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[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Excuse me Ubisoft for not allowing me to run over, killing people or steal vehicles in the game.


And I was going to buy it.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

>solid quality

 

[Starbuck2907]

Yea, we gamers like decent looking character models. We expect those too.


Who knew??? Not the ceo of a game company, obviously.

 

[GymWolf]

"Delivering solid quality"

 

[Eimran]

This will age well

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Well the shareholders are blaming you for the 86% drop in stock price.

 

[Radical_3d]

Creates the same mediocre game over and over again. Gamers stop supporting them.

 

[Nikodemos]

If you're asking $70 for your game, you shuld probably at least attempt to offer $70 worth of content.

Also, who thought stealth non-Jedi was a good idea? The whole point of non-Jedis is that they almost always go pew-pew blasters out. Stealth and subterfuge was mostly a Jedi thing.

 

[RPCGamer]

We live in a time where games made by single developers can produce fun, quality titles and become a huge success. Your game failed because it's like pretty much every ubi title from the last 2 generations.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Imagine a company producing toothbrushes or cars doing that.

 

[Thief1987]

Yes, we are bad, find another industry

 

[mckmas8808]

Excuse me Ubisoft for not allowing me to run over or steal vehicles in the game.


And I was going to buy it.

These gaming CEOs have GOT TO BE FIRED!!!!! What's happening in the gaming business world? It's feeling like gaming media and the gaming executives hate their consumers and listeners these days.

 

[Soodanim]

"Ubisoft blames cuatomers for low sales. 'If they had just bought it our sales would have gone up, but they didn't.'"

Wasn't it Ubi devs wondering why they bothered with all the UI clutter when Elden Ring came along? There have been signs about their design choices for years, but a lack of willingness to adapt and make improvements. Failure is inevitable when you're like that.

 

[Mokus]

Ah yes, these morons now are trying to redefine "solid quality" for gamers, after they are too incompetent delivering anything good. How convenient for them.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

So dont take chances.

Make best product possible.

 

[Dynasty8]

Yves is losing it. How can someone be this out of touch?

 

[Jack Videogames]

He may need to get used to not owning his job

 

[Nikodemos]

In retrospect, seems like not getting bought out by Vivendi back in 2015/2016 might've been the worse option.

 

[hemo memo]

Create a decent looking character next time.

 

[ElFenomeno]

Yves is losing it. How can someone be this out of touch?

He will be 70 in a few years. Time for fresh blood maybe.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Imagine a company producing toothbrushes or cars doing that.

Imagine dentists complaining about patients brushing their teeth TOO well.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Solid quality? Go and see a fucking doctor you moron.

 

[dummydecoy]

Glad I boycott Ubisoft many years ago. Game that broke the camel's back was AC2. Ran so horrible on PS3 it gave me headaches, just like AC1. Ubisoft is quantity over quality, has no concept of polish.

 

[Esppiral]

Gamers don't like your game, don't blame them, make a better game next time.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Of all the peoples to blame… what a strategy

Disney is a bigger culprit to have run the franchise’s perceptions to the fucking ground in such a short span

Your team making the character based on an activist and then uglyfied. To make yet again a boring open world game when other companies have shown that open world can be good (Elden Ring + Zelda). Filled with bugs. Dumb AI. Stupid game mechanics like losing gun just by climbing a ladder. Etc

But damn you gamers

 

[HoodWinked]

i saw this earlier and i don't really agree with how it's being head-lined.

Yves Guillemot saying gamers have extraordinary expectations and that 'solid' games aren't enough, is to me not him whining but a call to action. He's admitting to shareholders that their games are only 'solid' (which means they're actually bad since a CEO has to overstate their products to the public). Thus they will need to work harder and release better games.

 

[Bashtee]

Trailer had more bugs on display than a round in Helldivers 2. Ubisoft's leadership needs to go, they clearly don't know what quality is.

 

[TBiddy]

Well, to be fair, he has a point. It is the gamers that didn't buy his stupid game, so if he's a four year old kid, his logic is sound.

 

[mckmas8808]

Ah yes, these morons now are trying to redefine "solid quality" for gamers, after they are too incompetent delivering anything good. How convenient for them.

Does he even wonder why the EA Star Wars games score and sell a lot better? Or is he so ignorant that his brain doesn't even go that far?

Jedi Fallen Order sold 8 million copies in the first 3 months.

 

[Sharius]

ofc he is, lmao, now i am waiting until EA blame me again for their dragon age flop

 

[Kotaro]

Sell boring, woke, buggy, expensive game, then blame gamers when it doesn't sell

genius

 

[MakeMudosGreatAgain]

"Ubisoft blames gamers for closure of Ubisoft."

 

[FeralEcho]

Creates the same mediocre game over and over again. Gamers stop supporting them.

It seems being retarded is a requirement for gaming executives!

 

[FeralEcho]

Does he even wonder why the EA Star Wars games score and sell a lot better? Or is he so ignorant that his brain doesn't even go that far?

Jedi Fallen Order sold 8 million copies in the first 3 months.

Just replace the children with gamers.

 

[PeteBull]

He reminds me of 19yo woman who notices her hot girl summer costed her 50 bodies and every1 in town knows she is ran tru so no1 takes her seriously anymore
Ubi blockbuster games are the same nowadays- bargain bin quality only

 

[Ozzie666]

Learn to read the room like a good leader.

 

[Gamerfan81]

I forgot who here said it, but that member said that the video game industry is probably the one industry where you have executives and developers insult their customers a lot. I won't say it's a regular occurrence, but I do think many of them should shut up, it's just a really bad look and unprofessional. There are plenty of games out there that are hits, maybe try learning what works and what doesn't and go back to the drawing board.

 

[GHG]

"solid quality"

 

[Radical_3d]

It seems being retarded is a requirement for gaming executives!

The money is there to grab. They are just too stubborn about what modern gaming should be to get it. Idk why Ubisoft games didn’t tank day one but the thing is that you can’t keep a formula forever. Happened with all the formulas in the past and the signs of boredom in the market are there to read. But correcting course is slow in big companies. The question is, will Ubisoft survive the course correcting losses?

 

[mckmas8808]

I forgot who here said it, but that member said that the video game industry is probably the one industry where you have executives and developers insult their customers a lot. I won't say it's a regular occurrence, but I do think many of them should shut up, it's just a really bad look and unprofessional. There are plenty of games out there that are hits, maybe try learning what works and what doesn't and go back to the drawing board.

Social media is ruining us as humans. We don't know how to act anymore.

 

[FeralEcho]

I forgot who here said it, but that member said that the video game industry is probably the one industry where you have executives and developers insult their customers a lot. I won't say it's a regular occurrence, but I do think many of them should shut up, it's just a really bad look and unprofessional. There are plenty of games out there that are hits, maybe try learning what works and what doesn't and go back to the drawing board.

It's the entertainment industry in general,it happens regularly in the movie industry as well and it's just as cringe and embarassing. How these executives get in those high positions in the first place is perplexing to me,when at first sign of something not going their way they act like second rate twitter warriors. It's pathetic.

 

[Mokus]

Does he even wonder why the EA Star Wars games score and sell a lot better? Or is he so ignorant that his brain doesn't even go that far?

Jedi Fallen Order sold 8 million copies in the first 3 months.

Not to mention, EA's Star Wars needed a good amount of patching. It's not like gamers are unreasonable with the quality of the games but delivering something desirable and overall decent enough will still sell very well.

 

[PeteBull]

The money is there to grab. They are just too stubborn about what modern gaming should be to get it. Idk why Ubisoft games didn’t tank day one but the thing is that you can’t keep a formula forever. Happened with all the formulas in the past and the signs of boredom in the market are there to read. But correcting course is slow in big companies. The question is, will Ubisoft survive the course correcting losses?

Unlikely, the amount of incompetence here is skyhigh, even entry lvl foodchain worker would be fired after making so many crucial mistakes over and over again, yet this rich fuck can spout shit and keep his super high paying job no probs- sooner or later reality gonna hit his old ass and it wont be pretty

 

[Boss Mog]

They hire activists who make design decisions based on DEI rather than what gamers actually want and then they double down by saying stuff like "This game was not made for you" or "Don't like it, don't buy it" and then they act all surprised and indignant when it doesn't sell.

 

[SkylineRKR]

There you have it. They blame gamers.

Then tell me, why do Wukong and Stellar Blade sell? 2 new and strictly offline games. Why does Astro Bot sell? Gamers?

 

[Matt_Fox]

'CEO blames gamers' is a skewed headline for rage bait. Here's the real quote by Yves Guillemot:

"In today’s challenging market and with gamers expecting extraordinary experiences, delivering solid quality is no longer enough."

 

[Power Pro]

These gaming CEOs have GOT TO BE FIRED!!!!! What's happening in the gaming business world? It's feeling like gaming media and the gaming executives hate their consumers and listeners these days.

Yeah, it's really ridiculous how businesses in general treat the customer these days. We are like a barrier between them and our wallets, and they resent us for it. Rather than earning the customer's money, they expect it. Rather than providing something that people want, they keep providing what they think we should have instead. When people don't want the crap they're offering, it's our fault I guess.

 

[JimmyRustler]

I'm sure this statement will help their stocks.

 

[Danjin44]

New IP, very niche genre, no PC release and came out same month as FFVII Rebirth and yet they still managed sale well.

Meanwhile Ubisoft using one of the most popular IP in the world with mass appeal gameplay style with massive budget for marketing…..Im sorry Ubisoft you have no one but yourself to blame.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

Yves is losing it. How can someone be this out of touch?

STREEEEEESSSSSSSSS, mans probably having one panic attack per day