What are your plans for Star Wars Outlaws? Physical? Digital version? Will you actually be looking at the digital artbook? Passing entirely? Let me know. Also be sure to check out my new Vlog video available now for channel members: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bOCjedKZrq3Jf40.html

Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with us not buying their games.

They are not even hiding it anymore. I buy loads of Indie games that's definitely better than whatever they are cooking up.

There will be a complete edition with all extras included within a year. Wait for that to drop to $15 then I’ll buy it

I’ve pretty much gone all in on retro gaming at this point save for a few great games here and there. I’m tired of the BS that a lot of these companies are trying to push on us.

Ubisoft has fallen off so incredibly hard. It's sad

"Internet install required" on a physical disc? No thanks.

You know what I don't think its enough voting with our wallets not buying Star Wars Outlaws I think we need to not buy any Ubisoft game until Ubisoft stops doing shit like this.

The UK price for the "ultimate" edition is £119.99, which is $149.43 US at time of writing. We are in the middle of another crash - eventually all the big studios will have sacked all their staff because the games they spent $500m making didn't make their outlay costs back in sales. I for one cannot wait - today's industry is utter garbage.

Ubisoft's stock price is a fifth of what it was in 2021. They're slowly dying because their leadership is inept and encourage these awful practices. They just have to accept that less and less people are going to play their games.

We should start calling the cost of early access streamer tax.

I have had a PS5 for 3 years and have zero games for it. I just use it to play PS4 games since I never had a Pro and only a Slim. Buying the PS5 was a no brainier since during the time I bought a PS5, the Pro was still quiet expensive. That being said, I'm already doing my part by not supporting the modern gaming industry. I honestly don't like most of the new games, and than you have these stupid industry practices being done currently that make me hate it. I'll use an example on one of my favorite series Yakuza. Like A Dragon Gaiden was released digitally only, so I had to import a physical copy from Asia. Why not give us a physical version? Made no sense. Also, I personally didn't really enjoy it, but guess what. I was able to sell it for almost the same amount that I bought it for. Physical forever, and if there is no option, I'm out just for this one reason alone. Unless the game is like under $10.00 digitally, I ain't buying digital games for $40.00+ that I can't get my money back on. Than we have another, Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth charging for New Game + which used to be free in every game before it. Why ask for extra money on a feature that was a staple of the series. This move made me just boycott the whole release.

I am a Physical collector, what good is having a physical game when you still need the internet to play it?? Its still digital and when they close down the server whenever that will be you wont own it...I will pass on this one! Maybe once its its in the under $5 dollar bin just to have it in the collection...

I'm not buying this shit at all. Not even on sale, I'm done with Ubisoft.

They don't even have regional pricing. Where I live, the average salary is basically two Ultimate Editions.

Makes me sad. However, more and more, I find it easier to shrug games like this type of game off. They are just not for me anymore. I find solace in asking myself, "Have I played every PS2 game I have on my list yet?" - The answer is always "no" :p

thanks pete for all the videos this week. you have been doing a great job.

I don’t understand why everyone is surprised that this stuff is happening when it’s pretty much been this way for over 10 years. THEY WANT GAMES TO BE A SERVICE!!!! This is not going to go away anytime soon because the mass majority doesn’t care and will pay the price. The last game I did this for was battlefield 1 when that came out and I got burned because the game sucked compared to 3 and don’t even get me started on 4. I am not in support of this at all but it’s kinda insane that it took this long for people to wake up and pay attention to what’s going on and honestly if this current generation didn’t suck then people still wouldn’t have been paying attention. These are some of the reasons I did not buy a ps5 or series x and instead bought a switch and only buy games that I’m interested in and are complete on the cartridge.

Fact it's an internet required title for install (despite being 'physical media') I find even more worrying than Ubisofts exorbitant pricing tiers.

Cheap old games are my jam. Playing Valkyria Chronicles 1 now

After what happened to The Crew, any games that require Internet to download/play will be in big danger of getting shutdown at any time

I’d pay that for Stellar Blade.

Digital art book will be online for everyone to view at some point as well.

The day consoles go digital only is the day I stop buying consoles. The big three always eventually abandon these consoles so the games will be locked on unsupported systems. If there is not a refund policy as simple and no questions asked as Steam too, absolutely no chance.

Regarding the physical release on ps5, if this games file size is under 100gbs, which is the maximum storage capacity of a ps5 disc, having an internet requirement for installation is an awfully cynical move by Ubisoft. Just horrible.

The sad thing about this disaster is that I was genuinely interested in playing the game, but I don't want to pay THAT much for the entire game

Ubisoft open world games are so safely skippable at this point. They haven't risen above the standard template in many games, it feels like that licensed Avatar game dropped off the face of the earth. If I want a open world fun, other games offer more specialized experiences (The density of Like A Dragon cities, the danger and mystery of elden ring, the wacky contraption traveling in TOTK)

I feel like if I got a digital artbook I would never look at it, I probably wouldn’t even notice if I could only view it on whichever console I purchased it on

The pricing sucks, but I have much more beef with this game requiring an internet connection to just install the physical copy of the game. Also, KZfaqr "Accursed Farms" has a video called: "The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games". Check out the video and look up the "Stop Killing Games" campaign. French EA (Ubisoft) is such a terrible.

Agree completely, Pete! Haven't bought a new Ubisoft game in ages. Studio execs who make these dumb decisions deserve an FU but not the employees. I wonder what GTA 6 is gonna look like for pricing 'cause that's one game I'd really like to play day one.

That 129.99 pricetag is insane. In Canada that comes to almost $200 after taxes which is absolutely insane.

hello Pete, great video, i totally agree whit you, I miss the old days when they put everything straight away in a single version (like in ps2 games) I have a question that you can help me with collect ps4 now or wait ? Could you give me your opinion on this matter? hug from Portugal

I’m fine with games being $70, or hell even $80 but it needs to be a complete, finished, physical game.

Uplay and Epic store are blights on the industry. they will make it where you will never be able to play the game again sometime in the future. I don't buy steam games with 3rd party license agreements either. and never NEVER preorder anything non physical. I'm going to play some Blaster Master and then some Potion Maker on steam.

I love these types of videos Pete

If Microsoft did this with their games like the upcoming Hellblade 2? People would be on their ass trying to stop it. Why does Ubisoft think they're untouchable? It's obvious they are trying to force people to pay a monthly subscription by over charging to buy a game separate from the subscription.

can you do a video on what games on demand people should buy on the 360 store, including 360 Arcade, before the 360 store shuts down in July?

The disc might have the full game, I suspect it does. But I suspect this is a drm check, which means if u have a fiurmware lower than the required firmware, it will not play even if backed up and run on a modded system, without cracking the drm. Especially so if they are going to invlude microtransactions dlc, which I hae no ide if they asre yet./

I feel pretty lucky that most if not all the games I am interested in these days don't have all this extra nonsense attached to them, so this is an easy pass for me. Its also a very good reason to go check out some indie games too!

Easiest way for me to not even give the game a look in. I'd rather put that 120 towards a few more Dreamcast games for my collection

Unicorn Overlord released last month, from a smaller dev team and distributor (I assume), and it's $130 collector's edition included a 132 page artbook, a 2 CD soundtrack a CARD GAME, and a nice little box that you could hold. It's still a lot, but it seems way more worth the value. Also, several people seem to criticize the game solely because the main character is unattractive... there are bigger problems.

This is happening with every single Ubisoft game now. It’s outrageous. Avatar allowed you to spend $50 extra dollars at a time on single player cosmetics. In my opinion Ubisoft does this so players pay for Ubisoft+ and forget about the subscription and continue getting charged every month. PLEASE, NOBODY PREORDER. The game does not even look that great.

Current gen is the first one I’ve ever happily sat out on. I still enjoy gaming just as much as ever. I’ll get this stuff for peanuts further down the line if I ever end up wanting it.

I know from working at large companies that this is 1000% a board room decision made to please investors. As much as I believe in voting with your wallet, I would say it sadly will not change anything. I think the company would go bankrupt before rolling back these kinds of practices (that is unless of course there is a huge industry-wide backlash, where all companies roll back this type of pricing). Sadly, I also doubt that will happen. Retro for me! lol

Nobody talks about it but do you see the price of Dragon

Sometimes with physical switch games that have the download, the reprint of the game actually has it on the cart.

Haven't pre-ordered a game in a long time. Last one was World Of Horror on the Switch and before that, maybe 5-6 years ago. So many games come out buggy or broken and aren't even properly playable for another year after release. It's better to wait a year and then buy the game discounted.

It isn’t 3 day early access, the basic tier is 3 days late . Quite a scummy practice

Pricing like this is a test from publishers. They raised base prices to $70 and games still mostly sell at that number. Battle passes still seem to work, and other similar models. This is the next step, charging far north of a hundred dollars and seeing if we’ll buy it. At least these expensive versions used to have a statue or something. Now we get digital art books, digital soundtracks, and other things that cost them nothing to include. What worries me is that, if the sales are low, they won’t think it’s their business model but instead will think “I guess no one likes Star Wars games.” I doubt they’ll get the message.

A physical game that requires connection to an online server to be activated has no purpose. Once the server goes down you'll have the exact same problem as if it was digital. Much the same applies to a whole lot of games that in their unpatched vanilla 1.0 state are very rough and sometimes impossible to play through. You really need to look into the specifics of every release to know if there's any point in buying it physical. 1. Do you need an online server to start the game and 2. has the game been heavily patched since its release. A lot of people are holding onto physical copies as if they're safe, but it might be a false sense of security.

I pre ordered physical but like the star wars games. The base game doesn't seem like a bad deal if it's a decent game, but I'm not paying 100s for an extra mission and some skins.

Well this does suck ... I will say that physical game discs have just been install discs that require the Internet for years.

fully agree - if people buy it at full price (even the standard version), then companies like Ubisoft will continue to charge that. But did you not pay full price for Sonic Superstars? 🤣We also need to 'send a message' and 'speak with our wallets' there too 😉

I dont really root for the downfall of others, but Ubisoft really needs to fuk off and fail. They used to be my favoriee company next to Rockstar back during the 6th and 7th console generation and seeing the ubisoft logo boot up when I was playing one of their games made me smile knowing I was going to play a banger of a title. Rainbow Six Three, Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory and Prince Of Persia were my jams back then. Then when the first Assassins Creed and Watchdogs games came out I thought that they would continue that winning streak, but they progressively got worse as time went on. Now its become this tradition to buy their games when they are discounted rather then support their titles at launch because the games go on sale not too long after. Sucks because I used to really look forward to video game launches.

Makes me think of Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate that had 167 costumes that you unlocked by playing the game. No need for DLC or anything.

I never ever pay more that the price for the game. If i finished the game and i want more, i can always buy the dlc. But most of the time i done with the game by the time the end credits roll... I have no clue why people would buy for a skin. Or dlc while the game isnt even out yet.... 🤷

I miss the time that developers would anounce a season pass months after the base game got released because people actually wanted more from the game.

Remember when games cost $60? Smh. And I was never planning on buying this in the first place. I'm burnt out on open world games at this point, and I don't like Ubisoft games anymore either. Plus all this stuff here. This is an easy pass for me.

well hope that market mechanism is self-correcting, but it seems its making itself worse, over time

wasnt planning on playing this garbage anyways, I only want to support quality, thats why im paying for a $40 DLC when it comes to Elden Ring.

me still playing my ps2. and discovering new old games that i paid 10 bucks for.

I buy games used usually. I'm not hyped enough to buy this game day one. I recently bought star wars jedi survivor's for less then have the price used.

I very rarely enjoy games anymore. I was so excited for FF7 Rebirth, but it turned out to be dogwater. Idk the last time I payed $70 for a game and it felt worth it to me. I just feel like I’ve hit that point in my life where it’s time to retire from games. It was a good, long run and I enjoyed it for a long time, but I’m so tired of the same shit over and over.

Love your videos my friend

It's $200 for the ultimate edition in Australia.

love games. now I wait a year or two to buy new games to get the whole game. its ridiculous

I paid $10 extra to play Baldur’s Gate 3 early, and I ended up barely playing before launch 🤡. First and last time I’ll ever pay for early access. On a separate note I’m “over” artbooks, physical or otherwise. A lot of the art that makes it into them is just stuff that woulda been in the game manual if they still made those.

Love all the content, Pete.

I'll admit I do want this game. I like that you're playing as a seemingly morally Grey group of theives, I like that you're not playing as a dude with a lightsaber. As cool as the Jedi games from Respawn are, a chick with a blaster is a cool star wars thing. But at the same time, why do I buy games brand new anymore? Lost Crown, which IS a good game, has consistently been 35$ dollars the past month or so. I had the Persona 3 remake preordered and paid for, but i had to take it back for money issues. Just bought it a week ago for 30 dollars sealed. I'm not one of those people who are like "erm theres no good games anymore, its just not what it used to be" there's plenty of good games, I just can't adford the big budget ones anymore and they aren't really giving me a reason to buy them right away anymore

I wouldn't buy any UBI Game at any price at this point, because even single player games have online DRM.

this will be on mega sale if we all don't put up with this shit and refuse to buy...

If I'm expected to pay that much at launch to get everything they decided to cut out of the game, then they can go screw themselves. I've said the same thing for the past decade. I rarely bought games like that, and I don't anymore. I'll take that money and put it towards an old game that I want more (and is very likely to be way better quality), anyway. Or put it towards something more important to survive in the screwed economy we have right now. Being a gamer these days is like being a glutten for punishment on the gamers' part, cause many gamers keep buying this crap and have no self control, which leads to the rest of us suffering with them.

With basic inflation isn’t this what games should cost?

I stopped buying their money milking cash grab slop a long time ago but I'm happy to see more and more people opening up to not putting up with modern gaming bs anymore.

I'll be playing it used at a 9.99 USD price tag. Ubisoft can go somewhere.

This kind of predatory practice is not the way to go. if they want to have a season pass, they should just release it at a more reasonable price. Charging this much is just ridiculous and not sustainable for the long term.

Daily Pete vids? Im all here for it.

But Pete, the acrylic standee!!!

Knowing Ubisoft in 6 months there games are usually down To 25 dollars so just hold out

Me and my friend are pretty much done with Ubisoft. My last game with ubi was AC Valhalla, after that i was done. I rather support developers who atleast give us demos to play like Stellar Blade.

Wow you mean I can pay more to get early access to a game that will most likely need a day one update anyways. Sign me up... for buying it when it's 20 dollars months later.

If i were spending $130 on a game, it better be a physical edition with tons of physical goodies AND in game digital stuff. This is ridiculous. Thats why i stick to standard editions mostly.

Yup, between far cry 6 and the online activation for avatar im done with ubisoft completely. Im never buying another game from EA either. Capcom has been my go to for year but sadly they seem to be heading in this same direction as well.

Cannot wait until the season pass dies like the loot box did. Pure greed

Gonna wait until its $10 at the bargain bin

and this is why retro gaming is becoming so popular. People are getting tired of crap like this

Just wait for the game of the year edition and get everything for 40 bucks.

This is one reason why i don't buy AAA games anymore. For one, they don't interest me much. Two, it's bs like this. There's a lot of AA games and retro inspired indie games on Switch that i like. Some of which are physical which is good because i don't support digital.

Pretty soon they'll start charging money just to watch their trailers to their games

I'm a big Star Wars fan, so I'm gunna play this... at some point. Absolutely not a full price purchase for me.

I would never pay extra for digital versions, they are still too expensive. Ubisoft especially produces very average games which are hardly even worth buying, the last Assassin's Creed was a lame cash grab too and I'm glad I didn't buy it. The only game of theirs I'm interested is Avatar and I'm only getting it from sale as a physical copy. I still haven't gotten Alan Wake 2 on PS5, because I want a physical copy. Even on sale the digital copy is way too overpriced. I want to feel that I own my big games, I like to see the cover art.

100 percent agree Pete!

This is why I support Nintendo. No internet required BS with physical and $60 price points for the most part

Buying less and less games as Time goes on

Game discs these days are just licensing dongles.

Imagine buying a ubisoft game lol

pretty sickening tbh

My ultimate take is the reason they are using this structure is because it has been proven to be the most effective. People willing to buy day one for $70 are just as willing to pay $130. The alternative is the base game alone is $100 for everyone. Of course we should wait for it to be on a subscription service or used because you should do that with every single game because it’s the most thrifty thing to do. Also the dlc argument has been going since viva piñata put dlc on the disc, ultimately I’m just glad it’s something playable and not “get 2x experience for three days”

I have not bought a new Ubisoft game in years. Only used, and if it is below 20 bucks.

Am I dreaming?