Ubisoft's $130 Ultimate Edition Ploy Debunked
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Just stop buying Ubisoft’s crap. You can’t complain about your dog shitting on your bed if you keep giving it a treat every time it shits on your bed.
Except when your brother continues to do it when you tell him not to.
I get your point (and agree actually), but it won't matter so long as there's a group of people (the majority) that continues to rewards companies for bad behavior.
@protoman111 that's when you get rid of that dog and don't let your brother near the next one.
I can only control myself and the games I buy. If people are happy with ubisoft then so be it.
@@ralphengland8559 Exactly. I and each of us, realy can ONLY control our own person. So if many "i" just do it, with or without group intent, the market will solve the problem.
In Germany we would say "hab *Rückgrat"* - "have (a strong) Spin" meaning directly in English *Human Spine,* but additional means:
> [2] figurative: support or Hold/Lead to stand straight instead backing down [3] figurative: strength of character, courage in the face of superiors.
so *"Have the Spin"* to do what is right even if you are the only one doing it. The only point that matters is: to do the right thing.
Cheers guys
@@ralphengland8559 Which is a completely fair take, but also does do awhole lot to fix the actual issue (at least on its own but is alot less headache for you).
This is why people are constantly talking about this to get awareness out of it. It's the best we can do as (to your point): we can't control what others do.
Big Corpos want you to comply with what they do or say nothing.
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Microtransactions, those aren't MICRO. Helldivers 2 has Microtransactions. There are nothing micro about Ubisoft's deals.
HD2 pass are 10€ each, not so micro anymore
@@Serird 10€ for premium battlepass or for what?
@@Serird Or you just buy them with the credits you find in missions and the ones you can buy with warbonds (a currency you can't buy with money) like everybody else.
@@Serird you can earn them through the month though. and they never go away so unlock them at your own pace 🤷
Lots of Micro stuff at Ubisoft, none of them deals....
someone once said that "micro" in "microtransaction" isn't about what you pay, but about what you get.
macrotransactions would be weird regarding your statement but itd be an honest term nowadays
@@mugnuz a macrotransation would be an content complete video game. No monetary attachments, just a well price adjusted game for the content you paid for. The "macro" meaning bang for buck.
@@brad5426 i know my joke to say its bigger and needed for the full game didnt really hit but also did i guess...
Bruh, $70 doesn't even buy you the base game. You get the gimped version. $110 gold version is what gets you all base content. Fuck Ubisoft and their souless games.
70 bucks is too much for any videogame. I don't care what it is, I don't care if it's a game I'm legitimately looking forward to, that I know I'll love. It's too much money, 70 bucks is too much money to spend on any one videogame. This is it, for me, I'm priced out of new releases. I have been priced out of the market. GG, games industry, you win.
Remember when idiots said "if they charge 70$ for games, then they'll stop the micro transactions!"
I remember saying "i would rather pay $70 if they stopped with all this MTX/DLC bullcrap" ...
Remember when Mc Donalds & Walmart claimed self-checkoit would bring the savings on down to the customer? Now everything is more expensive & we're doing their jobs for them. Mc Donalds doesn't even have a Dollar Menu anymore.
70 bucks is too much for any videogame. I don't care what it is, I don't care if it's a game I'm legitimately looking forward to, that I know I'll love. It's too much money, 70 bucks is too much money to spend on any one videogame. This is it, for me, I'm priced out of new releases. I have been priced out of the market. GG, games industry, you win.
@@Blisterdude123 just wait for sales, new games go on sale extremely fast now, like 20$ off within a few months of release
I think I’ll take Ubisoft’s advice for once, and get used to not own Ubisoft games.
Remember when cosmetics were part of the base game you could unlock? Good time
Or when cheat codes were baked into the game. All weapons, no problem let me just grab my cheat sheet real quick. Now they nickel and dime you for everything.
I ‘member.
@@alfyb4512Ooo, I ‘member! It was fantastic.
Paying a higher price for a game to be a beta tester? No thanks.
I like how the original dead space series went down the drain beacause of unrealistic sales expectations and now its hapenning again with the remake.
Idk if this story is true, it was in the sell charts on steam for a long time before and after its launch. I think it's just Ea believing they can make more money elsewhere.
@@tenaciousgamer6892100% agree. And it's our responsibility to teach them that they are wrong. I won't be buying EA or Ubisoft ever again, most likely. They don't make good games anymore. I was excited for more Deadspace as opposed to the rest of their garbage. This is pretty upsetting.
Not just unrealistic sales expectations, but the shoehorning of ill-considered mechanics and the gutting of upgrades in favour of microtransactions.
The AAA part of the industry wants to redefine the cost of games to justify their inflated budgets. I suspect the poor economy will have something to say about that. Reject FOMO marketing, as the saying goes buying a game at launch is paying the highest price for the worst version of it.
FOMO doesnt exist if everyone else is also MO right?
That's a great way to look at it. Some people paid $100+ for Battlefield 2042 and was borderline unplayable. Now, you can play it for free on GP and not spend a dime besides the subscription fee. Some communities never learn...
Even worse as buying a game at launch mean you get a worse experience.
buy now/early and get a 3 day head start to play, get this skin and this item.
2 month later you can buy the game for half the price, the skin whit a slight colour tweak exist as a Micro transactions (and is still cheaper then launch price).
plus the game hopefully works.
and the 3 day head start yee did not happen as the first 2 weeks more or less was server issues or server down because a launch week that the stock owner said did not meet expectation was still way to much for the servers to handle.
so the best time to buy is 6+ month after launch when the game is actually playable.
@@Zack_Wester the 3 day early access is just a cheeky monetized way of staging the release into multiple phases,
so the limited server capacity isn't hit at the same day with ALL the players hitting it on day one, but one crowd on day one and another crowd come in on day 4...
they never pay for server capacity to keep the game stable during the launch window, they pay for server capacity for when the playerbase has dialed in on a daily average after a week or two.
And in case of singleplayer games like this one, they can still make money on this "feature" and spread out the traffic of all those downloads.
@ZeroB4NG never thought of it that way but you're totally right.
I remember when spending $100+ deluxe editions would give me a special game box, physical sound track, physical art book, a figureine, and some collectibles
Easy decision for me - I was told this game wasn't made for a pre-Disney Star Wars fan. Oh look, a whole bunch of reasonably priced indie games that people put real time and effort into making that I can buy instead.
bro they lost me at ubisoft lmao
Star Wars hasn't been Star Wars since Disney.
@@hedlund overrated anyway. but some games are fun partly
Wait, you don't think time and effort was put into the game? Because of story reasons? Are you serious?
@@Kryternif the story is shit what is the point of playing? Especially if it's a story focused game:).
Well, either way, even if the story is good, it's definitely $100+ good.
Personally, i can't wait to pay £130 for an unfinished game i don't even own and can be removed from my library at any time.
can't wait to buy the ultimate edition for 5 bucks in 5 years
Or just wait a few months and get it... For free
Yeah, don't even give them a dollar tbh. If you want to try it, pirate it instead. They don't deserve a cent
They caught on to people doing that. Now its $5 in 10 and $15 in 5 😂
funny how Bellular doesn't mention that the DLC is DAY ONE DLC, meaning purposefully removed content. Just stop buying Ubislop.
Yep that part is particularly disgusting. Charging people to get the full game they’ve already made. Extortionate business practices aimed towards youth customers.
Funny how he hasn't addressed him being a SBI supporter who tried to gaslight his viewers and failed massively, guy has no spine and sells out almost instantly.
@@fish5645 So is Steam/Valve. You gonna stop buying and playing games on that platform? Didn't think so...
@fish5645 You actually think he tried to gaslight his viewers? Really? Most of us are tired of your types being obsessed with your politics.
@@fish5645 Keep your politics out of gaming, please.
You missed that half the "Season Pass" DLC is available on day 1 meaning this isn't extra content they've made to fulfil fans desire for more but rather, part of the game withheld for those who can pay more. If you pay $70, you don't get the full game, some of the data downloaded to your PC is locked behind a paywall.
It's Elitist crap that needs to stop.
This is exactly why I never pay for any EA or UbiSoft game.
I have a better idea.
I’ll just save that $130 and spend it on Shadow of the Erdtree, whatever DLC Dragon’s Dogma puts out, and give some to Helldivers.
For $130 you can buy 3 copies of Helldivers (for yourself + 2 friends) AND lunch. You'll have an infinitely more fun time.
Early access isn't early access. You just get the game on the release date. The regular version is just 3 days late access...
And the year after is the fixed edition.
It's a staggered release, so the servers don't get his as hard at the same time... just spreading the server load out a bit.
That they got people to pay for that "feature" is almost hilarious.
Be specific. You are talking about "3 day early access", which is just greedily stupid. But a true blue early access is different. So have bad actors in that version but at least it ain't inherently stupid as a concept
Feels like everything wrong about modern AAA gaming all wrapped up in one stomach-turning bundle. It’s a one-stop shop of feeling good about not supporting predatory practices in the game industry.
At this point, I don't believe I would ever buy a ubisoft game anymore. When I saw the pricing the first time I thought it was a joke, realizing that it wasn't.... Shows me how far the human race has fallen...Mainly due to that I know there are fools who would buy into that crazy amount of greed...
Don't ever pay more than $30 for a game. You'll contend with a little FOMO, but you'll still play all the games eventually and also never get got by a shart game. I've had this philosophy for about a year now and its been the best gaming since Goldeneye.
Eh, I'd say never pay full price for MOST AAA slop. There are plenty of games that are worth spending the initial price on. For example, I'll be buying Ys X Nordics as soon as the English version is released sometime later this year. I'll gladly pay the full price for a game that looks like it could run (poorly) on a PS2 😂, because the gameplay and FUN is there.
Besides a hand full of multiplayer games like Monster Hunter i havent bought a game for more than 20 or 30 bucks in 15 years. Just buy the Gold/Game of the year editions 2~3 years after release on holiday sales for 20 bucks or get the main game on a 80~90 discount and buy the overpriced season pass for 10-20 bucks later. Im not giving these fucks 3-4 times the money and also be a beta tester for the first 6 months after release. Helldivers is the only game i bought at release since Monster Hunter Rise... twice
@@ISSO1407 Palworld is the only game i've bought at release (for $30 yay) since Diablo 4 profaned my wallet and made me decide this stance.
@@Jagernotty I don't think Palworld counts, it isn't a AAA scam title and obviously was a solid purchase from the success it had. The issue is someone liking say Star Wars and preordering every Star Wars game because they "must have it now" when in reality you pay the most for the worst versions of AAA games.
Even worse is the Day 1 Jabba the Hutt mission behind a paywall. A whole quest gated. It's outrageous, to be honest.
I remember when PHYSICAL collector's editions might cost $80 or even just $60 but they were LIMITED
I was going to say I saw them for 100 usd but then a 100 usd collector edition usally came whit some nice stuff...
like the soundtrack on a CD, an art book, some fieliess and one big item (like a statue or a helmet or something else neet you know a item to put on the shelf).
the delux came whit ether a music CD or art book (might not the be the same art book as the Colector edition had but it was still something).
and the base game on a CD, whit a thick manual that had interesting lore stuff so that the manual never really whent out.
aka it was not a unit listing whit there specs but more like.
the US heavy tank is the M1Abrian Main battle tank and the list of armament and stuff it had historicaly.
not that it did 90 points of damage per shot every 4 sec, had 300HP (first patch changed that to 95 points of damage and 400HP).
@@Zack_Wester yeah true, a $100usd would have more than cool maps or pictures.
Remember that 2042 launched without a scoreboard.... Never supporting a company thst is that incompetent
"Specialists" that felt generic, which made the core Battlefield classes feel more specialized than the specialists.
@@tr4l1975 Yeah, it felt like they didn’t have a unified vision on what they wanted to do.
Forget about the scoreboard.
just stuff like the hovercraft having better flight control then a chopper (plus more or less when airborn been completly industructuble by aircraft).
the 1000 of bugs.
the scoreboard was like complaining about the choice of Green in a house. nevermind that the house don´t even have walls... a roof or a fondation...
in fact the house is built tilting about 12 degrees sideway in 2 different direction... somehow.
@@Zack_Wester For sure, but the scoreboard is the foundation! I don’t know how this wasn’t a fundamental first step when creating this game. It is such a core mechanic to a game like this that its exclusion is insane.
The gameplay looks boring as hell, and so does the story, also not Han Solo is not a main character I care at all about. Oh what’s that? You can’t even change her terrible hair style with all that dlc? Miss me with all this sh*t.
There was gameplay?
Gameplay in a Ubi Soft trailer? ... you mean fake cinematics made by 3rd party company for a carefully crafted advertisement video that LOOKS LIKE gameplay, using pre-production art assets and then all the kids will scream "downgrades" again...
THEY ALL DO IT... Anthem, Cyberpunk, literally every "E3" trailer you see a year or two before the release date is just fake assets slapped together "in-engine" to look like a game, but there often is not even actual game code yet.
It is a glorified Power Point presentation from the publisher, showing us what they INTEND to develop in the next 1 or 2 years. ...in many many many cases there is no "game" yet. ...but seeing is believing so all the kids see "in-engine" and think that that is the game already.... nope.
@@ZeroB4NGgood to know, but if we did get a real game play trailer, what would you expect?
Ubi-want Urmonee: *Trys to use jedi mind trick "Buy the ultimate edition"
Players: "This is not the game we are looking for..."
I could buy SO MANY things with $130USD instead of anything from Ubisoft... like I can just scroll back to up to 24months back and find enough games+dlcs from then to now that will make a wallet lose weight, PAY BILLS, FOOD... any of that would be better than those Ubisoft MACRO-transactions that may not even belong to us after all.
Triple AAA devs are slowly but surely destroying their already tattered legacies. Indies are taking over in their droves, the kings are dead, long live the kings.
I get Avarice and Apathy, but what are the other As for?
And soon the indies will be the new AAA's pulling the exact same moves.
Have you seen the South Park episode where they burn down Walmart? Then all go shopping in a local market, it gets bigger and bigger until it is Walmart again... and they burn it down again?
Indies aren't Indies because of some moral code, but because they can't play with the big dogs yet.
Imagine Helldivers II was the exact same game, but had terrible expensive and greedy MTX... do you think it would have had this level of success?
And lets not forget all the bugs and crashes and server capacity issues... just like any other live service game.
Don't fool yourself all these studios started as indies this is just their end form
These publishers continue to make record profits but sure they're dead
The indie space is even more cutthroat compared to AAA. Most indie games don't have a prayer as they are competing with over 14000 titles that were released last year on Steam alone. Hate to say it, but Steam has blown the indie game space to unsustainable proportions and leading to an enormous game glut.
I wouldn't really say Battlefield is in good state. It has the same problem as the Total War series, arguably even worse.
It's losing players on it's current, most monetized, iteration to prior series entries. BUT where Total War at least has the most concurrent daily players in the current release(Warhammer III), Battlefield's most played entry is Battlefield V, with a daily peak of 31177 players on Steam, a platform were it only was allowed to release 1.5 years after the initial release. Battlefield 2042 is at a daily peak of 19399, while Battlefield 1,which also didn't launch on Steam, is at 13971(all numbers from SteamDB, 14th of April 2024). Out of these three combined, Battlefield 2042 only has around 30% of the Battlefield players base.
microtransaction
macrotransaction
How about robbery?
They are banking on "It's StarWars, of course they will pay more"
MACROTRANSACTIONS
While it's true that EA never explicitly guaranteed a Dead Space 2 remake, they DID put out a survey following the release of the Dead Space remake, asking fans if they would like remakes of Dead Space 2 and 3. If they had no plans on making further remakes of the Dead Space franchise, they would never have asked fans if they want more.
"Hey, did you like our product? You did?!? Nice! Well, would you like MORE? You do?!? Nice!"
But then: "Hey, we never said anything about giving you more! We never said that!"
Yeah, see, this doesn't make any sense. We're not idiots. But EA thinks we are, apparently.
That's a real reach there dead space one remake didn't make its money back sorry to burst your bubble and ea has three large games they want our by the end of 2025 dragon age...mass effect and the new battlefield
I don’t think the marketing push for dead space was all that good either. I wonder how many people stayed away because at first glance they thought it was just an up-rez remaster. “Remake” should have been in the title.
For me i had yo choose between calisto protocol vs dead space i picked og studio
The problem with games like Dead Space and RE are that they don't necessarily have huge markets. Sure, plenty of people enjoy horror movies or scary stuff, but playing a 10+ hour game that puts you IN the horror, versus being a passive bystander, is a very different thing. They put in massive amounts of money into these games to make them look more realistic, and thus, more horrifying, yet didn't account on people liking the IDEA of the game, but not wanting to touch it.
Also charging £70 for a remake is wild
Them getting at least 18$ from a subscription you can’t refund (especially when some people will forget to cancel that subscription) is better than having to refund the 70$ when people notice how bad the game is
Who though people would gladly pay $70 for a remake? People are complaining about paying $70 for a brand new game. I'm a hard-core Halo fan, and if someone remade Halo 3 and wanted even $60, I'd tell them to rake a hike.
So you said its sad seasons are ending but then say games as a service is bad...... um.... they are the same thing the whole point of seasons is to keep you coming back to the games as a service model.. ive always been against seasons. have a more creative end game to give us a reason to keep playing rather than regrind the same crap and a leader board reset 4x a year to make sure you dont dare go play other games
i think the path of exile apporach is nice. add a feature in seasons but let the characters be eternal afterwards... ez and fair besides all other things the devs make fair
Yup. Beyond done with modern gaming from anywhere larger than a middle-sized studio.
The fact that there was an ad for Star Wars outlaws. For me to even be able to watch this video is freaking funny.
You too?
@@markhettenbach3141 yup
Honestly, i think a lot of people not only didn't want to spend so much on a remake, but it was a remake of a game that still holds up to this day in its old state, and the remake was produced by a company that had flushed their credibility down the toilet. Most no one expected it to be good, but then, lo and behold, it was REALLY GOOD, and the damage done goes from 'eh what did you expect' to 'well, this sucks even if it is expected.'
I love how I get the outlaws advert previous to your video :'D
For 120$ I bought a collectors edition of RE2 REMAKE with a statue of Leon. Ubisoft is crazy, but SW fans are crazier. They will buy this. It's the most mentally insane fanbase ever.
Edit: Sure, let me rephrase this to SW fans that came after the 6 original movies. I.e people who came with 7 8 9 and new series.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan and I'm not going anywhere near it. Ubisoft must be on some real good drugs to think the games are worth that price tag. There's a reason I've not bought anything from them for a good while now
I'd argue Star Wars fanboys are more pathetic than Marvel fanboys, especially the ones in complete denial about the massive drop in quality
I don't know, maybe the younger ones, are older star fans really going to buy this ? it looks jank
@@wackywarrior001 I hope not. I'm one of those older Star Wars fans, and as much as I love the movies (original trilogy) and games like KoTR etc-this is just an incredibly cynical cash grab aimed at milking the fanbase for all their worth. I can see it, you can see it-it's glaringly obvious. I'll be interested to know how much of the playerbase falls for this garbage from Ubisoft
No true Star Wars fan, old or young, will be buying this.
It needs to be said...all these purchases are VOLUNTARY. Exercise self control...don't buy these games on launch day and don't pre order.
I haven't bought an Ubisoft game for years for this exact reason, these companies Desperately aim to be the next fortnight, except they ALL seem to miss the fact that your Fornite battlepass includes 10 times the amount of skins and extras than everyone else is offering.
How many IP's are they going to RUIN with microtransactions before they go back to traditional videogame making? I Absolutely wont let them ruin Starwars for me with a greedy cash grab of a game.
Deadspace's issue was 100% pricing and greed. Nobody was interested in paying 70 bucks for a fresh coat of paint on an old game. Especially not in an environment where it seems like every publisher is just trying to wrong All The Money from the market
As for the anti cheat, for me the problem is that EA anti cheat does not work on my system as a Linux user.
So still quite sour of them just nuking my ability to play a game I bought. Of course realistically kernel level anti-cheat does not work on Linux, but at the same time cheats generally also do not work on Linux at the moment. So having a fallback for Linux would have made things a lot better.
People always talk about how "not buying" won't punish the greed, because there are two many fools who want to be parted from their money. This is true...to a point. But if you instead spent 90 of those dollars on 3 great indy titles, you would be categorically *rewarding* a small developer with the ability to continue making more great games for you. Change the focus from punishing AAA to rewarding Indie. Honestly, the gap is so close in many aspects now.
Never pre order from AAA... It almost always ends in tears. Battlefront 2 taught me that lesson.
Dumb question, but if you sign up for Ubisoft+ and get the "deluxe edition", does the "dlc" get tagged as owned. Then I could just pick up the game at full price/on sale and have the dlc on my account for less than $110/$130?
Nah, not trusting disney or starwars, especially when the trailer literally has elements that won't be in the game being shown.
I personally feel that they’re just getting started with price hikes and they could actually charge three times the amount that they are right now and people would still buy it. They cry and complain about it but still buy it. I think they are still not taking full advantage of the worth of their product. Three or $400 and I’d still buy it. you might ask how I know this we look at tabletop games one figurine could cost you anywhere $250-$300 and table Top games can be very popular. with the video game, You’re getting the entire product for one lump sum of 300 or $400. This is how I know people will pay that price just for one example.
Just about EVERYTHING is skyrocketing in price over the last decade or more. Why would people think video games would be any different??? Gamers really aren't the sharpest tools in the shed lmao...
The issue with Dead Space remake is that there hasn’t been a dead space game in a long time, so you really need to push hard in the marketing.
As soon as I saw that I couldn't make my own character, I was out.
This! They could have made customized character. “Play as yourself in the Star wars universe” game would have sold itself.
@markhettenbach3141 Exactly. Just give you a generic nickname or call sign. Do the Commander Shepard route.
Larry Fink | BlackRock | CEO ESG CEI | Force Change, it's on youtube.
As a PC player, I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole. Buy stuff on our platform, we might turn it off before any dlcs are released if we feel like it, who knows what happens. Meanwhile I can buy indie title on steam/gog today and play it 5 years later. Yeah, no thanks Ubisoft.
Weren't your game The Pale Beyond published by the studio Fellow Traveler? The studio who is on the client list of Sweet Baby Inc. ?
think the last time i bought a special edition of a game was Nioh 1. it cost me 80$ came with the season pass a steelbook and I think it had an artbook plus some cosmetic armor. these deluxe editions today just don't seem worth it.
Ultimate edition is the largest share of unit sales. Just look at the pre-order strand on the PS5 to see which edition shows first (default sort is best selling).
I think one of things that might have impacted on Dead Space remake sales were the rumours about microtransactions due to EA being involved. I remember a lot of people talking about this and even a statement being put out saying there wouldn't be any. But i'm guessing a lot of people (myself included) didn't believe this and/or thought the remake wouldn't be on par with remakes like Re2 or 4.
So i'm guessing pre-orders were low and once people waited for reviews, the game was discounted by a fair bit.
Maybe the first dead space remake would have had better sales if they actually fixed the bugs that made the game unplayable. I was getting "gpu breadcrumb error" crashes every 90 seconds. This was in January of 2024, which is what, an entire year after its launch? I had to refund the game because it would not run. I have a 4090, what a joke.
And everyone bitches about RT but I notice! I still play all my old games but I notice and Dead Space 2 is remarkable still, but RT makes a huge difference to atmosphere in games and horror games benefit a lot, obviously.
But I notice modern lighting a lot and going back to even a game like Red Read 2 is hard. Once you see it you can’t unsee it and back in lighting makes games monotone in appearance. It’s all wrong…
Where I live the $18 a month turns out to be $231 per year for a season pass subscription ($18x12 with 14% sales tax, people outside Pennsylvania dont know about the Arena and Amusement taxes), what are they smoking?
20:52 Spiderman 2 costed $319 million to make, minus marketing.
This game and the Witcher 3 should never be mentioned in the same sentence. I bet Blood and Wine alone has more interesting storylines and quests than this entire game will.
The issue with game launches is the launch prices are going up and the polish is going down
I liked the Dead Space franchise, but honestly it was too expensive for what it was, and the original version is still perfectly functional.
Love the videos! Also, your volume is low this video.
Don't forget to engage 'ye olde limiter' and set it to CZcams's preferred standard!
It is a slice of Star Wars or what it looks like with Outlaws. The only thing is that, when you price your game at 70 bucks (like Ubisoft did) then it makes me more suspect that its gonna have one of the worst launches.
I've managed to keep up my Ubi boycott for the past five years. Didn't buy anything from them. With the latest Prince Of Persia thingy and Star Wars, my stance is softening somewhat. But in no reality am I going to blow $130 on a single video game, much less an Ubisoft one. I'll keep waiting for a decent sale. And who knows, by the time it gets discounted, video games might be the least of our problems.
Problem with conflicting Dead Space 2 rumours, believe what Jason Schreier says, he and Paul Tassi are the only journalists in gaming worthy of the name.
If you wait for both DLCs to drop you will probably pay more. 6 months would be around 107.94. 9 months 161.91. Let's be real you really think these DLCs will drop anytime soon? Ubisoft gonna milk some players out of their money. They'll probably cancel the DLCs like "The crew 2" and then blame the gamers for its failure.
I mean obviously you'd unsubscribe after you're done with the game and while you're waiting for the DLCs right? You wouldn't just stay subscribed and wait for those to drop if you're not using the service.
If you're capable of setting a few reminders on your phone to cancel, you can play through this complete edition probably for like 36 bucks. One month for when the base game launches, and one month later when all DLCs are out.
@@fray98936 dollars is still asking way too much for something we won't own to begin with and would have to pay more if we ever wanted to revisit. The Ubisoft+ subscription is one of the worst value propositions I've ever seen in this industry.
@@fray989 That would definitely be the smarter way of handling it. But not everyone will do that. I think they are banking for people to just forget it and they'll be taking that 17.99 monthly. It's definitely preying on people. :(
Dead Space 2 doesn't need a remake. As far as I remeber it was one of the most expensive games to make for its time, so ofc it had bad sales, prob would have to do enormous sales to be at least profitable. We got a great game for even 2024 though.
But I don't think that cost of the remake would be as enormous, in that context sales argument doesn't make sense.
What needs a remake, rewrite, re everything, is Dead Space 3
Who would ever have thought that maybe EA doing Jack with the ip for so many years might have been better than letting Ubisoft touch the ip…..
Imagine charging $130 for a game set a dead IP.
Anyone who buys this is part of the problem, a really really big part of the problem. If this game doesn't crash and burn in epic fashion its bad news for all of us
the real thing that killed dead space was callisto protocol coming out a month before
Lol did you play calisto lol
@@sosayweall2509 yes its complete garbage, and it coming out a month before and looking so much like dead space, and being so completely terrible....to most people they probably thought they were the same game and ignored dead space
After what they did to deadspace 1's remake, why would anyone want them to do one for 2?
I'm glad the remake of 1 was a financial failure, enough so to make them cancel 2's remake.
You guys are great, please keep it up. I have followed you guys for years and I feel like you have at least a balanced take on most things.
Ultimate Editions have cost $130 in Australia for 20 years.
No thanks. Ubisoft will laugh all the way to the bank though.
Recently got Resident Evil 4 on Quest 3, it's everything I wanted the original to be and more.
€130 is an insane price, no matter how you look at it. I could afford it, no problem, but do I have to? It's like 1.5 years worth of an annual Adobe Premium subscription - and I would argue that you get more gameplay out of the latter. Whoever concocted that scheme at Ubisoft must be completely out of touch with this universe, or they have legalized crack cocaine in France. One or the other must be true, or both.
My main problem with DS Remake is the stutters. Made it quite unplayable for me.
I believe the 2 million comes from Yongyea who estimated that DS Remake could've had 2 mil sales since with steam peak player base being a quarter of RE4 remake steam peak and RE4 having over 7 million total sales across all platforms that if you assume DS Remake made a quarter of that then it would be around 2 mil. He explicitly says that this is just his guess and nothing official in the video.
I’ve put all 3 versions on my wish list and will wait till either this Christmas or next to grab depending on reviews/streams. I don’t want gaming to become a job where I worry about how long I take to finish something. Also games keep coming out so I can be patient and focus on my backlog
Pretty sure Battlefield 2042’s player numbers are only this high because the game went on sale for less than 10€ multiple times in the last year
These companies including Aion and other important companies are there own stupid fate due to greed and screw ups - a new era is needed.
Season passes are a major red flag, you have no idea what if any additional content will be made for the game. Basically selling you stuff that hasn't even materialized yet.
Yeah I knew Dead Space was doomed when it released within a couple weeks of Hogwarts Legacy and I never saw it crack the Xbox top 50 most played list
Space games are also niche
I bought dead space remake for £40 preowned. Maybe instead of punishing gamers they should get better executives who understand pricing and marketing better.
I remember Solo, hes that dude from the battlefront dlc right?
lol I completely forgot the trash fire that was battlefield 2042 even existed
ubisoft employing the classic goldilocks effect I see
not only was it overpriced, it also changed a lot about the original game. not worth arguing whether it was better or worse, but you're always going to lose people when you change things, *especially* when you change elements of the story
I didnt pick this up at launch for the same reason as I dont pick up a lot of games at launch. For me a lot of them are just not worth it. Either I’m unsure about the game or I don’t expect to finish it. Then I rather pay a heavily discounted price to ‘try it out’. Losing $20 is less painful than $70 obviously.
I will absolutely buy the ultimate edition.... In 2-3 years when it's actually a fully flushed out non buggy mess (it's ubisoft) and it's got a random deep sale for like 30 bucks.
When I was a teen a Ubisoft game was a pretty safe bet. Nowadays, you cannot pay me to play them.
So what you are saying is, if you really have to play this wait for all the dlc to release then get the sup for a month and play it all.
HellDivers 2, NEW IP...NEW Game = 40$. DeadSpace 1, remake of SUPER old game...nearly DOUBLE the price of a BRAND new game. Greed has its downsides
$70 Ironman single player game, arent they going to have to cut Marvel 30-40% of each copy sold? Isnt that what Insomniac is struggling with? I dont see how that is more advantageous than a Deadspace 2 remake, maybe you could dress up the multiplayer component of DS2 and add a seasonal battlepass to it with new stages and cosmetics.