Ubisoft seems like one of the shittiest game companies. They were one of the earliest companies that implemented Always-on DRM, requiring an app to open chests, trying to put ads when you paused the game, refusing to put games on Steam because they want more money, sexual assault/harassment allegations etc.
It was some special kind of exclusive bonus chest thingy, it wasn't as bad as he points it, it was like a bonus thingy you could ignore them. I honestly didn't care for it at all.
I think it was similar to the mini game ships thing on Black Flag, but on your phone and sending assassins instead of ships and maybe solving some puzzles, can't remember.
It made more sense as a phone app, because it was like on Black Flag you sent stuff and that would take x time and then you would get the results, so in a phone you would easily check the progress and maybe get a notification, instead of having to enter the game to check just that.
EDIT: It seems Black Flag also used an app, I played later and now it's a thing in-game I guessed that was the original version honestly.
He said that for subscriptions to be more popular, people need to be "more comfortable with not owning their games". People always forget the first part, if you take the whole quote, he's right.
He didn't say he wanted that to happen. But he probably do, so fuck Ubisoft and him.
I just don't like how the whole internet built a narrative around an out of context quote.
Even with the extra context, for him to be speaking in those terms, means that it's something they've at least considered. In order for subscription based games to be more popular they need to not suck so much ass.
Eh, not really. Always Online DRM is going to be even more of a thing in the future than it is now. It'll be so baked into the application that any attempt at patching it will take so long that it'll exceed the normal lifetime of the game itself.
mullvad with quantum secure encryption enabled, or proton with port forwarding turned off.
Don't believe the bullshit about port forwarding, port forwarding is a security hole. People can maliciously plant things on your system if you have port forwarding enabled.
Qbittorrent, set it to only put traffic through your VPN's network adapter.
Sorry...I just blacked out...Did I say anything just now? You should never pirate anything, that would be immoral.
Funny seeing so many upset people and yet when another feather collecting game drops people will rush to buy platinum exclusive pre-release edition with booster packs for only 100€ and shell out additional money to fix some other problem Ubisoft purposely made to milk people. This is not the first time they had creative ideas on how to take more of people's money or to rob them of their games, and yet here they are one of the biggest game publishers and developers.
But it sucks they cut the quote to make it sound like Ubisoft is telling people to stop wanting to own games (which gamers are, look at Steam’s and gamepass’s popularity)
The quote should say subscriptions like EA Play, Ubisoft +, and Gamepass will only be successful if people are comfortable not owning games
Right, why do you think they were having that conversation? They're executives. Their job is to increase profits. You do that as a video game publisher by transitioning to digital only, subscription based GaaS.
I honestly wonder, if there was a stock ticker for the used game market to analyze, anytime an article like the Ubisoft thing comes out, if it makes game resale prices spike.
Yes and no. If the VM has network access you can still royally fuck yourself. Also, it's possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability—that way it may still infect your host machine.
More often than not VMs may protect you, but it's no guarantee.
If you don't know how to safely pirate games or indeed any media in 2024, it's 100% because you don't know where/how to look.
I recommend starting at the aptly named Free Media Heck Yeah. It started as a project on Reddit piracy and internet freedom forums but is now a gigantic independent repository of all kinds of free media.
You'll get a lot of false positives, but generally you really don't need to worry if you aren't on some shady Russian site call xxxfreegamesxxx or some shit