You don’t understand our entire society is shifting to an even greedier system to push a couple dimes extra at the cost of major quality. The enshittification era is coming or is already here.
They do understand to a point. The people who were fans of the original Prince of Persia games have carried what has until very recently become something of a lackluster franchise. That they remained fans is important and speaks to the world they came from which wasn’t subscription based.
Either Ubisoft was hoping that they’d win those fans back with this game (and get new players invested as well), or they were hoping an entire new cohort of gamers from the newer generations would pick this game up (and the newer generations are into micro transactions but also find them to be divisive). That older cohort of gamers really really don’t like micro transactions.
Just because something bad has arrived doesn’t mean that people will continue to put up with it.
It’s at least a century old problem imho. In the 1950’s clever capitalists where already looking for ways of “Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary”. I can’t believe how often I’ve had to buy a new fucking toaster. It just keeps getting worst.
You don’t understand our entire society is shifting to an even greedier system to push a couple dimes extra at the cost of major quality. The enshittification era is coming or is already here.
They do understand to a point. The people who were fans of the original Prince of Persia games have carried what has until very recently become something of a lackluster franchise. That they remained fans is important and speaks to the world they came from which wasn’t subscription based.
Either Ubisoft was hoping that they’d win those fans back with this game (and get new players invested as well), or they were hoping an entire new cohort of gamers from the newer generations would pick this game up (and the newer generations are into micro transactions but also find them to be divisive). That older cohort of gamers really really don’t like micro transactions.
Just because something bad has arrived doesn’t mean that people will continue to put up with it.
It’s at least a century old problem imho. In the 1950’s clever capitalists where already looking for ways of “Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary”. I can’t believe how often I’ve had to buy a new fucking toaster. It just keeps getting worst.
I toast my bread on a cast iron skillet. Takes longer but I’ll never have to replace it.