Matt James

I don't think it's bad.

Right.

I know that, and again, I'm not the target audience for this kind of thing anyway.

And then the fact that it got me to even, you know, try a multiplayer online hero shooter is, you know, that's something I don't normally do that.

And I stepped into it and I felt that I have no desire to do this.

It's just interesting to think about the difference between a free-to-play game and a game that costs $40 and what the fall-off looks like for those games, right?

Because I think Concord obviously failed spectacularly because they couldn't get people in the door as a game that costs money to get into.

Whereas Highguard being completely free-to-try,

gets you 100,000 people.

I'm sure Concord would have gotten probably similar numbers if it had been free-to-play at the jump.

But the one downside to having a free-to-play game is that people have no hesitation to hop out of something that they have no financial investment in.

So crazy.

And even crazier...

is that there's apparently Beyond Good and Evil 2 is not one of the games that was outright canceled, which is, if you don't know, a game that has been in development for, I honestly don't know how long.

Yeah.

So that was surprising that that one didn't get the axe.

And to axe a project so close to release that people were getting excited for, man, Ubisoft just continues to be an absolute mess.

Yeah, and whenever you do a full return to office, that's a soft layoff wave, essentially.

Right, yeah.

Because you know that a certain percentage of your employees are going to say, I can't do that, I won't do that.