I Hate Ubisoft… 

Modern gaming simply lost ability to not fuck up their titles.

*BREAKING NEWS, UBISOFT RUINS UBISOFT GAME AND NOBODY IS SHOCKED, MORE AT 11.* I don't understand how people can play XDefiant and expect it to be any less predatory.

Instead of XDefiant, if Ubisoft wanted a flagship FPS title, they should be pumping WAY more money and resources into Siege. Almost 10 years after launch and Siege is still pretty damn popular. It could be a true juggernaut if Ubi gave the game the backing it needs.

Hey muta love your videos! I'm more of a newer watcher of your videos. I started honestly watching after you and karls jobst made videos about exposing the completionist! Honestly incredible work! I honestly started watching your videos more than most of any other youtuber who makes content about many things that affect tech gaming and other such things! Hope to see more great content!

I get that ubisoft would want to replace the Year Pass from siege since it was a massive money maker but the pricing makes no sense the year pass was $40 and came with 8 operators and some bonus content. $120 a year comes with 2-3 ops max and a bunch of cosmetics when people already have decked out cosmetics for their operators

I was high when watching this and my god it felt like this was never gonna end. I looked at the time and im like damn muta really just went on about this for 15 min in one breath. I aint even mad, im impressed

R6 had a season pass similar to this before they added the battle pass and honestly those were only worth it for the weapon skin and early operator access. They had the Damascus skin and the volcano skin I still use to this day

This comment will be lost among others, but I need to say it: I fully sympatize with you. I followed R6S for years since released even if I never played it - to me among other modern military shooters this game was rather inspirational in how it was structured, released and played, and I wished it well. Seeing it be mishandled and scheduled to be milked to death after it was raised above the initial botched release by dedicated fans like you and developers who, at some point, did give a dann, is just upsetting.

Guys, they do this because they know you will buy anyway. People who still play siege are dumb consumers who agree with any dumb update reasonings. And now here we are. Actual players have left this shit a while ago.

10 lvl jump doesn't seem that much until they bottle neck progress squeezing you to purchase the subscription

Sign of they thinking the game is dying? - Game it's dying. - Let's try then to get every last penny we possibly could out of it. That is a possibility, but I think a quite slim one. Do you know what this is? The answer to the question I was wondering when they announced the marketplace: why would they make this that will potentially reduce their income with people getting the battlepass from the marketplace? Sure, there will be people who will put in more money to get enough RP for some cool stuff that can't be earned otherwise, but enough to compensate the other? I don't know, probably yes, because whales. Well, ffs. This is also silly in that, if you play it regularly, then it's not worth because you're getting it anyway and, if you don't play enough of it, then you're not gonna have enough time on it to make it worth it.

No matter how much money a game makes, no matter how insanely successful it is, it will NEVER be enough to satisfy theses corporations.

Crazy since I'm SURE they made a motzah with the online trading. I sold about $60AUD worth of Y1 & Y2 skins to make 160,000 R6 credits.

Honestly...I can't even be mad at Ubisoft anymore. I hate this as much as anyone else but it really is on us gamers at this point. Shit like this and $130 AC preorders wouldn't be happening if enough of us voted with our wallets. But every time some expensive or cash-grab comes out enough people still buy it. I think it was an Asmongold vid where he showed that almost half a million people already preordered the $130 AC Shadows game...

XDefiant is good at the moment, but I can tell Ubisoft will find a way to ruin it. Like all good things under their belt.

smaller game devs and indie games are keeping the gaming industry from going under

Marketing is the bane of society.

Hadn't been playing the game since 2021, yesterday I downloaded the game back again and holy shit what happened to this game, in 2021 I thought the game couldn't have been worse. I had been playing the game since 2016 and as the years passed i saw the game lose its soul both with monetization and with the changes to the gameplay this game used to be semi realistic and serious but they ruined it with stupid operators so that kids would come and buy a copy of the game. I really miss the old days of siege

Rockstar Games really gave Ubisoft the idea with their gta+ membership garbage

AAA gaming is such a dystopia now. Buy the game (normal), pay for a subscription to play online, pay for the battle pass, now pay for another subscription.

Hearing everyone say "BOOOOO" to it was really good. I am glad people actually stand up to this stuff.

"...as always we listen to your feedback." As the crowd starts booing, which they won't listen to lol.

"When does your game continue to be game, instead of being a fucking shopping mall" - muta 2024. Beautifully perfect quote to capture the modern era of gaming

How ubisoft still exists is beyond me. You'd think people would get fed up on being robbed.

I miss the days where getting 100 headshots for a red tiger camo skin was the only way

Man I remember when we thought Operation Health was the low point of Siege...

“Our company is about to go under because we make shit games, so let’s squeeze as much money out of the old good ones that people still play” , such a shame that something celebrated needs to turn into a money pig.

whats crazy is that cheaters are running freely on all platforms, elo glitching, so many bugs and messed up animations, but lets get a subscription service for them. ridiculous

Ubisoft is a company where if they went bankrupt I'd slightly cheer and hope what little talent works there gets grabbed by someone else. I truly believe this company is a blight to gaming. They push nothing but bad idea's that's harmful to customers.

Welp, Ubi’s gonna go back to chocking out their golden goose.

"I hate ubisoft" Welcome to the party. Its been bumpin for a few years.

“You will own nothing and be happy” - World Economic Forum

"Quadruple A" gaming, where every game is a "live service"(unfinished) game and has a subscription service tacked onto it, on top of the many subscription services you're already paying for stuff like PS+, Ubi+, Netflx, etc. etc., and you don't own a damn thing. The future of gaming, everyone.

No surprises here 💀

Ubisoft being ubisoft as usual

There is a simple solution. Dont Buy UbiSoft games

They see all those players with 500+ hours and decide to monetize the dedicated player base. The executives are so out of touch with reality all they are going to do is drive players away. The players who buy the membership are going to feel bad when they start failing to matchmake or keep getting matched against the same players as the player count plummets.

Honestly I'm glad the Bois and I moved on from that pile of shit. Used to be soo good.....

My bf has spent so much money on this game on skins alone. He loves exchanging stuff in their store. I will never understand why skins cost so much money…

My biggest problem with this game is that when Playstation added the Premium version of PS Plus, which acted like a psuedo game pass because it gave you several games for free with the upgraded subscription, it literally ripped the game from my library despite me having paid full price for it back in 2017. I'm not going to pay extra for a service to play a game that I owned for 5 years and certainly not going to pay full price a second time either.

I used to be big into Siege, would hop on every day after work for a few hours, played with my best mate, got some sick TKs on him, and this was all in 2019. The game was phenomenal. Then in 2020 he passed away, I stopped playing so frequently and hopped on one day with some other friends and my word being a South African siege player was really terrible. Servers were so limited, the player pool was small, no way of changing location without a VPN and when you did change you have high ping and get kicked almost immediately. So I quit again and now seeing this it hurts me seeing a game franchise I loved so much being nothing more than a money grab for Ubislop.

I see Ubisoft has taken notes from Rockstar Games with a subscription service. Even though i don't play Rainbow Six Siege, this will back fire like all Ubisoft nonsense.

A season full of nothing except a bill.

Suddenly the phrase ''you'll own nothing and be happy'' by infamous Klaus Schwab doesn't seem that far fetched ''conspiracy'' theory.. every service etc. is slowly transforming into a monthly/yearly subscription! 😩

People kinda deserve that for continuing to support Ubisoft.... I'm happy

Ubisoft is clueless.

It's genuinely insane how greedy Ubisoft is... It's only a matter of time before they ruin all that they have and still charge us $60 for it.

Yup, i really feel like we are very close to "pay per reload" level of monetization. Its getting VERY bad. Whats worse is they are doing this to FULL PRICE GAMES. $70 yet shoving in battle passes and bundles into every damn full price game. Would be different if this was a FREE to play game. Everyone saying $70 now for new games makes sense cuz its "more costly to make games" are just sucking big corporations dicks SO damn deep and hard when its about GREED and the monetization in full price games like this is proof

I used to be a recruit main because I didn't really care about any of the operators and their ability. Now with the recruit rework I don't even want to touch the game because the one thing that made the class interesting where you can choose your faction and get a different armor level and weapon set was really fucking cool. That's ubislop ❤

I quit years ago when they introduced the battlepass

It's been nearly a decade since this game released, and it released as a gritty, realistic, incredible game - now it is complete and utter trash. They ruined all the maps, all the "characters" are stupid and sci-fi now, and it's riddled with microtransactions. Ubisoft, stop with this trainwreck! Just make a new Rainbow Six with a good single player story and multiplayer again (fully realizing this is impossible for Ubisoft today)

Ex Eve Online player here... Welcome to the club. Eve Online Devs (Crown Control Productions) Got a dedicated fanbase, where the paid accounts per player was over 2, (so $20-30/month for the person depending on the deals used to buy the subs). And they still press for more money. The whole time, the devs keep trying other games, and just get failure after failure with Eve Online players bankrolling the whole thing. 5 flop games and 5 canceled games, and as a reward, they try to monetize us harder. But then they got bought by Pearl Abyss of Black Desert Online infamy. They went from it being arguable if Eve was pay to win (Credit card warriors would inevitably just feed and make for blingy killmails, even if they could fund it all with a credit card) To trying to push textbook pay to win stuff (Golden ammo, premium booster). I lost motivation and quit then. But it seems like the community is doing its best to fight the devs and keep the utter ruination of the game at bay, but those arent fun fights we're paying monthly to have. So R6 players, I feel you, sucks to just feel like some game companys pay pig and thats it.

Just stop crying and stop buying their products?? I really don’t understand why you would consume their products if you dislike what the company does… at this point it’s just whining and doing nothing that matters (like boycott these companies)

Sold a rare skin on the marketplace, got some good credits out of it. Never gonna invest more money in this game anymore, especially not in this membershit crap 🤷🏻‍♂️ this is pure cow milking

GTA+ was really the testing ground for this. Once they got away with it, I knew a lot of online games were doomed.

"There were years we didn't even get new maps." *Laughs in CS player*

Ubisoft : What? Do you not have credit cards?

The Ubisoft law. Any gaming company that makes decisions from an executive position will inevitably ruin their own product. EA, Activision, Gearbox, Bethesda, just to name a few.

Reminds me of fallout 76. Their subscription is $100 a year and they lock something really important behind it. Infinite storage for resources. I just stopped playing the game after that. It feels so awful

Before R6 siege launched, there was a game called Ghost recon phantoms. I sunk a near 1200 hours into it. The same think happend to it by they time siege was released. I got so fucked up that it was no longer playable without spending money. Eventually , they closed the servers December 2016. I still miss that game.

Man Ubisoft, really makes me ubi-SOFT am I right fellas?!

For me, Siege is impossible to jump back into because of the flood of unfamiliar Operators and aggressive monetization. It's unforgiving for new/returning players. On that same note, I've been enjoying XDefiant, but that game has bad money grab practices too. They charge $10 for a basic black weapon with the iconic three green dots slapped on it.

What is even funnier is that R6S would never have become a game if the game they were actually working on was canceled for being boring. R6S was a last ditch effort to save on already developed content... This game as not a Ubisoft invention. It was what some devs wanted and proposed after the intended game was canceled.

they will never live down "quadruple A"

I always wanted to play that game, whelp, Ubisoft ruined it.

Not only did they add this shameless subscription service but also this season they completely butchered our boy recruit. No more 5 man shotgun rushes, no m249 lmg rushes and still has no shield option.

Hey, it's not like Counter Strike is any better than Six Siege, still no proper anti-cheat since the inception of 1.6. Crazy.

This is pretty much why I stopped playing triple a multiplayer games. So many useless microtransaction cosmetics, you'd honestly think you were playing a mobile game.

i REEEEAAALLY wish they stopped spending money on cinematic bullshit in a MULTIPLAYER FPS GAME.... and just made the game better.. or actually added cool new stuff.. not gadgets.. not new operators.. new guns.. new attachments.. better hit reg. permanent game modes.. STOP RUINING SHIT...goddamn its not that hard Ubisoft. Literally give me 2 years.. 20k and i can single handedly.. LEARN CODING..and fix your damn game for the player base.. no one cares about you making it better for Pro's alone.. like just no. make the game good.. and you receive pros.

And yet, you and others will still play it so nothing will change.

Xdefiant is up next on the chopping block

To be fair, if you were like me and used to buy the year pass for R6. If you buy the subscription for the first month of each season it is almost like the year pass because you get the battlepass, the skin or whatever. The battlepass costs $10 normally so if you buy the first month subscription for $10 then you basically get whatever rewards come with subscription for free. However, it is incredibly important to cancel the subscription before the next month starts because the value you get from the battle pass drops off DRAMATICALLY. We are also not sure if you will always get the bonus reward for every quarter of the year because if you buy the subscription June 11 - June 18 you get an extra ash skin bundle and 600 r6 credits, is this a one time deal I donno. Because basically every month of the subscription after the first all you get is a piece of the warden bundle (which I think the uniform and headgear looks good but not $10 or $5 worth good), the 10 BP level ups, which I 100% agree with Mutahar, the target audience for the subscription is people who play R6 a lot so they would have already hit tier 100 anyway (unless they for some reason don’t play) which means you convert 10 BP level ups to overflow tiers which means that is actually 2 alpha packs (random not guaranteed legendaries or epics), then you get a single bravo pack (again could be an uncommon which would be incredibly disappointing). You do not get any r6 credits from the subscription (apart from the ash bonus reward one) because the right side of the rainbow six siege membership banner is stuff that you get within the battle pass. Only the left side and the middle (as well as the ash bundle top of the banner) you actually get from the membership itself. TLDR: If you get the membership after first month of the season all you guaranteed to get is: 2 alpha packs, 1 bravo pack and one piece of a 3 part legendary bundle all for $10 a month or $5 a month for the $80 per year subscription. My conclusion: Honestly I’d think about it if the yearly price was $60 instead of $80 because then the pricing would seem more like $5, $5, $5 -> new season $5, $5, $5 -> new season (repeat). They made the minimum price of subscription as $10 because that’s what it costs to buy the battlepass, they don’t want you to get the battlepass for cheaper than $10 which makes sense, but buying anything more than the first month of each season is a waste unless they make the rewards better in the other months or decrease the price. Also I also agree with Mutahar that I don’t think the weapon skin looks that good, however, if the gun skin was an exotic animated weapon skin, I’d be tempted.

If you think this is greed, you really need to make a video on the new league of legends skin bundle… shits insanity..

For the first few years of the game industry doing this I was playing but kinda annoyed. I then grew up. I realised that if I supported games like this by playing them I would be part of the problem. I stopped and started playing more indy games that don't pull this bs. It blows my mind that there are still people around my age keeping this shit up. Muta, you are part of the problem.

Ubisoft has literally 1 title that was working for them and they thought "hold my beer" when it came to ubisofting" it into the ground

Ubisoft never fails to cut corners, Siege is now the prime example of development on a tight budget… there is no doubt that siege is running on a skeleton crew, they cut back on server investment, they’re cosmetic team are probably just interns because they all usually suck, there are no new maps, no new guns, lack of creativity in making new operators. It’s really a shame on how lame each year is becoming compared to the early days of Siege. All went downhill when the old director and siege team transitioned out.

Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with us not playing there quadruple A games

Bungie took away tons of content and tried to pretend it was good for the players, this includes expansions that I paid for and never got to play.

also why does no one ever talk about when between Y2S2 and Y2S3 they changed the lighting and overall graphics quality of their game to look like shit? they went from dynamic and realistic setting to more lower resolution and funky lighting and made the game feel more like an arcade game rather than the realistic tactical FPS they were aiming for. like people gonna say "well they fixed the lighting for the day time outside being able to see inside better" thats your dumb fault for shoving for face in a hole you cant see, maybe drone and think about what you need to do. which brings the issue of we made a dev/community dynamic where they rather ruin the game to adjust to playstyles that were lessons to be learned and made it way too forgiving. I miss siege, not call of overwatch.

Fallout 76 & GTA + Definitely Set The Tone For This Bullshit

Honestly the two games I was looking forward to playing during summer break from uni was Tarkov and Siege, just so disappointed in the new season, felt like those mid-season reinforcements they used to do.

Remember when we complained about loot crates? When we shat on Activision for releasing another futuristic cod (despite it having a great campaign), when we had console wars and argued overnight on which franchise was objectively better... Nowadays we play mediocre games and roll with the new skins release. They make us pay for literal textures (.png) to slap on meshes nobody cares about. At least back then those PNGs had meaning. They were hard to unlock. They symbolized an accomplishment. Now you pay to skip the grind and get it right away. Why? Because the game isn't fun nor worth grinding. Like seriously, a decade from now, what are we gonna look back at and miss? ofc there are gems still, but the kings have fallen.

The dumbest thing about this shit is that R6 isn't even F2P 😆

Play Ground Branch! R6S is pay to win, gambling, live service bullshit, Ground Branch is not.

They're copying fortnite smh.

I saw the news and was like oh mudahar is going to be pissed

I stopped caring about r6 when they took away night maps i don't care if they gave one side or the other an advantage, they were fun to play

i warned you all. i told you when PayDay 2 did it. i told you this would never stop. you all gryped and dismissed my issue because i wasn't a rich boy and still got stiffed. you didn't listen when Destiny 2 did it. you're not listening now. Muta isn't one to turn from these moments but here, multiply his rage and disheartened let down mindset by maybe a hundred, and that's my feelings for the last 6+ years. FYI, everybody who bought destiny 2, the DLCs and other stuff before it went free, got nothing for the loyalty or for being basically the reason the game was maintained. same for PayDay 2. then Konami decided MGS:Survive was a good idea, and dropped that immediately when it wasn't accepted by the gamers. Ubisoft was always gonna do this. i'm not sad it happened, i'm happy. hopefully, the new devs and new generation of gamers who value gameplay over 8K textures on a 1080P display with models that have millions of polys and verts. when you make gameplay the main focus, no image will improve it. Minecraft is THE example. i'm glad muta has seen the dark pit we're falling into and i'm glad he's falling in too. maybe now there's enough of us who still see light, that this can be turned around. you're all too bothered about feelings and "appropriation" to say what you really mean, out loud. complacency, breeds pain. when you see atrocity or hypocrisy and say nothing, you're the one to blame for the continuation for it. speak out loud and make your real intentions known, and suddenly you're not the problem and you see everybody else being silent, realising, that truth or lies, what you say doesn't matter if everybody else involved, says nothing. have a goal, a target and a reason, then you can join Muta and me and the rest of us OrdinaryGamers in complaining. just because you say "this is FUCKING RETARDED" doesn't mean you're wrong. it's to the point and encapsulates the perception of the whole thing. if you dismiss someone because they use their full extent of the language, you're too weak to join the conversation at all. and if being called weak upsets you, you're weaker than i thought. it's either agregious, or it's tolerable. this has been agregious behaviour from the gaming industry for a decade or more at this point. and if you disagree, then you need to give better reasons than what OrdinaryGamers can give for the contrary. and we have a lot to remind you how wrong you are for being quiet. and this is just a stupid game thing. this isn't even real life yet. those who can't afford the entry to even be capable of installing the game, aren't thinking about $120 a year for a "membership". if you feel wronged and stolen from by abusing your trust, then i suggest you highlight and detail your experiences and then share them. being quiet hasn't helped, so fucking speak up. Muta and me can't be loud enough. it's not a chorus if the audience isn't joining in. do we agree that you should be more outspoken/vocal regarding your convictions and expectations from these companies?

Why are you whining Muta? Don't you know how hard it is for Ubisoft and its shareholders? If they don't do this subscription service, they will only be able to buy 2 private jets instead of 3. Just 2! What if both jets break down? They need that 3rd jet and this subscription thing will ensure Ubisoft and their investors will be happy.

Ubisoft is one game company I stay away from. Consistently shit.

Ahh thank you ubislop for giving me a choice of a usless costco pass

Ruin a whole event just to promote a subscription is a exactly what ubisoft would do.

This is pretty overdramatic. And you're mad over the wrong thing completely. The subscription service gives infinitely more content for it's price than the same amount in R6 credits would give you. This instantly makes bitching about the new service pretty pathetic. Because the issue isn't the service, it's the pricing of ALL their digital goods. If anything this service is the very first R6S microtransaction that's even close to being worth the money. And it still sucks. Showing just how shit the normal shops pricing is. Complain about their pricing, not the first thing of decent value they've made

At least you get content. They finally gave us a new map in For Honor after a 4 year wait. And it's a map that already existed in the game, it just wasn't available for the most popular game mode

I’m a Game Developer graduate (Art) and I was eyeing at Ubisoft as a potential place to start (or at least start when I had the skills to apply working for the big companies), but after seeing this and the general state of developers right now, I think I’ll be an indie dev for the time being until things get sorted out, hopefully. 🤞

this is entirely entertaining because i quit siege when the team decided in a game where recoil pattern is basically everything that they would stop adding new guns with new recoil patterns.

It really is cool to see that Ubisoft added a subscription to the game while I'm still getting booted from servers by Battleye because of "Bad service version". Whatever the fuck that means.

Stopped playing siege when them made dumb map changes and added weird operators. Now it’s even worse 💀 I’m not getting on for maybe a decade

League players and Rainbow6 players 🤝

The New season looks ass too 💀