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Ubisoft just insulted every gamer by claiming microtransactions make games fun. After pushing overpriced, broken games like Skull & Bones with paywalls, battle passes, and endless cash grabs, they expect us to stay silent?
In this video, we break down Ubisoft’s latest disrespect, why gamers are furious, and how this greedy monetization is killing gaming.
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Ubisoft just said something completely
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insane. Monetization makes the player
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experience more fun. Yeah, paying extra
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on top of your $70 game is now supposed
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to be fun. According to Ubisoft, this
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company is falling apart and their
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delusion is hitting all-time highs.
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Let's break it down. So, they have an
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anti-gamer philosophy going on. Remember
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back in 2024 when an Ubisoft executive
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straight up told us to get comfortable
0:28
with not owning our games? That went
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well, right? Gamers torched that guy
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online and rightfully so. It was a
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terrible opinion from a terrible
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company. Now, here we are in 2025 and
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Ubisoft is still digging deep and they
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just published a 400page financial
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report where they claim with a straight
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face, not even joking, that monetization
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enhances the player experience.
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Oh god. Let me say this loud and clear,
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guys. No one buys Assassin Creed for
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battle passes. No one enjoys a $10
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interactive map. No one is having more
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fun by swiping their credit card to
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essentially find a treasure chest.
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People don't want small little
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unnecessary microtransactions in their
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video games. Ubisoft's downfall is
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happening right now, guys. Let's let's
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be real. Ubisoft is flailing. They are
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drowning. Their transformation team
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hasn't done jack for them. Let's look at
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the recent releases down the down the
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board. We got Assassin's Creed Shadows.
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There was lots of controversy and
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criticism with that game. We covered
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that like near daily on the channel.
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Star Wars Outlaws, it was monetized to
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death. Xdeiant, Dead on Arrival, Skull
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and Bones, an actual joke of a game. And
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I'm going to be honest, I looked forward
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to each and every single one of those
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games. My favorite out of those four, I
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would dare say Outlaws. And even then,
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that was mediocre garbage. There's
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billions in losses right now. There's
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that whole deal with 10 cent that is
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going absolutely nowhere. That was
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supposed to save the company. That was
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literally preventing them from closing
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down, from shutting down. What What's
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happening? What's What's going on with
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that? So, what's their answer to all
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these issues? More microtransactions.
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That's going to go well. So, here's the
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report that broke everyone. On page 10
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of this bloated financial dock, Ubisoft
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is trying to sell you fantasy. They say
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that they're leaders in the gaming
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industry. Maybe about like 15 years ago
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they were a leader. But leaders now, the
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only thing Ubisoft is leading is in
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player disrespect. They literally are
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anti-consumer. They literally insult our
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intelligence. They don't know what their
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consumers want. They talk about optional
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and fair monetization. What What's that
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mean? What's optional and fair
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monetization? When you're making people
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people get pay for things like
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interactive maps, you're suggesting that
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people get battle passes so that they
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can get some kind of advantage
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on with some of the items that you're
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offering them. Like Assassin's Creed is
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is getting notorious for that. You go
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and you see what they've added to
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Shadows with the helix. It's notorious.
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There's literal cosmetics hidden behind
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pay walls that give you some kind of
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like extra super bonus. We don't want
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that in single player games. And again,
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like I said, they're locking map markers
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behind a payw wall. $10. Let me repeat
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that. 10 bucks for an ingame map. Want
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to find hidden chest? Cool, guys. Either
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get some cash or use an IGN walkthrough
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cuz that's how you're going to get
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access to it. What happened to earning
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things in a game through dare I say the
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game playing it? So, microtransactions
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are not fun, guys. They are not. Ubisoft
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wants you to believe that cosmetics, to
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believe that boosters and shortcuts that
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you pay for are fun enhancements, but
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they're not. Here's the truth. If you're
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paying $70 to $80 for a premium game,
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that's what they call them now, premium
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game, you shouldn't be upsold a digital
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deluxe, a battle pass, a map or a map
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packs like it's some kind of
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free-to-play mobile game. Like, we
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expect that in War Zone, Fortnite, Apex,
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stuff like that. But you're paying an
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$80 price point, a premium price point
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for a game like Assassin's Creed or
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whatever they're coming up with at this
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time. Microtransactions are not fun.
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Okay? They're a symptom of broken design
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philosophy. Instead of just making a
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complete game, they just drip feed it to
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you. And I'm guilty. I play Fortnite all
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the time, but at least they still kind
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of offer some free stuff every once in a
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while or their Fortnite crew provides a
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more of a valuable microtransaction type
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of like plan than every little nickel
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and dime thing like Ubisoft is trying.
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Ubisoft is infected at this point, guys.
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And it's sorry and sad to see because
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this company is a shell of its former
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self. So, let's let's not forget, okay,
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that they disrespect gamers constantly.
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They don't respect gamers. Ubisoft
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literally defended their enduser license
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agreement not too long ago that forces
5:23
gamers to destroy physical copies or
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that whole controversy. Their excuse
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was, "Oh, it's been in the in the EULA
5:31
for over a decade. It's an old thing. I
5:33
didn't even get to make videos about
5:35
that. That was a whole controversial
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thing that was going on. People were
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bringing it to light just a couple weeks
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ago. So, it it's our fault for not
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reading the fine print of an EULA,
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right? These guys at Ubisoft do not care
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about player trust. And honestly, I
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think they need a reality check. Bring
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in gamers. Consult your community. Hire
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people who actually play video games,
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not activists, not people that are
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worried about the wrong things. And
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sure, I get it. Okay, corporates, you
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know, suits, corporations, they want to
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make money, but why can't you make money
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and make good video games at the same
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time? Like companies have been doing for
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years.
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Companies have been doing it for years.
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I I don't get it. It's almost like every
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single video game studio out there is
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forgetting what what they're supposed to
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be making. It just seems like Ubisoft is
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the worst one at it at this point.
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Nintendo's not doing much better
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anymore. They're starting to get kind of
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greedy with the Switch, too. But
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Ubisoft, at least the last five years,
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they've been a mess. A mess. And it's
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sad to see. And this report, which I can
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go, it's 400 pages. We could go through
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it for hours. But the main thing that I
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noticed is that they're wanting
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microtransactions to be fun. They're
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they're trying to sell that. And that is
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just [ __ ] I I cannot agree with
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that. I cannot stand by that. I had to
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give my thoughts about it. So Ubisoft,
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they're just not out of touch, guys.
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They're literally sprinting towards
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irrelevance. They they Somebody cut the
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cord right now. Somebody pull the plug
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on them. Gamers are sick and tired of
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being sick and tired. They don't want to
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be nickel and dime. We want games that
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respect our time, our money, and our
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ownership. And that whole get
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comfortable not owning your games thing
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is never going to go away from them. We
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want publishers who listen. If if you're
7:26
fed up with this garbage, guys, sound
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off in the comments. Let me know down
7:30
below. Like this video if if you agree
7:32
with me. Dislike if you think I'm off,
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which I don't think many people are
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going to dislike this. And share this
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video if you want to push back against
7:39
this nonsense. If you want more brutal
7:41
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subscription button. Uh I'm going to go
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ahead and go, guys. Let me know your
7:46
thoughts. I'll see you on the next one.
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Thank you for watching. As always, peace
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out.
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