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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Fucking, brain dead tool.

Thank whatever is sacred to you that these mindless drones picked video games. Have no doubt that it this same person hadn't flunked out of medical school, they'd be running a chain of hospitals somewhere saying, "patients need to just get used to bleeding more and for longer to support our profit model".

[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a medical student, I have a negative amount of trust in and/or respect for anyone in the healthcare sector that has a business degree.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago

The world is run by people who claim to have business degrees and then they make decisions that even a drunk would think are erroneous.

My country is run by someone with a business degree and he's an utter moron.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

As well you should.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Medicine has been corrupted for just as long as video games, if not longer, unfortunately. These soulless husks in business suits are everywhere, unfortunately.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem are the investors and executives that are there solely to suck money, that don't care about quality or sustainability and will instantly jump ship as soon as they finish destroying the company, to latch on the next thing.

To them it's not good enough for a business to be stable, it's not good enough for it to be profitable. No, it has to be always more profitable than before, infinitely. If they reached the limit, then they will take it apart to get more money.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I've never really understood this mentality of business types. Invariably their attempts to get more money lead to them getting less in the long run. They all suffer from an inability to delay gratification.

Far apart from anything else if you've got 10 billion dollars just put it in the bank and live off the interest, you're still making money, even though profits are stable.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Feels like at some point it's like an addiction. Folks got enough money to enjoy the rest of their lives doing anything they want and leave plenty to their families, but they gotta make number go big. They should go play Cookie Clicker or something, instead of ruining society.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They do.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I don’t think I’ve ever hated reading anything more than that.

Good god.