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[CLICKBAIT] Ubisoft CEO blames gamers for poor sales of Star Wars
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SJRB
Gold Member
VulcanRaven
Member
Its better to quote this to the new page in case some missed it.Dawg, a literal screenshot of a headline posted on twitter, shared without a link to the article
Who knows if this is a accurate recent quote, or a quote from last weeks investors call, just misquote to stir up clickbate. Great job in media literacy.
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""In today’s challenging market and with gamers expecting extraordinary experiences, delivering solid quality is no longer enough" - Yves Guillemot
That's the only source this article has. The rest is filler text and ads. Saved you the click.
Tech4Gamers strikes again as being in the top 3 most useless clickbait garbage N4G websites that clearly uses AI to extend one sentence into entire articles. I have absolutely no idea how they always get approved.
N4G User Sajjad_Hussain works for this site [blog, really] and constantly spams N4G with these "articles". He doesn't do literally anything else - doesn't comment on anything or engage with the community. He simply uses N4G to get ad revenue on this AI nothingness. Please don't click it and please stop approving this annoying bait"
There ya go. I did your homework for you. It's misquoted clickbate. Next
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Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Feminists and sexual identity activists apparently. Those people's opinion seem to matter the most. Not the millions of heterosexual men who have funded videogames into becoming a billion dollar entertainment industry throughout the decades.
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Holammer
Member
Remember when piracy complaints was a thing? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. Sales must've been dire on console.
Ackchyually... They will complain because you can damage the gums and enamel.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Agreed.
I have nothing against 7-10 games, I play them all the time with zero issue, everything isn't going to be The Last Of Us 2 / God Of War 2018 / RDR2 etc I get it, but with the Star Wars IP, they need to shoot for the stars and have all hands on deck, that means all their teams involved to make sure it rock solid.
I'm enjoying Star Wars Outlaws for what it is, but its clear it could have been more and for as great of a job as Massive did, maybe they could have had more the help to add more of an "Outlaw" experience, like allow the player to steal ships like Starfield, allow players to hijack ships in zero G in Space etc, you can make it more like a Outlaw Star, Starfiled space cowboy type concept, while still remaining in that license as I'm sure Disney has their own rules on what they will allow or not.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Imagine telling people that they shouldn't expect an excellent product being a gaming company with 20K employees and AAAA budgets, according to their own words.
Incompetent piece of shit. He should be fired the Russian way, through the window.
Incompetent piece of shit. He should be fired the Russian way, through the window.
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Angry_Megalodon
Member
What does this even mean? Doing better is not buying their mediocre games. and that's what people are doing. The cattle eat whatever shit comes from the asses of guys like this.
miklonus
Member
Have you fucking "seen" the Star Wars "brand" lately? Name one thing coming from the Star Wars name that has all hands on deck pumping out nothing but quality. Disney, nor ubisoft, have put out anything of quality for a very long time, and you expect either of these two to produce quality?
that part should be in quotation marks, added.
he is not blaming anyone but themselves for not delivering a great product. title is totally made up bullshit. feel free to add the part where he blames "gamers" and ill join the mob lol
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Agreed
with how sheep gamers are today, you need to look deeper lol
Ubisoft CEO Blames Gamers After Poor Sales of Star Wars Outlaws
Ubisoft CEO, after the low sales of Star Wars Outlaws, said that gamers have extraordinary expectations that are difficult to meet.
tech4gamers.com
Looking into it, the headline is wildly sensational and his exact comment is "In today’s challenging market and with gamers expecting extraordinary experiences, delivering solid quality is no longer enough."
The person writing the article then goes on to say "He seems to be blaming the fandom" and "Even though it might seem like Guillemot is blaming gamers"
Look.....I'd rather have a headline that is fact vs someone forcing an opinion and trying to make some article seem more like what it is.
I don't care lol Thats not even what the fuck I stated lol
I don't care about the Star Wars IP sir, my comment is merely about Ubisoft as they could have had all their teams assist in rolling this game out with maybe a bigger scope, more features etc. Thats it.
If you think you are arguing with some Star Wars fan, you are wrong.
Rage else where. I don't care.
Angry_Megalodon
"Imagine telling people that they shouldn't expect an excellent product" Thats wild, where exactly does he stay this? Like the exact quote and link?
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N1tr0sOx1d3
Given another chance
Thanks gaffers…….
Kamina
Golden Boy
Let’s stop for a moment here.
Gamers = Customers
Games = Products
If the Customer isn’t buying the product the product is either not fulfilling its purpose, is of subpar quality, or simply is not anything the market wants.
Star Wars Outlaws:
- nobody asked for it
- it’s story and gameplay is apparently not what people are willing to pay money for
The CEO is apparently convicted of the product, that’s fine, but the customers seem to disagree. To the customers it wasn’t solid; it was subpar and not relevant.
Gamers = Customers
Games = Products
If the Customer isn’t buying the product the product is either not fulfilling its purpose, is of subpar quality, or simply is not anything the market wants.
Star Wars Outlaws:
- nobody asked for it
- it’s story and gameplay is apparently not what people are willing to pay money for
The CEO is apparently convicted of the product, that’s fine, but the customers seem to disagree. To the customers it wasn’t solid; it was subpar and not relevant.
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VulcanRaven
Member
It feels like companies are very late with games sometimes. I think an open-world Star Wars game would have been big 5 or 6 years ago. The Avengers game was released few years late too.
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Complistic
Member
Ubisoft, LOL 
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BlackTron
Member
History revisionism seems to be a common tactic of the type of people who call everyone they don't like a Nazi. It's fucked up this is happening on the scale of real warfare in the present day and it feels like the same playbook being used on us in entertainment.
PatientGamer
Gold Member
Should've made the character prettier like the actress, it would've helped sales for sure.
Wildebeest
Member
75 isn't a "solid" score for a AAA game. It is basically as bad as you can get, with the reviewers still being able to work in the industry.
Mokus
Member
These statements are for the investors, and they don't know at what score a game is a stinker.
KaiserBecks
Member
I haven't played Outlaws so I might be wrong here, but I had the impression that it was a solid game and that they distanced themselves quite a bit from the typical Ubi formula. No Radio Towers, no countless symbols on the map etc etc.
Yet a lot of people seem to blame exactly what we're used to from their open world games. Weird. Seems like a situation in which Ubi just can't get it right. But I guess they also did a lot to earn their reputation.
Yet a lot of people seem to blame exactly what we're used to from their open world games. Weird. Seems like a situation in which Ubi just can't get it right. But I guess they also did a lot to earn their reputation.
Perception often equals reality, regardless of what was actually said/done.
From my understanding this quote was from an earnings call. The CEO, and upper management have to know that these calls will get quoted, and if they don't, they should be removed just for that.
What should have been said, is something along the lines of;
"We are to blame for games of low quality, and trying to inject messaging into games, instead of just building a fun, memorable experience."
Instead he indirectly blamed gamers for low/slow sales. Ubisoft is under a microscope right now, and gamers want to hear, in no uncertain terms;
"Yeah, we fucked up. Sorry. We'll be better."
StereoVsn
Member
Well, he is delusional if he thinks Outlaws is solid quality.
- Ugly MC for no foreseeable reason.
- “Boink” melee combat.
- No Jedi but only a single weapon type to use on permanent basis
- Mediocre level design
- Mediocre stealth mechanics with mandatory stealth and insta fails
- Bad animation quality
- Tons of bugs
- Game requires online activation and the version of disk can’t be completed without patching
- Broke save games for their $100+ tier “early access” customers
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Call me crazy but looking at the recent elections across Europe, it seems to me like both the economic and political elites in the West have grown to believe they are somehow entitled to remain in their positions of power indefinitely. But in a democracy, the voters elect who's in charge. And in a free market, the customers vote with their wallets what products get to be produced, how they are produced, and how much they are allowed to cost. It's time people told them what they think how they're performing. Get f****d
BlackTron
Member
If the game got 76 MC while being a high profile Star Wars game with it on record that Disney wished to ensure its good reception, that is catastrophic.
Luckily, Ubisoft decided just last week what MC score is "solid". So us gamers and investors get to save ourselves the trouble of critical thinking.
Luckily, Ubisoft decided just last week what MC score is "solid". So us gamers and investors get to save ourselves the trouble of critical thinking.
PeteBull
Member
I actually strongly diseagree gamers, at least core/male gamers are sheep.
We loved gaming back decades ago when it was considered nothing more than nerds/kids activity, and we didnt give a flying fuck.
Same thing nowadays- we get bombarded by professional journos/inluencers and all kinds of other paid media with how good those woke games of terrible quality are and that its our fault they bomb- and yet we are strong in our convictions, we like what we like, we arent women who need social proof for liking some1/something- we simply like only things we ourselfs actually like
Uh oh, I played 7 hours of Concord this weekend and immediately want back in
PlayStation's hero shooter has more in common with Call of Duty than Overwatch.
and 3 praise to the max reviews for SW:O not made by some unknown youtubers but 3 very "reputable" outlets =D
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Star Wars Outlaws is a perfectly fine open-world game set in an incredible universe
It’s very familiar.
www.theverge.com
Star Wars Outlaws really clicked for me in hour 11, or maybe it was hour 17
Early stealth missions were putting me off, but then I made some key discoveries and had a crucial serving of Duradan soup.
www.gamefile.news
Star Wars Outlaws review – a love letter to lore, Lucas and laser guns
A genuinely likable new lead and intense attention to the mythology of the Star Wars films made this a nostalgic thrill
www.theguardian.com
But he doesn't think it's solid quality,the fact players weren't happy with Star Wars and they don't want to repeat the same mistakes is the official reason they delayed Shadows.
Quite frankly I think Ubisoft is pretty much fucked as a publisher for the next few years but people should not report as news/facts clickbait and ultimately false stuff.
BlackTron
Member
He said it by releasing the game which he later went on to say he is self-aware is not excellent?
BlackTron
Member
You joke but they would try to expand the market to basket weavers and then blame core gamers for not buying in. It was supposed to be expansion, dammit! Why would they stop, the in-game narrator is gay! Are they fucking Nazis?
Schmendrick
Member
Is there any other industry where executives regularly and publicly denigrate their own customers?
I really can`t think of one.....
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thought of one. The same shit happens all the time in Hollywood now as soon as something flops.
I really can`t think of one.....
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thought of one. The same shit happens all the time in Hollywood now as soon as something flops.
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No wonder the gaming industry is fucked. A lot of gamers seem retarded and overreact to everything :
"In today's challenging market and with gamers expecting extraordinary experiences, delivering solid quality is no longer enough. We must strive for excellence in all aspects of our work."
They're saying that providing a bug free, good performing game is not enough because gamers want extraordinary experiences and they must strive for it. Somehow that has turned into this angry mob.
"In today's challenging market and with gamers expecting extraordinary experiences, delivering solid quality is no longer enough. We must strive for excellence in all aspects of our work."
They're saying that providing a bug free, good performing game is not enough because gamers want extraordinary experiences and they must strive for it. Somehow that has turned into this angry mob.
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I have to wonder if this guy and Patcher actually played this game? They were probably around when Star Wars came out. Do they actually think this was that great to begin with? I always thought I was a Star Wars fan, but this looked terrible. The plot looked like it was made for someone besides an OG Star Wars fan.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
No no, stop, that isn't hateful enough, you need to cut out that other part, add in some rage bait and finish it up with some Youtube Thumbnail of a person screaming in shock lol
Gamer's today have basically turned into House Waves in the 90's overacting from every tabloid they see telling them what to think, what to fear etc.
Its so odd cause this is like a few seconds to just google. I don't believe shit from some of these sites lol Some are just sheep, they want to be fed something, react and talk about it without even seeing if it is even actually true. They can be led pretty damn easily to believe anything.
For me to give my point on something I still need to be sure that is the truth, that is what was really stated and then I can give my opinion, but I can't stand when folks see something they WANT to be true and then repeat it as if its a fact instead of just posting the entire quote in context
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Yeah that is some editorializing in the headline. Very misleading.
Morrie’s wig shop
Member
You made a product “gamers” never asked for??
I feel very strongly, that if this game had a character creator sales would be in much better shape…..
You know what, fuck that they should’ve just remake Shadows of the Empire.
I feel very strongly, that if this game had a character creator sales would be in much better shape…..
You know what, fuck that they should’ve just remake Shadows of the Empire.
BlackTron
Member
I'm starting to feel bad for these higher-ups. They are in a position where if they don't bow to the horde, they will be personally attacked into oblivion and their game lampooned by default by media controllers. But it's hitting critical mass where if they don't disobey, their product will falter. They can no longer depreciate the value of old brands in exchange for putting it off another day.
I'm not saying none of them are personally responsible or that there's an excuse for making a bad product. Just saying I wouldn't want to have their job right now, what a nightmare.
I'm not saying none of them are personally responsible or that there's an excuse for making a bad product. Just saying I wouldn't want to have their job right now, what a nightmare.
PeteBull
Member
No need to feel bad bro.
https://www.marketscreener.com/insider/YVES-GUILLEMOT-A03YEB/ he has 22m usd net worth as of end of august =]
Likely he makes yearly more than i will ever make over my whole life
Article from june 2022
Radical_3d
Member
Ooook. What about Life is Strange? It was a cool woke game. It even had the voice of Ash from HAWP.
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