Ubisoft games will still be $60 next gen

Legend · Jul 22, 2020, 05:07 PM

Big news: Ubisoft said on today's earnings call that their next-gen games this fall will be the same price as current-gen games ($60). Take-Two had announced that NBA 2K21 will be $70 on PS5 and Xbox Series X.
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) July 22, 2020

Xevross · Jul 22, 2020, 05:53 PM

They'll be $0 for me

the-pi-guy · Jul 22, 2020, 05:58 PM

Well good for them. But the past few weeks have solidified that I won't be buying any of their games.

kitler53 · Jul 22, 2020, 07:23 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Jul 22, 2020, 05:58 PMWell good for them. But the past few weeks have solidified that I won't be buying any of their games.

did i miss something?

Legend · Jul 22, 2020, 07:49 PM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jul 22, 2020, 07:23 PMdid i miss something?

Ubisoft, Twitch streamers, and Youtube content creators. Sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations

Plus all the stuff since that thread.

the-pi-guy · Jul 22, 2020, 07:55 PM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jul 22, 2020, 07:23 PMdid i miss something?

Several higher ups at Ubisoft were implicated in rape, sexual harassment reports.

They said they were going to make changes once this stuff came out, but it's pretty clear that they knew about it.

First report

I'm not backing from my principles

Ubisoft already tried making games with playable rape and torture scenes.

Xevross · Jul 22, 2020, 08:05 PM

kitler53 · Jul 23, 2020, 02:51 AM

oh, okay.

well let me start by saying that i didn't take much time to read about the situation. just skimmed for the gist.

ubisoft has 18,000 employees and a boycott will hurt the little people before it hurts the leadership. these guys should be held accountable but the consequence should be jail not a slightly smaller bonus payout this year.

Xevross · Jul 23, 2020, 11:23 AM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jul 23, 2020, 02:51 AMoh, okay.

well let me start by saying that i didn't take much time to read about the situation. just skimmed for the gist.

ubisoft has 18,000 employees and a boycott will hurt the little people before it hurts the leadership. these guys should be held accountable but the consequence should be jail not a slightly smaller bonus payout this year.

Well I saw a great argument about this. Those "little guys" get paid their salaries anyway and trash companies like this one often don't give bonuses to their normal employees or they wriggle their way out of them.

The best way to support these people is to try to get Ubisoft to change.

kitler53 · Jul 23, 2020, 01:59 PM

Quote from: Xevross on Jul 23, 2020, 11:23 AMWell I saw a great argument about this. Those "little guys" get paid their salaries anyway and trash companies like this one often don't give bonuses to their normal employees or they wriggle their way out of them.

The best way to support these people is to try to get Ubisoft to change.

i was thinking more like we know it is inevitable that if a game is a financial disaster then the entire studio will be closed and they will be unemployed.

i mean i get it, you want to do something and not buying the product is about the only thing you can do. i am also convinced that every product i've ever bought would (if scrutinized enough) highlight an injustice i'm outraged about that i'm supporting with that purchase. i'm just very tired of trying to keep track of which businesses i can't support. i hate that this is even a thing.

Xevross · Jul 23, 2020, 03:00 PM

Quote from: kitler53 on Jul 23, 2020, 01:59 PMi was thinking more like we know it is inevitable that if a game is a financial disaster then the entire studio will be closed and they will be unemployed.

i mean i get it, you want to do something and not buying the product is about the only thing you can do. i am also convinced that every product i've ever bought would (if scrutinized enough) highlight an injustice i'm outraged about that i'm supporting with that purchase. i'm just very tired of trying to keep track of which businesses i can't support. i hate that this is even a thing.

Well I'm the same but this is something I really haven't seen before. A company that has such horrible things rife within it and it knew exactly what was going on, it had a HR department dedicated to covering it up instead of doing something about it. They moved abusers around so they never got caught and they got new victims. And now they're still doing fudge all about it.

Its despicable. The world is a shaming place and every product has a reason to be boycotted, but this is just a whole other level.