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> Do note that this doesn’t appear to be affecting the Remastered rerelease, though keep in mind that would require an additional purchase as the original relea
by smileybarry 4y ago
> Do note that this doesn’t appear to be affecting the Remastered rerelease, though keep in mind that would require an additional purchase as the original release does not grant you access to it.
Ah, great. So poor little Ubisoft doesn’t want to pay for the activation servers of Liberation HD and Liberation HD++. How nice of them to drop just the older, original version and not even offer the working remastered version to existing owners.
- lelandfe 4y ago> not even offer the working remastered version to existing owners I can't believe they're not doing this. The remastered version is frequently on sale for just $20, and revoking access is clearly a PR nightmare. If Ubisoft so dearly needs to shut down these servers, why not just gift existing owners the upgrade?
- toyg 4y agoProbably because the cost of the PR nightmare is either not easily quantifiable, or simply an acceptable loss; wheras the potential "forced profits" by people having to buy the remaster are fairly easy to predict.
- Jiro 4y agoBecause if they do, the next time they sell a remastered anything, people will think "I don't need to buy this because I'll get it anyway when the servers for the original version run out," costing them sales.
- account42 4y agoYou clearly overestimate the average gamer's patience.
- usrusr 4y agoBut that PR fallout hits Valve much harder than Ubisoft, because unlike Ubisoft Valve still has a reputation to lose. That reputation is the main source of the stranglehold Valve is holding the entirety of PC publishers in (except Blizzard). They might in fact consider the PR nightmare a positive side-effect of shutting down, leveling the playing field.