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It's funny because Ubisoft+ was just announced, and you could play all Ubisoft titles for a monthly fee. Sounded like a huge effort. I wonder if the sudden cut
by a1371 4y ago
It's funny because Ubisoft+ was just announced, and you could play all Ubisoft titles for a monthly fee. Sounded like a huge effort.
I wonder if the sudden cut is part of Google preparing for a recession.
- cronix 4y agoI would think gaming would go up during a recession. Gaming can be very cheap entertainment once the hardware is purchased. Like for the price of 4 movies in the theater at $15 a pop that might be 6 or 7 hours long in total, I can play a game for 40x that long over months for the same price and not leave my house.
- scarface74 4y agoThe stock market is not the economy. There is no recession. Unemployment is super low. A recession is what we say in 2008.
- seabrookmx 4y agoIt's fair to say we're in a unique/different position than 2008. But the definition of a recession has always been two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, and that has in fact happened.
- surfpel 4y agoThat is one specific definition of a recession. It's funny to me because if we're resorting to semantics and nitpicking to prove whether or not there is a massive and broadly defined societal issue going on, then it probably isn't really happening... at least not enough to write home about.
- maxfurman 4y agoRecessions can move very slowly. Many of the more obvious effects of the 2008 crisis didn't happen until 2009 as the contagion spread outward. It is possible that the recession has already started even if the worst economic effects are yet to come. At the very least we are in the downward part of the cycle, and we have yet to see the next bottom.
- seabrookmx 4y agoIt's not semantics or nitpicking.. it's a fact. It's literally the Oxford dictionary definition of recession. It may not be a severe recession. It may not affect our quality of life all that much. Media may be blowing it out of proportion. It's not my goal to argue either way (I'm honestly not qualified to do so and it seems most experts don't know yet). But saying "it isn't really happening" is just false. We don't get to just redefine words based on our feelings.
- metadat 4y agoGoogle's behavior alone (or any large company, for that matter) doesn't determine whether we're in a recession or not. The unemployment rate is still super low.
- sofixa 4y agoJust announced? Ubisoft+ on Stadia was released like in mid-2021.