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Chazore said:

JEMC said:
I think we can all agree that Ubisoft does mostly beautiful games... that are sometimes void of purpose or content.

But despite that it's one of the few developers that, even with Denuvo and forcing UPlay, still supports PC gaming with all their big titles and even some exclusives. There are a lot of publishers that could learn a thing or two from them.

What?.

We still have publishers releasing games on PC that don't come with horrible 4 layer DRm and parity crap. WHy should anyone have to learn and copy Ubisoft?.

I'd rather Ubisoft take all the notes from GoG, why doesn't everyone take all the pages from GoG?.

You like DRM free gaming right?. I know you're likely to make an argument supporting your previous point, but I'll say this here and now. I completely disagree with any counter-point, that anyone should ever learn from a company that called an entire userbase pirates, as well as enforcing 4 layers of DRM, forcing a parity, while asking for more hardware power.

Also I just checked GMG, the latest Creed game is actually cheaper there than on Ubisoift's own storefront, amazing glorious competition right there...

Having your own storefront and selling your own games there just leaves you with more breathing room to not reduce prices. 

Why are you comparing a publisher with a store? What kind of comparison is that?

Unless you mean CD Projekt, in which case I'll just tell you that they not only launch their games DRM free on GOG, but they also put them in stores like Steam that does have DRM. They may not like DRM, but they also care about business and aren't affraid of putting their games on a store that uses it.

But I don't have to defend Ubisoft from all the wrong things the they've done, which are a lot, only from what I said: "publishers could learn a thing or two from them", like:

1-Trying new IPs every new console generation, something that other publishers rarely do.

2-As a consequence of the above, having a diverse range of games that catter different genres, from FPSs to open world, racing, strategy, fighting, platform, etc.

3-The quick drop in price of their games.

4-Long term support of their games, even if at first they fail to succeed.

5-Launch most of their games on every platform and on every store, even if that means that you can buy their games for less on another store rather than on its own one. And nowadays they even do it with no delays between the console and PC versions.

 

Are they perfect? Of course not, but there's not a single publisher that is, and looking at what they do, they're certainly far from being the worst.