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Their strategy has worked, their game isn't even worth the storage space for me to pirate.
Calling denuvo malware is sort of leaning towards hyperbole (barely), but, holy shit, "monitor ram"? That's literally spyware.
And just like that, I couldn't be less interested in this game.
Already lost interest in Assassin’s Creed after they abandoned the Desmond timeline…
Played a tiny bit of the Black Flag one for the fun shanty stuff but that’s been it for me now for probably a decade… so all this has done has lowered my already completely evaporated interest of “apathy” down now to “actively avoid as if it were a virus.”
The original AC games were really great for their time, and to be honest I enjoyed the ones that came after the trilogy despite feeling like the same game with a new coat of paint over and over.
But they really knocked it out of the park when they overhauled all the controls and mechanics with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. Yes, there are issues with them like with every open world game, but it is really worth checking out. Valhalla is obviously beautiful and very refined but I favor Odyssey for the sheer fun factor.
Agreed on these new ones, though.
Yeah, no
No, gamer you see, it's really important that you grind these randomly generated kill quests to progress, it's totally not to incentivize you to purchase the exp boost in our cash shop in this single player game, can't have you using cheat engine to ruin your experience.
They sell stuff for these games ? scum
Why TF does it matter so much if you cheat in a single player game that they have to take such drastic measures to prevent it? In multiplayer, competitive games, I sort of get it, depending on context, but single player games, no way. I mod single player games all the time. It's one of the main reasons I like PC gaming over console. I'd never buy a game that went this far to prevent something that has no effect on them or anyone else.
Can't have you getting those cosmetics without paying for them!
Lots of game developers started off as hobbyist modders when they were young. Maybe they're trying to eliminate the future competition. More likely, Denuvo's actual primary purpose is DRM and anti-cheat is just how it's sold to players.
Something I often find myself explaining to my friends who I game with is just how much objectively terrible shit you can get gamers to not only tolerate, but support as long as you promise to "get rid of cheaters"... which is a hopeless goal. It took a lot of explaining to get them to accept my argument of "I would literally prefer cheaters over a new root kit for every game"
is this not about pirating if it's a single player game?
So Ubisoft just sells malware now without the game wrapper. Great.
This game is already hard to want. Why make it hard to play too?
I love them paying for a denuvo license on a game no one even cares enough about to pirate anyway.
Ubisoft may have given up making entertaining games a long time ago but they still provide me with entertainment.
You know it's bad when you don't want to even pirate the game.
Next up, they monitor your bank account to warn you that you don't have enough money to purchase all the dlc to fully complete the game.
Or they just charge you for the DLC each time you enter the DLC areas without asking.
don't give them any ideas
Search for ubisoft in steams store page, click the gear on the right hand side, click ignore to take out the trash.
There had always been more then one lifetimes worth of stuff to do. Be picky
All you have to do to get my money is let me be a pirate, a jedi, a ninja, or a samurai. My inner child can't help themselves.
So how can Ubisoft be so terrible that I have literally not wanted to play their Pirate game, their StarWars game, and now their Ninja/Samurai game!?
I think that's really the issue with Ubisoft, they just don't make "must play" games anymore. Seriously, what's the last universally liked Ubisoft game that everyone wanted to play? Far Cry 3. Close second is probably AC: Black flag but that was already suffering from AC fatigue and its critical acclaim has come retroactively. Those games are over a decade old. Ubisoft hasn't released anything in the last decade where the mainstream gaming goes "We must play that". Ubisoft simply doesn't make exciting games anymore. They make games that are for everyone which also means they're for no-one.
Honestly I just read Ubisoft and pass on it. They've been too hostile to customers for too long for me to consider.
Hey now! Ubisoft is still enabling your desire to become a pirate! Just ... In a different way than they wanted.
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Can't they just... Make a "normal game"? One that you install, play and that's it?. Why the fuck do they need to monitor Ram? What the hell?
Anti cheat (it's actually anti piracy which is not possible also they oops sell massive data dumps for cash oops)
Data mining, baby! It's worth more than gold.
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hard pass
They afraid of me cheating in a singleplayer game? Not that I'm ever going to play it in the first place.
Companies realized they can sell cheats as microtransactions instead and people will pay for them. They will likely also include some cosmetic microtransactions like their previous game, which they definitely don't want people just cheating in. It's why so many single player games require being always online as well.
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I already wasn’t going to pay for another Ubisoft game ever again but this is absolutely the final nail in the coffin for me. Fucking atrocious.
Shadows' EULA also includes a provision that allows the game to monitor your PC's RAM to ensure you're not running any unauthorized programs like macros, cheats, or hacks, a well-intentioned clause that nonetheless feels a touch out of place in a single-player game
Why the fuck would I allow Ubisoft to monitor my RAM while playing a SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. They just want to datamine my PC or something?
All it took for me to never buy Ubi again was their launcher
Hahaa... Keep it.
So the story has ended in origins then
it ended in 3, they've been treading water ever since.
My interest died with Desmond.
yeah... for me I was willing to give black flag a chance to see if they would find a way to make a new series, maybe with a new current day plot, but nah. people seem to dislike the current day portion of those games but to me that was the main interest, along with the mythology...
black flag's current day portion was so goddamn awful, they turned abstergo into a parody of ubisoft? I don't even know what they were thinking... but it was so immersion breaking. completely killed my interest.
pirate stuff was fun, and it still had a nice plot twist near the beginning... but it was clear that the overall story was going nowhere so I just quit playing after that and decided that the series ended with 3.
Writing by committee doesn't tend to produce anything worthwhile.
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