Michael Prymula said:
And there we go again with the sweeping generalizations stemming from naive idealism and zero business sense.
Also ignoring what I said repeatedly about treating every game on a case by case basis, and researching every product. Apparently doing my research is "blindly(x3 times, apparently) worshiping Ubisoft". An extension of what you accused me of earlier about giving Ubisoft a "free pass", which I addressed was actually the result of research and scrutiny. Let's just go ahead and ignore that and continue accusing people of "worshiping" companies (?).
Interesting how deciding (again, after a lot of research) that a single product a company made equates to believing "Ubisoft can do no wrong". Despite the fact that we were speaking of a single game. Despite the fact that we haven't factored in a single other product by Ubisoft in the entirety of our conversation. But why let that shake your idealism? I can't comprehend how anyone could jump to such a nonsensical conclusion, but then again I am speaking with someone whose barometer for reason is Jim Sterling - No wonder you're only making sense to yourself.
The way I see it, is that the fact of the matter is that years ago we were dealing with shit like Multiplayer passes, and paid DLC which fragments the community and kills an already dying game, and hampers anyone's ability to compete seriously unless they spend money. (
Something some companies are still doing.) Here, we have a game which isn't doing that. For a competitive game, especially a niche one, I fail to see how this a bad alternative.
Sure you can pretend that the players of this game aren't talking about the ridiculous netcode cause they got a free skin. I mean,
you'd be wrong. But hey, we're actually talking about something Siege does deserve to get shit on for, it's inconsistent netcode and bugs. How many posts did it take for us to bring up something that was an actual problem that disturbs the gameplay? No wait, we're talking about the season pass and microtransactions again. So much for that!
And yes, let's talk about the season pass. A season pass which actually doesn't offer any gameplay content other people can't get for free, it only offers people access to new characters a week early (which everyone else then gets for free anyway), a handful of gun skins, and isn't at all a necessity to the future of the game. Yes, it's a season pass that no one has to buy to get future content! Aaaaand you're whining about it.
I think it's obvious now we're not going to see eye to eye here. I'd consider this conversation over, but you can go ahead and make one post accusing me of "worshiping Ubisoft" - and then the conversation will be over. I'm sure it will be a riveting, and well-reasoned post. You can go back to watching Jim, and I'll go sleep naked on all my Ubisoft games while singing the french national anthem.