New Games Suck... Or Is It Just Me?

Viciouss not understanding the difference between 1 million players and 1 million sales is so on point.

Words matter and there is a difference between the two. Im pretty sure a publicly traded company putting out a false statement would lead to some heavy backlash.

Now, I might not be the smartest person here, but I think moving a brand new product for $20 when you sell it for $90 isnt the best financial decision. Maybe they're banking on people forgetting to cancel? But lets be real, that is an absolutely shady way to make money.

Anyways, its now "two million players"

Fun fact, Ubisoft+ is $19.99 CAD, a subscription service with no minimum subscription time, and you can use this to play AC:Shadows. This is why they cant produce sales numbers. A lot of those are throwing $20 at the wall to play it for a month.


Now, I might not be the smartest person here, but I think moving a brand new product for $20 when you sell it for $90 isnt the best financial decision. Maybe they're banking on people forgetting to cancel? But lets be real, that is an absolutely shady way to make money.

Is this the same business model they used for Valhalla? Because if it is, then it's working. Release the game on GamePass, make up that money in micro transactions and paid expansions to the tune of a billion dollars. What's more important, selling more copies or making more money?

in micro transactions

MONTREAL – No fewer than four Parti Québécois ministers were dispatched to a news conference Monday to proclaim that French video game giant Ubisoft Entertainment SA was making a $373-million investment in Montreal over seven years.

Taxpayers, as has become customary in Quebec, will kick in $9.9-million of that as a direct subsidy plus millions more in tax credits to pay a third of production worker salaries. Tax money, the government has decided in this case, can be thrown around without much consequence because this maker of virtual gunshots and sword battles is above the cold calculations of budgetary restraint.

“Ubisoft is extremely precious for the Quebec economy,” Quebec Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau declared with no sense of hyperbole. “You can’t put a price on that. We have to maintain our support.”

Quebec lawmakers chose long ago to bet on video game development in the belief it would generate well-paying creative jobs and help compensate for the declining manufacturing and textile sectors. In that sense, helping Ubisoft and other video game producers isn’t much of a controversy.

The company says the money will help it hire 500 new employees, adding to its existing Quebec workforce of 3,000. For the record, Ontario also offers generous tax breaks for the industry.

But one wonders why the government has to cut a cheque every time a private-sector company makes a job creation investment in Quebec, as if it’s the price of admission to the Good News Show. Aren’t taxpayers growing tired of financial largesse for businesses?

“There’s still this strong perception in Quebec that it’s the role of government [to provide this kind of aid],” says economist Youri Chassin of the Montreal Economic Institute. “You see the government doing something for the economy.”

Theres a reason I didnt buy the Stellar Blade Nier expansion pack. I'm not paying 15-20 bucks for *** skins.

Cash shops for ONLINE games are a lot different from cash shops for OFFLINE games

hope that helps

The game industry is run by imbeciles.

Human intelligence, on the other hand, has yet to be proven.

The world is run by imbciles.

For one thing offline games' cash shops are usually in physical stores. Find me one game store that doesn't sell Warhammer figures and Pokemon boosters.

The game industry is run by imbeciles.

They treat successful games as the norm

Quebec lawmakers chose long ago to bet on video game development in the belief it would generate well-paying creative jobs and help compensate for the declining manufacturing and textile sectors. In that sense, helping Ubisoft and other video game producers isn’t much of a controversy.

The game industry is run by imbeciles.

Taxpayers, as has become customary in Quebec, will kick in $9.9-million of that as a direct subsidy plus millions more in tax credits to pay a third of production worker salaries.

This is the answer to the question posed in the header of this thread.

Communism / socialism fails. If other people's money is available to you without needing to satisfy their tastes then 2025 is the result. The US subsidies for film/tv/Netflix has had the exact same effect down here. Everything sucks because who the hell do they have to impress?

Not the customer, certainly. Just the political whims of the uniparty most likely to expand that sweet, sweet gravy.

To be fair, government subsidy is more of a state capitalism policy than socialism. South Korea plays this game extremely well, their government gave their manufacturing, semiconductor and.entertainment industry tons of money so they can compete with everyone else globally. And in return, generate more money and influence for the nation.

Despite I am not the biggest supporter of state capitalism, I still think it can be an effective tool to boost economy.

When did this turn into a politics thread.