Yes yes, everyone knows the scale of military industry is measured in billions wasted spent and not in output or quality. Look at the F35s, a shining example of money well spent… The biggest problem of EU’s military Industry is that they’ve been preparing to fight a sci-fi war and forgot artillery et al are still a thing. Otherwise, not worried at all.
It’s refreshing to see people understanding, and so succinctly posing, the shades of grey in this matter rather than the typical kneejerk black and white takes.
Oh, moving the goalposts already. First they were imaginary, now they have rookie numbers… Ok…
Only someone who was never forced to outsource critical software to low pay companies basically sweatshoping software, thinks outsourcing is equal throughout the world. Everyone loses in that chain except the C type that shows nice numbers that quarter for a nice performance number. Meanwhile shit like the one above propagates like wildfire.
TIL SAAB, Rheinmetall, D’Assault, Glock, H&K, Thales, Airbus, et al are figments of my imagination.
And that was just from the top of my head.
Stridsvagn coming to NATO armies FTW!
Or stick it in the man, that’d work too.
Subcontracted to Indian, Ucranian and other low income countries. You get what you pay for.
They’re going to have shit value aren’t they… Poor Volta PTSD intensifies.
This type of disconnect is what happens when the media is more concerned about being in their sponsor’s good graces than complying with their obligation to their audience. Next time, politely decline Disneyland tickets and other freebies, ya know, like the code of journalistic ethics dictate…
Now, queue accusations of misoginy and whatever a loud minority of idiots does, while the overall message, that traditional outlets should not have these huge conflicts of interest undisclosed, gets drowned in the shit flinging by those with megaphones, vs the silent majority.
Veilguard didn’t fail because it had post op scars as a character option (but man, drama youtubers cashed in hard on that one), it failed because, apparently, nobody in the development team was as worried about shipping a good, well written and entertaining game, as they were with trauma dumping.
Edit: For the record, the laugh is for hyperbole, I’m pissed because this broken system results in further layoffs of people who were just caught in the meat grinder. UNIONISE yesterday!
All of this because some dude in the country with more guns per capita in the world, can’t shoot for shit.
You may want to start on some qetiapine. Get well soon.
Did you learn the word strawman recently? Do you know what it means? It’s your default reply to anyone calling out your unreasonable emotional outbursts of hatred towards ubisoft.
Thank you for validating my point. Appreciated.
Of course the cheapest console which, furthermore, is geared for children, will sell gangbusters. You know what else sells gangbusters? Roblox, Fortnite, CS skins, et al. Also geared towards children and teenagers. It’s like there’s a pattern there correlating to underdeveloped brains…
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Zelda. A link to the past is on my top 10. I am however quite cynical and can clearly see when a company is basically predatory towards the ignorance/susceptibility of its user base.
Nintendo caters to a captive audience of children of all ages that have exactly 0 critical thinking. More than half of Nintendo’s releases of the past decade were shovelware leveraging the fanbase for their characters, like Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. It’s the pepsi man equivalent of the modern era. For every masterpiece, there are two or three shovelware games with low production cost.
It was certainly my bad, I’ve known the pig wrestling adage for an eternity and I still engaged. Lesson not learned probably.
I’m arguing against the original comment, not the edited version. I’m amazed this type of deplorable behaviour jumped from reddit to here. What a pathetic human being one has to be to become so intellectually dishonest.
Which is absolutely rewriting history, because that is false. I don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about, other than multiplayer I don’t remember always online games from Ubi. Which is funny, because the much loved doom series doesn’t let me play without a Bethesda account and that fucking shit is a single player game.
The proof that this is a FUD push from a potential buyer is that people like you have access to the Internet but still have an unreasonable position based on false premises.
GFWL list: the overwhelming majority of these games are single player and yet you needed to be online to play them. Ubisoft didn’t normalize jack shit, that’s all on Microsoft, together with the push to pay to play online.
forcing users to be always online while playing
invasive and harmful DRM
overpriced and under-developed DLC
unfinished and buggy games
boring and predictable writing
repetitive and checklist-style open worlds
extra launchers in addition to your actual launcher
removing access to games you’ve bought
Please don’t rewrite history: Always online -> Microsoft started that trend with GFWL et al
DRM -> Industry standard, at least they don’t persecute people like Nintendo does
DLC -> No clue, patient gamer, buy the complete edition years later. I was however, under the impression that’s actually a Bethesda special, horse armour and all.
Buggy games -> Let me introduce you to Cyberpunk77
Writing -> Jap, it’s shit, like 90% of the games today because writers are expensive so “we use AI”
Open World -> BOTW is worse than contemporaneous Ubi games, 0 complaints. To this day, The Division 1 is a top 3 atmospheric and designed open worlds ever to release.
Launchers -> Rockstar, Epic, Origin/EA, BattleNet, GoG-Galaxy, Bethesda, XboxApp, Bedrock Edition, et al.
Access removal -> Pasmophobia, Destiny 2, GTAIV, any non cracked GFWL game, basically any digital purchase is not owned. The worse is really GFWL, I have a library of over 30 physical disks that I cannot play legally because reverse engineering a game’s copy protection is against the law. I have the physical copy that I paid for! Actual consequences to MS? 0 At least now we have a campaign to stop that from happening thanks to Ubi’s stupid the crew move.
Basically Ubi is not better or worse than current publishers, shit, ActiBlizz and EA are far far worse but…
Ubisoft just gets flack because Microsoft wants to buy them on the cheap. They allegedly helped stage an attempted hostile takeover in 2018 but it failed and Ubi ended up enlisting investments from Tencent. Since then MS has allegedly spent quite strongly to acquire the embattled publisher’s catalog on the cheap.
edit: The comment I’m replying to has been edited. @[email protected] is not a very intellectually honest person.
Playing devil’s advocate, could it have been used to avoid persecution of these people now that the Emperor has returned and the crazies think they have mandate to “hunt”? There’s a non negligible chance that whoever decided this, lives in California, and thinks of themselves as quite liberal, they’re just too greedy to quit the job at Meta because that 6-7 figure income is worth it even when it means being complicit to the 4th Reich.
Europe downscaled their artillery shell production capacity intentionally after the cold war ended. Russia got a significant portion of their ammo from NK. That comparison as a benchmark is ridiculous. I don’t even know why I waste my time. That’s some Radio Free Europe BS.