Dear Ubisoft - F*** You and your NFTs 

yeah but your entire argument is just low-brow and frankly retarded. You don't like NFT's because you think they'll destroy gaming. I love NFT's because it opens up huge new opportunities for gamers and game-makers alike. God forbid that game-makers find a way to essentially stop piracy dead cold.

@@TurboPotato Ad hominem response. Fascinating.

I'm all against Ubisoft and their NFT shenanigans. I Blame Yves. FULL ON!

@@TurboPotato Sounds for me like kindergarden rhetoric what you're saying.

There is exactly one possible use of nft-like ksystems in gaming and that will never come into action. They should make the licence to a game a tradeable thing, which would be an nft. Then you could sell games you bought e.g. on steam when you want like in the old days of hardcopies. But that would be pro gamers and someone might not buy a new licence when he can get a "used" nft-licence. I mean, Steam could have made this possible at least on their systems for years without a blockchain.

They don't have a quality game to hate on.

They are just one of the only ones not absorbed by MS yet...not making excuses just adding context for that reality.

They're definitely in the running with Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard. :P

@@ryankelly369 Don't forget Konami. Just for their commitment of spitting on the face of all the fans of the amazing franchise they own. They made Castlevania NFT recently just to remind everyone how terrible they are. Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard may be worse overall, but Konami's complete disregard for their franchises will always let them have a spot at the bottom.

They are in the trifecta of evil after all.

Then certain customers will come and eat the shit ruining it for the rest of the customers

it's like easter egg hunting but you don't get the colorfully painted egg, just a grocery store receipt for it

and the shit costs $10,000.

@@PeterDanielBerg Love your comment. 🤣 Sad truth is, most of these intellectually challenged guys don't even know yet alone understand that.

dunno this "shit" made me 1000 bucks last month :/

same! :)

You could get employed by them and do nothing in your work time

@@penedrador He will be CEO in a week.

@@penedrador He probably isn't a sex pest so Ubisoft wouldn't hire him.

@@penedrador And risk getting sexually harassed or assaulted.

@@Wasko2 Oh I know he’s fully aware of what he’s doing and why. It’s the concept itself that’s delusional, and that if a corporation adopts that as a strategy that they think it’ll be successful.

@@Wasko2 yep, and this is why you aren't a genius for avoiding NFTs, the geniuses are buying the right ones that will be worth millions

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 see ya in about a year after you go broke, since unlike you, I don’t put my money up to chance.

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 lol fool.

@@Wasko2 exactly. It's not delusion, it's corporate damage control

No the fuck y'all don't. The same mofos who said nothing then will be the same mofos who say nothing now. Y'all the same mofos who play diablo with all its micro transactions and y'all will be the same mofos who play the nft games when Ubisoft drops it. And they'll put it in major games where people won't have a choice but to shut up and buy

that's basically what it is. they want ot leverage blockchain Tech into their DRM schemes, and if they get to make money on it, it would be insane for them to not try.

And there are two secondary markets; the one Ubisoft's CEO is trying to sell you, where you resell old skins and baubles ... and the market Big Tech is trying to set up, where they're trading your data. You have three guesses where the big money lies. In this digital age, asking "Who knows my data?" is paramount.

It's simple. The creator of NFT usually gets 10% from any transaction of that NFT. So, if Ubisoft sells an NFT to player and that player sells it to other player after using it, Ubi gets free cash. So an NFT that's resold for multiple times within community gives Ubisoft additional constant revenue.

Yeah well, if you have a resale market for games, there are less games published and thats a huge part of their market share. But if they can monetize us even more by making microtransactions etc have a fictive value bound to the NFT hype they can profit more. Because people will then by the microtransactions as speculative objects and therefore there is a higher amount of habituation so the market increases more than with their yearlong attempts to shove microtransactions down our throats ...

​@@aleks5405 This is it. Reselling an entire game? That's very little money per transaction and prevents publishers from getting the full amount from a new game. Items WITHIN a game? They force you to buy the new game (100% profit) + cycling extra cash on the inside (items). They're not against a secondary market, they're against not making money off of that market.

@elf-ovener i don't get the name

Its insanity

Can you blame them? We gamers have so far swallowed a lot of crap and came begging for more. They only fleece us cause we let them.

@@GigglingStoners Exactly. We need to start holding these idiots accountable so they don't continue thinking it's okay to continue screwing us over with terrible micro transactions, buggy half finished products, and...whatever this is.

@@Idcwyt We could all switch to board games. That would show them.

@@interwebmaksustehsmart4451 or keep playing indie or old games

@@Idcwyt it's not so dramatic. if ubisoft makes bad games then go buy good games instead. companies aren't trying to ruin gaming, they just want our money and they realized good games are less profitable

Only reason is Anno

Ubisoft: "Our consumers are stupid." Every Corporation in America: "Our consumers are stupid." Don't think that game companies are the only ones who are scamming you. Every company is, and they (tech, healthcare, energy, agriculture... everyone) are accelerating their efforts to out scam every other company for your last dollar. This is what free-fall feels like. And our useless government is totally cool with it because they own stocks.

@@Marssonde1 Anno is a great series, but Anno 1404 is the most recent in my collection. I don't want to bother with Uplay and DRM in the more recent ones, and I don't want to give any more of my money to this crummy company. NFTs just add to the list of many reasons to avoid Ubisoft products. Maybe if they eventually strip out the DRM and release the more recent ones on GOG I'll be tempted, but if not, I'm perfectly happy with Anno 1404 and the previous ones in the series.

I enjoyed Odyssey...that's bout it.

Giving up on Ubisoft is not a great loss for me game-wise anyway. I actually had to check, I own exactly 7 games on Uplay and I guess that is already too much. Not at least because they basically re-sell the same game with slightly different looks time and time again anyway. Far Cry 3 was nice, Far Cry 4 had it's moments, but let's be honest, it's not only basically the same game and even the same story, but a big shiny number of mini-games with very little real gameplay, at least none that is not repetitive like hell. And I've got Far Cry 5 for the PS4 for five bucks from a bargain bin and oh god, what a mess this game is. Watch Dogs was a really great game, despise it's problems, but Watch Dogs two was a childish dumpster fire which shined with dialogue like 'Let's go, you penises! ... Hehe, he said penis!' and the third game went full woke, so... nope. And the Assassin's Creed games? Well, they are not my cup of tea anyway, not at least because I've tried to play one or two on the console, I actually liked 'Black Flag', but gave up on it, because the nonsensicel, non-changeable controller scheme in combination with the often awkward camera and the tendency of my character to constantly decide to cling to the most nonsensical objects made me give up on it. There is really not much Ubisoft has to offer to me right now. Oh, I still play _tons_ of their games, but those are quite old ones that come without any 'platform' or DRM.

...unless you're a AAA-company CEO swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck's vault.

Capitalism has been a disaster for gaming.

I saw it coming years ago with the DLCs becoming mainstream on xbox 360. I knew it was the death of SDKs for PC games since they'd rather sell shitty content then let the fans create their own.

@@SmokeCheeba Literally this. It was horrible having some forethought and telling people gaming was gonna get this bad only to be called entitled or stupid.

@@TheTwinkelminkelson Yep. Years of avoiding microtransactions while being told I was being ridiculous, and here were are. It came true. Go figure. Honestly, the biggest problem this industry has... Is gamers. Nowhere near enough of us actually vote with our wallets.

Atari is still alive? Crikey

Not only Atari, bro. Nickelodeon also did the similar thing with Funko.

Mixing NFT's with Loot-- No, no, I swore that I would hate E.T. more, I swore it.

@@-Ryu It’s ok. E.T was just a bad game. These practices are just bad AND predatory.

To be fair, Atari are a bunch of necromancers.

They actually have sent an NFT to DrossRotzank as a gift Thing is, DrossRotzank is very against NFT and ranted about this so called "important package" they sent to him

@@YulsBolts bruh

I want to play devil's advocate, but they literally said their "customers just don't get it" so yeah they almost literally said they are idiots.

He's trying to insult the intelligence of people who've been playing video games for over 60-30yrs while this money gouging sockpuppet was still a inflammation in his father's crotch.

To be fair gamers are idiots, how much these companies make on micro transactions... billions cause idiots are willing to spend thousands playing a video game ... Idiots? I'd say so

Ubisoft: Hey do you want to be able to sell your digital copies of games instead of just keeping them forever? We have to use NFTs to do it You: NO I DON'T UNDERSTAND NFTS THEY'RE BAD I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU LALALALALALALALAL Keep being stupid bro.

@@MrsPhilosopher Addicts* not idiots, most players know what this crap is but can't help but want their next fix. At least that's what it was like back when I still played LoL.

Their wallets are already hurting

You're not wrong, but that's going to get harder as more AAA publishers embrace NFT tech.

@@ryankelly369 then I guess gaming will come to a end for myself and many others.

@@petekemp5287 could just play other games, AAA games have been shit for years.

You know gamers are morons and will buy anything anyways, right?

do not buy the NFT in the game I do it all the time I played these games and I don't buy them you can by them cheaply with cd keys you can cheat them

That doesn't make the NFTs go away. Hit them hard. Don't buy the game with NFTs in them. Buying the game still supports NFTs. You give these companies an inch and they will reach for your ass.

Don't think. Just consume product and get excited for next product.

I'd so love to see the complete catalog of publishers going with nfts to be marked Adult Only. Not 18+, AO. No physical displays in stores, no outdoor advertising, no random ads allowed. It would require a relatively small change in legislature, but honestly if the game itself allows for private person revenue generation it should be regulated that way. Try having multi million sales if you are legally barred from telling the broad public your product exists. One can dream...

The point of NFTS and cryptos is to avoid paying taxes bud. Like modern art, NFTs are just a vehicle for financial tricks and cons.

if little timmy is smart enough to know how to operate web3 sites that are broken 98% of the time, hats off to timmy lol

I'm a Millenial, but I HATE P2W and MTX in my games. Though, to be genuinely honest, I only buy Indie Games, so maybe my voice of dislike against P2W isn't that loud.

It's like a woman dressing provocatively and prancing around in the worst part of an already bad city. Really asking for it. "Ooops, look, my stock dropped, watch as I bend over and pick it up"

Considering the state Activision was in when Microsoft bought them, I think Ubisoft is only making themselves look more appealing to Microsoft.

@@jonnejaaskelainen Hope so too Keep going Ubisoft AND EA. Make it easier for your games to fail & not be able to get devs as fast as ya lose them. Then when you're completely fucked Microsoft/ Xbox will buy you, finish deal, & then beat the shit out of & kick out whoever made those companies horrible Then overhaul them to be awesome again

Kirby_succ.mp3

@@jonnejaaskelainen They're doing their work for them. That way, MS won't have to plant any stories to tank their stock.

They're probably putting a creator payback in their NFTs.

NFTs in games will not only enable real money trading, but make a literal legitimate profession out of it. Please tell me again how this is a bad thing.

@Spencer King It's only a bad thing if you care about the integrity of the games you play. They'll say it doesn't affect gameplay until it does, much like how lootboxes were "only cosmetic" until sports games and EA Battlefront II allowed you to buy a competitive advantage. So you tell me again where this is beneficial to a game's economy, it certainly wasn't welcomed in Diablo 3.

@@spencerking9662 a game is supposed to be a place to enjoy and relax not make money. I've been in the star atlas reddit for months now and i tell you nobody talks about the actual game everyone only talks about the NFTs, how to make money, what coin should you invest in and literally no talks about the game or what it's going to be/look like. is this what you want video games to be? ohh and making really money of video games is a lie they are telling you because you can already make money in video games by selling accounts or in some games gifting/transferring in-game items for money, yes it goes against their TOS but it dose happen.

> they are not bound to any game servers and will continue to exist even after the game is dead. unless you know, ubisoft owns the server that contains them and kills the server when they want. even if you are an NFT fan, you must understand that an NFT is just a proof of ownership of a digital asset, and digital assets can be deleted. read the TOS of ubisoft, any of there servers can be nuked at any time for any reason. youve agreed to this when you launched there game and ticked the box. no conditional in it that you will own your NFT's contracted digital assets FOLLOWING a server nuke that deletes them.

don't even pirate them don't buy em and don't talk about them just let them DIE. this is why this stuff will ALWAYS happen is because youtubers will continue to give them publicity with "rant" videos. just let the video game crash happen already

@@americanbadass88 let's just get everyone to just say jack shit. Say apathy is what brings upon change. If nobody interacts with it and nobody has the energy to give a fuck, then what's the point.

Stop freaking what? Ubisoft is trying to do something GOOD for the game world and you morons are crapping all over them because you don't understand NFTS! UBISOFT LITERALLY WANTS TO ALLOW YOU TO TRADE DIGITAL COPIES OF GAMES FOR MONEY TO OTHER PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU ALL SO AGAINST THIS?!?!?!?

@@spencerking9662 man, shut up, nobody cares about your crypto world wet dream

ubisoft games suck why would I pirate them? and if you like them, go ahead and buy them

Instead of scamming and cash in/out with iTunes, you used NFT instead

LOL this is the most insane anti-NFT comment I have seen yet. Man, you guys are clueless if you actually have come to THIS conclusion. What's next? We just start arresting rich people and shareholders, because they make easy money? This whole anti-NFT phase is embarrassing. You guys are gonna be awestruck

Agreed, and with the environment goals NFTs use WAY too much CO2 when buying/selling, it's literally polluting..

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 Awestruck by what? A useless technology whose only use is being a cash grab?

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 if you say so. There are instances where nfts can be of good use but I don't think any exec at ubisoft is interested in those.

@@Wasko2 Wait what? That wasn't chocalate milkshake?

You: "I won't ever buy a digital copy of a game that I'll be able to give to a friend or sell in the future" That's what you just said. You just repeat lies you hear because you don't know what an NFT is.

@@spencerking9662 Are you trolling? The video flaws the "you don't know what an nft is" comment. You should really watch the video. If you did, he clearly explains to all what an nft is and how irrelevant it is to gamers.

That's the problem. People cry about sweatshops but still need their iPhones. The same people who criticise these companies... how many will even have the self-control to stick to their guns and actually stay away like they said they would?

@@spencerking9662 except NFTs won't be the game copies, they'll be ingame items. Maybe you're the one that doesn't know something?

Indie developers are the backbone of innovating, fresh and enjoyable games for a while now, the big publishers like EA/Ubi/2k/Activision only push out rehashes while buying up smaller studios to strip them down.

I keep hearing Indie games are the new wave but no one is mentioning any indie games...😐

@@berrex5152 You gotta look with your eyes open dude, in the current steam sale I just bought : Deep Rock Galactic, A Plague Tale :Innocence, Dyson sphere program, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Timberborn and the not so indie but still not from a trash publisher, Days Gone. And all for less than the price of a newly released Legendary mega dick in my ass take all my money edition Ubisoft release Edit : Far: Lone Sails as well, forgot that...

@@MasterKill595 is "it takes 2" also another big one? Or was that by EA?

@@berrex5152 FNAF is probably the biggest one out there. Multi million dollar franchise.

There are about 400,000 wallets that hold NFTs. That's less than 400k people.

They listen to them because they have money.. lots of easy money they don't care for and will drop it on NFTs. I know on mobile games there are people that drop 100k/month, so they may wanr to tap into that.

Look at his Linked In page displayed at the beginning of the video. He had committed almost a decade to this grift.

Or maybe you just don't understand them. NFTs will enable you to sell your used digital games and DLC and microtransactions to other players instead of having them sit rotting away in your account forever long after you quit playing. PLEASE TELL ME HOW THIS IS BAD. GAME COMPANIES HAVE LITERALLY SPELLED OUT THIS PLAN FOR ALL OF YOU AND YOU REFUSE TO LISTEN. I FOR ONE WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SELL MY HUGE LIBRARY OF STEAM GAMES THAT I NO LONGER PLAY.

@@spencerking9662 Are you really that naive or just paid off?

@@spencerking9662 maybe go seek professional help.

@@spencerking9662 NFTS are NOT the same as selling your old used games, NFTs are literal JPeGs/pixels in games being traded, THEY DON'T FIT IN GAMING!

and now you understand why the people buying NFTs are taking advantage of this being early and will be rich because of it. you guys aren't the geniuses here.

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 When it goes up in smoke, y'all sure as shit won't be the genuises, so I don't know what you're bragging about. The more you run your mouth, the more you sound like one of those scaplers screwing everyone over for your own selfish gain.

Retro gaming is looking more and more enticing every day.

@@vxicepickxv I think the last big titles I bought that weren't on a massive sale were the last two MonHuns. I expect that to change as well soon enough, but yeah. Alternative or indie games are by far the best options bar none lately. Not just for the price point but the fact that you're buying a complete package 9/10 times.

The first thing I think about when I read this statement is the removal of youtube dislike. Even when overwhelming majority of people are against it, it's not enough to make them leave. Big corporations can get away with virtually anything nowadays.

@@knightdtd it's because RU-vid is only platform that is like RU-vid We need a platform where words aren't censored (don't de-monetize videos, do everything much better than RU-vid, & do its own new stuff too) That's what we need: A RU-vid Competitor Etc

@@y3l10wflash6 that will be hard

Call of Duty and Madden comes to mind quite fast. Game quality declined with every passing year, yet those game sell millions overall. I just watch the tin-can fire cycle from afar and wondering will this ever stop?

Well,it is,remember when micro transactions in fully priced video games were unthinkable? The backlash when it started to be reality? They literally forced it to be normalized. Broken games keep selling,skins costing more money than whole other games etc.Sad truth is,gamers will eat shit as long as it looks nice.

Kinda like the high guardian spice fiasco.

Pride. Not wanting to plainly admit their prey saw through their cheap snare.

I would love to believe that executives in any company will ever face REAL consequences for their abuses of power and abhorrent behavior... but unfortunately reality keeps butting in

In this case, "getting it" is getting said kick in the balls.

@@Wasko2 can't fix stupid lol.

You quite literally don't get it, you dunces. Ubisoft and gamestop are trying to enable you to **SELL YOUR DLC AND MICROTRANSACTIONS AND DIGITAL GAMES JUST LIKE YOU COULD BEFORE GAMES ALL BECAME DIGITAL** And you don't want it. They're trying to give you a way to make money by playing video games how you normally would. AND YOU DON'T WANT IT. ARE YOU BRAINDEAD?!?!?! ARE ALL OF YOU BRAINDEAD?!??!?!

@@spencerking9662 Keep crying baby

@@spencerking9662 its fascinating that these people dont get what gamestop is trying to give some of that power back to the players. But on the other side I cant really blame them since dlc's and in game item shops have royally fuc*** many games up so scepticism is healthy.

*At least, for now.*

Yeah, Microsoft has been good to gamers for a while now, and I think that'll still be the case as long as Phil Spencer is the boss. It won't last forever though, and eventually the lack of competition will show.

When you say "Castlevania is still owned by Konami" in my presence, to this day you can see me shedding a single tear, melancholicly rolling down my cheek.

Give up on classic IPs. Some things have to die. Make new IPs the new classics. All of those classic IPs weren't classic on release, they became classic because they earned it.

Out with the old in with the new shit. (Mark said keep it clean, do this...)

RAID SHADOW LEGENDS....

Ditto

@@weemadangus1834 he only did it once then proceed to trash their content

@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 lol didnt know he did once! I was just pointing at the go to thought when watching this video "RAID SHADOW LEGENDS".

I prefer to call them cryptotards and NFTards, they don't deserve respect. At least clowns traditionally brought happiness to kids.

I haven't gotten a Ubisoft game since Rayman Legends

I havent bought any since Unity lol. Ac Origins did piqued my interest, but didnt end up buying it cause of the gameplay. Its a nice change sure, but i played too many W3 and souls games and got sick of that style of combat. Eventually all interest gone down the drain once i learn the story sucks and they also put shady ass microtransactions.

About >90% of the games I've bought and played in the past 12 years have been indies and small studios. And theyre actually FUN GAMES. no hyperbole on that number either. I have no regrets and am happily gaming away at a mountain of cheap but lovingly crafted indie/small dev games. There's so much good content out there just waiting to be discovered. Highly encourage people to jump in. And yes, plenty of crap too. Of course. But I still have more good indie games than I could ever hope to finish, and more comimg out by the day. Good Hunting! Have fun.

Yeah, in the last couple of years my games have been old Final Fantasies, Hollow Knight, Ori 1 and 2, Celeste, Guacamelee 1 and 2, Axiom Verge and Hades I had more fun with any of this titles than with any AAA game that I have tried recently, the last one that I bought looked gorgeus but lost me after 1 hour.

China has banned cryptocurrencies in September, and a lot of other Asian countries are cracking down on them as well, mostly due to energy costs, and some Western countries, like Spain and the UK are considering to do so as well. Crypto and NFTs aren't going to last, once countries start making their own digital currencies they will want to eliminate any unwanted competition.

didn't Ubisoft only sell 4 NFTs? its hardly a silent mass. but rather a silent few idiots.

Cina banned cryptocurrencies also kids aren't allowed to play more than like 2 hours per week your argument is invalid. China gamers will not be allowed to engage in crypto related games.

that's the whole point about nfts. why should you want to own anything that isn't limited?

Unless I’m missing something, this seems like a really quick way to lose money and lose it fast, even outside the fact that just about no one wants this. What do they stand to gain with this outside of not letting customers actually own the game they buy?

They gain control over the price, and the distribution of the product

That is very much the case. Why make skins for $15 that like 50000 people will buy when you can make 15 skins that will potentially be traded repeatedly by "investors" for up to $50000 and take 20% cut from all transactions.

Exactly. They're suggesting it's about making things "unique", but it's really about making artificial scarcity so they can charge more. In otherwords: Artificial supply & demand.

But there are plenty of people like myself who do not play multiplayer games.

I promised myself I wont play any games purposely made poor where you have to pay extra for a 'solution'. Being it P2W, or for "convenience" or NFT's. They can die on that hill.

@Zold Agreed. We should have had much harder resistance to these ideas

@@BasedChad1 Man I wish we got laws against this, too bad ubisoft probably has

We seem to be in the laughing and fighting faze...

Not to mention the Sexual Allegations that have been going on for a decade.

My days of not buying Ubisoft games certainly are coming to a middle.

The customer is also incredibly stupid which is why pre-orders are still a thing.

@@GUMMRUCHK unless it’s elden ring 😂

@@GUMMRUCHK The thing is, it doesn't literally mean the customer is "right." It just means don't tell your customers they're wrong. It's bad business.

Oh look another post that has NO IDEA what they're talking about what you think NFTs are: more microtransactions what NFTs are, what they have TOLD YOU THEY ARE: A way to allow you to sell your DLC and microtransaction items from mystery boxes to other players, as well as your digital games. But no, don't bother reading a freaking THING about NFTS, just keep being lied to on twitter. Jesus christ.

How about don’t buy from them at all.