this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
363 points (98.9% liked)
PC Gaming
15011 readers
575 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Cash shop in a single player game.
Contains Denuvo and requires a Ubisoft account to use their shitty launcher.
Has adverts in-game.
Launched with $85 of DLC.
Immediately started laying off workers after launch.
Fuck Ubisoft, and if you bought this game, fuck you too.
Honestly the "laying people off after launch" speaks volumes of the teams that do the same; can you not work multiple projects and shift people to the other one until it's complete?
The layoffs seem more like "line must go up'" than any kind of "we can no longer afford you now the job is done".
I'm probably preaching to the choir.
Yeah, totally.
I really dislike the dishonesty. If you're always going to lay-off/downsize/insert-capitalist-euphemism-here after each project is done then stop hiring people as staff and hire them as contractors instead. Make it clear from the start it's not a permanent position.
But that's more expensive, as people demand 50-100% more salary as a contractor; Line must go up faster
Yup, exactly 👍
This is literally always the case
It's self-cannibalizing also. Layoffs are now the only way for them to maximize profits enough for their shareholders to get their ROI, and in the future even that won't be enough. They will be drained of every ounce of value that can be extracted of them and then discarded. Such is the fate of every company that gets in bed with wall street.
Running AC4 on my modified Xbox console. 0 issues, 0 bucks paid for the game, 0 fucks given.
Ubisoft ruined one too many games. My beloved Rocksmith now is a useless microtransaction shell of its former power. I won't buy a single ubisoft game in the future. Time to lay rest to the cancer they brought into gaming.
I should figure out what to do with my modded PS3 before the shop shuts down. I think the modded software pulls from the official store servers for some things like games?
AFAIK any ps3 is able to be Software hardmodded (though some sort of a program, permanent effect). There are a few series that allow to pull games off online for Xbox (some degraded and won't work anymore) and I bet something like this exists for ps3 too. Check consolemods.org. They have plenty of info there
Ooo thank you, I actually installed CFW on my PS3 already recently! I was lucky that my slim is a model that can be permanently CFW’d. I should do my 360 as well… only issue is, it doesn’t have HDMI so none of my screens work with it unless I get a capture card D:
Quick edit; oh, in my previous comment I was saying I should utilize the CFW to get some things that might not be available as easily when the store closes, which I believe in next year.
I'm so glad I got at least some songs on Rocksmith before they were pulled from the Xbox store. The new version is absolute trash
Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.