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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

For anyone not following this - they're getting cased by venture capital. Some billionaire assholes are trying to use EU laws about minority shareholder rights to fire enough executives that they can just buy the entire company and fire half the employees. Tencent's investment came with the agreement they could not fuck with existing leadership. They are, somehow, the good guys.

It's three separate groups of greedy assholes, each awful in their own way, and honestly the least-shitty outcome of this slapfight is if very little changes.

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

An AC game in Japan is something we wanted 15 years ago. Tsushima did it better anyways, it's too late Ubisoft. I know this new AC game will have the exact same glitches and bugs that AC has had since the first game. They need to rebuild a whole new engine and modernize, or just let it die. I played mirage for like an hour and got bored cause it's just the same thing all over again

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I loved the first AC, bit even then I was tired of the game once I realized the second area just had you repeat the same stuff you just did in the first area.

The fun part was sneaking around, climbing shit, and weaving through crowds to get to your target. But having to do a collectathon of bullshit, over and over was pretty boring.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago

Well, Ubi is piece of shit nowadays, so it wouldn't be such a loss in this regard. But hell, no more monopoly pls, tencent is huge enough already...

[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 19 points 23 hours ago

Taking it private just means taking it off the stock market (the news of it possibly going private has already cause the share price to spike).

Honestly, public trading of games companies sucks anyway and is what drives all the shit you see from the likes of EA, Take Two, Roblox etc.

Under private control, and less drive to bleed every drop of value out of every property might mean we can get classics like Beyond Good and Evil again.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 15 points 23 hours ago

Well, technically yes, but not under Tencent. These guys will squeeze Ubisofts balls even harder than shareholders do. All stuff that went under Tencent got worse or at least that's what I remember.

[-] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean, RIOT has been under Tencent for years at this point and they are mostly doing the same things they did back when they were independent. Only thing you could say that they probably changed is to focus even more on making "cute characters" that sell really well.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 8 minutes ago

I'm not that informed on LOL, stopped playing it like decade ago, but isn't it what I just said? More push on monetization. Might be subtle, but still it's there.

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Please don't.

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