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SW Outlaws tanks, Ubisoft is course correcting
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Cyberpunkd
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Won’t change a thing if it still has their shit launcher.
Jesus Christ, this is bad.
Da1337Vinci
Member
Right current living cost, amount of games available, 70 price tag and games that are time sink aka live services mean you must do something fresh.
Ubisoft times where they habe been know to do something like that can be argued has been 5 optimistically speaking or over 10 years ago.
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Kacho
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Laptop1991
Member
Only a brand new game absent any issues that is just about good gameplay and stories that looks great and becomes popular will course correct for Ubisoft, Outlaws and Shadows won't achieve that now IMO.
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Ridicululzz
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The Star Wars IP as a whole just seems to be losing that glamour that it once had. Games like Outlaws certainly aren't helping.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Why does everyone have to be so damn dramatic about everything.
I assumed we’d be getting some actual numbers based on the thread title.
I assumed we’d be getting some actual numbers based on the thread title.
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Rocinante618
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Put AC: Mirage on Steam! This should have come to Steam before Avatar (~6 months Epic exclusivity?) but weirdly Ubisoft has forgotten about it.
U n i o n 0015
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I'm just Star Wars'd out.
The Jedi series is great because it has a sense of adventure, but running around as Dollar Tree Han Solo just didn't seem worth $60 and 50 hours of time.
The Jedi series is great because it has a sense of adventure, but running around as Dollar Tree Han Solo just didn't seem worth $60 and 50 hours of time.
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
To you think a company publicly acknowledging 3.9/5 for SW IP is happy with the results?
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
Course correcting from the shelves into the recycle bin.
Sanepar
Member
Below 80 for games only with 75% off if it is a genre I really enjoy. Time is short on life. I want play just what is good.
TheAmazingSpiderMan
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The incompetence of the higher ups in these companies baffle me, they're out of touch with everything yet.
Skifi28
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They're clearly not happy, but not being happy and "tanking" are not quite the same. Concord tanked.
Kacho
Gold Member
Sept Terrion Of Nothing
Member
You should decide if the game is good or not. Don't let some "journalist" or petty (or troll) individuals determine that for you. Maybe you won't like overall 90 points game. Maybe you'll love below overall 80 games. Hell, I love lots of below 70 games myself, lots of hidden gems there.
Point system is good indicator but just for a starting point. Not for everything.
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proandrad
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With a lightsaber.
It really is that simple. Just appeal to the people that actually buy games.
rabbity-thing
Member
Nah.... IMO, it's not just the fact that she's unattractive. Gaming's got a fair amount of unattractive characters. The problem for me is that her image is more cursed than ugly. Like, it's just mad uncanny valley. I can handle an ugly protagonist. What I can't handle is a character that looks like an AI's failed attempt of approximating a human face. Everything about is just off. I can't adequately explain it, but it makes me uncomfortable to look at it.
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
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I'll say it again, irrespective of all the hoopla about the in-game model of the protagonist, if you're gonna make a story in the Star Wars Universe that isn't centered around the Jedi-Sith conflict (i.e. fucking cool space wizards who give the entire IP its appeal), then your writing and production needed to be fucking top tier.
This simply wasn't. A 76 MC score is pretty bad considering media outlets rarely use the full scale. So not only did Ubisoft ship a Star Wars game with no Jedi, they also shipped a poorly made Star Wars game with no Jedi and also a shitty 3D model for the protagonist.
It was really a perfect storm of horse shit that nobody wanted to play.
This simply wasn't. A 76 MC score is pretty bad considering media outlets rarely use the full scale. So not only did Ubisoft ship a Star Wars game with no Jedi, they also shipped a poorly made Star Wars game with no Jedi and also a shitty 3D model for the protagonist.
It was really a perfect storm of horse shit that nobody wanted to play.
SyedDanishAnwar
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Good point. But the problem is many of us busy bees don't have the luxury (time) to try each game to know if it's good or not.
Personally, I go with recommendations, as most of the time they are spot on. There is not one game rated above 90 MC that I didn't enjoy - RE4, Rebirth, Tekken 8, AstroBot, BG3, Elden Ring, SFVI were all really good. There might be one or two journalists with an agenda but I believe majority of them are objective in their reporting.
yazenov
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News - Business - Ubisoft recently confirmed that it has pumped more money into marketing Star Wars Outlaws than any other game it has released
In a recent financial update, Ubisoft’s CEO revealed that the firm has put more money and effort into marketing Star Wars Outlaws than any other Ubisoft game ever released. He also stressed that the company expects a strong launch based on the ‘positive community sentiment’ circulating the...
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StreetsofBeige
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Looks like that 800,000 sales number after a few days was trash. Sales probably got worse as the weeks gone.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
To be fair a 76 to Ubisoft is treated like a 96.
sharp weiner
Member
Money talks.
Loud, and with perfect enunciation.
Loud, and with perfect enunciation.
Omnipunctual Godot
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Especially for a AAA or AAAA game.
Unknown Soldier
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With the amount of review score inflation you pretty much expect all decent games to have 80's Metascore
Radical_3d
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Is there anyone left in Ubi that knows how to make a game fun? Pretty sure they only know how to reiterate their formula and somewhat expecting it didn’t get old after 300 identical games. How you “course correct” that?
MacReady13
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Normally I'd agree with that statement but in this case, with the Star Wars brand, and for how long AND how many people worked on it, plus the hype they built up for this game, an 85 really should've been the minimum they should expect... But hey, 76 for such an important game is fine if they say so.
Sybrix
Member
True, i like this take on the story.
Ubisoft in the 2000s was Rockstar level.
Each game was so exciting to play, from about 2014 onwards it's been a downward trajectory.
Here's hoping this re-focus slims Ubisoft down and they go back to creating quality games and not pump out repetative shit every 2 years.
Mossybrew
Member
Yeah this game really should have gone the Mass Effect route, either male or female protagonist with a character creator.
Denton
Member
Outlaws is a great game and it really doesn't need a god damn lightsaber. Its focus on stealth action exploration gameplay is great.
Its problems are:
- bugs
- weird Kay character model that looks borderline broken in some cutscenes
- lack of steam release
- too basic enemy AI
That said eventhough I liked the game despite the issues, I am somewhat glad it is not selling because Ubi needs to get its face smacked if it is ever going to learn and leave the DEI nonsense.
StereoVsn
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Outlaws ship has sailed. Nobody is buying that shit full priced around Black Friday on Steam. Its an issue of Ubi's own making.
StereoVsn
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76 is a decent score for an indie or AA studio, like say some of the Euro ones producing decent but not great RPGs. 76 for a hyped AAAa Star Wars game is a huge issue.
CompleteGlobalSaturation
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I hate to say this but I have a feeling this general decline in quality is partly due to excessive diversity hires versus looking for competent programmers artists game Devs etc.
Lunarorbit
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This game won't magically sell more copies over the holidays. Not enough to matter. It launched on everything and there's damning video evidence that it's another paint by numbers ubisoft game.
Worse yet is all the ridiculous head slaps that were all over the internet. Really you can just slap a stormtrooper? This shit is baked
Worse yet is all the ridiculous head slaps that were all over the internet. Really you can just slap a stormtrooper? This shit is baked
Well that worked for Fallout, it's bigger than ever now.
Lunarorbit
Gold Member
Oops. That's not good. Especially for a company that's fought off at least 2 hostile takeovers. Please don't let the shitty Saudi royal family buy them.