EA & Ubisoft: A Cycle of Perpetration and Apology
The industry loves saying sorry without actually ever being sorry.
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The industry loves saying sorry without actually ever being sorry.
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I'm not buying any more of Ubisoft's games, but not as a form of protest, I just don't think they're worth money anymore.Magmarock said:Nice dog, and yeah Ubisoft recently apologized for using DRM but Far Cry 3 is still not on GOG :/
I'm getting rather tired of these companies and I know the word boycott is thrown around a lot but I seriously mean in it. in reference to your old episode on boycotts; Call of Duty 4 was the first and last COD I ever bought because I didn't like it. I have completely stopped giving EA and Actervision my money, with the only message being please leave the industry.
The Blizzard only screwed up once so far. They said sorry and fixed the problem within the one game that was a problem, which is further than anyone else typically gets, and they have not yet repeated the problem. Until Blizzard becomes a repeat offender I don't think we can lump them in with EA and Ubisoft as false apologists. The worst we can say for sure about Blizzard at this time is that they had the hubris to think they could succeed where all others have failed, turning a real world money auction house and always online into a good idea.owbu said:the diablo 3 comment seems slightly weird in the context of the rest of the episode (Just saying sorry to boost sales, but not changing anything)
Blizzard removed the auction house and completely remodeled the lootsystem towards what customers wanted, instead of saying sorry and then bringing out RoS with the auction house intact to keep making money with it.
Not sure how much more they can do at the point where they realised their mistake.
Yeah I'm with you there. I've already been started to boycott a lot of companies, at least big budget ones. Ubisoft, EA, and Capcom are just a few. Though Capcom is really about to be a non issue anymore.Magmarock said:Nice dog, and yeah Ubisoft recently apologized for using DRM but Far Cry 3 is still not on GOG :/
I'm getting rather tired of these companies and I know the word boycott is thrown around a lot but I seriously mean in it. in reference to your old episode on boycotts; Call of Duty 4 was the first and last COD I ever bought because I didn't like it. I have completely stopped giving EA and Actervision my money, with the only message being please leave the industry.
Here's the thing though (and this is another facet of this issue that I'd quite like to see a Jimquisition on), no one company can eve get properly taken to task and pilloried for its bullshit, when the cycle of bullshit is so regular and so many different people are on board.tm96 said:I don't think companies like EA or Ubisoft will learn their lessons unless it truly bites them in the ass.