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Can't they just... Make a "normal game"? One that you install, play and that's it?. Why the fuck do they need to monitor Ram? What the hell?
Data mining, baby! It's worth more than gold.
Anti cheat (it's actually anti piracy which is not possible also they oops sell massive data dumps for cash oops)
Honestly also curious why this is necessary.
Ah, it's in the article.
WTF do they care if you're modding your own single player game that you paid for? They sound like assholes!
Micro transactions
...th...they are.
Ubisoft is usually exhibit A when it comes to asshole-ry.
Is there maybe an online multiplayer component to the game which might otherwise experience cheating? I dunno. 🤷♂️
They sell level boosters that you could otherwise circumvent with Cheat Engine.
Oh ffs 🤦♂️ If I bought the game and want to cheat myself out of the experience, just let me do so..!
If I'm understanding you correctly, level boosters are things you can activate to... skip levels? Reach character levels quicker?
Correct. They make games that are dozens of hours long and filled with repetitive content, and if you skip the content you don't want to do, you tend to be under leveled for the stuff you do want to do, and they'll sell you boosters to hit that level instead.
So they make boring games on purpose, and charge you (extra!) money to activate the fun in the game. That's fucking insanity. Boycott that model, right now.
It didn't even require a boycott for me. I think plenty of people like the repetitive stuff, so they play it all without thinking about the microtransactions. I was never once tempted to pay for them, so my feelings about the game represent what the game is like without paying for them, and it was a poor experience. So rather than a boycott, it's just not buying games that I don't like.
Makes sense.
By the way, I like your punny username. 😄👌
Yeah they let you skip the artificially inflated grind in your single player experience.
Buying them is not cheating yourself out of the experience, but instead it brings back the intended speed of progression.
No one gets to authorize programs to run on my PC but me.
It's honestly very odd that it needs to do this for a single-player game.