Fake
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Sure a mid game will save a trash company. Need to be delusional to think otherwise.
More players than the stars in the universe.
More players than the stars in the universe.
'Assassin's Creed' no saviour for struggling Ubisoft
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AgreeThey're everything shit about modern gaming and I haven't bought any of their games in fucking ages.
Now something more interesting- the newest Helldivers 2 update is amazing and it seems we are going to Super Earth soon?!
forsakkenSoul
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This was already expected to happen. AC apparently sold well, but the rest was just money thrown away. No company sustains itself like this, or they change the formula, or they will sink the boat even more.
San Dan Glokta
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Make controversial decisions get controversial results...
Had they made the protag Japanese male with a hot voluptuous kinouichi at his arm they would have sold a lot more copies
Had they made the protag Japanese male with a hot voluptuous kinouichi at his arm they would have sold a lot more copies
Roufianos
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What does it even mean to be the 2nd best selling game of the year when Kingdom Come 2 in 4th place has only sold 3m copies? It's hardly been a stacked year for big budget mainstream AAA releases. Stats are all about context.
Oblivion got to 3rd in just a couple of weeks with a shadow drop and no physical.
Based on the fact they're not updating the 3m, it's clearly sold numbers many smaller releases could only dream of but hardly produced the bet the company sales it needed.
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cripterion
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Like how the number 1 game which everyone is glazing over is also made by French people?
CLW
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Yep 33% incoming soon it will be $20-$30 by Black Friday
Durin
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Their tentpole series can't make up for all their other games being whimpers to outright failures.
Too much of their design cross-pollinates features from their other open-world games, and they end up running together. Even Shadows doesn't stray far from the same formula they've been doing since Origins. They're just a boring publisher like EA at this point, and both failed at most of their live-service attempts.
Too much of their design cross-pollinates features from their other open-world games, and they end up running together. Even Shadows doesn't stray far from the same formula they've been doing since Origins. They're just a boring publisher like EA at this point, and both failed at most of their live-service attempts.
Fake
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Is a miracle Macron wasn't in the game.
Dr.Morris79
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Damn straightThey're everything shit about modern gaming and I haven't bought any of their games in fucking ages.
The Mad Draklor
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Didn't Tom Henderson say that he expected ACS to exceed 6 million players a month after release? We're about to hit the 2 month mark already.
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Dr.Morris79
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Well that's an own if ever there was one..Like how the number 1 game which everyone is glazing over is also made by French people?
Kotaro
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It's a flop. You notice that games that sell well the developers have no problems advertising how many they sell, Exp-33, KCD2, Dragon Ball, MH Wild, Warhammer, etc.
Worse yet, 3 million pLaYeRs is the best number they can come up with, which is bad by any measure
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Brigandier
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Why on earth did they cancel Patriots... Ubisoft suck, They're sitting on so many great IP.
Plague Doctor
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I always love the fallback of "They don't always share numbers even if its good". Trust me, if they had sales that were impressive to tout.... you couldn't stop the marketing department from posting it all over the place. They would already be making the social media graphics and shit them out on literally every platform. They are not shy if they have factual data to back them.
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vodka-bull
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And at the same time, Sandfall Interactive is jumping with their naked butt in their faces and embarasses the entire quadruple A industry 
I'm really satisfied with how things are going downhill for Ubisoft. I can't think of another company that deserved the net loss more than them. Not even EA or Activision.
I'm really satisfied with how things are going downhill for Ubisoft. I can't think of another company that deserved the net loss more than them. Not even EA or Activision.
Hawk The Slayer
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True despise what they say, if it was truly good than we would have seen an easy 4, 5 million copies etc.
For a game with a big popular name brand and budget, even a 3 million copy sold would have been bad.
And after so many failures, Assassin Creed Shadows needs to have one of those sudden big surprise hit amount like Wukong or at least Monster Hunter Wild to balance out all the fails.
calico
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Itchy Tickles
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Fucking finally these creepy greedy dumb fucks are getting that beautiful reality check. Do EA next please.
Loomy
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They bailed into a lifeboat and boarded a yacht already. They're fine.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Exactly. They should've been encouraging talent like the Clair 33 folks they had and probably still have in their line up.
They should be making good new prince of Persia games, splinter cells, and an actual new rainbow six Vegas game instead of still sucking siege dry to hell and back.
Shadows is a good game but it wasn't going to save them.
xrnzaaas
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It doesn't say much without Ubisoft publishing some hard numbers. We know that Monster Hunter has sold over 10 million copies, but there may be a huge gap behind it. Kingdom Come 2 is the other big contender for the podium place and we know that this game passed the 3 million mark. So AC Shadows can be anywhere between 3-10+ million copies.
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StueyDuck
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honestly when i saw that trailer back in the day, with the bridge and it was coming hot off the heels of Vegas and Vegas 2 (and GRAW) it was like my most anticipated title.
Why on earth did they cancel Patriots... Ubisoft suck, They're sitting on so many great IP.
It looked dope as hell.
PeteBull
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StueyDuck
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they do seem allergic to money over there at ubisoftU, Sir are looking at it with common sense and reasoning, meanwhile at ubisoft:
Bernardougf
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Number of players and commercial success are different things... budget, time and money invested, a lot of things can define success.
Whats the real sales numbers ? How ubi+ affected sales ? Whats the budget and what were the initial sales forecast/projection ?
I would bet my house that if Shadows was not so controversial it would have sold a lot more.
Edit: lol I just looked at the prices of the monthly ubi+ subscription, how in the hell are you going to sell games like this one if you can pay this little for one month and beat the game ? What were this people thinking ? I dont have a pc so I never bothered to look, but in my country one month of ubi+ is 1/6 off the price of a launch game like Shadows. Wtf.
Whats the real sales numbers ? How ubi+ affected sales ? Whats the budget and what were the initial sales forecast/projection ?
I would bet my house that if Shadows was not so controversial it would have sold a lot more.
Edit: lol I just looked at the prices of the monthly ubi+ subscription, how in the hell are you going to sell games like this one if you can pay this little for one month and beat the game ? What were this people thinking ? I dont have a pc so I never bothered to look, but in my country one month of ubi+ is 1/6 off the price of a launch game like Shadows. Wtf.
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Ridicululzz
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No concrete sales numbers for Shadows?
PeteBull
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We can tell by the price of ubisoft premium subscription service that they need roughly 3subs per 1 70$ launchwindow sale, so lets be generous and assume they sold 1m copies(we know its not on pc and we know xbox barely sells any games so that leaves playstation for the most part), and 2m subs from ubi premium which means roughly as much revenue as 700k copies, so if we turn that all into copies, defo below 2m copies compared to old time where success was announced in copies sold
U would think 2m copies sold equivalent in revenue is solid af, then u realise AC:S is mainline entry in a series that by 2022 had over 200m copies sold(not players, copies sold).
Assassin's Creed - Wikipedia
Assassin's Creed Franchise Has Sold Over 200 Million Games Worldwide
Ubisoft has just revealed that the Assassin's Creed franchise has gone on to sell more than 200 million games.
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Bernardougf
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Its crazy.. I edited my post ... I never looked before (dont own a pc) but one month of ubi+ in my country is literally 1/6 off the price for a launch game (360 to 60 in our currency) .We can tell by the price of ubisoft premium subscription service that they need roughly 3subs per 1 70$ launchwindow sale, so lets be generous and assume they sold 1m copies(we know its not on pc and we know xbox barely sells any games so that leaves playstation for the most part), and 2m subs from ubi premium which means roughly as much revenue as 700k copies, so if we turn that all into copies, defo below 2m copies compared to old time where success was announced in copies sold
U would think 2m copies sold equivalent in revenue is solid af, then u realise AC:S is mainline entry in a series that by 2022 had over 200m copies sold(not players, copies sold).
Assassin's Creed - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Assassin's Creed Franchise Has Sold Over 200 Million Games Worldwide
Ubisoft has just revealed that the Assassin's Creed franchise has gone on to sell more than 200 million games.
So I really cant see they selling this game on pc outside of the most die hard fan. Even if you take two months to beat the game you still are looking at 1/3 of the price.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
fuck em
TerribleAtThisGame
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ValiantInstance
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The last Ubisoft game I enjoyed was Far Cry 5.
I tried Far Cry 6 but that was the last straw for me. I'll wait for reviews on the Black Flag remake in case they ruin the parkour like modern AC but apart from that I have no interest in their games in their current state.
I tried Far Cry 6 but that was the last straw for me. I'll wait for reviews on the Black Flag remake in case they ruin the parkour like modern AC but apart from that I have no interest in their games in their current state.
TerribleAtThisGame
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I'm sorry dude, I couldn't control myself. I love ya!