres I am one of them, I spent easily like $200 on stuff believing the game would persist. I was wrong. Now those skins are only usable in MW2019 Multiplayer which was ass.
So you have ZERO games on steam and only play on console with physical copies? Don't get me wrong, fuck Ubisoft and their approach to this situation, but Steam literally has that same statement in their EULA, that you only own the digital license to your game. It's not the discussion about owning or not owning games, it's how they conduct themselves and present themselves.
So we already lost that battle...
sooooo when will "microtransaction" stop being called "micro"
When I bought Cyberpunk 2077, I got a free art booklet, digital comic, Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebook, wallpapers, mp3s of the original score, etc. That's basically the deluxe edition equivalent to companies like Ubisoft, EA, etc, but to companies like CDPR, it's just what's norm. You get their game, you get the deluxe edition. Yes it released broken, but they fixed it, and you didn't have to pay extra to get the best version of the game. People should support companies like CDPR more.
As long as CDPR and companies like them learns from their mistakes and launch games in a better state
fuck cdpr taking 3 years to put in half the stuff they promised before launch, while launching a game that literally didn't work at all on half the platforms it was launched on. They will also only get worse
@@Krapvag Meh, it was only broken on old gen consoles. On PC it was fine, evidenced by its Mostly Positive reviews even on early 2021 when it launched. That Mostly Positive rating also never went down and instead just kept getting higher and higher. Also, can you name the specific features that you're talking about that is supposedly still missing from the game? Because I watched all the Night City Live episodes before launch and all the official trailers - the ones with no work-in-progress-everything-is-subject-to-change disclaimers and all features showed there made it to the game, and they made the game so much better after 2.0. The fact is, the supposed "missing features" that some people are talking about are from the 2018 48 minute demo reel which was an alpha stage demo that was full of disclaimers that it's still a work in progress and everything is subject to change i.e. they weren't promising anything from that video but that's just became the popular narrative with gamers who don't really research facts and only echo angry cries from the hate bandwagon but they don't really know anything.
@@beige_projection the npcs are embarrassingly inept compared to what they talked about before launch, the lifepath sytem is empty, it just isn't that good. The point about it being broken on consoles is that as a company they took the decision to launch on consoles that would never be able to support it, it doesn't matter that it was mostly okay on PC to millions of people they sold this crap to
@@Krapvag I can tell that you didn't play the game that much or didn't play at all and just copied the popular criticisms back in 2020. I've played many RPGs and open world games, that are considered great like GTA 5, RDR 2, Witcher 3, and I think when it comes to NPCs feeling "alive", RDR 2 would be the best, but I was never unimpressed about the NPCs in CP77. They're in the level of Witcher 3 and GTA 5. Also, the characters are very well written and it's easy to get attached to them, that's why characters like Judy, Panam, JS, Songbird are so popular now. The lifepaths are also far from empty. Playing through each lifepath without save scumming feels each playthrough are different. My corpo V felt very different from my nomad and streetkid becaue of the unique lifepath dialogue options which allows you to resolve situations differently from other lifepaths - this is something that you won't see if you didn't play the game that much. For example, there's a side mission that is only possible to resolve diplomatically if you're a streetkid. Go play the game, give it a fair chance, and don't let the hatewagon from 2020 still affect your judgement.
Worst game of the year before it’s even out, Disney is breaking new heights
Or reaching new lows.
I was lucky enough to grow up during the second golden age of Disney in the 90s. It's absolutely shocking to me just how far they have fallen :-)
u forgot skull n bones. .
Gotta disagree with Yong for this one. Trailer was trash, imo. Voice acting sounds like it rivals Forspoken.
Ubisoft: Just when you thought I hit rock bottom, boom. I punch through that and descend to previously unknown depths.
Back in 2000 I worked for an online porn company. The content was recycled shit spread over hundreds of their websites. Their business was not in selling content. Their business was to get people to sign up for a free trial, or a cheap trial or something, then when they cancel....ignore it and charge them anyway. They would charge each month for 3 months and then officially cancel. The whole reason was that nobody was going to walk into their banks and dispute a charge to weird ass porn and they would just eat the charge until it stopped. Subscription services are the way for these companies to make huge money for little effort.
Lol, that is messed up exploit.
In the case of a free trial, couldn't they have just said "I never signed up for these charges," because they wouldn't be wrong?
@@tomaspat4392it’s actually fraud, but it’s hard to get a bunch of people to sue them as a group.
@@capecon Yup. Probably about 2% did just that....and the other 98% is where the profit is.
for Chase bank, you can go online and dispute a charge electronically; you don’t even need to walk into a bank
This is exactly why I've started going through all these older games I've been putting off for new releases, why play a game on day 1 for $130 that is gonna need a day 1, 2, 3 patch to have the game to be functional, while still having a broken PC port, and sliced up DLC content that was pre-planned instead of being a gift that comes out later for extra content (From Soft did this with Elden Ring so the practice isn't dead yet) when instead I can buy/play several $10-$40 games mostly on sale because they are more than 4-8 years old, get literally 100s of hours of content between them, not have to spend more than the box price of the game, not have to worry the game will be there years later, and I can replay them as much as I want without a subscription to yet ANOTHER service. Just actually wtf
Even waiting 1 year after launch & you'll have a better, more finished game for a lower price.
Still waiting on that 50% off definitive deluxe edition of Cyberpunk
The reason physical copies are no longer a thing, is because games no longer get finished before release. They release an incomplete version, use their player base to tress test their servers and then take a year or two after release to finish the game with updates and hotfixes while raking in sales
Yongyea is sayimg this game looks interesting because hes always looking for voice acting work
He refuses to cover any controversial or even slightly controversial topics, or any topics that touch the DEI related issues.
@@rpgadventurer32that's why I'm surprised he's talking about this he's strictly keeping it to the monetization though LOL
Because he takes the parts in voice acting for DEI@@rpgadventurer32
@@YaaSalty...0_o Exactly, he's only addressing this because he can comfortably talk about the price tag, monetization and Ubisoft's past behavior, these being the generally approved talking points.
he picked his side these last couple months
Remember: A decade ago, you could spend $90 and end up with a statue or figure, an art book, a soundtrack, and maybe even a shirt/hoodie/backpack. (Infamous 2 was fucking awesome. That backpack was durable as hell), and then a complete, finished game mostly free of bugs. Now you get a season pass for content removed that was already completed, some cosmetics, and a game that may or may not be functional for the 3-day early access window.
There are not enough editions. Where is Super Ultimate Alpha v3 version where we get 3 year early access for 499 so we can bugtest for them in alpha state?
I think the reason people got comfortable not owning their media is that it hasn't yet been demonstrated how unequal of a contract that is and how unilateral a publisher's decision can really be.
The base game is £70 you get: The game. For £104 you get all this cut content: - Season pass including two narrative expansions, an exclusive mission at launch, and a character cosmetic pack. - Up to 3 days of early access to the game For £119.99 you get: - Season pass including two narrative expansions, an exclusive mission at launch, and a character cosmetic pack. - Sabacc Shark bundle. - Rogue Infiltrator bundle. - Digital art book. - Up to 3 days of early access to the game... This game is gonna be a puddle.
You can damn near smell the gfuel cheeto breath through the screen. You people replying to this comment bring shame to gamers
How can you act like that higher price one isn't a bonus thing?
You know what the only thing they understand is the same thing bud light understands. A boycott.
Ha ha ha 😂 "up to 3 days", literally they could give 1 hour exclusively
@@CompelledFungusSo I've never bought early access... I was thinking about the concept the other day.. is it something about being first to play a game or is there another motivator behind it? The reason I'm asking is that if you've waited, say, 6 months, for a game, what is 3 more days? Like if you were a kid and somebody said that you could sacrifce one of your presents in order to be allowed to have Christmas 3 days early, that might actually seem like an okay choice, but as an adult it just seems kind of weird?
Not touching this shit with a ten foot pole.
The pole will get dirty.
@@skullkraken_resurrected9857 That's why after I poke the game as if it's a dead body I'll ditch the pole.
20ft disposable pole
A $70 pole mind you
Sorry, Im too busy spreading democracy to play this
Well run businesses like Larian are going to stomp the shit out of investor-forward companies. It's gonna be a bloodbath. We don't have to do a damn thing. For US audiences, I'll put it like this: You probably saw a Starbucks first, but liked Panera more. Starbucks has investors. Panera is privately owned. Luckily for us, especially those who disagree, Panera should be going public soon; so you can witness the quality decline in real-time. You might have already noticed the changes.
Ain't no way KZhead ran a Star Wars Outlaws ad on this video 😂💀
😂 I was thinking the same thing!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tbh it's bullshit like this that makes me completely okay with runnning an ad blocker. Not seen a youtube ad in 18 months. They're complicit. Fuck em.
how do you still not know about youtube ad blockers?
Oh, they did. 😂
@@AlexandrovitchAsome people watch KZhead strictly on a phone or iPad so sadly we are forced to endure.
Let's face it, Ubisoft is fishing for the whales not the fish.
If they are, they are using the wrong bait. Whales are really only something you see in Live service games where they can feel like they are better then anyone else. In games like this, you need to sell a lot of copies to earn the big bucks and I don't think they will. Their first mistake is to have the base game so expensive, you can charge a lot more for the Special editions but you want the base game to feel worth purchasing and this game does not look worth the price tag.
I got to agree with the other commentary as well. Ubisoft is insane. Trying to fish for whales in a single-player game. Whales only exist because they're dudes trying to feel better about themselves which leads them to stomping on lesser players but in a single player game it makes no sense. They can't show off unless they start making KZhead videos, but if they do that people will just directly make fun of them
The whales will have no one to flaunt to except themselves
They use wrong bait and depth. if they want to get the whale they have to have 10$ per pull with 0.2% of legendary weapon
That's not how that works.
Season pass will probably 2 quests that you can finish in 1-2 hours
You own your games on steam. Valve has said in the past that, no matter what happens to the platform, they will always make sure the users will keep access to all their purchases, even if the service shuts down. Now, the DRM that devs implement on their steam release, or lack there of, is an entirely different matter. But you have Valves guarantee you keep everything in your library.The problem is companies like Ubisoft don't. They make no effort for game preservation whatsoever and have shown in the past that they can't be trusted, especially when they branch off their games to their own launcher, like Ubisoft does, you lose said guarantee given by Valve. And I'm not comfortable with any game subscription services, and no one I know does either unless they're using it to play games they have no interest in replaying anyways, or use it as a "demo" to later purchase it if they like it. Not a single person I know actually plays all their beloved games in some subscription service. I'm sure there's some more causal gamers that do that, but certainly NOT everyone, I can attest to that. I would not feel comfortable using something like XBOX game pass for the majority of my gaming whatsoever. Especially when it's just gonna end the same way like streaming services, with all your favorite games being spread out over 5-10 platforms and it costing you a hefty sum every month to keep access to them, even if you don't touch any of the rest they offer. In the current economical climate this is simply neither acceptable nor feasible. People are comfortable with Spotify subscriptions because it has pretty much everything, for gaming this would not apply.
I used to buy so many games at $60 without even thinking about it. I swear I have some games that I haven't even touched that I paid full price for. Now that games cost $90-120, I hold off until they're on sale. Once the initial hype fades for a single player game, coming in and buying the game for $20 1-2 years later is no sweat off my back. It's why I hate this shift to digital, because I fear the prices will become more fixed like Nintendo.
I'm doing the same. Most of the time you also get the ultimate edition with all the dlc, and don't forget the bugs are fixed.
The games that release for those prices are usually broken anyway. So you kinda have to wait months or even years for it to be even slightly enjoyable.
not necessarily, i think you are spot on in that after a few years the price goes down because the items demand has decreased and supply is at a constant in terms of digital format, and so to continue to make a profit, they will decrease the price point so that the items will continue to bring in profits.
well said, i agree
You know something is not right when ubisoft wants to charge you £130 for an unreleased game. Its as if they want to hit and run 😂
The ultimate edition in Poland costs 540PLN which can buy you groceries for half a month. It costs around 1k PLN/month to buy food for 1 person(fastfood, cinema,restaurants not included).
Here in Brazil it costs R$ 650 almost half of the minimum wage that's 1.410 (monthly). 😑
@@Theugar_Kryn I can bet you can buy a car in argentina for the local price.
130$ is almost 50 hours of work where I live,and that's if you have a relatively high paying job If you don't it's *half* your monthly salary.
@@Theugar_Krynbro that’s wild! 😂
The $70 edition is 350 BRL (Brazilian Reais). I swear to God, I can buy the groceries for almost a month with that cash. Game devs say "oh. Look see, the price is fucked up because the current economy sucks." Guess what, Sherlock. The economy sucks for everyone.
There is another difference between Spotify and games, you will always be able to play physical music media on a CD player or record player etc. But "live" games go permanently offline, at which point they can't be played even if you have the physical media.
I would of bought this game as a star wars fan regardless however No Steam, No Buy Ubisoft greeded out with their own launcher like they did with valhalla. Only when the game has sold enough they will realese it on steam at a discount. I can't wait ubisoft and i will ise a 3rd party key so they dont get money Remember, No Steam, No Buy
going back to retro gaming
It's "digital artbook", a PDF download, not a physical book.
People can just copypaste PDF to oblivion and spread them worldwide online. No amount of piracy hunter programs could ever stop swarms of pirates from spamming out stolen digital assets 🗿🗿🗿
Exactly. A digital art book is huge L. An actual book full of art would actually be worth money
Bruh, KZhead just straight up deleted my comments for no reason 💀💀💀
@@alfianfahmi5430 Happens. Sometimes it shadowbans comments so only you can see yours.
I hate those.
When games lock content behind a day 1 microtransaction I either way a year or two to get everything on sale or I just never end up buying it. When Mass Effect 3 released it locked a companion behind a transaction which felt really shitty. That was the last game I bought on release that did day 1 dlc.
"Digital Art Book" That's going to be a nope from me, thanks.
The game: Climb this tower to capture the point, inching the story along, revealing an area of the map, use your jump pack to safely descend to the ground, run towards the next tower. "groundbreaking, innovative gameplay"
Also: Revealing the map area clutters it with dozens of "collectibles", resources, and "points of interest"
So much Farcry reskins
No towers to climb in this game
@@callisto537 towers to climb, outposts to liberate, points of interest to investigate... It's all the same thing, and I guarantee that this game will be holding your hand, "go here. OK, now go here. Next, go here, then here, and here. Cutscene! Go here. Travel to the next zone. Great, now go here..." And there will be some sort of collectable that you can look for, to give players the illusion of actual content in the game. This is every. Single. Ubisoft game. There's nothing interesting to do. No unique missions, just bad guys to shoot while you get spoon fed lazy storytelling.
Just for some math on it: 1,000,000 players buy the $130 edition = $130,000,000 but with the price being $18 with a sub, obviously MORE people will buy it because it's a AAA game, from star wars, for 18 bucks, so: 5,000,000 players buy the $18 sub = $90,000,000 as Asmon said, let's go with 15% of those 5 million players forget to unsub after they beat the game, or haven't beat the game so they stay subbed for a year: 15% of 5,000,000 = 750,000 750,000 x $18 = $13,500,000 That means that every month those 750,000 players forget to unsub, they're making ubisoft 13.5 million a month. do it for a year and: 13,500,000 x 12 = $162,000,000 including the initial 5 million players: 162,000,000 + 90,000,000 = $252,000,000 This is why they're willing to sell something that they value at $130 for as low as $18 bucks a month. Because in the long run, they only need 15% of a large number of people to stay subbed for a whole year and they will make nearly twice the amount of money they would've made if they only offered the $130 version. Even the people who only wanted the $70 version would more likely buy the $18 bucks it's just THAT much cheaper with MORE content. SW Outlaws isn't going to be measured on it's sales, it's going to be measured on how many subs they got on and around the launch of the game. If in the first week of it's launch, Ubisoft has 5 million more subs, then Outlaws was a success, if it barely has any new subs, it'll be a failure. Regardless of how good the game is or isn't and regardless if it sells well on Steam or not, if it can't push subs Ubisoft will call it a failure and move on.
I really like your breakdown of everything……
Interesting topic. The only problem I see is we just don't know what their actual number of subscribers will ever be because they're not gonna tell but if their service is only available on PC and Xbox with both pretty hardcore audiences especially Xbox people fighting the losing battle owning an Xbox and competition with Gamepass. I have to think about the number of users might be 250,000 to be very generous. PC gamers are more informed about Ubisoft and their launcher on PC is awful to use from experience to the point that I just avoid their games everywhere now because you still have to use their terrible launcher. Also the more casual movie streaming services are mostly collapsing and Microsoft is still too terrified to tell their actual sub count or their stock might crash doesn't make me think this stuff will do well.
@@jimmyv3170 you're right and wrong. the way you're wrong is because, as we've already seen and was mentioned in this video, the industry is actively pushing to eliminate your ownership of their product. while combatting piracy to the fullest and password sharing across the board. soon, the only way you'll be able to watch your favorite movies is going to be through a subscription service. and while, yes, PC gamers are more informed, you overestimate just how many. out of 10 million PC gamers, maybe 4-5 million of them are informed and know which companies they should avoid, and only about 2 million of those people will actually act and avoid those games. you have to remember, assassin's creed odyssey and valhalla were successful titles, even though they had microtransactions in a single player game, and you could play valhalla by subbing to ubisoft as well, instead of paying the $60 when it came out. star wars has a much larger, and stupider, audience that will consume anything and everything as long as it has Star Wars in front of it. Jedi: Fallen Order is an EA game, the WORST video game company to exist, and it did well enough to warrant a sequel and the sequel did well enough that it wasn't universally panned like I thought it shouldve been, both games were mediocre at best.
what a load of bullcrap lmao. Nice math buddy. "Uhh lets just imagine arbitrary numbers, multiply them by the amount of time that's needed for my math to work, and pretend its a plausible scenario"
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Yong Yea is a guy who works in the industry, he is a shill who will never say anything controversial about a big studio release.
His channel is basically “a summary of the outrage for current thing 2 weeks later”
Here's what's a little insane - well one of the things that's a little insane - they're trying to sneak subscriptions to people (something that requires brand trust) while at the same time ICING brand trust. This is like trying to sneak you poison while also overcharging you for the food. What the actual f.
Totalbiscuit talked about this over 10 years ago. Its pretty wild we are still having these same problems even today.
Man i wish he was still with us i would love to here his rant about this bullshit.
RIP Totalbiscuit. I still miss him.
Oh man miss him.
Me too. He'd be absolutely appalled at where we're at. I often looked up to him when I was younger and I feel like he singlehandedly made me more cautious and informed about the kinds of purchases I'm willing to make.@@seanmurray9445
I used to fall asleep listening to his starcraft casts during my high school days :(
I think it was already back in 2014 i was tired of the whole DLC nightmare bulshit of selling games with a DLC ready to be sold at the same time, and even back then i was talking about it to my friends that it felt like cutting games up and selling them piece by piece the only game i ever felt like did it okay was Oblivion with Shivering Isles
I remember when offline games not only had peak gameplay, but also offered cool cosmetics that you could earn through gameplay, not paywalls. Farming for those items was so much fun. It felt so rewarding to unlock something cool, especially after some big challenge
These companies need to realise that it's not Denuvo and always-online what stops pirating. It's making a good product. Just like Baldur's Gate 3.
denuvo only delays and makes the game worse for every legit owner, max is like 1 month
Yeah, and Dragons Dogma 2
Unironically. Yeah. I WANT to play BG3. Can't really put it in the budget. I still haven't pirated it.
@@NazzyDragon Why would you disrespect passionate developers who aren’t hoodwinking their customers by pirating actually amazing games?
@@RealJoJoDragon Dragons Dogma 2 "good product" lmaoo. Now Dogma one on the other hand.
This is a game that made for everyone which ultimately means it's made for no one.
The problem is actually worse, because it's made for no one.
it's made for twitter and reddit, which means it's made for updoots and retweets and fake internet gold
No it was made for women and gays. Not everyone
at this point we can just play bingo everytime these "modern games" come out
I'll be playing free so guess no skin off my back lol
"Buying isn't owning"-Ubisoft Pirating can't be stealing then...
In Denmark the most expensive package is 969 DKK. at my lowest income, that's 19 days of food. this price is worse than a rip-off.
I use that ammount on food every week but I do get your point, I am done giving money to both Ubisoft and EA.
@@morqai games are plenty expensive here, no need to increase the price.
For anyone who isn't bothered by monetization like this, imagine if this was done with series: Imagine you pay $50 for "Bulu," but this only lets you inside their ecosystem to browse shows. It doesn't actually let you watch the shows. You find a show you want to watch so you pay $30 to have access to that show for a limited time. But you only have access to the first five episodes; the rest are locked behind more payment. And then a bunch of extra interviews and 'the making of' and extra content for the show is again locked behind extra payment. This type of wringing the customer for money at every moment is what the gaming industry is becoming. Publishers don't want to sell you a game. They want you to be paying continually for every little thing you do. Subscriptions are just the starting point. Soon it'll be subscriptions just give you _access,_ and then actually unlocking the content requires additional payment, every step of the way.
This reminds me of amazon prime video
lmao onlyfans is already that way, the sub is the access I hear. if they keep that going they'll keep the games going. I've already been setting up older games and finishing ones left unfinished then moving onto replaying old favorites since I don't expect anything worth playing to come too oftenf or the next 3 or 4 years at least and I won't be in the mood to then buy a whole new console gen or build a new pc again from scartch just to keep up with new games again at that point. I probably won't get back into the ecosystem any more because of the investment cost and low enthusiasm for it. they'll lose a lifelong gamer lol. funny when I think about it. Lifelong means spider-man atari at 2 or 3 years old.
Was thinking that exactly amazon pay a subsciption all the good or new movies cost more .DELETE
We actually have that in Sweden, afaik. Service called ViaPlay. You pay to watch a lot of movies and shows, but some movies are locked behind “rental”. Such bullshit.
Sounds like a episode on black mirror
It's like someone in the comments said: "Create the Problem, Sell the Solution"
My judgment on subscription is that it is a slippery slope. Before companies stood for the products they sold, now they want you to disassociate from the products and just pay them. In essence they want 100% control, zero risk, even more profit, less investment.
No Steam, No Buy
The games even worse when you consider just how many star wars projects were canned before this, they actively CHOSE to make this one over all the others we actually wanted.
Not to mention the death of Project Aperion. Was going to be a full remaster mod for Kotor made in unreal engine
I remember when it took ubisoft an entire month to respond to my support ticket on removing my account link to xbox. What a joke of a company.
"advocating in self interest" Wild way to spin hypocrisy lmao
Ubisoft Solo game have micro-transacton shop since Assasin's creed Origin, so to be able to play you need a always available connexion so you can open the shop at any time.
I mean, a season pass on a RPG? A single player RPG? This is a SH1T game from the conception. A broken unfinished RPG that relies on season realeases and paid DLCs.
There's nothing wrong with a "season pass" in single player RPG's. They're usually a $20-$40 bundle for expansions instead of paying $60-$100 total as they come out. Just don't be an idiot and pay for shit without knowing what you're in for.
Witcher 3 is at the door. Go answer it.
^^^ The fact that there are people who defend this shit lol. You guys deserve Ubisoft
@@FagnerAro that is a real nice way of putting it.
@@TheMasterblahyou do realize they make season passes because people buy them regardless of how predatory or useless they are, “there’s nothing wrong with season pass in single player rpgs” lmao you’re what’s wrong with gaming you’re the reason they have battle passes in single player games because people like you who defend it saying they won’t buy it but eventually you will, you will be the reason gaming is becoming so heavily monetized and reliant on predatory tactics
Small detail: on steam you do own your games. After installing a game, you have the option to make a local backup of the files. If you uninstall the game at any point, even without an internet connection, you can direct steam to the backup and the game will work.
The problem is that you need steam to run the game, so if there is any level of DRM you don't own it 100%.
Steam even said if it ever shuts down permanently you can still download your games. Unlike every other company where if they belly up you’re shit out of luck
@alexsynthesis Untrue, this is just one of those word of mouth things that gets scrambled over time.
@@yasserkerbache thats true. But all preserves already know of steam-emus (goldberg and such, ehich work local, or even halfway official, there are a couple steam emulators for different cases so luckiky what you said is just a small obstacle which already has a solution. So don't loose hope)
@@yasserkerbache thats true. But all preserves already know of steam-emus (goldberg and such, ehich work local, or even halfway official, there are a couple steam emulators for different cases so luckiky what you said is just a small obstacle which already has a solution. So don't loose hope)
16:44 just got a Star Wars: Outlaws AD at this time.
Hey look an Ubisoft Open world game. You want to know what it will be ? > Always online single player game. > XP boosters are sold for real cash because they make XP gain hard in a single player game. > Forces mechanics so that you have to buy items from in game cash shop in a single player game. > Makes cool armors and weapons and will be locked behind in-game cash shop in a single player game. > 10 hour story locked behind a 100 hour game.
You know what will be the icing on the cake with this Star wars game??...........if you buy the $70 version of game and there are ads playing during the load screens and you have to buy in to the $130 version to stop it
lets see how long it will take before actually implementing this idea into the gaming industry, because you KNOW they will at some point as it means more money in their pockets. but the saddest thing is the sheep will continue to buy and defend it and only encourage this predatory behavior.
@@greaterthanakbar2554 Nah, AAAA one showed me already
I won't even pirate this piece of crap.
I probably will, just to see if it might be decent. If it is then ill buy it but if its crap then im not buying it. I really wish demos became standard again
@@balinthehater8205 wait? No more demo?
@@balinthehater8205 No you won't lmao. Only remaining person shown capable of cracking modern Denuvo releases hasn't shown a sign of life in eight months. Everyone else either disappeared or officially retired. There's a reason you can't pirate Jedi Survivor or AC Mirage or Dragons Dogma 2 or Mortal Kombat 1 or Persona 3 or SF6 or Avatar: because no one is left to crack them, and this Star Wars game is gonna join their ranks.
@itsmehehe6585 how ironic. In their efforts to squeeze every denarius from their customers, they are simply expunging themselves from the minds of their customer base. Now, no one will even remember these abominations existed outside of obscure statistics.
@@itsmehehe6585 Not completely true, last week a new group showed up that hacked a 7 year old game running old denuvo, so maybe that group can improve and can crack modern denuvo in some time, but who knows.
Bro if I want heated seats in ur new BMW u have to subscribe and pay extra for a function that is already in the car. It’s actually ridiculous what is happening rn
Early access may cause less long term damage, but it's arguably the more scummier of tactics since it's pay extra or you have to wait, pay to play effectively. It's like a home release version of waiting for energy to restore in a mobile game or pay to refill.
With a very few exceptions, I don't play games on release anymore, I got into a point where I am always playing games late, like I am living on 6 - 12 months behind everyone, sadly I lose most of the hype, but the good part is that I can buy "Full" games at a proper price. I usually wait a "Game of the year" version of those AAA games, that comes with all DLCs, cosmetics, and usually a good discount as well. I am living like this since I got Witcher 3 GOTY, I was out of money when it came out and when I actually bought it on a steam sale I was VERY HAPPY with receiving the full game with 2 dlcs, skins for the ladies and etc for 30 bucks. On the last 3 years, the only games I got on release was Star Wars: Survivor, Elden Ring, Diablo 4, Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 after I watched some streamers, because I actually wasn't playing on getting it.
Of your most recent release purchases, they all look solid except for the Diablo 4... I stopped playing that one after the massive nerf. 😢
So did I, but from 2019 till 2023ish. I now have to go to therapy, just to feel normal. I shit you not, they ruined my sanity. And also paid me shit wages. But hey, at least I got a library with all of their incredible games for free! :)
Ye i got witcher 3 GOTY edition for 90% discount. And i live in Kazakhstan, its was like 4,99$ i think
Unfortunately i think the same... Noone is exited about this game... I dont have faith in these companies anymore...
Yeah since Disney took over and has been releasing slip and tarnishing the franchise, I don't bother with Disney or affiliated companies. Episode 1-6 is what I watch, the new stuff doesn't exist.
They all follow the woke ideology
Ubisoft has been a shell of its former self for a while now, and I don't think that is going to change anytime soon
I was excited until I saw the price tag...
@@travisv6408 Rogue One is really good
At the time this video was made, Ubisoft even took Reda's Heka-chests out of AC Origins. Without announcement, of course. People opened tickets for about a month before Ubisoft made clear that this was in fact no bug but fully intentionally. The cests was basicly a way, to grind for shop items without buying it for real money, but with insane low drop chances. Imagine being so greedy, to pull such a move for a 5 year old game...
Sad thing is that even if things were forced to change, Publishers will just change there games in such a way that they don’t have to preserve the game. “Oh we can’t kill games sold at a premium? Well that Free-To-Play model is looking more and more lucrative over there and since the games would be free we have a loophole to turn it off when we want!”
At this point any game that is Ubisoft is an instant avoid. The open world games with hand holding, UI spam, and repetitive grind is just so inferior at this point. 10 years ago it was passable, but now with Elden Ring, Zelda, etc to compare against it makes it clear how bad Ubisoft games are.
You can tailor the UI in every Ubisoft game to your preference and also eliminate the hand holding.
@@TheMusicolophile still garbage. they all play exactly the same and gameplay loop boring af.
@@mrloqqe1610 That’s a personal opinion only.
How do you know that they are using the sane thing over again. If you have never played or seen the games. Wait until reviews come from people (not companies like IGN) and then you can see if this is worth your money.
@mrunknown6070 because they've done the same thing since AC1. At this point expecting anything else is the definition of insanity
The RedSledge vs Asmonshit thing is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel. Legendary.
Faaaacts! Big facts! And asmon reaction was like “😅” 😂😂😂
That was pretty funny
Loved the commentary for this. 100% agree. Being someone who played Valhalla I hate the way Ubisoft does their microtransactions. Now there is a way in game to get the items but it's like a gotcha game where you grind for days and pray the item you want becomes available. For a single player game it just should be a thing.
Don’t know if it’s possible for newer games but private servers of games that have been shutdown do exist. Phantasy Star Universe, one of my favorite games of all time, has its servers shutdown like 10 years ago, and I was just playing on a custom private server last night. It’s not perfect, the increased xp gains and drop rates actually annoy me, but it’s still worth it. And there are some single player games that 100% require an online connection. My net went out 2 days ago so I decided to play some madden (found someone selling it for $10, bite me) and I could not play any of my single player career mode characters because I could not connect to the servers. I’ve had problems like this in a couple single player only games as well but I can’t remember the names off the top of my head.
It amazes me how a game can look so ambitious and still look so boring at the same time.
all these franchises are 25+ years old, Star Wars is almost 50, its like they have taken this as far as they can go or just refuse to really take it into a bold direction.
@@mediawarrior5957Yep. Making a third KOTOR style game? Nah. Let's do another cover-based TPS for the 9000th time.
Ambitiously boring
@@mediawarrior5957Disney refuses to take it to the mature level it could be. RIP SW 1313.
did u see any game play?
I love it when a game I'm being sold has no desirable characteristics.
My biggest problem with ubisoft shutting down servers was when the shut down servers for splinter cell blacklist. I was part of a small group that played coop missions and multiplayer until the servers shut down. Now I understand it’s not financially viable to keep servers up for game that almost nobody played but on pc there is no option for lan servers or private servers hosting not mentioning some missions are unplayable because they are co-op only and what I really don’t understand is that on consoles you can host a lan game but not on pc. It really bums me because I’m coming back to this game even 11 years later but there is no way to play it with friends or finish it for 100%
Konami recently was pretty egregious about putting very little of the actual game content on the physical release of the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection vol 1 (definitely with the Switch version, I don't recall if they did the same scumbag move on the other consoles), requiring an internet connection to download pretty much the entire MGS trilogy (definitely 2 and 3, likely the second half of 1 if not all of 1) and the gallery stuff while charging a full $60 regardless even though all they had to was spend a few more pennies per cartridge for the next highest power-of-two amount of storage and they could've fit the entirety of the base content and most, if not all, of the gallery, and they certainly had plenty of time during development to calculate the purchase order and cartridge ROM burning (even with Nintendo's cut) so it's almost a guarantee that it was a conscious decision on their part to do it this way. It completely turned me off of getting the thing at all.
The actress is actually pretty they just couldn’t resist uglying the character up for the game lol. We’re not allowed to have decent looking female characters anymore.
Meanwhile, there's tons of handsome and macho male char designs and noone give a crap. I wonder why.
Beautiful and sexy fem character: sexist 😡 Fem character that looks like a garden gnome: yaaaass so progressive 🥰
My ubisoft account glitch and I no longer receive my authentication email code so I submitted 20 cases 5 years later my case still pending
Good, don’t play their shity games
That’s Jesus giving you a second chance.
Exactly the same. They couldn’t care less. Support is a joke and everyone else is at fault, never them
For as long as i can remember i have always prefered to only use Steam and Uplay (Ubisoft Connect) over everything else but after what they did to older games with pretty much disabling all multiplayer functions (i get the part that running servers is expensive and they didnt want to do it anymore but they could have put a patch out there to allow players to host their own multiplayer games) miss the time with Diablo 1 and Starcraft 1 where you wrote in IP adress and connected to the pc next to you over lan. Now you need to set up something like hamachi network to make it work but if game needs to connect to Ubisoft servers that are no longer running we're most likely screwed, havent tryed since they shut down Splinter Cell Blacklist.
let me give you an example. in R6, a game I really like btw, There was an event.. and the event like it should be, it has an intro when you start the match.. it was broken for almost 2 weeks. They could not make a stupid intro work and we had to look under the map for 2 weeks and I'm not even going to talk about how broken the lighting was.. or a glitch that made you see black poligons that covered half the screen
For digital games that force "online only" in order to play, if you don't own the server then you don't own the game. Simple as that. Physical games from back in the day were so much better than the garbage of this era where you don't really own anything anymore.
ubisoft offer early access to give you opportunity to regret earlier than other people after playing the game.
I find it funny when game companies pretend that the price of games has been static since the beginning of time. When I was a kid, a new AAA game cost $49.99 CAD. They now cost 89.99 CAD for standard editions.
Steam has emphasised on numerous occasions, that if they were to shut down or something similar were to happen, when they no longer can provide service, prior to them going away, installation executives for all the games that user owns, will be available for them to download. So that people can install games locally. Like GOG does it.
I've always wanted to play a dumpy barista power fantasy in the star wars universe
The game really makes you feel like a space social studies graduate.
I've always wanted to pay $170 for a Disney+ series where I could play the sections in between the dumpy barista power fantasy!
@@nERVEcenter117 Stunning and brave bro. Buy it twice. The force is female.
@@beerosaurusrex I hope you can speak directly to the space manager about the Cis white male space gaze. That would be revolutionary and immersing.
I just don't want to play as a chick.
Quadruple A gaming A: Awful at launch A: Aww man can you not afford a 130$ game? A: mAssiveley ratioed on youtube A: Always online
For third A how about "absolutely dead on release"
Forgot A stamina bar and A good graph of Water
If You Do The $17.99 per Month To Get The Whole Package Would Be Over $200 per year just for a game mainly lol.
@@koyo0o08 Or simply "AaaAaaaaaÄaaSSssssS" - AVGN
Citing examples of them using a system where you dont own what you pay for, is not an argument for that system. Its complete crap the stuff these companies get away with becuase peoppe are already comfortable with not owning what they pay for.
for that price you should get a statue or a figure together with that with a steelbook and physical artbook,
the problem specificly with ubisoft is that every ubisoft is pretty much the same game, assasin creed has the tower mechanic, as well as far cry, aka assasin creed with modern guns or avatar, aka far cry in the jungle with blue skin. every game is open world, with towers to unlock the map, capture some camps with a few enemys and 2 objectives per base you have to destroy and fetch quest in between
I already saving for elden ring dlc..... Iam not going to buy this expensive toilet paper
Elden ring is boring dogy
The thing with steam is they will go to bat for gamers when other companies try to take away something someone bought. Now that's really only true if its within their power, like if a game is always online and uses steam for its online services but then shuts down you can remove the steam executable.
How about the game called “the crew”??? That game had both solo and online multiplayer modes. After it was discontinued, solo mode was unplayable because the license to play it was removed from every game. So nobody can play the solo mode unlike if you actually own the game. The crew only allows access to the servers owned by the publisher. I can still play halo 2 on Xbox 360, because the game is actually on disc.
its gonna be 3rd person far cry in a star wars setting
Its gonna be sh_t in woke settings)
Different studio Massive built on the snowdrop engine probably one of the top game engines. The Division 2 is still a pretty good game.
@@TRONiX404 still made by a ubisoft studio who take orders by ubisoft
@@fdnfdnasd7714where is the wokeness
@@TRONiX404why does the game look mid then?