Or do what EA did with ghost nfs They basically killed ghost, integrated it into EA Finland and made their games dirt cheap (2$), for the cost of no online Og players probably still have online but when I bought payback and had ps+, the online was “offline”
@@rexyjp1237Oh. So ubisoft is STEALING from players. They are committing straight up CRIMES now. This is beyond being a shitty company, THIS SHIT IS NOT LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE. Ubisoft should be getting sued up their ASSES for this because THIS SHIT IS ACTUAL THEFT.
Exactly, a while back hulu removed a bunch of always sunny episodes, I was watching the series and one of those episodes was a 2 part so I decided to go pirate the second half. Come to find out that the pirating website was faster, and more convenient than hulu its self (you know the website with a multi trillion dollar company backing it?) So I just switched over to that instead
Piracy is always morally incorrect to some level. Period. It is taking other’s hard work and using it for free, and often even making money on it. And then people say pirating indie games is horrible. All games (except a few) are made by people.
@@timmmm5012 Yes, but there's one key thing you're missing: preservation. Triple A corporations often lock games behind networks, and when they take down said network, that game is lost forever. Nintendo is a good example, because they never re-release games, and the few times they do, those ports are buggy messes. Would you want your hard work lost to time due to some corporation's greed?
In regards to losing digital content, we NEED to be more vocal. It may seem pointless, but make your voices heard because this affects all entertainment. Contact your representatives. A few people won't do much, but if they get hundreds of reports they will need to at least acknowledge what is really theft, not revocation. European legislative can't be expected to do it all, they are still working on MTX and blind-pack rules.
@@i3eaniie602It's a problem that permeates the entire industry, not just Ubisoft. Boycotting would certainly help, but it's better to take bug spray to the entire yard than just one anthill.
@@i3eaniie602 and explain how that's easy? What's easier? A. Convincing a few hundred people in your state to complain to a representative Or B. Convincing millions of people to stop buying ubisoft games I'll fix your typo, it's not easier, is self righteous You only boycott to feel like your making a difference, I want to give you the benift of teh doubt here and assume you don't actually think your making a difference and really just want to feel like you are Because if you really think your $70 is even a blip on Ubisofts radar your beyond stupid, more stupid then the customer I dealt with in my retail job thinking saying "I'm never shopping here again" make us care about the fact they are an asshole, when in reality their $400 isn't even 0.01% of what we make in a single day Ubisoft has made well over $1,000 in the time you've read this, let alone your measly $70
It would not be an exaggeration to say this will affect all future media, not just entertainment. This also has implications for archiving media as it gets found and transcribed to digital form.
@@thedoomtrainer8292Ubisoft is the only company trying to do this so far. It will become an industry wide problem if we don’t protest it and get it illegalised
CONSUMER: “I bought that game, you shouldn’t just take it away from me.” CEO “You chose to buy our ‘service’, therefore we should have the say so on whether we take what you bought from us, back.” EX CONSUMER: “Cool. So by doing so, making said game unplayable to the public that payed money for it, they should be able to play its free version on a website since it was unjustly taken from them.” CEO: “But that’s illegal!” PIRATE: “And stealing the ‘service’ back after I bought it from you for full price, isn’t?”
@@ChaseMC215 If corporations say that we’re borrowing their games after paying a literal price, then the whole piracy thing isn’t really stealing either, it’s just “borrowing from a different source” unless those corporations agree to refund all transactions attached to the games they are taking back. Edit: If they can take my money and my product at any time, Then how is it any worse if I can just take their game without paying them a price for them to just keep to themselves.
I feel like someone needs to file a class action lawsuit against Ubisoft. Regardless of how you cut it, this is just them taking away digital property you paid for, and own.
The TH-camr AccursedFarms is currently working on a plan to take legal action for this, and games getting destroyed in general. Unrelated, but he does videos of weird and old PC games which are pretty good
With the state of current laws, there's little that can be done, because the "terms of services" are treated like gospel, because the law practically let anything goes. It's an uphill battle unless the law changes, like the EU.
@@Jose04537terms of service can be thrown out of the window if it contains something that is considered illigal (at least here in the eu). So good chance if they sue from the eu they will win
@@Jose04537frankly their needs to be a new subset of laws that prevents this shit with digital media. Hell we have laws that prevents business from not paying you even if it’s in their contract, you’d think we’d have laws for digital media that you paid with your hard earned money from being taken away.
@@Zeraora_LightninI am not saying you should pirate for legal reasons, but you should definitely not go to the r/Piracy megathread and you should definitely not use the links there to find a piracy website that suits your needs. That would probably be the best way to pirate stuff, hypothetically of course.
Ross Scott of Acursed Farms is currently attempting to create a legal precedent against Ubisoft (and game companies in general) for the practice of killing games like this. Go check out his video to see if you can help stop them from killing games.
The thing Emil (Lead writer for Bethesda) said about the protag from F4 be a war criminal lasted 04hrs, later he wrote a wall of text saying he got a little exicited about that and saying this was his head-cannon. Reminder, this guy is the lead writer for Bethesda.
Explains the bad story and writing over all. (I mean even if he thought making a Protag out of War Criminal from a cutscene is a great thing, no wonder the game ended having such a weak storyline)
I think we should bring this issue to congress so they can make a law that stops companies from removing access to consumers' purchases, cause this just scummy and feels like a robbery. Sure, removing original games because the publishers made a remake or a remaster is one thing, but at least if you already purchased the games you can still play it.
I wonder if a corporation is going to do the video game equivalent of a pump and dump (at least i think that’s the term). Like, where they hype up a game a ton, get a load of preorders, and when it releases, it’s a barely finished, buggy mess, and then they immediately delete it from everybody’s libraries after a week so they keep all the money without actually having to support the game.
Me: I use a password generator so that each login has a strong unique password. Roku: It's all your fault for using the same password everywhere. Def not our fault.
This should genuinely be illegal, if you bought a product you should have access to that product. Live services get away with it because they still offer you content aside from the things you wanted it for, but if you bought something at full price and have it taken away then it should genuinely be considered theft. If you bought a car then the dealership took it away from you despite you paying every expense and fully owning it people would be LIVID.
Man I get it, but Jesus that saying is getting really old, just seeing it copy and pasted left and right, like cool, but it's not going to make a difference saying that.
Piracy has only been going up. These insane practices must stoped. Imagine buying a car and the dealer ship has it drive back after purchase. What bullshit.
I think I remember those TH-cam Playables being little "instantly open a game" thingamabobs that were on Play Games where you could play a game without having to install it. I think they just took that and moved it to TH-cam.
The thing is that predatory practices like this have become so commonplace they are considered "not predatory anymore" even they still are... The gaming industry is just gonna get worse and worse because no group big enough exists to tell these companies to stop doing this kinda nonsense
Companies pulling digital products just makes me keep taking my ship out from it's port. The 7 seas are a vast and mighty beast to be a pirate in and I intend on doing it until legally companies can't do this anymore. Ubisoft and Funimation had customers purchase things from them as a digital copy and then revoked customer access. Pretty sure that's oh I dunno...theft maybe?
That AI Pin sounds like it would be a worse purchase than the Apple Vision Pro, because atleast that thing 1. You only spend a boatload amount of money once and then you keep it forever and 2. It actually works like it's supposed to. (really sensitive and breaking easily but it working right is the focus here)
Trying to funnel people to a new game by demonstrating you're willing to completely revoke games people paid for certainly is... One way to make people think about your games...
The dev behind Skullboy or Skullkid (I forget which) tried a similar stunt with nuking CD Keys from one source to vend keys on another. No, it wasn't okay. Sid read that scumbag the riot act.
CONSUMER: “I bought that game, you shouldn’t just take it away from me.” CEO “You chose to buy our ‘service’, therefore we should have the say so on whether we take what you bought from us, back.” EX CONSUMER: “Cool. So by doing so, making said game unplayable to the public that payed money for it, they should be able to play its free version on a website since it was unjustly taken from them.” CEO: “But that’s illegal!” PIRATE: “And stealing the ‘service’ back after I bought it from you for full price, isn’t?”
I agree Ubisoft has become THE #1 worst publisher in recent years. Their games are either extremely boring and formulaic or Microtransactions live service hellscapes. At least EA, besides all their shit has the odd really good game like Wild Hearts or the Dead Space remake once a year. Also honestly, copilot is pretty great. For example I told it to generate me a PowerShell script that sorts my music into folders based on the artist and album or photos based on what camera i took them and it did exactly that. You still have to tell it to generate program code which you need to run, but honestly I could see them just doing that shit in the background.
Honestly- As someone who has playables it’s the one thing I think TH-cam did amazingly. So playing them on the mobile version I’ve noticed one game TRIED to have Ads, but TH-cam actually forced them to remove all ads. One pet peeve is that u cannot have a video playing with playables, but it’s super fun otherwise! I seriously see no other issue, alot of the games are fine too!
This is honestly worse than Driver San Fransisco, but not by much. DSF is still playable and physical copies still exist, but the activation code is linked to their servers and is a one time use… I found that out the hard way.
3:40 this was available to premium subscribers for months now, as one of the benefits is you get from premium is getting early access to new youtube features and being able to give feedback.
Speeding up and slowing down music has been something on TH-cam for a while. The Nightcore/Daycore people would probably go nuts if they added a way to change the pitch/add reverb or something. (Unless those are already things, I dunno because I don't use Spotify.)
I love how everyone says that pirating big games is good but pirating small games is bad. They are both made with hard work. Although the publishers are honestly bad and don’t deserve funding.
@@timmmm5012 that’s the thing- Some devs of big games kinda admitted they don’t care about pirating. A dev just wants their games played, they often disagree with their own publishers aswell. A lot of funding also isn’t payed back to them so they couldn’t care less. Pirating a smaller made games bad as the funding is actually going directly back into games or the persons living expenses.
8:38 I'm pretty sure the Fallout 1 scene is postwar and depicting Enclave soldiers, but i'm not sure. Also, it wouldn't make sense for US troops to kill civilians, since they're canonically on US soil, they haven't invaded china yet iirc
youtube playables were advertized as a premium-only experiment for a while up until march 4th (i think), and then i assume they went public they used to appear on the home page and then faded into obscurity
The playables thing has existed for more than a few months, I'm pretty sure it was just for premium users who opted into testing it. I don't really have much else to add
ok actually something we have had court cases on. Legally speaking a corporation can't take a purchased item away from the buyer because it violates ownership laws.
When we lost ~that~ emulator because of Nintendo I installed ~The replacement emulator~ and instantly downloaded and beat 4 new $80 switch titles that week. If Ubisoft wants me to go through their catalogue for free I will. Fuck these companies.
Nintendo was completely in the right to take down the Yuzu emulator as it actively allows people to steal games that are being sold in stores by Nintendo. That isn't "Oh they aren't selling it so it's ok" no you are literally stealing from them and you need to stop. It doesn't matter if you pirate things that are no longer being sold in stores but when you start pirating things that ARE still being sold in stores by Nintendo themselves then that's not ok.
I’m so glad my comment got deleted for telling you that downloading “that” emulator is stealing and highly illegal. Nintendo was well within there right an in this instant actually did the right thing since you can still buy switch games.
@@crimsonsonic2 If they want people so much to stop emulating then they need to find a way to make it available more easily, until then we aint going to stop because theres no reason too.
This is like a car company coming to your house and scrapping your car after you purchased it. This is blatant destruction of property and definitely lawsuit material. You wouldn't steal a car.
Also, the entire reason they don't let you use most of the phone's capabilities is for safety, and they are saying it got infected anyway? That is the most incompetent thing i've heard in my life. You sandbox the hell out of your OS and still manage to let it get infected.
Y'all wanna know why I'm not worried about AI anymore? 1) if you have something that requires electricity (PC, wifi, etc.) and your power goesout, you can't use AI, and AI can't do anything. 2) Big companies will do anything to cut corners on a product and make you pay a premium for the same thing, if not worse. As long as that trend keeps going, they'll never make an AI smart enough to do any harm (unless it's a malware).
I remember when Ubisoft had absolutely goated games. I'm of course talking about just dance 2014 Edit: its also easy to get streaming services on your tv by just buying a cheap 20 dollar Chromecast from Walmart
Last Ubisoft game I remember enjoying was South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014) I have one of those Walmart streaming sticks and for $15 it's a great alternative if you have an older TV
also btw, the guy who revealed the fallout lore. he actually backtracked his statement after soemoen pointed out that it would make him a war criminal (if you consider canadian citizen as deserving of human rights)
1:08 I always preferred to buy physical games, being a 90s kid who HAD to get all games physical for obvious reasons, when digital became a thing I still preferred to buy them physical to remember my childhood days. Then the debate of physical vs digital started and people kept claiming physical should disappear once and for all, well here is the reason why it’s good physical still exists: also I remember reading an article where someone mentioned that the best way to preserve many series and movies will still be physical. (Also in my third world country I tend to find physical games cheaper than buying digital, for example MK1 would cost me around 1800 pesos digital, bought it on amazon for almost half that price)
ubisoft should delete themselves from existence deleting a game from your library because you know people want to play it after the servers shut down is incredibly petty
The only ubisoft games i have are: UNO - i don't play it Rayman 2 - on gog (can't be killed) Rayman 3 - physical pc release Rayman origins - physical pc release Rayman legends - on switch and uplay, but i 100% it so i'm not too scared about losing it that's all a gaming enjoyer needs
Again: Do not use the standard Windows version, use Windows LTSC, it removes all the bloatware like Cortana and is literally meant to be a higher quality product that is NOT a service. They only advertise it to companies because otherwise they miss on all that telemetry information farming.
what Ubisoft doesn't realize is that when you buy a game any game doesn't matter what it is you bought the copyrights to the game when you pay usd or cash for it
sidenote about your point you made around 5:00 to use a password generator. Here's the biggest thing, if you're going to use a password generator, do not directly copy and paste it into your account. At the very least re-shuffle the password it gives you manually, since password generators just use algorithms to generate passwords, and if the algorithm is known, you might as well have a password called "Password 1234". Since a brute force on a password straight out of a password generator, can actually be easier than if you just made a 20 character password by spamming the keyboard + adding a few special characters.
The 2 settings menus are a thing across a lot of microsoft products, as someone who does powerapps, sharepoint and power automate for work I can tell you, they make a barebones menu and then they try to make a more user friendly version of that but the old one still remains because a lot of things can still only be done on the old one. Kinda makes sense for 1st time users but also annoying
I still can't get over the funny thing where, pirates get to actually keep their copy of a game(and can do whatever they want with it). While people who get theirs through legal means, are eventually effed out of access to the game they PAID for. I thought getting a genuine copy of the game means the customer gets to have a BETTER experience with it than with the pirated ones...
Copilot is SO much better than Cortana, Cortana was just annoying while Copilot is just chatgpt but actually useful for research since you can use the internet and get sources
Ah such a Ubisoft thing to do... Imagine buying a board game or a tennis set or something and then the company that made it bursts into your house steals it "oh I'm sorry takes it bAcK" and leaves and there's nothing you can legally do about it
Idk about y'all, but I actually like the idea of Nate (the male protagonist of Fallout 4) being the dude hanging around next to that one guy who executed a Canadian. Role-playing wise, this could make for a fun part of his backstory - maybe he's hiding the fact that he was cold-blooded from Nora? Maybe he's feeling guilty by just standing there and witnessing that execution.
I don't think it's the first time a game has been revoked, but it's definitely the biggest, as other happened longer after release and by the time it happened to most of the player base was 10-100 players, and in some cases the studio just straight up went bankrupt
@@FSR-1345wrong,wasnt consistant across THE games. Just because bethesda(THE CREATORS OF FALLOUT) didnt make a fallout game doesnt mean its not fallout
3:37 TH-cam locks experiments behind premium now and that's where it was for a solid... 5 months I think? I dunno, never tried it out because it seemed tacky, but I've been waiting for the day literally anybody mentioned it
They fell off when they kept re-releasing AC games non stop with increasingly worse bugs (despite using the same damn engine they where supposed to be improving all this time)
Just going to make this clear, Nate from Fallout 4 being the soldier in Fallout 1 isn’t actually canon. Emil just got excited and said that out of the blue but immediately backtracked and said not everything he says is automatically canon in Fallout and that Nate is not a war criminal.
If they're gonna delete games directly from our library, the LEAST they could is refund us our money.
That costs them money and they dont want to spend money.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Imagine if companies and muggles were actually equal before the law...
I think the VERY LEAST would be to give us credits to buy a new game published buy them.
Or do what EA did with ghost nfs
They basically killed ghost, integrated it into EA Finland and made their games dirt cheap (2$), for the cost of no online
Og players probably still have online but when I bought payback and had ps+, the online was “offline”
@@rexyjp1237Oh. So ubisoft is STEALING from players. They are committing straight up CRIMES now. This is beyond being a shitty company, THIS SHIT IS NOT LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE. Ubisoft should be getting sued up their ASSES for this because THIS SHIT IS ACTUAL THEFT.
its almost like they WANT us to pirate their games
They do it to make them money
Lol ok kid
@@Picccles_hates-dbl how?
Exactly, a while back hulu removed a bunch of always sunny episodes, I was watching the series and one of those episodes was a 2 part so I decided to go pirate the second half. Come to find out that the pirating website was faster, and more convenient than hulu its self (you know the website with a multi trillion dollar company backing it?) So I just switched over to that instead
Remove game Find peoples that Pirate it then Sue easy money
If it's now "owning" when I buy it, then it's not "stealing" when I pirate it
Fr, fr
Might wanna fix that typo
Piracy is always morally incorrect to some level. Period. It is taking other’s hard work and using it for free, and often even making money on it. And then people say pirating indie games is horrible. All games (except a few) are made by people.
@@timmmm5012 Yes, but there's one key thing you're missing: preservation. Triple A corporations often lock games behind networks, and when they take down said network, that game is lost forever. Nintendo is a good example, because they never re-release games, and the few times they do, those ports are buggy messes. Would you want your hard work lost to time due to some corporation's greed?
Honestly, couldn't care less@@timmmm5012
In regards to losing digital content, we NEED to be more vocal. It may seem pointless, but make your voices heard because this affects all entertainment. Contact your representatives. A few people won't do much, but if they get hundreds of reports they will need to at least acknowledge what is really theft, not revocation. European legislative can't be expected to do it all, they are still working on MTX and blind-pack rules.
Easy solution/Easier* solution would be to boycott Ubisoft since they're only gonna care about the lack of cash :p
@@i3eaniie602It's a problem that permeates the entire industry, not just Ubisoft. Boycotting would certainly help, but it's better to take bug spray to the entire yard than just one anthill.
@@i3eaniie602 and explain how that's easy?
What's easier?
A. Convincing a few hundred people in your state to complain to a representative
Or
B. Convincing millions of people to stop buying ubisoft games
I'll fix your typo, it's not easier, is self righteous
You only boycott to feel like your making a difference, I want to give you the benift of teh doubt here and assume you don't actually think your making a difference and really just want to feel like you are
Because if you really think your $70 is even a blip on Ubisofts radar your beyond stupid, more stupid then the customer I dealt with in my retail job thinking saying "I'm never shopping here again" make us care about the fact they are an asshole, when in reality their $400 isn't even 0.01% of what we make in a single day
Ubisoft has made well over $1,000 in the time you've read this, let alone your measly $70
It would not be an exaggeration to say this will affect all future media, not just entertainment. This also has implications for archiving media as it gets found and transcribed to digital form.
@@thedoomtrainer8292Ubisoft is the only company trying to do this so far. It will become an industry wide problem if we don’t protest it and get it illegalised
You know the drill, if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
CONSUMER: “I bought that game, you shouldn’t just take it away from me.”
CEO “You chose to buy our ‘service’, therefore we should have the say so on whether we take what you bought from us, back.”
EX CONSUMER: “Cool. So by doing so, making said game unplayable to the public that payed money for it, they should be able to play its free version on a website since it was unjustly taken from them.”
CEO: “But that’s illegal!”
PIRATE: “And stealing the ‘service’ back after I bought it from you for full price, isn’t?”
Yves Guimot is digging his company's grave.
The same copy-paste line that means nothing because it's A, not a permanent fix, it's not going to help, and B, copyright infringement.
@@ChaseMC215ok i don’t care yar har
@@ChaseMC215 If corporations say that we’re borrowing their games after paying a literal price, then the whole piracy thing isn’t really stealing either, it’s just “borrowing from a different source” unless those corporations agree to refund all transactions attached to the games they are taking back.
Edit: If they can take my money and my product at any time,
Then how is it any worse if I can just take their game without paying them a price for them to just keep to themselves.
I feel like someone needs to file a class action lawsuit against Ubisoft. Regardless of how you cut it, this is just them taking away digital property you paid for, and own.
The TH-camr AccursedFarms is currently working on a plan to take legal action for this, and games getting destroyed in general. Unrelated, but he does videos of weird and old PC games which are pretty good
With the state of current laws, there's little that can be done, because the "terms of services" are treated like gospel, because the law practically let anything goes. It's an uphill battle unless the law changes, like the EU.
@@Jose04537terms of service can be thrown out of the window if it contains something that is considered illigal (at least here in the eu). So good chance if they sue from the eu they will win
@@Jose04537frankly their needs to be a new subset of laws that prevents this shit with digital media. Hell we have laws that prevents business from not paying you even if it’s in their contract, you’d think we’d have laws for digital media that you paid with your hard earned money from being taken away.
they have in europe
Funimation no longer exists and crunchyroll upped their prices. Piracy time
r/piracy will gonna have a fun with this one lol
How do I
@@eliescobis9922 c/piracy on Lemmy, r/piracy is a shithole these days.
And you know what that means........ *Laughs in Russian ransomware*
@@Zeraora_LightninI am not saying you should pirate for legal reasons, but you should definitely not go to the r/Piracy megathread and you should definitely not use the links there to find a piracy website that suits your needs. That would probably be the best way to pirate stuff, hypothetically of course.
Ross Scott of Acursed Farms is currently attempting to create a legal precedent against Ubisoft (and game companies in general) for the practice of killing games like this. Go check out his video to see if you can help stop them from killing games.
glad im not the only one who actually watched that ross scott video.
Or watch the shortened Jake eyes version
I was gonna comment the same thing. We all need to spread awareness.
Yeah, he's gotta be happy that people like Mutahar and this guy are getting more eyes on this issue.
@@deaconthethird3218 he is for sure
The thing Emil (Lead writer for Bethesda) said about the protag from F4 be a war criminal lasted 04hrs, later he wrote a wall of text saying he got a little exicited about that and saying this was his head-cannon.
Reminder, this guy is the lead writer for Bethesda.
Explains the bad story and writing over all.
(I mean even if he thought making a Protag out of War Criminal from a cutscene is a great thing, no wonder the game ended having such a weak storyline)
I mean the USA in fallout was a dystopic sh*thole anyway
It fits very well. Bethesda Fallouts have been written nonsensically from day one and this isnt going to stop that from being a thing.
Ubisoft wanted pirates? We’ll give them pirates.
"Is buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing."
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@@banme888dkss2 SET THE SAILS YA BUNCH OF SEA DOGS!!
This comment goes so hard
Me love be to the seas!
I think we should bring this issue to congress so they can make a law that stops companies from removing access to consumers' purchases, cause this just scummy and feels like a robbery. Sure, removing original games because the publishers made a remake or a remaster is one thing, but at least if you already purchased the games you can still play it.
Man, if people cannot make congress make it legally required for cops to help people in danger, idk if they will care about video games.
@@Confusedpuggies No joke.
I wonder if a corporation is going to do the video game equivalent of a pump and dump (at least i think that’s the term). Like, where they hype up a game a ton, get a load of preorders, and when it releases, it’s a barely finished, buggy mess, and then they immediately delete it from everybody’s libraries after a week so they keep all the money without actually having to support the game.
Yeah that happened it's called Fallout 76.
@iconofthicc6086 that's happend several times at this point
Me: I use a password generator so that each login has a strong unique password.
Roku: It's all your fault for using the same password everywhere. Def not our fault.
This should genuinely be illegal, if you bought a product you should have access to that product. Live services get away with it because they still offer you content aside from the things you wanted it for, but if you bought something at full price and have it taken away then it should genuinely be considered theft.
If you bought a car then the dealership took it away from you despite you paying every expense and fully owning it people would be LIVID.
Are you Canadian, Austrialian, British, or European? Because you might actually be able to do something about this if you are.
ubisoft is insane if they think they can get away with this
If we do nothing than they will get away with this
Enough violence gets you everything nowadays. Fucking sad.
Literally every company in the US is forcing us to either pay or shut things down for no reason.
what?
@@mrjuicejunior bruh.
@@arpwcos2011 like are you referring to Ubisoft? If so, then Ubisoft is a French company
@@mrjuicejunior ANY company at this point. Not just ubisoft. Take google for example.
@@arpwcos2011 you are referring to the US in your comment not every company thats the issue
if buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing
Man I get it, but Jesus that saying is getting really old, just seeing it copy and pasted left and right, like cool, but it's not going to make a difference saying that.
@@it2spooky4me79 tbh I get it why you hate it but it still speak fact
@@baconsoldier3876 I know, but dang, overused like crazy
Cuck.
@@it2spooky4me79
I agree! I found 2 people that I can agree on!
Piracy has only been going up. These insane practices must stoped. Imagine buying a car and the dealer ship has it drive back after purchase. What bullshit.
...hehe. Just you wait...
its good piracy has gone up the only one who deserves any money is indie devs bc they know how to make games fun
@@crazyfloofIndie devs are the best.
@@crazyfloof true, I've been having a blast playing Ultrakill, Killer is Dead and lethal company.
I think I remember those TH-cam Playables being little "instantly open a game" thingamabobs that were on Play Games where you could play a game without having to install it. I think they just took that and moved it to TH-cam.
The Ubisoft CEO is the guy from Smiling Friends who dips the nuggets.
FR
I bet he would want you to kiss his nugget
I won't kiss it, I'll take all of his nuggets that I can and run. @@Portalcrafter
The thing is that predatory practices like this have become so commonplace they are considered "not predatory anymore" even they still are...
The gaming industry is just gonna get worse and worse because no group big enough exists to tell these companies to stop doing this kinda nonsense
Ubisoft speedrunning the most hated devs ever challenge.
Companies pulling digital products just makes me keep taking my ship out from it's port. The 7 seas are a vast and mighty beast to be a pirate in and I intend on doing it until legally companies can't do this anymore.
Ubisoft and Funimation had customers purchase things from them as a digital copy and then revoked customer access. Pretty sure that's oh I dunno...theft maybe?
1:04 The Mario+Rabbids are pretty well liked. then again that’s more or less just Mario themed XCOM so that’s another here nor there.
Ubisoft doing this is absolutely solidifying the phrase "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing".
They aren't solidifying the phrase. It's literally copied and pasted by everyone.
That AI Pin sounds like it would be a worse purchase than the Apple Vision Pro, because atleast that thing 1. You only spend a boatload amount of money once and then you keep it forever and 2. It actually works like it's supposed to. (really sensitive and breaking easily but it working right is the focus here)
The only Ubisoft games I’ve heard/seen people love in recent years are two Mario + Rabbids RPG games and the new Prince of Persia game.
And the former are more a Nintendo game than an Ubisoft one
Trying to funnel people to a new game by demonstrating you're willing to completely revoke games people paid for certainly is...
One way to make people think about your games...
The dev behind Skullboy or Skullkid (I forget which) tried a similar stunt with nuking CD Keys from one source to vend keys on another.
No, it wasn't okay. Sid read that scumbag the riot act.
Join us to the High Seas!
Piracy isn't immoral if it's Ubisoft.
Revoking the game from a player’s library is just a fancy way of saying “we want players to pirate our game”
This is truly the time known as the Great Pirate Era.
legend says that Gaben hid all the good sequels in one harddrive,
o-one piece reference?
we sailing to the grand line
I feel as if Ubisoft is doing some illegal shit here.
it is illegal but what can you do? companies own government lol
@@eliescobis9922You could force them to respond instead of just accepting it. It’s not impossible unless you make it impossible.
Crazy thing is I don't think it's illegal at all due to this shit being mentioned in ubisofts TOS, so they can do it cause well we agreed to it
It is in the TOS, they can take your licenses away whenever they wish. Not illegal, though it should be.
I mean you all agreed to the tos when you bought it. Learn how to read. Or use ToS;DR
CONSUMER: “I bought that game, you shouldn’t just take it away from me.”
CEO “You chose to buy our ‘service’, therefore we should have the say so on whether we take what you bought from us, back.”
EX CONSUMER: “Cool. So by doing so, making said game unplayable to the public that payed money for it, they should be able to play its free version on a website since it was unjustly taken from them.”
CEO: “But that’s illegal!”
PIRATE: “And stealing the ‘service’ back after I bought it from you for full price, isn’t?”
I agree Ubisoft has become THE #1 worst publisher in recent years. Their games are either extremely boring and formulaic or Microtransactions live service hellscapes. At least EA, besides all their shit has the odd really good game like Wild Hearts or the Dead Space remake once a year.
Also honestly, copilot is pretty great. For example I told it to generate me a PowerShell script that sorts my music into folders based on the artist and album or photos based on what camera i took them and it did exactly that. You still have to tell it to generate program code which you need to run, but honestly I could see them just doing that shit in the background.
Ubisoft is dead within the decade. No one like them, all their new games are shit, and they constantly get bad PR
Honestly-
As someone who has playables it’s the one thing I think TH-cam did amazingly.
So playing them on the mobile version I’ve noticed one game TRIED to have Ads, but TH-cam actually forced them to remove all ads.
One pet peeve is that u cannot have a video playing with playables, but it’s super fun otherwise!
I seriously see no other issue, alot of the games are fine too!
If you don't want a publisher taking ANYTHING from you ever again, TAKE IT FROM THEM FOR FREE.
The Crew got the Driver San Francisco treatment
This is honestly worse than Driver San Fransisco, but not by much. DSF is still playable and physical copies still exist, but the activation code is linked to their servers and is a one time use… I found that out the hard way.
@@Hyfoxdro You can still pirate it and play it. The Crew is *not playable by anyone, anywhere at all* anymore. I think this is waaaay worse.
Hey, at least you can still play DSF. TC1's shutdown is way worse than you think.
3:40 this was available to premium subscribers for months now, as one of the benefits is you get from premium is getting early access to new youtube features and being able to give feedback.
Speeding up and slowing down music has been something on TH-cam for a while. The Nightcore/Daycore people would probably go nuts if they added a way to change the pitch/add reverb or something. (Unless those are already things, I dunno because I don't use Spotify.)
"It's MY IP to sit on and do nothing with!"
-CEO from Smiling Friends
Ubisoft literally whenever someone mention Rayman or far cry blood dragon
Let the Pirate games begin.
Lol
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
The same copy-paste word that isn't going to change anything
Stop copy pasting this untrue shit
We should stop funding those huge AAA games bro, they are annoying us.
ye everyone should pirate
And fund smaller indie games tbh
I love how everyone says that pirating big games is good but pirating small games is bad. They are both made with hard work. Although the publishers are honestly bad and don’t deserve funding.
@@timmmm5012 that’s the thing-
Some devs of big games kinda admitted they don’t care about pirating.
A dev just wants their games played, they often disagree with their own publishers aswell.
A lot of funding also isn’t payed back to them so they couldn’t care less.
Pirating a smaller made games bad as the funding is actually going directly back into games or the persons living expenses.
@@timmmm5012 I don't think blizzard employees care wether or not someone pirates diavlo
Guess it's time pull out the good ol' scallywag's eyepatch
“Ubisoft is the worst game publisher”
Ea, Bethesda, Activison, Blizzard: are we a joke to you?
I'd say every AAA publisher is the literal worst game publisher. They are all equally appalling, every single one of them.
I'd argue Ubisoft is the worst in the current moment but like squabbling over which one is worse won't do anything when they all stink anyways
At this point yeah. Ubi is worse
It's almost like Ubisoft is just BEGGING us to not buy their games now. Because that's what I'm doing now.
8:38
I'm pretty sure the Fallout 1 scene is postwar and depicting Enclave soldiers, but i'm not sure.
Also, it wouldn't make sense for US troops to kill civilians, since they're canonically on US soil, they haven't invaded china yet iirc
I feel like I'm taking adderall when watching this guy. He talks so fast and I love it.
youtube playables were advertized as a premium-only experiment for a while up until march 4th (i think), and then i assume they went public
they used to appear on the home page and then faded into obscurity
The playables thing has existed for more than a few months, I'm pretty sure it was just for premium users who opted into testing it.
I don't really have much else to add
Spoilers man, you should correct that typo
@@yeetdabeans3883 thanks, didn't realize I put payables instead of playables
ok actually something we have had court cases on. Legally speaking a corporation can't take a purchased item away from the buyer because it violates ownership laws.
Fun fact about the ai pin in one of its demonstrations almost all info it provided was wrong
When we lost ~that~ emulator because of Nintendo I installed ~The replacement emulator~ and instantly downloaded and beat 4 new $80 switch titles that week. If Ubisoft wants me to go through their catalogue for free I will. Fuck these companies.
Nintendo was completely in the right to take down the Yuzu emulator as it actively allows people to steal games that are being sold in stores by Nintendo. That isn't "Oh they aren't selling it so it's ok" no you are literally stealing from them and you need to stop. It doesn't matter if you pirate things that are no longer being sold in stores but when you start pirating things that ARE still being sold in stores by Nintendo themselves then that's not ok.
Jesus chirst nintendo sells stuff for 80$ now?
I’m so glad my comment got deleted for telling you that downloading “that” emulator is stealing and highly illegal. Nintendo was well within there right an in this instant actually did the right thing since you can still buy switch games.
@@crimsonsonic2 Yeah and then they got rid of Citra as well, which is for games you CAN'T buy. Fuck Nintendo
@@crimsonsonic2 If they want people so much to stop emulating then they need to find a way to make it available more easily, until then we aint going to stop because theres no reason too.
This is like a car company coming to your house and scrapping your car after you purchased it.
This is blatant destruction of property and definitely lawsuit material. You wouldn't steal a car.
Insane that it took THIS long for twitch to do that
6:00 The irony is crazy here, apple saying that people's phones are infected with spyware, like the phone isn't spyware by itself
Also, the entire reason they don't let you use most of the phone's capabilities is for safety, and they are saying it got infected anyway?
That is the most incompetent thing i've heard in my life. You sandbox the hell out of your OS and still manage to let it get infected.
Ubisoft seems pretty confident for a company that requires a Nintendo collab to make good games now.
My friend convinced me to buy the crew 2 a few years back, I was so disappointed I actually played duck life on steam instead of the game 🗿
So there isnt even a Crew replacement server up yet but its been found there is an offline mode in the game but ubisoft is refusing to activate it
Y'all wanna know why I'm not worried about AI anymore?
1) if you have something that requires electricity (PC, wifi, etc.) and your power goesout, you can't use AI, and AI can't do anything.
2) Big companies will do anything to cut corners on a product and make you pay a premium for the same thing, if not worse. As long as that trend keeps going, they'll never make an AI smart enough to do any harm (unless it's a malware).
I remember when Ubisoft had absolutely goated games. I'm of course talking about just dance 2014
Edit: its also easy to get streaming services on your tv by just buying a cheap 20 dollar Chromecast from Walmart
Last Ubisoft game I remember enjoying was South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)
I have one of those Walmart streaming sticks and for $15 it's a great alternative if you have an older TV
Rayman legends was pretty nice too
also btw, the guy who revealed the fallout lore. he actually backtracked his statement after soemoen pointed out that it would make him a war criminal (if you consider canadian citizen as deserving of human rights)
Don't mind me, I'm just taking the Jolly Roger off my wall and relocating it to my boat.
1:08 I always preferred to buy physical games, being a 90s kid who HAD to get all games physical for obvious reasons, when digital became a thing I still preferred to buy them physical to remember my childhood days.
Then the debate of physical vs digital started and people kept claiming physical should disappear once and for all, well here is the reason why it’s good physical still exists: also I remember reading an article where someone mentioned that the best way to preserve many series and movies will still be physical. (Also in my third world country I tend to find physical games cheaper than buying digital, for example MK1 would cost me around 1800 pesos digital, bought it on amazon for almost half that price)
ubisoft should delete themselves from existence deleting a game from your library because you know people want to play it after the servers shut down is incredibly petty
The playable on TH-cam were actually a feature for a couple months for Premium members.
I should know, i'm a youtube premium member
The fact that the best ubesoft game sence 2013 has been the 2 Nintendo collaborations ( Mario + rabbids) says alot
It's because the game director was actually passionate about the games also it's probably the only games that Ubisoft can't take down
You forgot Just Dance
@@deadeye_john oh yea forgot they do just dance
The only ubisoft games i have are:
UNO - i don't play it
Rayman 2 - on gog (can't be killed)
Rayman 3 - physical pc release
Rayman origins - physical pc release
Rayman legends - on switch and uplay, but i 100% it so i'm not too scared about losing it
that's all a gaming enjoyer needs
To quote Robbie Rotten “you are a pirate”
"Oh no... anyway"
(coincidentally plays AC Black Flag)
4:09 the yt playables used to be a feature for premium it started around janurary and ended like last month so some people knew
Again:
Do not use the standard Windows version, use Windows LTSC, it removes all the bloatware like Cortana and is literally meant to be a higher quality product that is NOT a service.
They only advertise it to companies because otherwise they miss on all that telemetry information farming.
Plankton: "it's like taking candy away from a baby."
Yet there are fans being all "Stop hating on this new Ubisoft game!"
Yeah well Ubisoft is LITERALLY taking games away from users. Period.
when purchasing isn't ownership then piracy isn't theft.
"when purchasing isn't ownership"
Isn't this can't be said about Steam too?
what Ubisoft doesn't realize is that when you buy a game any game doesn't matter what it is you bought the copyrights to the game when you pay usd or cash for it
sidenote about your point you made around 5:00 to use a password generator. Here's the biggest thing, if you're going to use a password generator, do not directly copy and paste it into your account. At the very least re-shuffle the password it gives you manually, since password generators just use algorithms to generate passwords, and if the algorithm is known, you might as well have a password called "Password 1234". Since a brute force on a password straight out of a password generator, can actually be easier than if you just made a 20 character password by spamming the keyboard + adding a few special characters.
If this doesn't mark the next golden age of piracy, I don't know what will.
The 2 settings menus are a thing across a lot of microsoft products, as someone who does powerapps, sharepoint and power automate for work I can tell you, they make a barebones menu and then they try to make a more user friendly version of that but the old one still remains because a lot of things can still only be done on the old one. Kinda makes sense for 1st time users but also annoying
I still can't get over the funny thing where, pirates get to actually keep their copy of a game(and can do whatever they want with it). While people who get theirs through legal means, are eventually effed out of access to the game they PAID for.
I thought getting a genuine copy of the game means the customer gets to have a BETTER experience with it than with the pirated ones...
The TH-cam Playables are literally just those repetitive low-poly mobile games ported to a computer screen.
Copilot is SO much better than Cortana, Cortana was just annoying while Copilot is just chatgpt but actually useful for research since you can use the internet and get sources
Pirating isn't stealing anymore boys, the crew is now free
1, not true, the Crew had always been unpirateable for years
And 2, Digital Piracy is Copyright Infringement
TH-cam playable just feels like scrolling through the Google Play app.
Ah such a Ubisoft thing to do... Imagine buying a board game or a tennis set or something and then the company that made it bursts into your house steals it "oh I'm sorry takes it bAcK" and leaves and there's nothing you can legally do about it
THEY ARE KILLING THE HOT AI LADY FROM HALO?!
Deserves top comment tbh
Idk about y'all, but I actually like the idea of Nate (the male protagonist of Fallout 4) being the dude hanging around next to that one guy who executed a Canadian. Role-playing wise, this could make for a fun part of his backstory - maybe he's hiding the fact that he was cold-blooded from Nora? Maybe he's feeling guilty by just standing there and witnessing that execution.
So many pirates remember what happens to pirates?
What
the fact that he talks about control panel, a suite for the hardware and settings a suite for options on the OS, like its new. is just cracking me up.
I don't think it's the first time a game has been revoked, but it's definitely the biggest, as other happened longer after release and by the time it happened to most of the player base was 10-100 players, and in some cases the studio just straight up went bankrupt
That fallout 4 "lore" was immediately retracted after the lead writer walked back on it saying it was "head canon" because *no one liked that*
It’s not like the lore was very consistent across each game anyway. So I don’t really care.
@@TS111WASDwasn’t consistent across Bethesda’s games fixed your statement
@@FSR-1345wrong,wasnt consistant across THE games. Just because bethesda(THE CREATORS OF FALLOUT) didnt make a fallout game doesnt mean its not fallout
@@Astreon123 bro really just said Bethesda created fallout
It takes less than 5 minutes of research to know your wrong
3:37 TH-cam locks experiments behind premium now and that's where it was for a solid... 5 months I think? I dunno, never tried it out because it seemed tacky, but I've been waiting for the day literally anybody mentioned it
Thank you for telling me about manor lords, Shit looks dope
If the AI Pin was good imagine making it into the Star Trek pin and using it to talk to people that would be cool
*Pirates of the caribbean theme starts playing*
Ubisoft has fallen off hard
They fell off when they kept re-releasing AC games non stop with increasingly worse bugs (despite using the same damn engine they where supposed to be improving all this time)
Physical media!
Or pirate. This is unacceptable from a game company
There's a Second settings menu?
Every day i am getting pushed closer and closer to overcoming my fear and setting sail.
Just going to make this clear, Nate from Fallout 4 being the soldier in Fallout 1 isn’t actually canon. Emil just got excited and said that out of the blue but immediately backtracked and said not everything he says is automatically canon in Fallout and that Nate is not a war criminal.
The movie and gaming industry is on fire
how is revoking your game license even legal 😭😭😭
Its not
it’s not, and Ubisoft has multiple lawsuits being levied against them
@@syrathdouglas1244 thank fucking god