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[SJRB]

Saw this on Reddit:

Amazing.

 

[stn]

I found it funny, personally. Seems like a lot of other people have gotten triggered by it but I think it's something people should laugh at and move on.

 

[AJUMP23]

If only we could tell Ubisoft how much they disappoint us at times.

 

[R6Rider]

That's great, but some people will complain.

I'm about 15 hours into the game now myself.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Ha! Jokes on them, I never check my mail.

 

[Pagusas]

I find it funny... but I have a partial foot in corporate marketing from the creative side.. so I'm bias.

Next thing they should do is call or text you! Have the bad guy leave you a passive aggressive voice mail. If that doesnt get you playing, then maybe use some social engineering to call and threaten your family?

 

[Guilty_AI]

i doubt a bunch of gun waving bloodthirsty revolutionaries would do much better of a job so i'm fine with it

 

[Braag]

lol, that's actually pretty good.

 

[FranXico]

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Ha! Jokes on them, I never check my mail.

Jokes on them, I’m not going to buy Far Cry 6.

 

[Topher]

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Harassing their employees isn't enough.
Now it's their customers as well.

 

[Soodanim]

It seems invasive, but the entire point of the accounts systems they have is to collect this sort of statistic.

The reason that this stands out though is because it's not a blanket email to everyone, you get it if you stop engaging with the product with no regard for your reason. Is there some sort of micro-transaction to be bought?

I see this as personalised spam and wouldn't want it, but it is quite funny.

 

[Valt7786]

There's literally nothing there to be triggered about, its a fun piece of marketing.

 

[Roni]

I chuckled... It's e-mail and it's inline with the character and the marketing campaign. Treat it as spam and move on if if triggers you.

 

[Lanrutcon]

They're welcome to spam the burner e-mail I use for my UBI account.

Oh wait. I'm not buying this garbage.

 

[Graciaus]

No way to opt out?

That reminds me of this stealth game that mocked you every time you died. After an hour of telling me I sucked I just deleted the game.

 

[MudoSkills]

I think this is actually fairly imaginative. 'Hassle' seems a pretty strong word - with the amount of marketing shit people get on a daily basis at least this has the distinction of being a product they know you're interested in (if only for 3 hours).

 

[Kacho]

I think this is great actually. I’ll cop FC6 at some point but not until I can get all the content for a reasonable price.

 

[CitizenZ]

Another AAA over hyped banger that died pretty much the second it released. But pretty much standard for the industry right now.

 

[NewYork214]

That's awesome. I wouldn't mind emails like that honestly

 

[Fake]

Thats Ubisoft after all. Is funny because they don't like people to mock them over twitter/facebook, but they do with their own costumers anyway.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

That's actually funny ^^

 

[winjer]

So they made an average game, with little appeal. And sold on nostalgia of better Far Cry games.
And instead of improving the game, they send spam, whining about gamers quitting to play!
They need to invest more in game development and less in stupid marketing.

 

[chromhound]

sending those emails to people who got a refund

 

[R6Rider]

So they made an average game, with little appeal. And sold on nostalgia of better Far Cry games.
And instead of improving the game, they send spam, whining about gamers quitting to play!
They need to invest more in game development and less in stupid marketing.

This is whining to you?

 

[Abriael_GN]

I find it quite funny and absolutely innocuous. But it's even funnier to see who it is that got all up in arms about this, feeling "hassled" by a humorous mail.

Don't wanna be "hassled?"

Easy.

Click "no" and Giancarlo Esposito won't poke fun at your poor little tortured ego.

PS: You can do this with every publisher, just to make sure that no one does. Your ego is important, after all.

 

[Loke]

That's great. Reminds me of those old classic game over screens from the 90's.

 

[DForce]

I wouldn't mind it.

To me, it's not as bad as retailers sending you emails about leaving items in your cart every time you log into their website.

 

[nemiroff]

That's actually kinda funny.

 

[RiccochetJ]

They've been doing this for a while now. I've received similar emails from them when I've stopped playing Far Cry 3 Classic and AC: Rogue Remastered.

 

[winjer]

This is whining to you?

Yes, a bit like when Cartman starts poking other people to try to get his way.
The difference is that Cartman is fun to watch. Ubisoft is just pathetic.

 

[Salmon Snake]

That's funny.

 

[SJRB]

So they made an average game, with little appeal. And sold on nostalgia of better Far Cry games.
And instead of improving the game, they send spam, whining about gamers quitting to play!
They need to invest more in game development and less in stupid marketing.

It's pretty lighthearted though, all in good fun.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Anything to show a little bit of humor and personality is always welcome imo. That this makes people upset somehow is a bit of *chef kiss*

 

[Captain Toad]

Nothing wrong with that. A little humorous

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

People should be able to reply and mock them for releasing the same game since Far Cry 3

 

[Spukc]

That is funny as fuck.
Also i would use that email to reassure myself i have a functioning brain so it is impossible to play ubisoft “The Games” more then 40 min.

i tried watchdogs whatever the fuck the last one was called. Uninstalled after 30. Shipped it back to amazon.

valhalla? I think i lasted 45 min before doing the same thing trading it in for more cash that i paid for it.

if france was a videogame it would be made by ubisoft. I can not think of anything more generic as ubishit.

i rather count sand for 3 weeks

 

[winjer]

It's pretty lighthearted though, all in good fun.

Could you imagine if every company did the same?
Every time you didn't finish a game, you would get an email taunting you for not playing more.
I have many games, from bundles that I only played an hour of less. My inbox would be flooded.

 

[reinking]

Wondering if some of the people complaining are console gamers and do they get triggered when MS and Sony send them "personalized spam" with their gaming summary at the end of the year?

 

[IDKFA]

It's pretty lighthearted though, all in good fun.

IMO, It's actually pretty insidious.

 

[SJRB]

IMO, It's actually pretty insidious.

You really think anyone getting that email will think "o fuck, shit, that guy from Breaking Bad is disappointed in me. Better boot up the game even though I don't want to"?

 

[Tommi84]

Not going to lie, at first I was like 'what the heck', but then... yeah, this shit is hilarious

 

[Chris_Rivera]

Good. Let the fictional shame consume you.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Dear Guerrilla, our revolution won't survive without Far Cry Credits. Please buy some and fund our uprising.

 

[funkygunther]

Could you imagine if every company did the same?
Every time you didn't finish a game, you would get an email taunting you for not playing more.
I have many games, from bundles that I only played an hour of less. My inbox would be flooded.

opt out of marketing emails grandpa

 

[IDKFA]

You really think anyone getting that email will think "o fuck, shit, that guy from Breaking Bad is disappointed in me. Better boot up the game even though I don't want to"?

No. I don't however think this is just a bit of fun. It's a way to get people back playing and to stay playing.

 

[bargeparty]

Didn't doom or Wolfenstein make fun of you in game for just exiting? Something like "what poor baby can't take anymore?"

All in good fun imo

 

[Fare thee well]

Wild horses couldn't bring me to play your 3rd Far Cry 3 reskin.

 

[TonyK]

I like the idea. And it's not (supposedly) Ubisoft that mocks you but Anton Castillo himself, so it's a nice piece of meta narrative.