LOL NO WAY the ad before this video was for Star Wars Outlaws

>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.

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

ANY game that announces a DLC BEFORE LAUNCH should not even be allowed on the market.

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.

Ubisoft thinking their games are worth $18 a month is just laughable, most aren't even worth $18 to own

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.

A Single Player Game, should never have "early access", nor have a "season pass".

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.

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.

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.

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.

$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

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.

No Steam, No Buy

Ubisoft completely destroyed Assassin’s creed, doesn’t want customers to own their games, horrible monetizing, crap and bland gameplay.

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.

sooooo when will "microtransaction" stop being called "micro"

3 day early access nowadays is a punishment, you get the worst version of the game for paying extra..

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.

Worst game of the year before it’s even out, Disney is breaking new heights

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?

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.

Let's face it, Ubisoft is fishing for the whales not the fish.

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.

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

Sorry, Im too busy spreading democracy to play this

Not touching this shit with a ten foot pole.

Yongyea is sayimg this game looks interesting because hes always looking for voice acting work

"Buying isn't owning"-Ubisoft Pirating can't be stealing then...

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.

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.

Ain't no way KZfaq ran a Star Wars Outlaws ad on this video 😂💀

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.

"Digital Art Book" That's going to be a nope from me, thanks.

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).

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"

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.

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.

going back to retro gaming

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.

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 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

It's "digital artbook", a PDF download, not a physical book.

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 don’t want to play as a woman. It’s that simple

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.

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.

This is a game that made for everyone which ultimately means it's made for no one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 won't even pirate this piece of crap.

what was that game that admitted they changed what prizes you got depending on whether the algorithm thought you were a buypig and would keep buying the lootbox

16:44 just got a Star Wars: Outlaws AD at this time.

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.

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.

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.

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

Totalbiscuit talked about this over 10 years ago. Its pretty wild we are still having these same problems even today.

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.

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.

How much is Spotify? Compared to Ubisoft sub model?

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.

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.

Speaking from a personal story. I was at one time enlisted by ubisoft into early builds of a map editor in far cry 5, and created the first 2 featured online multiplayer maps (as well as a couple others soon afterwards.) But they had a hugely rocky relationship between the creators like me and others. They basically took all credit for our creations, by the time mine (and others) complaints were heard and they added a feature to show original creators, my maps already dropped in plays by like 99.9%, so basically gave them 2 months of my life (even helping with a class hosted by them.) with nothing to show. I'm pretty salty to say the least.

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%

Unfortunately i think the same... Noone is exited about this game... I dont have faith in these companies anymore...

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.

for that price you should get a statue or a figure together with that with a steelbook and physical artbook,

with physical media they can’t take it away, it would be illegal for them to break into your house😂

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.

It amazes me how a game can look so ambitious and still look so boring at the same time.

Did Asmon react to the long gameplay reveal?

"advocating in self interest" Wild way to spin hypocrisy lmao

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

ubisoft offer early access to give you opportunity to regret earlier than other people after playing the 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!”

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

I love it when a game I'm being sold has no desirable characteristics.

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

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.

Wait, medusa's bow is a 20% chance to drop!? Got it on my first ever Medusa kill

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.

The RedSledge vs Asmonshit thing is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel. Legendary.

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.

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...

I already saving for elden ring dlc..... Iam not going to buy this expensive toilet paper

I've always wanted to play a dumpy barista power fantasy in the star wars universe

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.

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.

its gonna be 3rd person far cry in a star wars setting

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

why does ubisoft make half of their single player games always online shovelware but they leave far cry and assassins creed alone?

Asmongold maybe you could play through a few of the old SW games on stream such as Jedi Outcast, Rogue Squadron 3D(N64), and KOTOR 1+2. It could be a great refresher for yourself and your viewers young & old of what the Star Wars vibe used to be like. How there is an identity and soul to it, and it doesn't necessarily need to hinge on Jedi force stuff. The vibe that Disney just can't seem to achieve.

The real crime in this game is that is so devoid of creativity that they actually named the spaceship after a shitty chevrolet SUV.