Well. They did call all PC gamers... Pirates... Once.
And then they started to shove uDontPlay down peoples necks... Which prevented me from playing Ubisoft games anyway, haven't bought a game of theirs in a very long time due to that.

And the DRM schemes they pushed were draconic... And their games are formulaic and don't tend to deviate much, which makes their games feel samey.

I think my only regret is that if Ubisoft folds, Bluebyte might go with them... Who are responsible for The Settlers, Anno... And it might prevent future Heroes of Might and magic games being developed.

I'm still waiting for that apology to this day.

I think the only aspect of U(can't)play I liked back in the day was their points system, which allowed you to nab wallpapers, avatars for your profile and desktop, as well as getting some extra in-game items for their games. Then they ended up doing away with that for some reason (EA also had similar plans but they still have yet to do anything with it, as it is still in limbo). 

Their DRM is worse than EA's imo, and their client constantly forgets login info and even comes with limited install hw DRM, which will forever be annoying.

When they eventually go under, I do hope the Anno studio gets to go independent (I'd rather they stay autonomous, than being nabbed by one of the big 3 and used as a warchest item). 

Ghosts of Yotei looks so much better than the Assasins creed shadows.
However.....
I think it has something to do with the PR stunt of useing that One-Leg Torii gate, that backfired on them.

Lmao. I wanted to share that so badly but didn't want to unintentionally cause more meltdowns over this topic. But since you already brought it up...

You truly have to admire Ubisoft's dedication to making this the 'most historically accurate Assassin's Creed to date'.

Same here. That comment has probably lost them a few thousand dollars just from me.

The client itself is DRM, there shouldn't be a need for other layers of DRM.

People will buy a game if it's convenient for them to do so.
If I buy a game on Steam... I should only need Steam to play it, not uDontPlay, not Denuvo DRM and not other accounts like Ubisoft Club, Ubisoft Connect or other rubbish. Just Steam.

If I have to jump through a thousand hoops... To the point where it's actually more convenient to just pirate a game, then they have missed the point of Steam and what made it successful, it made PC gaming more convenient as we didn't have to juggle CD Keys... And it stayed that way.

Denuvo has already been documented to cause erratic performance even on high-end machines... But Ubisoft have even added that DRM -after- a games release, after the reviews have gone live... Like with Assassins Creed: Mirage.

And then you have the long-term viability anyway of these other lesser (Yes they are lesser) platforms... Where we have historical precedence like Games for Windows Live! being folded which has made some games hard/impossible to get working again, even via Steam to the point where you need to use piracy tools like cracks anyway.

I have no time for these other publishers trying to make our legitimate lives more difficult.

So it has been moved to release in Black history month. Damn did not expect them to delay it..

There's no way they are getting away with that one, holy shit that's...oof.

Them deciding not to make amends with the Japanese region, but also selling that merch with the destroyed Tori is just going to piss them off even more.

How the hell is Ubisoft not fact checking Japanese history. I'm pretty sure the last fucking thing the Japanese want to be reminded of when Playing an old Era Japanese period is to be reminded of WWII and the Atomic bombings. 

I had a super interesting and annoying as hell instance some years ago with U(can't)Play; I installed Creed 3 on Steam right?, tried to launch it from Steam, the Ubi client booted up, spent 15 mins to update itself, then claimed I "did not have the game installed", so their client demanded I install the game AGAIN, but via their client.

I basically had to install the game TWICE on the SAME drive, or I flat out was not allowed to play the game at all. Also deleting the Steam installation ver of the game meant I couldn't play the game at all (as I found out), because Ubi's client also stated I did not own a copy on their client (which was true, I owned it on Steam), and then I tried to reinstall again, tried to delete Ubi's game install, but then it threw me back through the loop to reinstall the game via their client.

So I was stuck with double the drive space taken up via Steam and ubi's clients, just to play one Ubi game...

Yeah I uninstalled both after that and decided not to bother with their client afterwards, it was such a horrible experience of a lifetime. 

I seriously hope to god they do not use that entire month to call people bigots for calling the game out for what it is, because if they do, shit is going to go down hard. 

That's a bit telling if they chose to release it during that month, because it feels like they want to weaponize, rather than make amends. 

Holy God. They had to have known, they must internally hate Japanese people. There's no way they wouldn't research the symbolism on that.

...or it's intentional to drum up controversy and get attention for sales. Hogwarts Legacy and Wu Kong have proven political controversies are good controversies cause they don't hurt sales and do free advertising.