Laptop1991
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After all the anti consumer stuff Ubisoft has done in the last few years I don't care if they go under and I'm a big AC fan of Valhalla and the games before that.
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UBISOFT is dying - market shares collapse by 85% from 2021 to 2025
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MLSabre
Member
I wanted ubi to survive just so this game can launch, but so much time passed w/o any update, kinda lost hope by now
6 years ago??
I know half a decade of development is increasingly becoming the norm but it screams development troubles to me unless you're Rockstar. And Ubisoft is anything but hitting it out of the park.
Rudius
Member
Yeah, but he is not the prince. Kinda like Zelda where you play as Link.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
I feel like Shadows is going to do pretty well, but Ubisoft is just crazy bloated as a company. They need to trim down seriously if they even want to try to sell the company, or to stay afloat I guess at this point. I didn't realize their cashflow/debt issues were so massive.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
Ubisoft is surely "dead man walking" at this point, and that's really too bad. They had a real charm and style to their best videogames, and in my view, they shined brightest during the Wii era. Rayman and Rabbids are well known, as is Prince of Persia, but let's also not forget the Shaun White trilogy, which remains criminally underrated and among my personal favorites.
Probably not a popular opinion among "hardcore" gamers, but I think Just Dance was the best idea the company ever had, and I've loved the franchise ever since the original launched in 2009. It's the perfect idea for a videogame that appeals to a wide audience--women, children, fitness & exercise fans--and always delivers with a freewheeling, tongue-in-cheek style. The franchise never took itself too seriously, and that sense of fun has always kept it fresh. If Just Dance has faltered in the last few years, it's only the fault of modern pop music. All the best songs were taken years ago. This is one instance where the paid yearly subscription is absolutely mandatory.
Another two Nintendo Wii titles from Ubisoft that I always loved: Monster 4X4 World Circuit and GT Pro Series. If you can find those in the used bins for five bucks, grab them immediately, you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
Probably not a popular opinion among "hardcore" gamers, but I think Just Dance was the best idea the company ever had, and I've loved the franchise ever since the original launched in 2009. It's the perfect idea for a videogame that appeals to a wide audience--women, children, fitness & exercise fans--and always delivers with a freewheeling, tongue-in-cheek style. The franchise never took itself too seriously, and that sense of fun has always kept it fresh. If Just Dance has faltered in the last few years, it's only the fault of modern pop music. All the best songs were taken years ago. This is one instance where the paid yearly subscription is absolutely mandatory.
Another two Nintendo Wii titles from Ubisoft that I always loved: Monster 4X4 World Circuit and GT Pro Series. If you can find those in the used bins for five bucks, grab them immediately, you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
Complistic
Member
Ubisoft, LOL 
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TheAmazingSpiderMan
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
3 point formula for Ubisoft success -
- More Rayman/Legends games
- More Splinter Cell games
- More Black Flag games
FunkMiller
Member
Drake
Member
They literally had the best pirate game ever made. All they had to do was make it not-assassins creed, but more pirate stuff and it would have been a roaring success. Instead they waste hundreds of millions of dollars on Skull and Bones.
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
Hope they think the Woke DEI shit was worth it.
Kurotri
Member
I think AC is pretty big and still does numbers, but it is a good question regardless. The series isn't getting younger, and what will happen once they run out of popular/easily markettable settings?
Radical_3d
Member
You know the funniest part? They are not DEI. They are just showing off just to get rid of the bad press of abusive environment and sexual harassment. I know for sure that the actions that were taken were a pantomime, that kept everyone guilty in their place. Favouring the prevailing nepotism that infest the whole company. The team behind Price of Persia has been disbanded, Michael Ancel isn’t making games anymore… There is nothing worth saving in that snake’s nest except for the jobs of the low level devs, and I hope that they manage to land on their feet under a new company that absorbs Ubi and erases everyone making decisions from the organization.
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ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
I agree, but Ubi hasn't helped themselves. Worst case scenario, they get bought out by Tencent, and the industry is given a lessen. Best case scenario, Shadows doesn't totally flop, Ubisoft does a hard turnaround, and actually learns the lesson.
That lesson btw isn't "white straight males only" or anything like that. It's "don't be fucking stupid when greenlighting projects and don't allow your employees to antagonize potential buyers on social media.
Kerotan
Member
In the last year I've played AC Odyssey, Origins, Siege, Division 2, breakpoint, xdefiant, watch dogs legion, far cry 6, far cry 3 blood dragon. I've not finished breakpoint but only xdefiant I'd give below a 7/10.
I don't agree with the sentiment that nothing of value would be lost. They've provided me with a lot of fun from the ps3 generation to now.
I can't see them going bankrupt. They probably spend well over a billion a year on wages so first thing they'll do is let a few thousand staff go to cut costs and the blue haired brigade will be the first to go.
I don't agree with the sentiment that nothing of value would be lost. They've provided me with a lot of fun from the ps3 generation to now.
I can't see them going bankrupt. They probably spend well over a billion a year on wages so first thing they'll do is let a few thousand staff go to cut costs and the blue haired brigade will be the first to go.
icecold1983
Member
Good riddance
AtomicStarving
Member
DEI ubisoft paying off.... still remember the dog shit players... far cry 6 "is not DEI" LOOOOOL.... play FC6 as a female.... another forced garbage by Ubishit 
Bernardougf
Member
Theres no MCU fatique.. theres shitty m-she-u movies fatique ... Deadpool 3 just pushed over 1 billion and hes only a side character at best.... the DEI/Feminist push in fase 4 just failed ... time to go back to legacy characters and do good fun movies and they will be fine as Wolverine and Deadpool just proved.
But first the new captain america will bomb hard. Just to proof one more time the stupidity of what they did in phase4.
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Totally agree 100%.
laynelane
Member
I don't own any Ubisoft games, decided not to buy them after they decided to apply their open world formula to all their IPs (this was years ago). Their monetization scams, always online bs, launcher, etc. convinced me to stay with that decision. So, it doesn't impact me personally if they go out of business but I do hope their IPs, which many love, go to a better home. Ubi has been dropping the ball for so long and absolutely refusing to improve in any constructive way - this failure is of their own doing and it's hard to sympathize with them for it.
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EverydayBeast
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Rainbow six, the division and ghost recon have similarities in that they’re shooters but that’s where it ends, support for r6 died for me when they wouldn’t focus on campaign, terrorist hunt and look at all the crappy “characters”, the division is dead, ghost recon wildlands had good intentions.
Salz01
Member
I always liked their wacky ass E3 presentations. The last Ubi game I purchased was Far Cry 6 several years ago.
I also remember this and it still makes me laugh.
https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisofts-...-every-illiterate-racist-douchebag-on-youtube
I also remember this and it still makes me laugh.
https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisofts-...-every-illiterate-racist-douchebag-on-youtube
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laynelane
Member
Gamers have a bad rep? That generalization seems to only apply when the vast amount of people who play games don't agree with one person or a small number of people's opinions.
mclaren777
Member
Far Cry and Watch Dogs were some of my favorite franchises, but Ubisoft tinkered with their formulas more than I wanted.
Putonahappyface
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Team Andromeda
Member
All Ubisoft need to do is get back to making games like they used too and none of this mobile and free to play crap.
newtypepilot
Member
truly a AAAA nosedive
The company is already in decline even without the DEI nonsense. The agenda pushing BS only accelerated the process. They are simply out of touch with the market. Their games are the same cookie cutter crap with tons of predatory mtx.
The company is already in decline even without the DEI nonsense. The agenda pushing BS only accelerated the process. They are simply out of touch with the market. Their games are the same cookie cutter crap with tons of predatory mtx.
Yup, the game is really great. It was hurt by the use of rap in the first trailer (that got massively disliked), and having a black main character also didn't help, let's be honest. People didn't want that from a Prince of Persia game (me included).
vaibhavpisal
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MMaRsu
Member
I wanted ubi to survive just so this game can launch, but so much time passed w/o any update, kinda lost hope by now
Looks kinda awesome but what is this
Like fuck off with this shit, horrible 'tude' bs
Thebonehead
Gold Member
Xtib81
Member
At this point, they could very well fuck up this IP too.
DirtInUrEye
Member
BG&E2 was obviously the holy grail but I remember all those years ago when they showed the last big flashy trailer... and the bizarrely potty-mouthed chimp companion. Put me right off. Why was the monkey suddenly fuck this and fuckin that? Because it's cool? Nah, it was fucking juvenile and unappealing, it grated. Aesthetics are quite important, and this was nothing like the original game.
Action Jackson
Member
The only Ubisoft IP I care about is The Division and even there the developers of the Chinese version are providing free skins and a Christmas themed hub area to the game while Massive, the original creator is asleep at the wheel.
Imagine that, a Chinese company to whom development has been farmed out, caring more about the game than Ubi themselves.
All Chinese government interference fear-mongering aside, I don’t think Ubi‘s IP would be handled worse under Tencent ownership.
xrnzaaas
Member
What's interesting is that Ubisoft doesn't seem to have solid plans for the future. Far Cry 7 seems to be undergoing some changes to its original concept and it's not a surprise, because the idea of implementing a time limit sounded awful. No word on Division 3 or Siege 2. Heroes of Might & Magic and Anno 117 won't be huge releases and Ubi may be unjustly disappointed with the sales again, just like with PoP The Lost Crown. Beyond Good & Evil 2 and PoP Remake likely stuck in development hells. I don't believe that Splinter Cell Remake project even exists. They killed off Watch Dogs IP on their own with the idiotic idea of not having a proper protagonist.
They can't keep relying on Assassin's Creed to keep them afloat, not when they're employing almost 20 thousand people.
They can't keep relying on Assassin's Creed to keep them afloat, not when they're employing almost 20 thousand people.
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Bert Big Balls
Gold Member
I get what you mean, but at the same time it's showing these companies that if you don't make games that gamers actually want to play, then you aren't going to survive.