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SOURCES
1: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/ubisoft-had-an-absolutely-dire-2024-and-desperately-needs-a-win/
2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/18/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-is-40-off-12-days-after-release/
3: https://insider-gaming.com/skull-and-bones-players-total/
4: https://steamdb.info/app/2853730/charts/
5: https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-cancels-the-division-heartland
6: https://insider-gaming.com/star-wars-outlaws-sales-1-million/
7: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubisoft-s-prince-of-persia-lost-crown-team-reportedly-disbanded-after-disappointing-sales
8: https://www.polygon.com/gaming/490491/ubsioft-xdefiant-shutting-down
9: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-to-sunset-xdefiant-in-2025-nearly-300-people-affected-by-layoffs
10: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xdefiant-is-not-shutting-down-executive-producer-says-year-2-still-planned/1100-6527179/
11: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/repeatedly-delayed-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-remake-is-now-set-for-release-in-2026-and-no-longer-has-remake-in-the-title/
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13: https://x.com/bgegame/status/1805269728262230467
14: https://www.vice.com/en/article/beyond-good-and-evil-2-gets-new-lead-promises-unique-game/
15: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/700-ubisoft-france-staff-walk-out-on-a-three-day-strike-in-dispute-over-home-working-and-pay
16: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/ubisoft-workers-strike-france/
17: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/tencent-and-guillemot-brothers-ubisoft-buyout-reportedly-held-up-by-dispute-over-control
18: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ubisoft-activist-investor-says-it-has-support-10-shareholders-management-tussle-2024-09-26/
19: https://tech4gamers.com/ubisoft-stock-plummets-by-over-45-percent/
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You crap on fans it gets flung right back at you lol
I really hope Insomniac is watching!!!
I swear, Beyond Good & Evil 2 will get to stores around the time Blizzard finally takes StarCraft: Ghost out of development hell!
The Lost Crown would have done so much better if it made it to steam.
xDefiant i find interesting. Apparently skill based matchmaking is vital to keep a live service pvp game going
We’ve gotten to the point where the anything with brand Ubisoft is a negative when deciding if you want to spend money on it. They should sell and rebrand the thing
I went to this year's BGS (Brasil Game Show, biggest gaming event in latin america) and besides being really lacking of many gaming studios and companies, the funniest part was that Star Wars Outlaws had its own stand inside Samsung's stand with like 10 tvs running the game… and it was empty. No lines, just a couple people here or there trying it out for a couple minutes and that was it. THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE DAY. Lego harry potter running on a random pc, Counter Strike and Mortal Kombat had LINES to be played, but not the biggest and newest star wars title.
The strikes are so stupid to me. Bring your ass to work. I got to come in every fucking day and they're crying about 3 days. Also the products have gotten way worse since the pandemic and all this remote shit. Not to mention the security implications. BRING YOUR LAZY ASSES TO WORK
I miss old Ubisoft and EA, they really used to put out some of the best games man, it sucks seeing how greedy and evil they’ve become.
The end of Ubisoft is fine by me, that company is so far gone by now. It needs to be shutdown.
The quality of their writting and amazing stories, combined with the incredible detailed craftmanship of their worlds made Ubisoft great. When the quality of their stories fell, to favor Microtransactions, skins, to try to make their games last longer with generic sidequests (kill objective, find objective, fetch objective) they lost what little magic they had left. It doesn't matter if their worlds are amazing. If you don't have anything to put in them, it will ultimately fail.
Ubisoft is the definition of Quantity not Quality. They’re more lost than Zoro from One Piece
Somehow these corporate heads will continue to keep their jobs, make millions while the employees below them get fired for simply doing what they were told to do, even if they all knew the assignment was trash from the start
This was so inevitable. The writings have been on the wall for about 10 years now. I lost faith in Ubisoft years ago. Assassin's Creed 2 was peak, but now look at them… embarrassing!
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is excellent. A serious contender for the best modern metroidvania and my GOTY of 2024. Seeing that talent go under hurts.
I forgot about your channel. You are the one who only brings criticism and bad news. 😂
Maybe unpopular opinion, but I actually loved avatar the first time through, it's definitely not perfect, there were alot of things missing such as using melee weapons and just a better variety of weapons, but the setting, graphics, and no in your face ads, I enjoyed it, haven't picked it up since I beat it though.
Remote work absolutely does NOT work. It's a major reason why game development has dragged years beyond when it should. As far as Asasins Creed goes, it's going to put the final nail in the coffin. The game is going to flop and they know it. 2024 was the year where DEI sank a lot of companies. Ubisoft is another one that is seeing what happens when you dont listen to your consumers. Also telling us to get use to not owning your games was a really bad thing to say.
The worst, probably the last year for Ubisoft.
R: 1999 SAVE US. WITH THIS I SUMMON, BEAUTIFUL LIVE2D CHARACTER ARTWORK!
Working from home or remote working being better than requiring people to go to the office is a complete fallacy. It might be better for a small percentage of people but for the majority it is worse. People do not work as hard and try even harder to slack off in remote working. It would make efficiency far worse. And i say this from experience and witnessing it. Granted i dont work in game programming but this is an issue with work ethic and not job type.
HAH! HAH!
Ubisoft should get used to NOT owning their company. 🤭
everyones cheering about the downfall of ubisoft and while im right there with you guys, lets not forget that Ubisoft got to the heights they did for a reason. i play alotta For Honor, if Ubisoft goes under what happens to that game? im a huge fan of Ghost Recon, itd be really sad to see that franchise disappear. even though we haven't gotten a Splinter Cell game in like a decade, im still holding out hope we might get another one someday. if Ubisoft goes under, that never happens. im hoping the absolute dumpster fire of a year they had makes them wake up and get their shit together because i dont want to see them disappear entirely.
You forgot to mention the NFT games they pushed
Ubisoft has no time to make a good game anymore it’s over for them
People finally sick of the copy paste story telling, world design, weapon selections, and hand holding through very easy mode.
Lets make it worse they deserve it. Not the Devs the devs have real talent it's sad assassins creed origins is soo beautiful. The devs are masters of brining historic places to life in a living breathing world. Its the upper management that did this.
The audacity, of the Guillemots insisting they still keep their jobs with any form of merger & acquisition just singposts how much they do not deserve to have authority over anyone else ever again! 🤬😡
Epic exclusives paying off I see.
All that is happening is the dark tentacles of political correctness has infiltrated so deeply that you can no longer have fun.
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I'd say "so far" but they actually might not exist another year to have a worse year…
Prince of Persia REMAKE delayed until 2026?! Oh wow, thats just pathetic…
Please let's Not Tell Ubisoft how they could make a Comeback, we don't want them back
I thought you left commentary and went to bluesky?
Microsoft rejected Secret Level episode of Halo x Doom Slayer crossover. Call them out, please.
I am comfortable with them not owning my money
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Happy New Year YongYea, lol oh Ubisoft
Ubisoft now has to get comfortable not owning their company.
Kek Yong Yea talked really safely about AC: Nibbas in Japan, gotta make sure those sponsors dont feel insulted.
Bro 100% in a Silicon Valley meeting room. 😂
Been to so many of those tech companies and all of their meeting rooms look like this
Make stupid games, win stupid stocks
I understand the desire to wanna work from home, however, how can a team move all in the same direction when you never come together as a team? Creative minds should have disagreements, conflict and a clash of ideas which all congeal towards a great product! Without that, you just get weird, contrived results….which is what we are seeing in AAA right now.
Ubisoft forgot a foundational rule for making money with a business: The customer controls your profits, not a political message.
But by all means keep doing what you're doing. It's for sure going to work the next time!
Honestly, it's basically a rick roll meme at this point. No one cares anymore or enough to even look in their direction. Numbers don't lie.