'Ubisoft Faces Its Most Challenging Year In History' From Insider Gaming - Luke Reacts

[@randomfeg4141]

I'm like 95% sure the first mod that comes out for ac shadows will make yasuke japanese and there will be big drama about it on twitter and nexus mods will remove it in a day

[@LimmeLimbo]

😂😂😂 definitely gon be a mod. I think it’s a toss-up between the mod getting deleted or ignored. Mfs also probably just wont care. Nobody cares if u use a mod to make changes. Now if it starts becoming a competition between canon Yasuke and modded Yasuke, then it might start getting controversial.

[@rafterman5072]

I mean, the mod would make the game narrative incoherent. I’m pretty sure the story is based around Yasuke being a “fish out of water” outsider.

[@kzumf]

​@@LimmeLimbo oh, Nexusmods cares. They delete mods that change rainbow flags to American ones or re-raceswap characters and ban their creators. On the other side, you can change any flag to pride flags or make white characters black and they'll keep it on there.

[@EditCCEnjoyer]

@rafterman5072I think many People will value the Gameplay Experience of seeing a real Samurai, over the Cutscenes, considering the last two AC Games, don’t had the best story..

[@rafterman5072]

@@EditCCEnjoyer I mean, be my guest then. lol I would just skip the game altogether.

[@mariokarter13]

The irony that the one game fans have been waiting 15 years for might end up killing the entire company.

[@stefandinu6389]

That's actually kinda funny. If you told me 10 years ago that ubisoft will make an ac game set in Japan and I wouldn't care at all id think you're crazy😂

[@Quasiguambo]

It's very strange. This is the game I'm looking forward to most... I am winding down my 30+yrs enjoying the hobby, and shadows seems to offer everything I wanted from an AC or ninja game. I don't see how I'll be disappointed given what I know. But that said, I don't intend to ever purchase another Ubisoft product, so my support here does not change the fortunes of the company long-term. And having enjoyed the hobby for so long, it really is just a situation where the industry has peaked for me. I don't want or need to spend more on it. I have my dream games, and little time to enjoy them. I've not felt this way before, so I'm hopeful this'll stick. I mean my last bug gaming purchase was an oled monitor from yesterday... so I can only hope lol.

[@chronicwizdom8638]

It’s their own fault.

[@izzaazzurri]

Or you could say that game *assasinate* ubisoft

[@elijah6142]

I think the point is that it isn't killing the company, it's the last dose of medicine for a company that has always had bad symptoms. They should have treated the causes a decade ago

[@smacksavemarthaassociation5092]

“Ubisoft needs a big win.” “The floor here is made of floor.”

[@stanley13579]

It's a shame to see one of the great gaming companies fall so far, but Ubisoft does NOT deserve a fluke. They do not deserve to succeed by the skin of their teeth, because they have made too many mistakes, and they should pay for every single one of them. They're grossly anti-consumer, they're too bloated as a company, and they have chased every BAD trend in the industry. If Ubi is to make it out alive, it needs to be "in pieces" by the end, so they can shed the bloat, and keep only the good stuff.

[@dendrien]

then stop buyin their games. the main fault here is the consumer base who are enabling it all.

[@AZEREuu]

LOL meaning the good stuff, from the company point of view, hence the owner, would be the stuff that earn money, aka several of their live-service games and big brands with microtransactions enabled. Let's review them : Rainbow Six Siege, AC, FC, probably Just Dance at some point, and The Division at the fore front. Well, all of these games and franchises earn a shit ton money digitally with their slew of content. And obviously, a Tencent influenced board won't spent any significant money releasing lower financial optic games ( Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, etc ) especially when they need to become a more reliable & stable company. That's worse than the Guillermot era because, no more smaller and risky games.

[@miecraftandmoregames]

@@dendrien umm we are already not buying their games this is why they are in this situation lol

[@dendrien]

@@miecraftandmoregames this isnt first time ubisoft bin a situation like this. my point being is that whenever they decide to fix their problem with 1 successful sale they instantly repeat the same problem and the consumer follow through.

[@miecraftandmoregames]

@ sure but i feel this time is different, you just can't fuck up so many times in a row, less and less people will buy into it every time some time this is gonna break sooner or later.

[@kanaria-cu3uv]

I trust ubisoft. they told me this game isn't made for me, and I shouldn't buy it. I believe them.

[@Iminyowalls]

Really restores your faith in Ubisoft. I knew they haven’t lost their edge😂😂😂

[@doctorsam5771]

Who would've thought that cutting costs on literally everything including facial and physical mocap in their biggest IP, churning out title after title of generic live service games instead of returning to their legacy franchises with established fanbases that have been dormant for years would result in financial ruin? Only the French are capable of this level of incompetence.

[@DV-ou1yu]

You can say that but even when they release stuff like Prince of Persia, people don't purchase it

[@doctorsam5771]

@DV-ou1yu Probably because it's not an actual AAA PoP game like everyone wants and is a niche genre instead? Not everyone is a fan of the side scrolling action games. PoP haven't had a side scrolling game since forever.

[@ZeroBeat1]

Found the British person!

[@TheMorbidAsshole]

@@doctorsam5771 they went back to its roots too far and went with the very first PoP game.

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

Gordon Ramsay called them for what they are, but saying it may piss yt off.

[@MATTHEW-y2h]

I honestly really like how backed up into a corner Ubi is. Cause the last time they were pressed this hard was back in 2016, after Unity and Syndicate. And then they made Origins the following year, one of their best games. If they fuck up, their done, and they know that.

[@matthewhibbard9807]

No. Ubisoft needs a big loss to finally go under. They deserve their failure. Someone else needs to make AC and their other games going forward.

[@JoePizzeria007]

But I fear other companies couldn't capture the same AC magic that ubi capture, people can slate the games all they want but they sell well for a reason

[@matthewhibbard9807]

@ the Ubisoft of the past was awesome. Beyond Good & Evil was one of my favorite games. They are completely different now. So between them and someone else, I’ll take the someone else.

[@katraapplesauce1203]

Origins odyssey and Valhalla have all been the most successful and highest grossing AC titles of all time, followed by black flag. Idk where the animosity comes from because the data says people love ubisofts AC formula

[@JoePizzeria007]

@@katraapplesauce1203 I certainly do!

[@katraapplesauce1203]

@@JoePizzeria007 what did ubisoft do to you then, what is your reason for being upset with them

[@kaleiohu]

Now I'm curious which previously unknown indie title is about to pop off in March...

[@terrnoisrp8894]

I actually don’t know 😅

[@qiblik]

Can't wait for Steam Next Fest in February to see what I'll be playing instead of this...

[@Byrvurra]

The unknown indie will be called "The Switch 2 and Mariocart 9."

[@endwarAH80blackfoot]

Honestly it is mind boggingly spectacular in and of itself that Ubisoft has fumbled this consistently. I would never have honestly thought it possible that a tech giant could crater itself to such lows in such a short span of time. I mean: NFT game, doing nothing with Clancy brand, predatory MTX practices, detachment of single player games, games released buggy. The list just goes on and on. I used to believe that a company can sustain itself just from the sheer weight of its customer base and the few mtx games that they do have. So the fact that Ubisoft has pretty much gotten to this point is just crazy.

[@Bombardier15]

They got too complacent

[@amoksapandega8668]

🤔 "Ubisoft most challenging year" like brother they did this to themself, they know their stock is on a massive steady decline since 2021 but they just keep making/releasing half baked slop product not taking it seriously This "challenging year" is fuking deserved

[@KayCif3R]

That executive tree looks like The Order Of The Ancients hitlist

[@trenaceandblackmetal5621]

lmao

[@YonkoRedShanks]

Why you gotta make me laugh at midnight man 🤣🤣

[@VaderCola9204]

KZbin comments got blue comments now? TikTok is cooked

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

AC Black Flag isn't dated enough to warrant a remake. They should have done AC 1 and 2.

[@Threesnap]

They have to find a use for the 11 years they wasted on skull and bones. An ac black flag remake using combat improvements from skull and bones would mean it wouldnt have been for nothing..

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

​@@Threesnap combat improvements in Skull and Bones???

[@Threesnap]

@@gagewesterhouse9558 compared to the original naval combat in AC Black flag, I'd say skull and bones had better naval combat.

[@mttrashcan-bg1ro]

It genuinely surprises me when people talk about some older games. Black Flag felt dated when I played through it in 2017. The movement mechanics in Origins made the games significantly more responsive and less frustrating. I'm sure they're recent games still include some aspects that are better than the old one.

[@Red2332]

Uh, Black Flag is 100% dated enough for a remake. It's one of the best ones they made and could use updated graphics and gameplay.

[@Kongkobrajfs]

“Less pre orders than Valhalla” “Great pre orders” Huh?

[@Kaweebo]

Valhalla did insane numbers, so having less than ACV could still be pretty good.

[@Kongkobrajfs]

@ Right, but when comparing a new product to a past product everyone wants that number to go up indefinitely. Not down.

[@theninjamaster67]

​@@Kongkobrajfs That's definitely a mindset that needs to change that's how we get overinflated budgets where just a couple failures could tank an entire development team and over monetized bland games.

[@kimberly4275]

Cant reach the COVID lockdown peaks

[@Kongkobrajfs]

@@theninjamaster67 I agree, but I just find it weird that these companies pick and choose when they want to switch logic only to benefit them. It’s really a coincidence…

[@melissaahhh]

Considering pre orders are still not available and we know very little about the story and haven't seen gameplay outside extremely curated clips, this could be delayed again or be cancelled. Warhorse has shown us that when you are confident in your game, you are getting gameplay and reviews out early, and let it speak for itself.

[@emperornike]

"cancelled" 😂😂 how they gonna make their money back?

[@Hehe-mo9pp]

Trust me…..a delay wouldn’t happen and definitely not gonna get cancelled

[@rafterman5072]

lol There is no way the game is “cancelled.” I also doubt it gets delayed again.

[@Random_dud31]

If they cancel it was an option, they would have sold it to tencent😂

[@dowaray8718]

we've investigated ourselves and found nothing

[@stanzelot]

Basically that's what the Catholic Church did with all those accusations of child abuse.

[@Kimkong2]

UBI is like that restaurant that spends all their effort into everything besides the actually quality of their food. Their presentation/vibe (world design), their cutlery (game world assets), the space/number of tables (scale of world), their furnishing (beautiful set pieces), their variety of meals (multiple gameplay mechanics), their marketting (impressive trailers)...but the actual food and customer service (gameplay and monetization) is at best painfully average ! This results in a slow death over the years. There's only so many times that you can enjoy a really good looking and comfortable restaurant before you eventually stop going there because their food just sucks for the most part. The restaurant can keep apologizing and giving discounts everytime, but unless their food increases in quality, they will never retain enough customers to stop them from bleeding out. What's worse is UBI actually has the talent and resources to make their gameplay at least above average but for some reason, they seem to think most gamers care more about how a game looks and virtue signalling more than the actual gameplay. And while it's true that there are gamers who care more about that, it's a minority and you can't survive in any industry catering mostly to a minority of your fanbase, who probably don't even enjoy games that much and probably never get passed half of your game. It would be like a stake house choosing to cater to their vegetarian customers more than the rest. Like i personally don't enjoy games like Darksouls and Elden ring, so if the devs started listening to me and changed this franchise to cater to what i like, they would lose most of their fanbase and for what ? Cause even then i wouldn't suddenly like the franchise enough to invest in it that much.

[@RenegadeVash]

I think even if Shadows sales are good Ubisoft is dead. The only things they have in 2025 are moblie games. Also they have another giant disaster in the studio. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL that game makes skull and bones development look good.

[@dr_diddy]

you dismiss mobile games but those could single handedly save Ubisoft. Those things make bank and they don't need to be good games. right up Ubisofts alley 😭

[@RenegadeVash]

@@dr_diddy but Ubisoft mobile games aren’t the type to take off like that. They might get some short term revenue but nothing to change their current financial downfall.

[@splashydiamond]

​​​@@dr_diddy99.99% of mobile games are DOA/failure/go under the radar. Only the 0.01% succeed and gain billions. And we know Ubisoft's competency to make that 0.01% level product.

[@sheyarjames4904]

At this point Beyond Good and Evil feels like Half Life 3, a game talked about for ages yet will never come out...

[@katraapplesauce1203]

Ubisofts still makes a ton of money, they issue they had is a stock loss in confidence post Valhalla and 2 bad quarters, their revenue is as high as it's ever been, there is just no confidence that they won't have more flops and lose more money That aside mobile games are some of the biggest money makers and there have been plenty substantial leaks and rumours about a substantial remake/remaster and AC lineup for the next few years

[@The_GlitchWitch]

I was late to the PS3 & PS4 console gens so I wasn’t in a position to buy AC games day 1, but I did play almost all of the games in the series (apart from AC 1 and Revelations) all the way through before Origins. I played Origins and Odyssey day 1, and Valhalla about a month or so later to play it on the PS5. Shadows will now be the first AC game that I’m going to intentionally not buy at launch and wait to purchase at a steep discount. Not because of the issues some people have with Yasuke, etc, but because I’m tired of the way Ubisoft has decided to monetize these single player games with their in game stores. I’m so skeptical of this “Animus hub”, I don’t really care at this point if they say these “battle passes” they’re going to have are “free”, because I know with Ubi that if you give them an inch they’ll take the mile. I want to want to support Ubisoft so that they can work on maker better AC games, but with their current monetization strategies I don’t trust them to make the right decisions for the franchise. So I’ll wait to give them my money at a discount.

[@demiandevile2731]

What a lot of people don't see is that, yes Valhalla sold well and make them a lot of money, but it also damage their reputation a lot. First they really hit the right tone with this game, Vikings was in hype, the big C was there and a lot of people play more. But Valhalla also have a really bad finish rate, and not because there was so much cool game, but because there was a lack of it. You have this Territoriale Quests and they are overall OK, but they wanted to sell you stuff, so they make the grinding for Upgrade material extrem boring and it take extreme long time to get from one point of the map somewhere in nowhere to the next point. And than not every chest had material or the right material. And they did it to sell you full upgraded gear in the ingame cash shop extreme heavy overpriced (for one Armor set ~1/3 of what the base game should cost). And this turns off a lot of people, cause they make this game mechanics worse only for the purpose to force nudge you in the cash shop in which you can buy time saver by skipping the upgrade process, power cause some of the shop Items have shop exclusive Perks, early access to weapon types like one handed swords and of course style. I mean just imagine Fromsofware would make all somber stones much more rare and take out the bells what make it possible to purchase the somber stones with runes. Than they make an ingame cash shop with all weapons full upgraded, and take half of the weapons (of course just the strongest) out of the game to make them shop exclusive and Katanas are all shop exclusive only one not and you just get in in the Haligbaum (of course you can also buy it). And in addition they also sell every armor set but with increased stats and lower weight. This is what UBI did with Valhalla. And people notice this and it really turns off a lot of people, and they did it clever, cause they make it a progressive system, as longer you play as more it make a difference. And we know Shadows is supposed to be the moste monetized AC game yet. And we all also know that the primary reason for the Animus Hub is to add layers over layers of monetization to this and all upcoming AC games and remakes (and this will also be the main reason why they remake this games to implement it in the Animus Hub to monetize the games for years to come. So yes Valhalla make them a lot of money, but in the same time they push people away, and they really push hard. So a not small group of people are not interested to buy any new AC game as long as there is an ingame cash shop in the game, because if there is a shop this means there are game mechanics in the game make worse for the purpose to force nudge you in this shop. I think they trade short term income against long term interest in their games. Even if the game will be the most polished and the gameplay will be the best imaginable, if there is an ingame cash shop or new with the Animus Hub FOMO passes - I am out and will not buy the game no matter what. With the boring as Hell and even longer grinding in Valhalla and the time gated grinding in Far Cry 6 they show me they really hate everyone who is not willing to buy the full price games and than throw a multitude of the game price on top at them to skip their anti player mechanics. And I don't support developers who show me so clear that they hate me. They literally pay people to figure out how they can squeeze the maximum of money out of the players by game design. This is extreme disrespectful against the players and they have the audacity to assume that we will buy another game with such predator monetization scams? I don't think it will reach Valhalla level (as far as they did not get some really strong Whales who buy just everything), my prediction is it break even but just so. And on PC they will monitore your RAM permanently when you run the game... in addition to Denuvo and the Animus Hub and UPlay... yeah no thanks this is way too much.

[@naufaldihilmi8507]

I wonder whether their Investors actually play games at all. surely they would know how SW Outlaw, Skull n Bones, Avatar turned out. And the last game they made that was decent is Valhalla

[@Tomberculosis-q1i]

Wtf are talking about Valhalla was a long tedious boring nothing burger

[@terrnoisrp8894]

@@Tomberculosis-q1ihe did say decent

[@Gigopz]

@@Tomberculosis-q1i And its their most sold game ever, just because people on the internet don't like it doesn't mean that the wasn't extremely successful.

[@LimmeLimbo]

I just find it funny mf said SW Outlaws and Avatar turned out bad then said AC Valhalla was their last decent game as if AC Valhalla, a perfectly fine game, wasn’t also(and still does) getting shit on just like these titles are now. The only trash/badly made game listed was Skull n Bones. Literally the only one.

[@matthewhibbard9807]

Mostly they don’t. All the investors I know have never played a game in their life. Maybe Atari when they were kids.

[@AnthonyBC93]

I do not feel sorry for them at all. While they're going through this they're like "let's spend a couple million making a few NFT games. All this is warranted

[@25xxfrostxx]

Even if shadows were to pull off a last minute miracle and somehow break even, they're trying to ape their own success with none of the team who made the successful releases of the past. They're already dead, people just won't admit it.

[@aaronjohnston2751]

Hell, this game can't be *just* a success to save Ubisoft. If it is not the highest selling game of the year, Ubisoft is likely screwed.

[@CaptainYokkiller]

@@25xxfrostxx it probably won't be the biggest game of the first quarter. I'm betting more people will go and buy some of the February releases that they missed rather than buy AC Shadows.

[@Iminyowalls]

@@aaronjohnston2751Ahemmmmm 👏monster hunter wilds 👏

[@Azazel-zv4fy]

Luke. You keep doing the "innocent devs" thing, but it's important not to forget that the creatiove decisions behind all of the controvery behind Shadows were not made by Yves and his cronies at the very top - they were made by devs with the same kind of arrogance that we keep seeing across the industry. AC will sell well because it's AC no doubt, but it will be "below expectations" in the same way that everything that Square Enix published by western devs a few years ago. Between the list of controversies about the game, and the Ubi-Backlash from Star Wars I don't think it's going to be what Ubi needs. We saw this from Watchdogs to Watchdogs 2, from AC Unity to AC Syndicate.

[@Iminyowalls]

EXACTLY! The tree is rotten from top to its roots.

[@williamdistefano5698]

Carvana is suspected of shenanigans in that bounce back so... ya thats prolly Guillermo's idea too

[@bigfootisreal_]

"Ubisoft needs a big win" No, gotta put it down. Some things are not meant to exist.

[@Weeeest246]

I still have the same skepticism over shadows as I did over outlaws

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Honestly, even if I am a big fan of a couple of Ubisoft IPs like PoP, Rayman, Splinter Cell, etc.. by the way, I am replaying the original Rayman trilogy on my phone, the fan project "Rayman Redemption" is really damn good. Well, I am honestly hoping Ubisoft implodes, they only established the absolute worst standards in the videogame industry for at least 10 years or so: predatory monetization on fully priced games, blatant recycling of assets, lack of creativity, focusing on producing Assassins Creed like a factory line instead of promoting creativity as they used to be, the death of Rayman and Splinter Cell (and basically killed PoP Lost Crown right at the get go, just disastrous marketing), etc.. they deserve to implode to serve as an example for the industry. You are not forced to pre-order, buy DLC, season pass or whatever the hell, to keep supporting Ubisoft hoping that someday Splinter Cell will return, etc.. nope, just refuse to buy their shitty products, they will be forced to either adapt or go bankrupt. Capitalism has plenty of flaws, but one of the rare good things about this system is how the market "heal" itself by following the consumer demands, we control the market, don't you ever forget. The fact Ubisoft and Blizzard are imploding after so many years of shitty anti-consumer practices and low quality products, this should be celebrated, other companies will try to take their place, this is a win-win situation for the consumers, let the Marvel Rivals and Path of Exiles 2 serves as shining examples, do you want to stay afloat and lucrative? Then give us high quality products, simple as that

[@TheGgreen100]

Yo Luke... you might want to look into some kind of high pass filter for your mic setup. Those low booming noises the mic makes when you move it around are brutal. Love the channel, btw!

[@Byrvurra]

Yes, "out of touch with the gaming sphere" is certainly one way to put it. That, phrase obfuscating about a dozen problems.

[@lexvstee]

'highly anticipated' are such interesting words these days.

[@careyosoup274]

I don't think Ubi will be intact by the years end. There is a ton of negative press around AC shadows that will take away from its sales, even if it is a good game. I won't lose a wink of sleep if ubisoft goes under, they made their own bed. Some other studio will come along and scoop the valuable IPs. It won't be the end of Tom Clancy or assassin creed. Tencent will buy them out or they will go under. A silver lining is the talent that will be free to start their own projects and studios, could get a new wave of games from that alone.

[@MrShadowfax42]

8:27 As a consumer, I don't differentiate between devs and publishers. That's not my concern, and it shouldn't be the concern of ANY consumer.

[@EmilianoMHz]

@@MrShadowfax42 thats like saying EA is great for publishing It Takes Two or Bandai Namco for publishing Elden Ring.

[@FilmsByOW]

I mean, are you stupid?

[@myersmayhem2023]

Same the devs are still who's making the bad product they can shift blame onto higher ups all they want At the end of the day I don't really care if the people making meh to awful games lose their jobs

[@FilmsByOW]

@ the vast majority of the cases of bad games in the past 3 years have been directly linked to professionals being rushed in harsh sometimes abusive environments. No one is above a harsh work environment, sounds like you should educate yourself on the current working situations of many game developers before you comment on something you know nothing about

[@myersmayhem2023]

@@FilmsByOW sounds like they wouldn't want to be working at those places anyways then if they are so awful win win /shrug Being a game dev doesn't just make you good or right The devs job is to work within the limitations of their project, they still failed that task if the game is bad. Sure management might not be helping either but monetary restrictions exist and you can't just spend unlimited time on a project because you want to

[@FoxesInferno]

3:30 you mentioned Carvana & I immediately thought of that tower we have in downtown Denver. Seems like they came & went so fast but I don't really actually know enough about it

[@JmannTW]

Remember PoP Sand of time remake announced in 2020 with release schedule in January 2021? Neither does Ubisoft.

[@personperson1179]

Had this video second monitor while working on accounting homework and thought I was going crazy when I heard Luke start talking about accounting standards 😂

[@TheAndrewJohnBennett]

It is fun to look back and realize i lived fully THROUGH the loot box era of gaming. I saw its rise and fall and now we just have straight forward microtransactions.

[@ginyoo9118]

I don't think they want us to forget. I think it's them forgetting that they have done this again and again.

[@SimonBannow]

Glad you're back Luke! *Ubisoft needs to go on a massive diet or diet off!

[@shiteyanyo1111]

I love that the Godd Howard candle is Pumpkin Spice scented

[@CxerRy96]

I don't think there's coming back from the hole they dug up...Assassin's Creed Shadows would probably have to sell like 20 million copies in the first month just to come back from the deficit of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull and Bones...Shadows is literally their last attempt at showing whoever buys the company that they don't have to fire literally everyone just like half the people

[@FluxCrush]

make or break for the next few years? my brother in christ if shadows fails they have a couple of MONTHS at most

[@FredericoASousa]

I bet it's going to be a modest success and nothing will change, and we keep hearing more and more stupid drama until they are bought out and still nothing changes

[@levelbasegaming5740]

AC Shadows will pop off. There are hardcore AC fans out there. But unfortunately no matter how much money the game makes, it will never be enough for Ubisoft.

[@nimzy1938]

DID HE JUST CALL TWITTER X NOOOOOOOO

[@mrcrb96]

how can they have strong pre-orders, we cannot pre-order yet

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Considering how Ubisoft has not shown 10 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay tells you all about how stable the game is and how it actually plays. They have all these lofty explanations of how the game is, but none of it is really shown. There's an "exploration trailer" which showed like 5 sec of gameplay then cut to another 5 sec of gameplay. It was pathetic. It made me think their most recent stable build had no working AI or quests or scripting or anything. Remember the olden days of AC3 gameplay demo that showed that awesome Frontier section where Connor climbs the trees and infiltrates a fortress and runs after that one guy he's there to assasinate? It was so hype! But now, all we get it "We have animations", "We have a feature!".

[@GoatSays]

100%. I work in a family business and can attest to many of these issues. A lot of upper management just should not be there but they are because of their last name.

[@Copat87]

Pre-ordering games used to make sense back when games were physical only and you knew the game would be good when it launched.

[@katraapplesauce1203]

There were so many games that were bad or broken dude and there were no patches to fix them. That's some crazy rose tinted glasses.

[@shreyverma812]

If Shadows needs to be considered successful, it needs to hit at least the Origins and Odyssey numbers. A miracle would be if it hits Valhalla numbers. But based on Ubi’s recent fiasco with Skull & Bones, Outlaws, and Yasuke controversy, it’s gonna hit lower than Origins and Odyssey, and it’s gonna be more Syndicate and Mirage numbers.

[@johnnyflannigan136]

I really hope AC shadows is good... Just cause i would like another game like ghost of tsusima

[@Spigan818]

Then just wait for the ghost sequel that franchise plays more like assassin's Creed than assassin's Creed does

[@scarlett8782]

don't get your hopes up friend. even the Valhalla trailer looks leaps and bounds better than the AC Shadows trailer. it's crazy how different even the trailers are, having just rewatched the Valhalla trailer in this video. also, have you played Sekiro? it's a fromsoft game. it's difficult, but really good.

[@sultanmahfries6402]

@@Spigan818I know right? The combat is amazing and the story is great but what it was for me was the stealth and parkour… I’m right now playing it on lethal (highly recommend) and stealth is a must, recently I went to Mirage and needless to say I’m playing Ghost of Tsushima again

[@jacklonderr]

33:24 did Indiana sell well?

[@bilson7523]

They won't get it, they've spent the entire PS4 generation setting up this train wreck. They passed the switch to avert this disaster when Valhalla dropped.

[@ALiberalVeteran]

If I was Ubisoft, I would do what Capcom is doing and remake some of my Older games for a modern audience. But then again the dead space remake was one of the best games ever made, but wasn't financially viable enough to warrant a second one

[@Murbz]

I think everyone expected Indiana Jones to flop because recent entries in that IP were underwhelming. (Almost) Nobody expected it would feel like fan service for the original movies. The expectation with shadow is similar, people are expecting it to be a 7/10 with good graphics and full of ubisoft monetization. It is going to be A LOT harder for Shadows to surprise people i think.

[@TheProphegy]

Ubisoft was really counting on XDefiant to explode that it had almost no personality. They basically said let’s make a F2P COD game with our own properties. Genius right? On paper, sure?! lol.

[@INFPeace-]

Sure they delayed the game a month to have greener pastures, but this also came with yet another controversy. You know how we Americans have a historic date of a terrorist attack? Well, Japan has one such date of their own; and guess what that date is… March 20! Just look it up. It’s a terrorist attack that was done against Tokyo in the subway back in 1995. I can’t imagine Japan not being more unhappy with Ubisoft because of this.

[@rexmageuser]

Also, isn't Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition coming out on the same day? Pretty sure everyone is gonna talk about Xenoblade more.

[@INFPeace-]

AC Shadows will be talked about a lot; about how it flops! 🤣

[@SmallGuyStudio]

As an ex-employee, its sad to see they never once wrote or address the company's staff. But only talking about the welfare n concerns of investors and the bosses

[@245amour]

Ubisoft will never learn. They wanted an unfinished product to be released back in November. They delayed it. They moved the release date the week before MH Wilds comes out. They delayed it again. They moved it to March and you’d think they’d finally learn their lesson but they decided to release the game on the same day as Xenoblade X. They had the entire month to guarantee sales and no competition but they shoot themselves in the foot by moving the release date of Shadows the same day as the only other anticipated game coming out that Month.

[@mttrashcan-bg1ro]

Ubisoft had a big win with XDefiant but they chose to not put more man power on to the project and instead let us slowly get drip fed crucial improvements and changes, nevermind the extra content we also wanted. Then they decided to kill it. All because of the seasonal bullshit. They had content for like 3 seasons seemingly ready to go. Them releasing that to allow us to play it was a huge eye opener on today's state of AAA games, because you bet your ass every game is in the same boat, with multiple seasons worth of content set aside for when the time is right instead of just letting us have it when it's ready. Today's state of the gaming industry is absolutely fucking dog shit. I've pretty much quit playing new games at this point, it's super rare that I get one, usually it's 6 months old when I play a game if I do choose to buy one, right now I'm playing Dying Light 2. Got Forbidden West, Dead Island 2, Rift Apart, Diablo 4 to play as well, all of which are virtually ancient.

[@nahuelkid]

I wish Ubi going under meant that leadership got what they deserve instead of the devs getting laid off

[@Humdrumv]

I believe their financial year end is something like 12 days after the release of shadows so if you unhappy with Ubisoft and want to buy shadows however you want to let them know how unhappy you just wait a week or two after its release this should tank their year end and force them to make proper changes.

[@alexdoerofthings]

It’s kinda hard for Ubisoft to have a win if people can’t play your game…

[@Muppemania]

Since I am looking at upgrading parts of my pc this year I have noticed that AC: Shadow is included with many cpus.

[@stefandinu6389]

I feel like we need a big company like ubisoft to go down in the gaming industry. Maybe thats when others will realise that they need to make good games eventually or they'll end up the same. Unfortunately a company like EA will never have to worry about that,they have the sport game retar..i mean fans keeping them rich.

[@arbknight12]

I’ll never understand why people are angry about Ciri. Her becoming a Witcher was one of the endings in Witcher 3!

[@appleontherun7448]

not sure if you knew but Carvana may not be the best example as they are accused of fixing the accounting books by Hindenburg which is a group that publishes studies on business that are bad to short them. the Hindenburg research group is well known. XD

[@SHEPARD22]

Who is on Gore over at Ubisoft for the AC series? Blood hasn’t been good since origins and the blood effects / textures disappear faster with each latest title it’s immersion breaking.

[@ElitePWNSFace]

I can understanding preordering cd keys because of the discounts, but that is only for games you know your going to play day 1 either way. Might as well save money.

[@lp.shakur]

I, for one, would've more liked if they brought Unity up to standards, I never really cared for Black Flag, I found the Naval stuff to be excruciatingly boring, with Unity they just would've needed to bring it up to new gen standards, polished it a lil bit and you have a pretty good game on your hands, one of their most underrated, the map is actually excellent, the parkour is excellent, they need to just iron out some things and polish it up but the common denominator liked Black Flag more, I get it, I just never could get into it, didn't feel like an actual AC game to me and I honestly hated the Naval battling and stuff and put it down on a mission when you had a long winded Naval mission, couldn't bring myself to get me through it

[@Spidey35a]

I don't think ACS is going to save Ubisoft considering the latest version glitched out on their own Twitch stream.

[@abysswatchers3098]

Just take out yasuke and I’d consider giving it a chance if it turned out decent. It’s not racist to say I wanna play as exclusively Japanese natives in a Japanese setting. I don’t know why that’s so hard for them and other people to understand. I don’t care if he existed, a Japanese game should have only native Japanese protagonist. Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, Edward/Adéwalé, Jacob and Evie, Arno, Bayek, Alexios/Kass, Eivor, they all fit their respective settings. A black dude in Japan obviously doesn’t quite fit.

[@gtanusetiawan]

Yes I agree with you. Turn Yasuke to a minor NPC or something instead. I personally am not interested in playing as yasuke at all.

[@LimmeLimbo]

It is racist. You didn’t care in “Nioh”, when a white man was the *only* option, so don’t care now when the black man is *optional.* Play as Naoe, the native Assassin, if it bothers you that much. All of a sudden the ethnicity of the protagonist matters lmfaooo These “people” think Yasuke’s mere existence as a SECONDARY, I repeat, SECONDARY playable character is a spit in the face to Japanese people and their culture. Nioh being the *only white male protagonist in feudal japan,* was just a “cool character” lmfao. Mf think just cuz he listed bayek he not racist, all it does is prove u dont want black people anywhere we not “supposed” to be at. If we aint in africa or wakanda then we aint supposed to be there. All this worldwide backlash over a damn option. An OPTION. Idc if they make him mandatory in the story *sometimes,* so what, it wouldnt even bother you if you wasnt the racist mf u are. If you wanna play exclusively japanese characters then go to ghost of tsushima. Since it do everything better than AC anyway, what yall complaining about Shadows for? Its gonna be trash to u regardless, go back to Ghost of Tshshima with alllll the native characters you could possibly ask for and just be quiet Don’t play the game, don’t ever touch it. Mfs like u dont need to enjoy it, or anything else really.

[@CaptainYokkiller]

@@abysswatchers3098 or at the bare minimum announce that a Japanese male protagonist will be playable in the future as a third option so everyone's happy. But they won't do that because you can tell these devs don't want everyone to be happy.

[@GgAcewick88]

You are very fragile. Ubisoft isn’t taking a Japanese mc away from you… It’s also funny you bring up Ezio because he wasn’t the native of AC revelations setting.

[@rafterman5072]

They can’t just “take him out.” The whole narrative is literally built around him.

[@bradzimmerman8512]

I'm actually going to give ubisoft credit for delaying the game until march, because it means they actually recognize the game probably needs another month as well as moving away from other big games coming February. BUT ubisoft will still need to change the way they develop and produce games moving forward. It's now a wait and see what happens

[@brandeno6924]

Payroll is how you spend 100m+ on a game with nothing to show, the hard shift to UE5 is to depress wages across the industry by making employees more easily replaceable.

[@xiKeepItRealx]

Im still hoping one day i can be playing the division 3

[@DinoKaric1]

For me the story will make or break this game one of my favorite hooks for AC WAS the dynamic between the past and modern day which has taken a backseat since AC4. I thought the Desmond story had so much potential and it just ended abruptly. And they have yet to make any of the modern day parts of the game interesting and I feel there's a lot more there that hasn't been explored. I think the Layla story they've been telling is absolutely insane and uninteresting. Shadows story already has an uphill climb with its protagonist's choice. And if any of the recent AC games are any indication they have continuously missed the landing with their main narrative. And no amount of delays can fix mediocre writing. Especially this late.

[@abrahamlincoln3181]

Everyone seems very relaxed about Tencent buying up everything.

[@Byrvurra]

Tencent is Chinese Google, they already have a piece of everything. Does thinking about Google make you break out in a cold sweat at night?

[@Blammo94]

@@Byrvurrawhat a weird attitude towards monopolistic entities.

[@AKA_Just_Joe]

The 15-20% giving a good score is blatantly people part of the family 😃

[@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810]

Yasuke is gonna be the best assassin in the series. He single-handedly will assassinate Ubisoft

[@UltraViolettaPlays]

AC Shadows new release date is on the March 20, which is the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack in Japan. Yet again, Ubisoft is showing it's lack of knowledge on the country they are basing it's game on. Not very mindful Ubisoft! Not very demure!

[@andrewmaksymchuck2997]

At this point, I'm really starting to think they do all that on purpose to tank their stock market and sell out.

[@heroicgangster9981]

i feel like no matter what vision the team wanted for assassin's creed shadows. i feel like it should've been a guaranteed success because all they needed to do is make ninja gaiden but with the assassin's creed formula bruh. Ghosts of Tsushima except you play as a ninja guy.

[@GameSlayer41781]

You say that like a win is what they deserve.

[@ehMMMKay]

There is already good hack and slash/stealth game in feudal Japan. It's Ghost of Tsushima and to some point Sekiro. They missed the opportunity.

[@Bravo_Joker_]

As a person who does preorder, i only preorder if there is a Collectors Edition. That is my only stipulation. I will not preorder other than that and thats after i have seen the Collectors edition and if i like it enough to get it. Other than that i agree dont pre order wait until reviews. I already have all of the other Collectors editions for Assassins Creed so im going to keep getting them if i can to complete the set but thats my perogative. Other than that dont preorder

[@lastofus2]

Hope this brings out the best in them. Will probably be bought by tencent but hopefully shadows is worth it

[@ZeroBeat1]

I might pick it up if it's on a deep sale, as in 50% or more (probably more, as in 75%, depending on how it actually turns out). Only question is if I have to wait longer than a month for that to happen.

[@tylerangus2452]

Has Luke read the Hindenburg report on Carvana???

[@Guru316]

Even with the amount of games they churn out, I really don't get how a company that has 20,000 employees manages to make such a mess of every game and it's release. Warhorse Studios had around 130 when they were making Kingdom Come Deliverance. If you have the right people, these issues don't exist....at least not on the scale Ubisoft has them. The worst combination of weak hiring and bad management.

[@DustinCobb-z9q]

Hopefully they'll take this time to make Yasuke a scout and not a playable character. We don't need him a girl with a mom Shinobi and a dad samurai trained by both growing up can fix the mess made otherwise it's gonna be a disaster. At no point did anyone say I want a samurai that can't fight like a ninja when we've always wanted an ac ninja that could fight both ways. As a long time fan I'm absolutely disappointed and I loved most of the games except two. Let's be real deep down they know what they need to do! It's will they scrap so much of the game to fix it and I for one don't want NPCs dumb enough not to run when smokes thrown. I thought they were going to be on point for this game, fix everything and make it right but I was wrong so far and this will be the end for Ubisoft when they mess it up.

[@TheBlargMarg]

So I'm guessing I'm not getting those ports of Armored Core 4, 4Answers, 5 and Verdict day (all are Ubisoft published).

[@JRT1287]

I was so hyped for Vallaha but man how the greats fall…

[@andreasplosky8516]

It is their most successful AC game ever.

[@RollingStone501]

I won't be playing a Black Flag remake now cause the new Like a Dragon game, even with its silly name, has a whole pirate game that looks better than Skull and Bones with a fraction of the budget and time investment for the studio.

[@andreasplosky8516]

I expect Shadows to be a fine AC game. I will certainly buy it, but not for 70 bucks or more. These prices are ridiculous. I can wait a year or more with ease, before I buy a game. I have a huge backlog with dozens of games I bought in a sale. My patience is endless. I have waited 5 years before I bought Red Dead Redemption.

[@EnoxiusPrime]

Ubisoft has been real downhill for me personally since AC Origins, that was the last UBI game i bought at launch and felt like it was worth it, everything after that has been garbage in my opinion, Odyssey was weird, Valhalla didn't feel like an AC game to me at all and should've been called something else entirely, and nothing else they've put out has interested me since. Only thing that seems to be carrying them was the Siege microtransactions but even then after the marketplace came up it seemed to killed microtransaction sales for them

[@Zolwiol]

At some point we have to stop excusing devs with "they need more time" while the budgets and dev timelines are out of control.

[@1DJRikkiBee]

I'm surprised Ubisoft didn't plan to make a new Far Cry that takes place in like Ukraine as a buffer for if this AC project bombs.

[@Pompeii94]

Whoever made the executive decision of moving the launch date to March 20 (because of the competition in February) makes no sense to me, I don’t think they have the entire month of March to themselves… Wouldn’t most players still be playing Monster Hunter or other big titles until March? there’s so many big titles releasing in February, theoretically even after finishing Monster Hunter, I’d be playing Kingdom Come, Yakuza, Xenoblade X before I even want to spend another 100 dollars on AC shadows 😅

[@shadowweaver1599]

They need a big win but i don't see shadows being it.

[@IamYasha10]

Unless they clean house and completely change their business strategy, we are just looking at the inevitable failure of Ubisoft. It's gonna happen and we are all gonna witness it.