Astray
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It will eventually.You are right that games usually sell for a long time...if they have great word of mouth, which I am not really seeing with ACS. Hence my skepticism that it will reach profitability anytime soon. I really doubt Ubisoft is particularly happy with its performance.
What they need to do it keep trending upwards with more hits.
People don't really understand that companies like Capcom don't achieve their strong sales based on new launches alone (altho those are great), at least %30-40 of those sales are made via discounted past fare too, things like the HD collections etc.
The repetition of their big games is also a big factor in why they're selling slower.They also had that roller blade game and I'm pretty sure some noname obscure PC shooter that came and went. I forget the name and if it and whether it was F2P or paid.......... (edit.... it's Hyper Scape as you wrote. I had to google the name to make sure that's what I meant)
Problem with UBI is they got so many employees so they got to churn out games fast because there's only so many AC and Farcry kind of games they can make at a time.
Many of their games are also stretched thin with hardly any marketing sinking the game at the first step. So somehow they got money to make the game, but no money to keep it going in terms of marketing/advertising.
They also got a knack lately for DEI-ing a big name game like SW and AC, which just tanks sales. If they did that for a small game, it wont be as bad as sales werent expected to be big to begin with. But when they do it a big selling franchise, the negative sales effect will be huge.
If you played Valhalla then you likely had %70-90 of the Shadows gameplay experience. If you played Far Cry 4 then you might as well not bother with FC6 because same..etc
Their structure is just too rigid to allow their devs to innovate and create different flavors. I honestly miss when they did stuff like Watchdogs or Far Cry Primal, where at least the premises would get you going.
It doesn't help that when they tried doing new stuff like POP: Lost Crown it has also flopped (amazing game btw).
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