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[asdasdasdbb]

Ubisoft plused it

"Gamepass" winning yet again!

 

[Kacho]

lol seriously. Ubisoft tiresome open world game design combined with Disney/Kathleen Kennedy era Star Wars… can you think of a less appealing combo?

Just casually viewing gameplay, it’s like 70% of the NPCs are women, including Stormtroopers. Much modern day immersion.

 

[Punished Miku]

lol seriously. Ubisoft tiresome open world game design combined with Disney/Kathleen Kennedy era Star Wars… can you think of a less appealing combo?

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably still pick this up for $15 lol. That's my Ubisoft price on basically everything they put out (except Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia).

But Star Wars is just going nowhere man. Get any license but this. They could get Battlestar Galactica for pennies and everyone would be as excited as Robocop. Do something different because Star Wars sucks ass.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Pitiful when considering this is Star Wars. Game looked forgettable from the first showing and Star Wars is being milked too fucking hard these days, I'm sure that there are others out there that once enjoyed the franchise and are now sick to death with it. This and Marvel could do with a long break.

 

[Alebrije]

My Bet the Game Will sell 2-3 millions by end of 2025, UBI games have long legs because price reductions. Anyway 2-3 millions are weak.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

They have spent the biggest marketing budget for a Ubisoft game + the Disney fee. Selling less than 5 million at full price is a bomb for this project.

 

[Gaelyon]

It's 32x more than Concord though.

 

[Skifi28]

Sounds like a great 10 euro purchase a couple of months from now.

 

[Kacho]

The guy who said this on the podcast said "Xbox and PlayStation", so it sounds like that's not counting PC? I can't imagine they sold a bunch of copies on PC given it's on Epic Games Store and Ubisoft client, but not Steam...

Yeah, I very much doubt it sold gang busters on PC due to the store fronts the game is stuck on. That’s where games go to die.

With such a terrible year for Ubisoft, I expect an apology tour in the near future. Day 1 Steam releases with achievements, Splinter Cell return, and various other things to regain goodwill.

 

[StereoVsn]

Sounds like a great 10 euro purchase a couple of months from now.

Yep, I will probably pick up Gold edition or whatever it’s called in a year with DLCs bundled in for $20 to just mess around.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

We're now living in a universe where Warhammer 40k game has massively outsold Star Wars property.

By the Emperor!

 

[iHaunter]

Stop making ugly main characters. No one wants to play them.

 

[Bartski]

How about no more Star Wars

 

[DryvBy]

No one wants to stare at an ugly person for 60 hours.

 

[Jaybe]

 

[Portugeezer]

It's gotta be tough being a SW fan right now. The two big pieces of SW media you got this year were The Acolyte and Outlaws.

It's time to become not-a-fan.

 

[Bry0]

Yikes, that seems really bad for the expectations this probably had.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Space Marine 2 surpassed 2 million the day after launch.

Did it? the announcement was on 10 september, the game launched on 5 september

 

[bundylove]

Deep sale just on time for ps5 pro release

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Did it? the announcement was on 10 september, the game launched on 5 september

Steam CCU numbers for expensive early access alone hitned at 1m+ in the first day.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Did it? the announcement was on 10 september, the game launched on 5 september

Yeah you’re right. The announcement was the day after the full release but 5 days after early access.

 

[Kacho]

I wonder how much of a factor the insane prices was. That was a regular talking point a couple months ago. No one wants to drop $70 on the dirty poor edition.

 

[GymWolf]

I literally would have been more interested if it was just a space game that had nothing to do with Star Wars.

Disney managed to make you hate star wars aswell?

The official name of the brand under disney is now "Star Was".

 

[XXL]

To be fair. It's 2-3 days of tracking.

But regardless, it's not great if that's worldwide.

 

[StereoVsn]

To be fair. It's 2-3 days of tracking.

But regardless, it's not great if that's worldwide.

Wasn’t there early access as well for the “Royal / Platinum / Whatever “ edition?

 

[LordCBH]

This game will be $20 by November.

 

[Tanus777]

How many people are subscribed to Ubi+?

 

[VolticArchangel]

Do we have an estimated budget of this game?

 

[ElFenomeno]

Stellar Blade sold more lol.

 

[Fake]

Thats really bad lmao.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[Codiox]

Sounds like a great 10 euro purchase a couple of months from now.

We are getting there. Its already under 40€.
Will be patched a little bit more and 20 bucks by christmas i think.

 

[ArtHands]

So around 5 days worth of sales data including early access.

For comparison ( Sell through numbers )
Black Myth Wukong - 10m in 3 days
Zelda TOTK - 10m in 3 days
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet - 10m in 3 days
Hogwarts legacy - 12m in 2 weeks
Elden ring - 12m in 3 weeks
Gow Ragnarok - 5.1m in 5 days
Spiderman 2 - 5m in 10 days
TLOU part 2 - 4m in 3 days

Star wars outlaws - 800k in 5 days

Dont forget Palworld sold 8m in 6 days

 

[killatopak]

I don’t blame the game completely.

If this game released ten years ago, it would have sold a ton more. Star Wars as whole seems to be on the downtrend. I don’t doubt for a second it affected the reception this game got.

 

[GymWolf]

How many people are subscribed to Ubi+?

I think people just do a month of sub when a new big game is out, i doubt anyone stay subbed the whole year, ubisoft doesn't have enough output for that.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

I'm surprised to be honest. I wasn't expecting a good game but I thought the IP would secure at least decent sales. It looked like the kind of game that is bashed online but actually performs well.

Star Wars is not what it once was. I think George Lucas knew it too which is why he sold it to Disney.

 

[GymWolf]

Do we have an estimated budget of this game?

We only know this:


Star Wars Outlaws promotional campaign is the largest that Ubisoft has ever organised, according to CEO Yves Guillemot. In return, Guillemot expects "strong sales" from Star Wars Outlaws, arguing that its one of the most anticipated games of the year. Despite this, the game has recently faced criticism for its visuals.

 

[ElFenomeno]

Yves AAAA Guillemot.

 

[ByWatterson]

I just don't know how many times they need us to tell them what we like and don't like.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

imagine buying a Ubisoft game

 

[Trunx81]

I’ll wait for the inevitable PS4 version.

 

[tkscz]

I'm surprised to be honest. I wasn't expecting a good game but I thought the IP would secure at least decent sales. It looked like the kind of game that is bashed online but actually performs well.

Then you haven't been paying attention to the Star Wars fandom. Disney has killed it for the majority of them. For average people with passing interest, there is now too much, too many shows too many movies, just too much. For long term and hardcore fans, the quality of story and character has been draining and most no longer care about current star wars. You still have the ultra hardcore who still love the idea of anything with Star Wars on it and Disney core who love the new direction of star wars, but they are significantly fewer than the former group of fans. The Star Wars name doesn't carry the weight it once did, even compared to 6 to 8 years ago.

Couple that with Ubisoft being the developer. Ubisoft has not been doing so well lately, not sure why they're losing people as I've never really been into their games to begin with and I heard good things about the latest Assassin Creed games at least.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Almost a million in two days? That's great! It has done well since. Fuck right off.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I dodged the bullet... I'll buy it when it's $19.99

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Go gargoyle, feel turmoil

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Should have made the MC a cute Twilek girl.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I'm convinced they hate women.

 

[Esca]

For a SW game I would have expected more than that in pre-orders alone. Ouch