About 8 years ago (I took a guess there but it was definitely the PS4/One era), Costco Canada would dump off Ass Creed discs after the new year for I think $25 CDN. lol Happened 3 years in a row from what I remember. Probably happened more times but didnt catch it. lol
I don't think Ubisoft should/needs to no longer exist, but Yves needs to go.
That might hurt them overall, hard to say. On the rare times i actually want an Ubi game, i always waited for the $20 (hell even $10) price they hit a few months later.
Took a peep over at the asylum and I saw someone commented that it was us "Gamergaters" that caused the poor sales of Outlaws
Maybe they need to look at their team...
This is the quote that baffles me, they could've made Shadows a preorder sales success quite safely by having both protagonists be Japanese, hell they could even have absolutely zero white people in the game and then include Yasuke as a side character as per every other AC game with real people. No one would bat an eye or scream wOkEnEsS except the batshit lunatics from the extreme sides of the spectrum.
While true, in the meantime they are tainting much beloved IPs/franchises, which maybe was the goal all along.
That scene was so obviously crammed in there just for the sake of virtue signaling, it was ridiculous.
Don't kid yourself, the people pushing the agenda wanted this. They wanted this reaction, they deliberately provoked it, just so they can get this reaction, which allows them to turn around and call gamers racist. Which is their ultimate goal, to "prove" how racist everyone is.This is the quote that baffles me, they could've made Shadows a preorder sales success quite safely by having both protagonists be Japanese, hell they could even have absolutely zero white people in the game and then include Yasuke as a side character as per every other AC game with real people. No one would bat an eye or scream wOkEnEsS except the batshit lunatics from the extreme sides of the spectrum.
But instead they do this and still claim they're trying to create games for the "broadest possible audience", as if going in this direction would not cause a shitshow and split the discourse around this game between legitimate criticism and a full blown culture war between crazy people
Well done Ubisoft.
I like the improvements they've commited to with their future games, but I'd like to suggest one more. Please shoot the person who came up with the idea of bloating their singleplayer games to then introduce paid XP savers. Do it Yves. K thx bye.
100%. We can sniff the inauthenticity from a mile away. It has a very distinct vibe.
This is the most important thing, and one that gamers should never lose sight of.
Agree that getting that IP catalog for 1.5B would be worth it, if the buyer has the means to actually create something with it. I don't think it's valuable in the way that Mario or Pokemon is that they can just sit on the IPs and rake in cash, though.
It's because they have over 20000 employees, tons of studios and buildings. To put that number into perspective ABK and EA have 13-14k employees, SIE, Embracer and Take2 have around 12k.
This is probably the crux of this, investors do not give a damn about woke or alphabet mafia. However when you are a stock company you need to be VERY careful what is exactly that you are saying. Could also be someone got caught inside trading lol.
They are becoming a thing of the past.
www.cbsnews.com
Ashraf Ismail, the director of AC Black Flag and AC Origins, easily some of their best games, was forced to resign after being scandalized for allegedly cheating on his wife. As if that's any of the company's business.
I wonder if that’s the reason for the drop in quality from Origins to Valhalla.
And they did ? How ? Because for me they still are doubling down on their woke stances
TBH already in Odyssey you could see the bloat, it's only because even if they started to correct course it would have been too late for Valhalla (Odyssey - October 2018 ; Valhalla - November 2020), but then they did change it with Mirage and (it looks like) Shadows.
Rumor going around is that after the success of Deadpool & Wolverine; they are cleaning house everywhere, but Lucasfilm.
I heard that too .. but given the size and history of woke support... if they were axing people left and right and changing discourse the main stream would already pick that up ... but even if its only marvel thars already something.
It's because he apparently used his position to, you know, get some. Flirting with fans and trying to use his position as the director of AC.
Probably not. Valhalla was made by the same team, same lead writers and directors that made Origins, including that specific director.
I would argue it's because of the change to dual protagonists, some games managed to pull it off well like Mass Effect and Cyberpunk 2077, but the protagonists in AC games really took a turn for the worse as soon as they began giving players this choice. Even Connor has more charisma than Kassandra/Alexios and Eivor...
Easy to start to getting rid of, or not hire known activist producers and directors and go from there. Screen writers too. Might not affect projects releasing soon, but over the next few years we'll probably start to see a lot less pandering.
But you can also change just the leadership ... if the leadership is leaning one way the woketards will peace out and the ones not so retards will just stfu and do their job. With normal good leadership things can auto correct
Not to mention double protagonist adds to the cost and time to produce a game - new animations, double the audio recordings, new item art, etc. I think Ubi doesn't really know how to run a lean operation, they are probably one of the largest companies making games headcount-wise.
At my old company, there was a love triangle and everyone knew it. One guy dumped one of them and married the other. lol. I just missed it all as I joined when one person was just leaving.
The word is on the grapevine is that Bob Iger is looking for a replacement. So likely shareholders aren't happy. Kathleen Kennedy ain't budging so she must have some shit on him, and/or some or the other higher ups at Disney.
