You should only pay full price if the release quality is great. And even then, there’s a reason why #patientgamers is a trend. You save on hardware cost, game cost & get better quality games with extra post release content

Not defending Ubi here, but Uplay and the games are pretty tightly integrated (see achievements). It may have indeed just been an accident

It only takes a few games based on GenAI to flop for them to see the real value of art direction and real artists

What’s wrong with upgrading once every 5-10 years? Not everyone plays the latest games on 4k Ultra

Admittedly 4x is a bit steep, more like 3-4x

Yeah I think it was killed fairly quickly in like 2014. Was just using it for illustration. If you regularly played the game you’ll have had the same experience

Press it before you retire

Same with graphics cards

Exactly. The best time to buy a graphics card is never

If you’ve ever done their “tribunal” system you’ll know that there’s enough people in their community that would

Ori and the Black Forest

Trine

This. Basically anything that you could watch “as a movie” on YouTube that doesn’t have excessive filler in between

Good, don’t bother

Honestly it’s the smart way. By then the hardware to play that game is also much more affordable and most of the performance issues are gone

early next year

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Honestly, I got so fed up with their software that I ended up buying a Corsair mouse

I can wait a couple generations till the next AI winter . Or until we have widespread dedicated AI chips, this graphics card training needs to stop

no plans to return any time soon

Not anymore, that’s for sure

Downvoted because the website doesn’t work in Firefox

That is true. I will agree that the wording seems deliberately kept vague.

This post is a bunch of clickbait. The only reason this FAQ exists is because they need to comply with GDPR requests (like deleting someone’s data when they’ve died), not because they would delete inactive accounts to save space or some strange reason