It’s why Ubisoft baffles and aggravates me.

They clearly have wonderful game devs and designers working for them. A lot of their games have some really neat mechanics that are fun to play with.

But then they fuck it all up by monetizing it all to shit, or padding the game with so much useless bullshit it becomes a chore to play, or fucking up the pacing of the story with the sheer amount of useless side quests.

I’ll freely admit - I enjoy playing their open world collect-a-thon games. But I have to play it in parts, because it just gets too grating. And of course I only buy their games when they’re already a few years old, so I can take advantage of sales. No way I’m paying €120 for a game, even with all the spinning rims and fancy baubles.

A few weeks later:

Sony: Piracy is killing the industry! We need tougher legislation!

Alt+enter insta-opens properties.

He’s down a solid 35%!

Why waste 5 seconds every time to want to watch a video, when you can waste 10 hours writing a script to automate it?

That’s just how we programmers roll