Linus is Comfortable Not Owning Ubisoft Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Ubisoft wants gamers to become comfortable “not owning” their games.
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For a company, who just screwed over their customers by pulling the plug on a game that had no business being online only, to then tell people that they should trust them. Ubisoft has no shame.
i get everyone loves to hate on Ubisoft, but I wonder how these comments feel about Microsoft's Game Pass
Honestly you are wrong. All the people stupid enough to not realise what online only means got what they paid for.
And what is worse, For Honor and Tom Clancy's The Division 1 has always online. I do get the online multiplayer aspect, but the "always online" is plain out stupid. Especially when if internet get's cut off. It's literally like for PC hardware being always online in order to use the system.
He didn’t even say people should trust them in not owning their games
@@Nighthunt01 The difference is that Game Pass is a subcription to all the available games at once, whereas a one-and-done purchase of a game should be relatively permanent with regards to local or singleplayer content.
One's an actual service, the other is bullshit. It's the same as Netflix vs renting a movie (but it costs as much as buying it outright and you can't actually buy it outright or else a microchip will set fire to your DVD at random)
I've been extremely happy not having the craptastic Ubi junk store launcher on my PC for over 5 years now. It was byfar the worst storefront.
It is always good not to give sex offenders money.
Microsoft Games Store begs to differ
Watch how many people get comfortable in their tricorn hat and sailing the high seas.
Plex/jellyfin is just a better experience. you get exactly the quality you want with no latency and you only buy the movie once instead of renting everything every month forever. and buying blu rays gives you at least one form of backup in case of data loss. Its really the way to go
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
You wouldn’t download a car.
@@italianbasegardbut I can’t buy it though
@@sirsneakybeaky If I steal someones food they will no longer have the food. If I pirate a book or a movie, the owner wont even know about it. And pirating something doesnt necessarily mean that I would buy the product if pirating wasnt an option.
@@italianbasegardif i could sure why not?
@@sirsneakybeaky you are evil
My little sister was devastated when she lost all of the worlds she had created over time in little big planet. We are not comfortable with not owning our media!
I genuinely feel sorry for your sister, because yeah, this sucks. Big time. It's kind of like a school bully destroying the thing you made for art class or something. And he's like, "Oh, and if you make another one, I'll destroy that too. Nerd." (because that could happen to any game like that) At least that's how it would feel to me.
I feel the same way about Ubisoft shutting down The Crew. I would want to come back to that game from time to time because I put a lot of hours into tuning/customizing my cars and then it's just gone. Although they could easily make it playable offline? I think this should be regulated so they can't "destroy" games.
:(
If she had them downloaded she wouldn't have lost them
@@everythingpony What happens if the original device where they were stored breaks?
@@utfigyii5987to don’t break the device, simple
Ubisoft is taking an unconventional marketing strategy of deliberately trying to prevent people from remembering what their app is called
Yeah, they pull an Apple.
See, some years ago... Apple successfully managed to manipulate everyone to think that Plug&Play was outdated. Connecting, downloding itunes, syncing, updating, and converting from mp3 to m4a is just so much simpler than just Plug&Play.
Nobody prolly even remembers there used to be ordinary and simple mp3 players :P
Its genius on their part. If people cant find the app they cant log in and play what they bought resulting in having to create a new accounts and make new purchases.
Ubisoft peaked with Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Rayman Legends, over 10 years ago. I've had 0 interest in their games since then, and by the looks of it that's not likely to change. 😂
For me it was FarCry 2. That was back when Ubisoft was actually a creative company. Their games are just so dull.
omg I absolutely loved AC: Black Flag.
it may have been more a pirate game, less Assassin one. But maybe thats why I like it so much? Anyhow... I hope Ubisoft makes the upcoming Skull & Bones a nice pirate game. I don't think it will be at the level of Black Flag, but at least trying to reach there...
I didnt realize black flag was that old already
I prefer the Ezio collection tbh... Revelations was rather buggy, but it had its own likeness to it that was somewhat different to brotherhood. Blackflag was great, but despite the fun naval battles, I didn't much care for it as I preferred the more land locked gameplay lol... and not the jungles...
I like Rainbow Six, Vegas, Vegas 2 and Siege specifically. Siege, the only modern game mentioned has many deep flaws such as battle passes and fun bucks microtransactions, but it came out in my first year of highschool and I have played a lot of it with friends over the years, nostalgia I guess.
This always happens with subscription services. They start off kinda centralized, then every studio decides they need to get their own service, and then you gotta pick and choose which service to use. This will make pirating worse tbh.
Streaming exclusively is a ridiculous concept itself and making it illegal will fix a lot. Blockbuster couldnt gain a monopoly on giving people Marvel or Disney movies to rent, so why should streaming services?
it's pretty interesting that this is true except for music streaming. Spotify, Apple Music and TH-cam basically all have the same music
@@ChrisThe1 Right? Cause consumers are more willing to pay for Disney and Paramount, but they're not gonna pay just to have access to Roadrunner records.
Tbh, I hope this whole subscription model partially collapses. It's best with few services with large libraries.
How do you imagine it being illegal exactly? Disney should be obligated to sell rights for streaming their movies and shows to Netflix or something? Or to every streaming service in the existence even?
@@ceasormayhem101tbh, streaming problems are platform problems in general, and privatized platforms are capitalism problems
Something that didn't get mentioned about music vs movie streaming.
Music streaming services have largely the same collections, so the competition is relatively strong.
Movie streaming is a far more fragmented experience and much more common for content to become completely unavailable or exclusive to one service
Mostly. Tidal and Qobuz often are missing a couple things, and Amazon Music sometimes has multiple copies of the same album, but certain songs in one version are unplayable but do exist in another. Spotify is often the go-to even for small artists, but they don't have flacs. It's not perfect, but you could get most of what you want via one service.
But I rather have my own server so I use navidrome, and Spotify and Amazon music as backups.
Amazon is cheaper because my prime subscription and Spotify is a duo plan with my brother.
Exactly
Moving to a games streaming model would look more like moving from apple music (specifically buying digitally from apple) to having to use sony or warner bros music streaming services.
Exactly for instance on the streaming service Vudu a lot of the older Godzilla movies are no longer available for purchase not only on Vudu but other services as well
Im 29 and I still have my Minecraft maps from when I was 16, gamers are not boomers, were more than capable of backing up our save data without some cloud server that will inevitably go offline.
I'm almost 40 and I still have stuff backed up and my old original 80 MB hard-drives.
cloud is kinda necessary depending on where you live. in Ukraine for example.
@@512TheWolf512 living in Ukraine you have far bigger things to worry about than gaming.
@@AgentKenshin it's not about gaming, it's about data storage in general.
@@AgentKenshin Ukrainans already know how much Russians like to Rush B during CounterStrike, so they can plan around that. Maybe someone misheard "Rush B" as "Rush Kyiv"?
*If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing* ;3
You wouldn’t download a car.
With streaming services you arent buying the product itself.
You are buying access to the product via the streaming servuce for as long as they provide access or have rights to provide access.
Real
@@italianbasegard yes I would
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This is like buying the rights to use a blender that is going to stay at your friend's house and you can only use it when he let's you. Are you seeing how stupit that sounds?
I just want to buy a Frickin DVD and own it. I think people don't understand that the more we integrate tech into our lives and the more we accept this as normal the less we will own our tuff, I can see a future where my toaster is softlocked cuz I didn't pay the monthly heat subscription
Isn't that basically how a movie theater subscription works?
The problem with subscription games is the same as subscription movies now. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Netflix used to be amazing until the studios decided to make their own subscription. Music works because it’s still under one service no matter what service you choose
Untill their music production studio start to battle with Spotify and other a like
Remember online games used to be able to allow you to host your own servers? That was a great time.
That's called p2p and a lot of games do that
You can still do it in Minecraft, right? I hope
There is a MAJOR difference between "not owning a game collection" and "losing access to owned games." The CD collection comparison is ridiculous. It's not the same thing.
@@respawnlock666 iam ugah ugah ... FIRE
@@bennyspingfloweryou ok?
@@everythingpony no ....
Regarding movie/show streaming services, Lois Rossman had a video about this, the tech companies force you to use android boxes and such devices to enable the eventual feed of ads.
So netflix/amazon prime/etc., on Windows with any browser only deliver 1080p.
On Linux with any browser, it's not even HD, it's less than 720p.
I've noticed this personally with prime video and netflix on both windows and linux mint & debian on a brand new 4k TV.
I was so dissappointed as a paying customer.
Ubisoft should get comfortable with game piracy
Only 7:15 into the episode, so it might be addressed. But I think Linus is missing a big underlying tone of the statement that people should be more comfortable not owning games. We have spotify and netflix for music and movies, yes. But those services do not prevent you from going out and buying physical copies of your favorite artist or film for you to watch or use at your own convenience. The way that the Ubisoft person talked about game ownership was about removing the option for people to buy the games they want to buy in favor of a subscription model. And for anyone that is even slightly into the hobby, being able to own the game you want and play whenever or however you'd like is very important. And on top of all of that, we already have massive games that you can't own. Everything live service. You pay for access to a game, not to purchase the game itself.
When the subscription service wants to bring in big numbers, yes it DOES prevent me from going out and buying it. Tell me where I can buy a blue ray of any season of Stranger Things? Tell me where I can buy a blue ray of a season of The Mandalorian? You can't because they are created to be a streaming service exclusive film/show to drive subscriptions up, and your literal only choice is to subscribe or pirate. Otherwise, you're right.
@AceLeach I see your point but googles free make sure something doesn't exist before you say it don't
@@AceLeach Funny thing about your Mandalorian mention. Disney actually caved and released special edition blu rays of seasons 1 and 2. Though going off the issues I've had with the S1 discs I don't think their QA was very good.
@@AceLeach that's a fair point, but people can find ways to screen record those and release them for download. You can't legally get it, but it's still there. With games we don't have that privilege, here we are left with 20 GB of useless data and you'll NEVER be able to play again.
Linus, not owning music, I get that the vinyl community is fairly small, but there are still large portions of people that like to own all their music on vinyl.
I buy MP3 albums and back them the hell up
Mp3 320 is all I need.
Owning music is owning regardless of format
What matters is being able to buy the music if we want without DRM shit shoved into the picture which is 100000% refuse to ever abide by or support period
Ohn and I not only have LPs new and old I remember when that was the dominant format alongn with others.
The quality of such varied alot over the yrs however and there was a lot of uber crappy lps produced that modern remasters are often infintely better
@@konnorj6442 yeah I was just using vinyls to make a point
Keep On Digging Ubisoft.
I bought one album from Google play music (i would have gotten physical but it was sold out & didn't want to wait) & those tracks are still some of the most crisp audio files i have ever heard. When they shut down i was able to download them & its a bit jarring to heard those same songs on TH-cam after getting use to the downloaded quality.
3:15 " Nu-uh, Assassin's Creed at this point is basically a Far Cry derivative"
Well… yeah. One can argue which franchise exactly is the origin, but they all are in one and the same bowl of blandness today. Not that hot a take.
They've both slowly merged into ubisoft derivatives in a messed up form of convergent evolution you play assasins creed for the third person ubisoft formula and farcry for the first person ubisoft formula
If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.
"director of subscription" sounds like a parody.
Sometimes pirating is the only real option some music or movies you just can't find on streaming and often the physical copies are hard to find or really expensive.
I think we need to seriously consider banning streaming services from producing their own movies, and putting harsh restrictions on exclusivity deals, and doing something similar with games.
If media is made to be watched/played, instead of bulking out a streaming catalogue, and services need to complete on the quality of the service, not as many films/games they can monopolise, a lot of the issues with subscriptions would disappear.
They did something similar in the US in the 1940s. Banning the big movie studios from owning cinemas, block booking, and regional quotas massively improved the cinema industry through the rest of the 20th century.
I agree. I think that exclusivity deals in entertainment industry (with some leeway, very little leeway as possible in the video game space) needs a hard ban.
Funny how the towers to uncover the map were so overused for a short time period that many people aren't even aware that the last Far Cry that really embraced them was FC4 from 2014.
FC3 had them, FC Blood Dragon didn't, FC4 as mentioned, Primal had a light version of them and FC5 had two basically as a reference, FC6 doesn't have them
16:30 But if Ubi goes bankrupt, the games you already own won't be made public. Ubi will be bought by some loanshark company and they will milk every last drop out of its corpse before laying everyone off.
15:40 That is the next big thing I'd like EU regulators to to take a stab at: Software, or services more broadly, that are to be made obsolete by shutting down the supporting software those services rely on, need to have that software made open source.
You know what the reason can be behind the response of Larian Studios. It's a Belgian company and in Belgium the words "selling, buying & purchasing" have the same legal meaning: exchange of ownership by means of a payment.
@@dorientjewoller113 just commenting that Ive bought Baudurs Gate 3 through GOG and theres a nice little button to download a offline game installer that does not expires hahaha
"I don't wanna have unnecessary plastic in my house"
-the guy who literally has nes cartridges in his house
But those are necessary plastic!
@@wilwhileaway not like he plays the cartridges anyway
@@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ of course not, that would damage the collectiblity
@@wilwhileaway ...so it's an unnecessary plastic then?
What game are they talking about at 26:00? FF VI?
They were talking about realtime combos, though? Was it two different games they were talking about?
@@slicedtoad It was FFVI (probably Pixel Remaster) and they were talking about Sabin's Blitzes.
Ubisoft: how can we solve the issue were people are getting mad if we remove the support of their older games so they cant play them any more
Ubisoft : make it so that people don't own their games any more so they cant complain about us removing support from games they dont own
You may not need a CD collection, but I have multiple MP3s saved to my devices that I can play when I want without internet access if needed.
As long as games exist they will exist in a file on some server somewhere, If companies think this is the best option they are in for a rude awakening when the day one cracks turn into day one security breaches with dozens of hacking groups infiltrating their servers all at once not only stealing games but whatever other data existed on that server.
All they are doing is changing the motivation from removing DRM like denuvo to infiltrating corporate networks to steal the raw files for a game.
Pretty much
12:16 - removing online services for a game is a different issue to subscriptions vs hard copies. If the online servers are shutdown, you can't play online regardless of the medium.
All the games listed on the page Linus references can still be bought/downloaded, they just can't be played online.
Entirely different issue.
Ok, so in the future we gonna subscribe to a couple things...
Ubisoft, Namco, Activision, Sega, WB Games, Epic, Netflix, HBO, Prime, Disney, AppleTV, Discord Nitro, TH-cam Premium, FloatPlane, Pateron, a phone bill, and your internet service... A few among other things. Am I supposed to starve to death just so some schmuck can buy a yacht from all his subscribers?
F that, I'm going back to piratebay.
A lot of independent creators got like $5+ monthly subscriptions, regardless if they are live streaming influencers, non live streaming influencers, sex wrkers, wank material artists, video essayists, video editors, animators, indie musicians, etc too.
Enshitfication is here to stay! 😭
@@Dave102693 I can happily pay for a product once, just like I do when buying a dishwasher or a bike. I'm also ok with buying cosmetics if I care, say, if the cosmetics are nice.
I will however never pay for a subscription of any kind unless I have to, or feel like someone deserves some extra cash. Without these restrictions I would surely pay well over a 100 bucks a month. My family have more use of that money.
I am not realy comfortable with not owning anything from Steam. BI make this reality easier for myself by stricktly not buying ANY game when it costs me more then 20 bucks in their collectors or complete editions. And 30 is my hard limit when it comes to game-dlc-stuff bundles where EVERYTHING related to this game is included.
Handing tools over to the community or a smaller company when the original publisher wants to shut down the service is something that has happened with some MMOs, like Ultima Online and Dark Ages of Camelot, so there IS precedent.
6:17 That's because you are not listening to music. Music for you is just fun background....
Some CDs have been "remastered" into worse versions with stupid low dynamic range and the good ones aren't avilable anymore.
I think with games it's a different story because not only do you need access to a copy of the game whether physically or digitally, but games also require specific hardware to be played. With a movie or with music, as long as you have a TV, computer, phone, or any other device capable of executing a file, you can run it and consume it. Games though, are software that actively run and interact with the hardware. Unless I'm missing some critical knowledge here, game ownership is more important because the hardware needed to run them is much more specific and limited.
I do not have a cd collection. But I am not comfortable with not owning my favourite shows/ movies/ audiobooks/ music. That's why I have a digital archive which cannot be taken from me when a subscription ends or a company decides that a license is too expensive for them.
8:10 Spotify also allows this but the process is a little hacky. If you add a local media song to a playlist and then download the playlist on another device it'll sync the file over from your other device if they're both online. Only for premium users of course but it works surprisingly seamlessly considering that it feels like a glitch or a bug to be able to do that
The only thing I regret is that I can't boycott Ubisoft's games, because I already don't buy them.
I just wanted to say that many years ago I switched from using physical cd's for music to using spotify. However, recently many songs that I have had in my playlists for years have been removed from spotify so I can no longer listen to them. This is not a big problem for me, however, the thought of doing this with video games and potentially just losing the ability to play certain games makes me very unfcomfortable with a subcription model. I bought Skyrim in 2012 and still play it, if i just suddenly lost it from my library and couldnt play it anymore, I would be pretty upset.
Linus: You own a CD collection to rip it to your server, then stream your own music from now until the Internet breaks forever without having to worry about services going down, services losing the license, or an ever-increasing monthly fee.
Best decision I ever made with my media was going off of streaming entirely and buying Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs for my server. I won't ever subscribe to an online movie service again. TH-cam Premium is the only streaming service I pay for and it feels fantastic.
Oh. And I can rip my CDs in lossless audio instead of settling for TH-cam Music or Spotify's craptastic audio quality. Deezer's is good but they keep raising their prices.
For the price of the subscription you can buy a cd once a month after some time you will a really big collection and no thinking about increasing prices
I was thinking doing the same thing
@@Dave102693 It's honestly a pretty fun hobby and not all that expensive.
@@Amphibax You can buy CDs pretty cheaply nowadays too. There are retailers on eBay who will sell used CDs, good ones, for $1-5 USD.
when subscriptions for music and movies came out, they were ridiculously cheaper than buying the actual products. One cd's cost is between 5 and 20 and that was the price of the subscription for access to tens of thousands of albums
I still buy blu-rays of the movies I really like, because I hate streams of them so much. The compression artifacts of bright red in particular in a lot of stuff just drives me nuts.
1080p BluRay looks way better than 4k netflix stream
I love random digressions. I don't have the time to watch the entire show, but snippets of random conversations are still fun.
P I R A C Y, as allways, the solution
Yeah, I really don't care about Ubisoft games anymore. Their anti-ownership BS is the final nail in the coffin for me.
Then they need to be comfortable going broke 👍🏽
I bought a significant amount of music from the Google Play Music and lost it all when they deprecated years ago.
Since then I try to buy as much of my music in the form of CDs from Half-Priced books.
I wish every discontinued product would become open source kind of like what happened to stalker. Not only I still play this 2007 game in its vanilla form every once in a while, it’s modded and community supported version, gamma now, looks and feels on par or better with the modern titles, it is mind blowing.
Man, I got Jebaited by that title. I was worried that if Linus was pro not owning our games that I'd have to leave him behind.
Why are they talking about Bluray in the middle of a "clip". I mean I agree with him but this thing is 30 g-dang minutes, wrap it up! haha
imagine when record companies start making their own streaming services and start removing their songs from the standard ones 🙃...
They've all tried it in some capacity before
It dies because the big players don't wanna support the labels' ecosystems so they die without that support
I haven't purchased a Ubisoft game since 2018 and Ubisoft has done nothing to persuade me that this was a bad choice.
last ubisoft game i bought was Rocksmith 2014 edition. when they made the new Rocksmith game a subscription only model, centered around a stupid mobile app, the deal was sealed anyway. still own a physical copy of farcry 2 and 3, that's about enough ubisoft for me.
99% of media I stream but I archive the 1% I really like. I do buy CDs or DRM free copy of music. Same with movies, I wanted to see something simple and I didnt want to subscribe to random streaming service to see a movie I see a lot. Also there is some older anime thats like dvd only which I do keep.
16:57 that's a problem with every graph. that's where the fake quote from Churchill comes from "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself"
I would really prefer if you (editor) would crop out all the parts that aren't related to the topic. The extended discussion of why Linus doesn't like BG3 is not related or interesting.
Yeah Ubisoft really wouldn't be a major loss to be honest. Anything after FarCry4 was pretty trash. So no loss in quality IPs there.
When they shut down the online services for games, they should give the software for hosting to the community for those who want to keep supporting and playing the games online
Yeah, definitely. By the time I finally got around to trying a game called "The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot", which I got from a humble bundle, the servers were permanently offline and there was no gameplay to be had without them. Maybe there are workarounds, I don't know. My interest in trying the game wasn't enough to go seek them out.
I used to collect movies (DVDs and some Blu Rays). Still have them but mainly switched to streaming. Then starting noticing low bitrate, color banding, etc. Just bought a 4k blu ray player. I’m definitely getting back on the physical media band wagon. Having an OLED TV only to see terrible color banding in dark scenes is stupid
I feel like everyone forgets the Asian market still exists. And they never gave up on physical media. Cds, albums, blue rays and other physical forms of purchases are still wildly popular
I love to play the OG version of AOE2 at a LAN. I love the definitive edition, but the feeling of the old version fits more the feeling of the LAN.
As a Team Fortress 2 player this is the issue we are currently battling.
Valve has abandoned the game's development. And while from a balance at the gameplay perspective the game is in an okay position.
Cheaters bots and people abusing exploits run rampant. And with nobody at the wheel to implement fixes for these problems they continued to spiral and make the actual game itself nearly unplayable.
The community has been arguing for years to just hand over the reins of development to the community.
Leave us alone, let us run the ship and we promise not to break anything.
I have a huge DVD/CD collection. I ripped them all to my NAS and run Plex on it. I also get a lot of music as digital files from Bandcamp. The result is I have my own streaming service that I'm in total control of. It's not cheap, no, but following all the assorted streaming services isn't cheap either, and their costs add up while my server was a one-time cost.
Bg3 is the kinda game you have a hard time pacing yourself i got the game on a whim being unsure of what level of enjoyment i would have then proceeded to invest 120 hours into it in the span of a week on one play though never getting bored just challenged it has been over a decade sense a game has grabbed me in such a way
Side note i played this entirely on controller except one puzzle i found in act 2 as this game requires allot of time investment i wanted something i can lean back with and play and for a game of its genre controller support is phenomenal
@@Roach115 Exploration is way better on controller. I've always disliked click to move games. Now, if only they'd stop messing with my radials menus, that'd be great.
@@SkullyGibs oh my god i came back to it last weekend and i thought it felt different i kinda disliked it alittle more then before
10:30 Louis Rossman did a video about how he paid to have HD streaming, and he was only getting 720.
15:40 that won't happen you'll need government legislation to force Ubisoft and others to do so.
Linus: I’m going to help you with clips.
LMG clips: this comment is in a 30 minute clip
Linus wants something in writing??? Ubisoft should just say "trust me bro"
Streaming services become progressively worse as an option the more niche is the music you listen to and the more precious it is to you to have access to it always.
If piracy isn't stealing then it should be so I can keep my street cred up
I own some Ubisoft stock (everyone make mistakes) and yeah I was just wondering what these dudes did AGAIN to f up their stock
i will never buy a ubisoft game I have only and will only pirate them
That's why I buy my game and movies physical, I hate digital copies cause they can do the same shit Nintendo do and delete them at any moment
fyi, you can add 'local files' to spofity, but you need a PC i believe
The problem isn't ubisoft, the problem is every other game company that is going to adopt this approach in order to increase revenues and please their investors. I remember skyrim golden horse armor, and look at where we are now with cosmetic microtransactions. The slippery slope is only a fallacy in the rigorous context of a formal debate, in real life it is almost a guarantee.
My friend still buys CDs because it supports the artists more.
6:45 based luke is at it again! 1 hour of music per day???!!!
I have a few songs that got kicked of spotify and you just can not find them on the internet anywhere!
only on itunes and amazon music. so yeah with hindsight being 2019 I shouldn't have thrown away my CDs before properly archiving them.
but also have you looked at some prices of classic albums from the 90s, I saw an Outkast album for 150 bucks once....
I'm comfortable not owning any Ubisoft games. Ever.
Let’s go! Linus playing the Titanfall 2 campaign is epic
daily reminder to never use an apple product or a ubisoft drm
in general there is toooooo much streaming service(streaming tv service included), i miss the old CD with the booklet. i prefert own thing i get a lot of CD not anvailable on streaming.
And as services for games disappear, you can still host a game of Quake or Unreal Tournament on LAN or over the internet and play with friends. The only thing that disappeared was the server browser, but some people host third party ones. I pretty much all my music so I can listen anywhere, with or without a connection to the internet. I do not and will resist to the best of my ability to EVER PAY FOR GAMES AS A SERVICE.
Linus is hopeless. He sometimes speaks to these issues but isn't that invested when these companies inevitably add another anti-consumer action to the pile.
Ubisoft's launcher will always be uPlay.
Buying a game with GoG is without DRM. So if you keep the installation file, it keeps working. That only works for single player games though.
GoG is great :3
GoG is barley making any money so I think it's fair to say that most people don't care
@@namegoeshere197 They're fortunately still around so enough people are buying from them.
@@namegoeshere197 Well... Ubisoft is doing a hell of an AD for GOG hahaha
Start going to GOG as my primary game storefront. That said they fell short sometimes and we have to keep them in check.
Ubisoft made Ubisoft Quartz. That tells you everything you need to know about ubisoft higher ups.
Bless you Linus. I wish I could watch Alien for the first time again. You're in for a real treat with Aliens (the sequel)!
27:49 are they talkimg about sf, tekken or what?
Yeah, I want to know what they are talking about too. They mentioned saving an "esper", "cure", combos and the snes. Was there a FF game for snes that had real-time combos?
Zozo and espers are FF6 (FF3 on SNES) Zozo being a town, espers being a magical creature. Also, floating continent is a FF6 reference. Not sure if they were joking about actually playing it though
@@xvxchronoxvx Then what was the stuff about combos being easier on a keyboard than a controller? (at the start of the diversion when taking about the game Luke couldn't run on his computer).
@@slicedtoad Sabin had a blitz technique that required you to perform a combo on the controller, similar to how you would play the flute on ocarina of time
@@xvxchronoxvx Oh, ok, thanks.
To the baldurs gate 3 topic.
i dont like the genre, i usually dont have the time to play it.
i simply make 1-2h time ever day every second day, now im on it for 200h.
just slowly and steady.
ur just beeing lazy about it linus.
I remember the whole, "future of gaming is streaming" statement and my first thought was, "From the minds that brought us Uplay"
I always hear that google Music was so much better than TH-cam music, but never any reasons why (besides two points that Linus had made over the years, about integration with some hardware stuff and some stuff about child accounts i think) Anyone know any big reasons why it’s so much worse, stuff that affects a lot of people?
on the cd collection i'm with luke, and i especially love buying an artists album to support them directly if i like them, also nsp and dan avidan sign a lot of their cds lmao