Just more AAA bullshit…
And I’m sure a ton of gamers who will reward this behavior too.
I wish more gamers would realise how much power a boycott can have. We’re like junkies just waiting to buy the next shot no matter how shitty it will be. My dipping point was Diablo 4. Never again! Vote with your wallet friends! Also 🏴☠️
It’s ubisoft: the game will go on sale for $4 in less than a year.
Watched the trailer and got pretty excited for the game until I saw Ubisoft at the end. Guess I’ll wait for the next SW game. Eclipse? Whatever happened with that one.
And shut down and made unplayable forever three months later.
The gold edition of Star Wars Outlaws gets you three days of early access, ship and speeder cosmetics, and access to the “Season Pass.” That’s “two DLCs that will release after launch”, plus a single mission that’s exclusive to it for some baffling reason.
The reason isn’t baffling. The reason is they are using FOMO to encourage people to spend extra money on preorders so they don’t feel like they missed out on something they couldn’t get otherwise.
Abusing people’s fear of missing out is not baffling, but it is malicious.
Offering preorders for DLC before a main game is released is predatory
There seems to be a widely held belief by corporations that star wars fans are suckers. Prove them wrong.
Sit back and watch this crap make record profits. It’s not Star Wars fans. It’s The Gamers™ who will pay anything for anything as long as it’s a videogame, like crackheads. The people who think this is outrageous weren’t going to buy it anyway, and those who are going to buy it will do so no matter the backlash. The overlap of people who wanted this game bad enough to care but also have the principles and values to consider the financial strategies abusive and complain about it is a very slim band of people. They will make headlines, sure, but they won’t move the balance enough to even tickle Ubisoft’s wallet.
This has happened before, this will happen again.
Hard pass on this nonsense
