This is why you don't pay extra to play early, and you don't preorder Ubisoft games ever.
If you haven't figured that out yet, that's on you.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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*dont buy ubisoft games ever until they are on sale 75% off
Sometimes don't even bother pirating it, waste of bandwidth.
You don't preorder ANY game ever. And you boycott EA & Ubisoft games.
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I agree that it's a bad idea to preorder or pay extra, especially with Ubisoft. However, following that logic they are basically preying on people new to the hobby, which sucks and deserves to be called out.
Do people new to the hobby preorder games? I'm genuinely curious, since I don't know anyone new to it.
Excited teenagers definitely would. Honestly, I bet anyone that sees the marketing for a game they're excited for and hasnt been burned before in that way is a prime candidate for preordering.
I would have figured people new to the hobby would go to used game stores first, then new game sections of regular retail stores.. maybe swap those around.
I don’t even know that many long-term gamers who preorder..? They might pick it up on launch day but.. typically not preorder.
1: holy shit that title is a.... It's something, alright.
B- if you spend extra money on top of normal costs on a game that's still not even released, you get what you fucking deserve.
1 then B?
Lol
It's also the switch from : to - that gets me
You're actually the first one to ever comment on the punctuation change. I've been waiting for this day for years.
So uh.... 👉😎👉 Zoop
You're my kind of people.
And here I thought you were just rating the title a B-
III. if you spend money on a Ubisoft game, you get what you fucking deserve.
Hate to be that guy, but well deserved for buying into this late stage capitalism shit, sorry!
I'm not sorry at all!
They get what they fucking deserve. Hell, I wish everyone who bought into that crap not only lost the save, but also lost access to it for minimum a week.
can I offer you a ~~egg~~ trinket and some Ubisoft credits in this trying time?
There's a reason I no longer play Ubisoft games, even the ones I own.
This instance isn't it. I stopped when the big sexual exploitation and harassment ring was reported and became news.
But when shit like this happens, it reminds me that I should have no regrets, even when I miss a specific moment in a game.
Sorry Ubi, you're just too toxic for me.
I’m still surprised they couldn’t (or decided not to put the necessary effort to) get the save games fixed. Telling your players to start over is brutal.
I am glad Ubisoft took a dump on these people for subsidizing their trash business practices. Maybe they will finally learn.
Any day now
Well at least they paid significantly less because they knew they were buying an inferior product 🤔
Welcome to neocapitalism
Same shit different paint
Reminds me of the people that paid to play early Suicide Squad and Payday 3, and in both cases the servers weren't working day 1, or in the latter's case not even day 6.
Also this is so bad even giving nothing besides the apology would be better than some trinket.
The comments regarding this are really disappointing. People hate Ubisoft so much, for fucking customers over, that they are glad that customers are being fucked. What is wrong with you lot? People look forward to things, they side with optimism over pessimism, but fuck them right! What a bunch of angry and frustrated individuals you seem to be.
Breaking News!!! Man repeatedly gets diarrhea from street vendor; "Maybe this time will be different". Street vendor says, "he just keeps buying it so I just keep making it".
If you pay for early entry in a AAA game I feel no sympathy for that lost progress.
And that is fine. But feeling no sympathy, and being happy, are different. People being happy about others misfortune was the point of my comment.
Early entry happens because they buy it, these buyers are part of the problem, I'm glad they got fucked over.
I don't understand the vitriol either. Must be a lemmy thing ( see every thread about microsoft doing something shitty and people going "you deserve it if you use windows/don't use linux" ). Even the reddit threads related to this issue aren't this bad, they're mostly friendly and helpful towards the guys that got grifted.
People like to be elitist
Remember when TF2 went free to play and everyone who paid for it just got the shittiest hat imaginable (Proof of Purchase)?
That was 4 years after the release date, tho. And the original price was 20$ not 110$. And it had been on sale for as low as 2.5$ before going f2p.