https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-not-owning-their-games-for-subscriptions-to-take-off
In an interview early this year after Ubi launched Ubisoft+, a new subscription game pass system,
“Gamers are used to owning games like DVDs.”
Knowing that you can resume your game without losing your progress
“It’s important to make people feel comfortable about not owning the game,” he said.
In a situation where gamers make negative comments about their game collections and are criticized even when they are not,
I received some criticism because it was a hasty statement to encourage continuous subscription like typical OTT companies…
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/baldurs-gate-3-publishing-chief-calls-out-ubisofts-broken-strategy-if-gamers-need-to-get-used-to-not-owning-games-developers-must-get-used-to-not-having-jobs/
Larian:
This means that gamers feel comfortable without having to own anything.
Are you saying developers have to get used to not having a permanent job?
About the Prince of Persia’s Lost Crown, which received positive reviews and surpassed 85 meta points.
Ubi stuck to its own platform and Sony, delaying the launch of Steam and causing poor sales.
It was released on Steam several months after its release, when it was already outdated, and sales were still low.
In the end, Liu Bei recently
The Prince of Persia’s Lost Crown development team gave up on further development and was completely disbanded.
That’s why Larian’s director Michael Dus directly quoted Yuvi’s old interview and discarded it.