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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ubisoft, epic, ea, Blizzard/Activision...

I wont say Bethesda because I'm hoping for another Doom or Quake.

[–] MycoBro@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

_EA is the fucking devil. They bought my favorite game, Ultima Online, and ruined it. _

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago

That's tragic and I feel your pain.

I'm glad that game had such a community surge of custom shards to keep it going, but it sure fractured the community. :(

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

get in line. ubisoft is the same by the way. they own the rights to my favorite IPs: prince of persia and flashback and all they're doing is releasing shovelware.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The way that Bethesda has handled Doom has been nothing short of excellent. Hopefully they continue to support Id however they need it to keep on making great games.

[–] GreenSkree@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Generally, yeah. The way they worked with Mick Gordon last game was awful though.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I didn't know about that whole fiasco. At least the end product was good. I feel bad for Mick Gordon though. I'm even more impressed that he did so well despite having to deal with that nonsense.

[–] jandar_fett@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If you didn't say it I was gonna.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Well Doom 2016 at least. Doom Eternal fucked over Mick Gordon and DLCfyied the game. The cracks are forming.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Can't complain about the quake update.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What's the problem with Epic Games, besides No Tux no Bux and anti cheat rootkits?

I mean those suck, but it has to be more than that right?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Delisting and shutting down the Unreal and Unreal Tournament games. General lootbox bs.

[–] jandar_fett@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Talk about forgetting your roots...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Delisting the single player games that don't require a master server to be maintained was just salt in the wound.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Owned in part by Tencent

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

They haven't made a decent game in 15 years so...there's that.