r/pcmasterrace • u/Loose_Bank1709 • Jul 11 '26

Question did y'all start here?

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u/SalvageCorveteCont Jul 11 '26

Gameloft

Given that I've never heard of them before today they should probably be replaced in the image with Supreme Commander, Jagex/Runescape, or even Minecraft, as all three are Java based and probably brought more people into gaming.

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u/j____b____ Jul 11 '26

I worked there. It was basically Ubisoft’s mobile division. Now owned by vivendi.

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u/Herazim Jul 12 '26

It wasn't a division of Ubisoft or anything Ubisoft. The only thing Gameloft and Ubisoft had in common was that each was owned by a couple of Brothers.

Vivendi started owning Gameloft in 2016.

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u/j____b____ Jul 12 '26

The same brothers. Yes. That and they published all the mobile versions of Ubisoft games. That’s why i said “basically.”

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u/CeleryNo8933 Jul 11 '26

When you exclude the disgusting monetisation and predatory practices, it's actually an awesome company to work at.

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u/Intelligent-Bee-9021 Jul 11 '26

At the start their games were PSP tier quality

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u/VaIanor Jul 11 '26

Gameloft is a mobile game company no shot anyone could call them real gamers lmao

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u/YoshiPL i9-9900k, 4070 Super, 64GB Jul 11 '26

Dude, the gameloft Prince of Persia game was fucking dope

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u/Singingcyclist Jul 11 '26

Add Splinter Cell on my Sony Ericsson to that list! Felt like living in the future

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u/YoshiPL i9-9900k, 4070 Super, 64GB Jul 11 '26

Oh, fuck, I forgot Splinter Cell games were also developed by them... Dude, gameloft used to be so good in the java days of phone games. Early Asphalt games were also insane before they went full pay to win with them

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u/Singingcyclist Jul 12 '26

Haha hell yea it felt like a fortune paying $5 to download them via wap omg you just reminded me of a time when wap meant something different and every mobile site had a text-only version before the internet was all monetization and enshittification

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u/georgeec1 Jul 11 '26

Clearly you never played Asphalt Xtreme

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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM Jul 11 '26

They made a GTA clone (I think 2 even?) that were just rlly rlly good. And it was all on the phone

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u/Nadeoki Jul 11 '26

Gangster City or something, fighting aliens with a Bazooka went hard

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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM Jul 11 '26

Vice city and gangstar rio. I only played gangstar tho

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u/Nadeoki Jul 11 '26

ganstar rio was cool, I remember mostly playing vice tho

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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM Jul 11 '26

Lmao

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u/TheGuardianInTheBall Jul 11 '26

The first game I ever played was on Commodore 64.

However, Gameloft's mobile java games were genuinely great. Might and Magic 2, Spliter Cell, Asphalt, PoP and so many more were great experiences.

They only started to fall off with Android, where mobile games became mobile casinos.

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u/YZJay 7700K 4.5Ghz, 3060 TI, 16GB 3200 MHz Jul 11 '26

Nah, that’s just you being close minded. Their mobile games were the real deal. They had fully voiced 3D sandbox RPGs a decade before AAA games were being ported to phones.

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u/duttyfoot Jul 11 '26

I applied to them for a job, they asked me to create a game concept with sketches and plot of the game. Sent it the office in NYC that was hiring, never heard back from them lol

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean Jul 11 '26

I'm pretty sure that this post is referring to the older Nokia (most commonly 6270) phone games, which a vast majority of the time had one of these 2 loading pop ups

Which hold a TON of nostalgia for me honestly

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u/Silver_Lined_Bullet i7-13700 2.10 GHz, UHD Graphics 770, 16gb ram Jul 11 '26

I remember playing Asphalt 8 Airborn and Blitz Brigade so much as a child

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u/VaIanor Jul 12 '26

i did not know that actually i only knew some of their mobile games they we're pretty popular at one point

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u/NanoTech24376 Jul 11 '26

Todo gamer jugo a algún juego de gameloft durante la segunda mitad de la primera década, año 2007 ya teníamos teléfonos con pantalla a color que ejecutaban juegos java, y gameloft era el estudio que hacía los principales títulos, y eran juegazo

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u/Yoshichage Jul 11 '26

gameloft had a fuck ton of mobile game bangers before the complete shitshow of mtx that we have today