• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    I entirely stopped playing Ubisoft games because they require me to sign in to play.

    I tried Anno 1800 because it was free on PS+ and immediately ran into a login wall.

    Same thing when I tried Assassin’s Creed.

    They’re not even online games. I get needing to log in to CoD because you’re playing online, but blocking the offline mode is asinine.

    So why would I bother buying an Ubisoft title when I know I’m going to open it up and hit that stupid login wall and privacy policy.

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      2 hours ago

      The rest can burn, but man, Anno 1800 really is/was the best in its series, mandatory logins or not. It’s the only game I still hold on to my ubi account for, and I dread the day they’ll go under, because they’ll take the Mainz team and the Anno games down with them.

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      6 hours ago

      It fucking dropped my Far Cry game because THEIR servers had an issue, not my internet connection.

      Lost progress, replayed it, it happened again, never bought anything from them again.

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      9 hours ago

      I get needing to log in to CoD because you’re playing online

      That shouldn’t be needed either. A PSN or Steam account should be enough.

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        9 hours ago

        It used to be enough. I played so much COD4 back in the day on Xbox and the only login I ever needed was my Xbox account.

        But nowadays, they want more data from you than the platform is willing or allowed to share, so you need to log in to their service.

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      9 hours ago

      I entirely stopped playing Ubisoft games because they require me to sign in to play.

      I straight up can’t play half of their games on PlayStation because of this. I had a different PSN account 15 years ago that my Ubisoft account is associated with and apparently your Ubisoft account can only be tied to one PSN account EVER. I’m not creating a new email just to sign up for Ubisoft play. So I don’t buy their games 🤷

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        4 hours ago

        And that’s the kind of thing their metrics will never reveal to them.

        I think if you just asked players you’d get an overwhelming pushback on the account issues.