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Well if you're super "hardcore" you could spend the time to make ISO's of all those discs.
According to ubisoft themselves 2 million copies were sold of AC:Valhalla in the first week on PC, so if there is 95% piracy that would mean 40 million people playing a pirated copy. The doubt is off the charts.
More likely they sounded retreat due to the mass backlash, and spun it like they never intended to delete inactive accounts.
That's no reason to accept all their anti consumer BS.
I didn't say 95%, I said "high". People pirate because they're self entitled thieves for the most part and justify it with all kinds of silliness, if a product isn't worth buying/playing it wouldn't be worth pirating either.
So then why are you protecting them in relation of an article that says 93-95%? OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: what is your definition of high? High compared to what? Show something that makes this claim substantive.
Fuck Ubisoft for also pushing woke, R6S is ruined after they sacked the devs in 2019 and hired a woke crew in their place
For me, a subscription service isn't a replacement for purchasing games. I use things like Game Pass to try out games I otherwise would not have purchased in the first place, and if I really liked the game, I will buy it to keep. If I was already going to buy a game then I am just going to buy it.
I’ve found just reading forum experiences, comments, images is enough for me to make a good decision or chance in buying a game I would like without having to try out multiple games, hours at a time to just feel like my hour glass of life is now less. Of course CP 2077 I thought I would love turned out much less than I expected.
I think the love for CP 2077 comes from the 80's theme and of course Keanu Reeves. I've played the game and did every quest. Boring as hell, with lots of busy work quests. I'm the kind of guy that needs to do everything because I fear of missing out of something good. Most of the quests the game has is about making money, which is useful to get upgrades and guns but that seems more like work. Lots of time wasters like go kill but don't be seen. The main plot is the meat and potatoes of this game, which is not like Witcher 3 at all where the side quests are just as good as the main quest. CDPR took a look at Ubisoft and thought they need to start making games like them, and that's what CyberPunk 2077 is.
I know what he said, and I still don't like it. It's not like they didn't have meetings talking about this. He clearly put a lot of thought into that response. The game industry has been pushing for a subscription based model for sometime, and very unsuccessfully. This is why cloud gaming was attempted and failed, multiple times. In fact, nothing he said was something I'm comfortable with. People like to own things, even if it's just a license agreement and not actual ownership. Music and movies are often compared to video games, because they lack actual knowledge of how things work. While I'm comfortable with not owning CD's and DVD's, that's because I had long ago jumped on the MP3 and DivX bandwagon. Rather than evolving physical media to flash storage, the industry pushed for downloading it. DVD's or Blu-Rays are a huge pain in the ass. They are slow, they scratch easy, and they easily break. That's why people were OK not having these things, because putting stuff onto a hard drive was always the better way. Apple did this with their iPod, and Microsoft pioneered it with their Xbox which was the first console to have internal storage. People still thought they owned their digital purchases, because why wouldn't they? What's the different with something on a CD vs something on a hard drive? There is literally none, except that Discs are slow and cumbersome.
