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I'm Comfortable Not Owning Ubisoft Games - WAN Show January 19, 2024

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Linus Tech Tips

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up everyone and welcome to the WAN show?

0:02.8

We've got a lot of great topics today.

0:05.2

UBSoft says gaming subscription success requires

0:09.9

gamers to be comfortable not owning games.

0:15.0

I mean, I for one am comfortable not owning their games.

0:19.0

Yeah, I think that's their attitude about it.

0:21.0

In all seriousness though, they're probably going to win this but anyhow

0:25.0

I don't know about that.

0:26.0

It has been officially confirmed now.

0:28.0

Search engines are in fact getting worse.

0:31.0

A recent study revealed that yeah yeah it's not just Google it's across the board pretty much what else we got today did I manage to steal your two you sure did

0:41.0

and then I found a a makeup one and I lost it.

0:45.0

Fujitsu agrees it is morally culpable in 700 plus wrongful convictions.

0:51.0

Ooh.

0:52.0

Which is a rough thing to agree.

0:55.0

Yeah.

0:57.0

Also, everyone's been raging at YouTube

1:00.7

for going after their computer performance and it was an ad blog bug.

1:05.6

Whoops. We'll talk about that! Oh, Tremendous. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today and that is that

1:34.7

it'll be soft during an interview about the launch of the new

1:39.3

Ubisoft plus premium and classic subscription okay hold on We're going to get into this in a second.

1:46.4

Shout out Ubisoft. Okay? I don't think anyone puts more work into rebranding their bullshit than UbiSoft.

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