Gamers may not be stupid, but they are certainly poor consumers. And as long as Ubisoft and EA get the message that this is what it takes, then they'll keep doing it.
Hell, the Xbone got a ton of people to yell at other people for not instantly forgiving Microsoft. Except it's one thing to say you're wrong, and another thing to revise your behaviour accordingly. I could say I'm sorry for saying Ubisoft is run b y idiots, but I'm probably going to say it again. Am I really sorry?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Magmarock said:
Nice dog, and yeah Ubisoft recently apologized for using DRM but Far Cry 3 is still not on GOG :/
And while they have scaled back the DRM, there's still Uplay. I'm reading online that Watch Dogs REQUIRES a Uplay activation, at least for PC.
tm96 said:
I don't think companies like EA or Ubisoft will learn their lessons unless it truly bites them in the ass.
I'm not sure even that will do it. See Microsoft. I doubt we've seen the last of their shenanigans.
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.
I am still waiting for the "sry for the long wait times for our WoW expansions, we will do better!" apology to mean something though^^
I'm not sure this breaks the pattern, though. They took the broken system, hung on to it, and waited to get as much money as they could first. They also changed things only around the time they wanted to sell us stuff (concurrent with the release of console versions of D3 and shutting down around the time of their expansion pack). That sounds like exactly the same pattern. "We fucked up, but we've got other stuff to sell you so please accept our apologies."
PG said:
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.
This is pretty much me with EA. I can't say I'll never buy another EA title, but I've stopped buying them because I can't be arsed to pay for them.
Ubisoft? Well, I'll maybe buy Watch Dogs at some point, but even that I'm not sure on.