Ubisoft Loves That Microsoft Is Buying Activision, And Here's Why

@patriotman: for decades no matter what kind of industry they are part of all companies does is replicating whatever society wants and therefore for decades basically all games has the same and about the same. for example when witcher 3 became so popular assassin's creed series turned into some BS RPG witcher's creed lol. in movies because of such business mentality even the script is not apropos for it but they always force romance and lots of pointless actions to satisfy every kind of people. in that regard real creativity in video gaming died around 2005 when real deal gamers were part of video game development and they had passion to develop a game. for a long time some programmers who copy paste codes on internet try to develop some AAA games, they don't actually play games but they are just into it for money. as a result they release digital garbage like cyberpunk 2077 lmao. and the worst is popularity of another industry can affect other industry too. like just because netflix got popular all new games are just interactive story programs in which you watch for hours but play a little. video gaming already died long time ago. all we can hope for is indie video game developers

blizzard was dying for years and when activision came blizzard started to die in more agony so now perhaps Microsoft can save it so we can play decent games or not as always anyway. but if Microsoft only care about mobile games then real deal gamers has no care about all this situation because real deal gamers has no interest in mobile "games". mobile games mostly played by housewives while they take care of their baby or something lol

I liked starcraft 1 and diablo 2 for how fun and high on testosterone with killer music these games are in which most of the video games in existence lacks these 3 and all they can be is some edgy teeny BS like how call of duty series became. then blizzard got soft and nerdy and therefore they released sci-fi redneck starcraft 2 and nerdy softy pussy diablo 3 and since then blizzard dying lol

@Leboyo56: Maybe we deserve a second great depression. If people are dumb enough to spend millions to Billions of dollars on S*** that doesn't exist and is utterly worthless.

@Leboyo56: If you're looking for an even stupider opinion from Ubisoft, keep in mind they are still trying to make NFTs a thing.

@mediastupid1: I'm not too worried. Gamers want good games more than a value package. And Nintendo and Sony are providing that. While Microsoft isn't doing anything that groundbreaking or interesting to make it stand out from the crowd, outside of "Games for cheap".

@mediastupid1: The scariest thing to me is the control they hold over you and your library. A little less than a year ago, I was one of the unlucky people that received an erroneous weeklong suspension when they were, allegedly, testing out some sort of AI that sweeps for inappropriate profile icon pictures -- mine was the famous Conker shot where he's sitting in the king's chair wearing a crown with his legs open while sipping milk.

Not only did this happen to thousands of us, but they refused to reverse the suspensions or even acknowledge the error. You get no detailed reason why- the only reason we figured it out was because we all banded together on Reddit and discovered that all our profile pics had been removed. Worse, they have a "3 strikes, you're out" policy on Xbox.

So god forbid this happens two more times; I own hundreds of digital Xbox titles across every generation. I've been a Live subscriber literally since day one when they launched it with the port of PSO I&II. If that account got banned, I would be devastated.

Needless to say, I ceased purchasing cross platform titles on my Series X. Now, especially seeing as they killed retail emulator support and seem incapable of putting out a compelling title that isn't named HiFi Rush, that system only gets used while I'm (slowly) clearing titles from my totally unreasonable backlog. Every new release gets purchased on my PS5, although they aren't exactly on my good list, either; the injustice and pettiness of basically bricking people's PS5s who has the audacity of sharing their free PS4 games you received when purchasing the system during the launch window just enraged me, and I wasn't even one of their victims. Can't imagine the devastation these people felt, and if I get one more person tell me "it was against the terms- their fault" I will lose it. Who tf reads ANY of those absurd, overlong, intentionally deceptive EULAs?

I'd buy physical, but more and more titles ship in a state where the disc may as well be a fancy receipt for the download.

@mediastupid1: Long as GamePass doesn't completely replace ownership (which probably won't happen in at least the lifetimes of those of us who grew up with the 2600), I think we'll be OK. There HAD to be something to fill in the void left by video stores going out of business.

@sladakrobot Can you stop being a fanboy for one moment?

@mediastupid1: I mean times are changing, I don't mind gamepass. I don't really care to own games that just sit on a shelf.

@mediastupid1: So,you admit Sony is responsible for the downfall of gaming since they dominated the marked for 20yrs and therefore was responsible how games function,look and play? 😉

Erm...you came back in time from the year 2600 to save us?

@xboxplayer1: You're probably right. Problem for ol' Yves is that Ubisoft has absolutely nothing approaching the appeal of CoD or the ubiquity of King's mobile games. Microsoft isn't going to be buying them any time soon. Sony? Maybe, if they don't expect Microsoft to honor their promises not to degrade CoD after the regulatory spotlight is off them I can see them wanting expand on the Tom Clancy games and FarCry...