Ubisoft's Failure is Much, MUCH Worse Than You Think

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[@jaqssmith1666]

Common sense would be linking to the full stream this is clipped from.

[@skibidi.G]

Thx 🙏

[@KaiserFlash]

I'm doing my part!

[@zhengyingli]

I find it funny that Ubisoft's delaying their San Francisco Asian Whack-a-Mole Simulator until Black History Month. 😬

[@mistydolphin2524]

@@zhengyingli We all know they doing that on purpose.

[@DaciValt]

Ah yes that famous black history nation that is Japan.

[@zhengyingli]

@@DaciValt we be eatin' chicken teriyaki n' shiet

[@spiritwhirled]

This comment is epic and should have more likes

[@Moonmonkian]

Wake the sleeper agents.

[@Disinterested1]

Kirsche nailed it this is NOT "toxic positivity" it is dehumanising their ideological adversary they will NEVER listen up to them how they burn their business!

[@rashidisw]

And they are VERY TALENTED in making their host lost a lot of money.

[@az_3kgt714]

gotta remember its the same people that have their state goal of burning down the game industry because they hate white men.

[@iro6758]

Exactly. This has been going on for way too many years for it to be some sort of mistake. They meant for every single thing to happen, except *the extent* of the backlash. Because they wanted backlash, but they just wanted it from "certain" people.

[@OutLanderUSN]

​@@iro6758 They didn't take into account all the friendly strays they would catch in their suppressing fire.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@OutLanderUSN Socialists attacking socialists isn't exactly an uncommon occurrence.

[@Xbalanque84]

These miserable people have admitted they came into this industry to destroy it. Everything they do is animated by narcissism and spite towards the customers. And that is exactly why "the new investors" keep insisting on hiring and promoting them. Make no mistake, this is far bigger than just gaming. What we've been watching has been the most successful campaign of industrial sabotage in human history.

[@toomanyaccounts]

a kgb defector decades ago warned about this infiltration. its part of a long standing commie plan to destroy the west and the liberals ie the useful idiots embraced it

[@ahmataevo]

They're doing it to us physically too. There's a reason when we look around towns that used to look like America but now look like Haiti, Afghanistan, etc etc.

[@m.j3113]

@@Xbalanque84 it's the only plausible explanation

[@SammEater]

​@@ahmataevoDude. I pretty much gave up on my dream of living in America because it looks no different from the third world I live in.

[@dakotagreg1177]

@@ahmataevo Parts of Afghanistan are cleaner and more crime free than leftist US cities.

[@jackalx2154]

There is litterally so much African culture and stories to draw from. There is litterally no need for this. These people are not just malicious, they are willfully ignorant of non-Western and non-mainstream cultures.

[@APsychicMonkey]

@jackalx2154 It's not about promoting actual diversity, it's about destroying Western cultures and countries. They've made that much very very clear. Of course, their indescribable ignorance is just a bonus. They're "useful idiots" after all.

[@Just_a_turtle_chad]

The day Ubisoft is gone will be a great win for gaming.

[@johnarcher6150]

Based Turtle.

[@Xbalanque84]

Do not forget. Do not forgive. *LET NONE ESCAPE.*

[@tervue93]

I'm still waiting for the "mOdErN aUuuudIaNcE" to come save these woke companies.

[@pistonburner6448]

It's not just Ubisoft, it's UbiFallingOff

[@AldoApachi-]

It's actually really sad. They're sitting on great IP's, IP's that played huge part in gaming as a whole: Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon. All these games were extremely innovative and ground breaking. Even Watch Dogs was fun - at least for me. Then DEI woke gai people waltz in and destroy it.

[@crash6674]

Forces black samurai down our throats = no agenda 😂🤣

[@OckhamAsylum]

They could have done a million things with their Japanese samurai-themed game that _weren't specifically the very bad things they chose._ You only get precisely what they gave us through very specific intentions.

[@smakfu1375]

You really should look into their credit facilities. After all, you can’t launch a “AAAA” title without nine figures worth of near-term financing. The kind of financing that might prove troublesome when you’ve had a string of high-profile failures, while surrounded by very negative controversies, at a time when other studios have also suffered a number hideously expensive failures (while surrounded by the same types of controversies). Quality concerns didn’t stop the Shadows launch, something much more concrete, and existentially serious, was responsible for shelving the game.

[@mistydolphin2524]

At this point, I am fully convinced they are actively trying to go bankrupt.

[@Xbalanque84]

Took you long enough. I noticed the pattern back in 2018. How no one else can see it baffles me.

[@az_3kgt714]

oh yea these wokies are deliberately burning them down. Theyve said as much. Its deliberate and these corpos havent caught on yet and fired them all.

[@pistonburner6448]

Most of "them" hold no stake in the company, and make money through their salaries. They lose nothing when the company suffers.

[@Technoanima]

Yes. Let them. We just need to survive the intentional crash.

[@marhawkman303]

@@Technoanima I've come to suspect this is why those big investment companies like Black Rock started pushing DEI... as a way to trick people into devaluing their companies so Black Rock can own them.

[@AnxMa]

Devs were replaced by accountants and execs. Real gamers replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. By people who, back in the day, called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved Anime. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using Splinter Cell Blacklist stylish takedowns. Looks badass with music I chose. If only we got a proper JW game that way, Ubisoft could license, too late now..

[@MadeOfBrknParTz]

love the video, music is awesome

[@Ghost101]

What's also tragic here is that this sort of thing isn't exclusive to the Gaming industry. It's also been happening to other industries like Boeing. I keep hearing from some people that have worked at Boeing that they keep hiring accountants/money men for engineering positions instead of actual engineers.

[@josephjoy2245]

Nah bro, the devs were replaced with ACTIVISTS

[@TheDarkOne9942]

They were replaced by socialists.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@Ghost101 what they were hiring was diversity not qualification.

[@Exlayer-pk8hy]

I feel like its a mix. There are a small number of people doing these things for malicious purposes and they convince the rest to engage in toxic positivity. And they cant turn back now because it's really hard to admit to yourself that you got scammed into a bad situation,

[@Xbalanque84]

I miss when people were able to apologize without bad actors exploiting such gestures for further struggle sessions.

[@OutLanderUSN]

They don't convince them; that's one of the bigger issues. They're coercing them into complying, threatening to take them to HR if they don't.

[@nickrobbins7704]

It's easier to scam people than to convince them that they are being scammed haha😅

[@Exlayer-pk8hy]

@@nickrobbins7704 Yep, thats exactly what i think is going on with the ground level employees at companies like this.

[@Si-ns3wj]

This nonsense is happening all over the world not just the gaming industry.

[@The13thRonin]

You think you hate game developers and journalists enough. ... You don't.

[@crazyraccoon8]

I’ll remember Ubisoft for splinter cell, AC all the way to unity, prince of Persia, ghost recon, and far cry, my real Ubisoft.

[@Xbalanque84]

Don't forget Rayman.

[@tervue93]

I won't remember them at all.

[@crazyraccoon8]

@@tervue93 bro imagine being negative all the time, when did the internet got angry and frustrated for no reason?

[@Anthony90026]

It such a shame we won't get another Ghost recon game at this rate

[@crazyraccoon8]

@@Anthony90026 better to end than to see this happen on the other game series of Ubisoft.

[@QuippersUnited]

Everyone seems to be confused as to how these companies make such terrible decisions. I know how. -A company is made by vested interests who want to create quality products. -In order to raise capital to fund these projects, the company decides to become a publicly traded company. -Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. -All major decisions must have a direct and justifiable financial rationale. Risky decisions have the potential to lose money, which is antithetical to the previous point. This is why corporations are heavily risk averse, and will always opt for safe options rather than growth or quality oriented options. -Political correctness is safe. If you say nothing offensive, you reduce risk of alienating staff and consumers. -Marxists are experts at couching language. They have sold a bigoted ideology under the guise of "political correctness," because they select particular poor demographics, and sell the idea that they are victims of society in general, due to a lack of "equity." -Marxists approach publicly traded companies with the promise to instill political correctness within their companies if only they incorporate the correct Marxist elements, like "equity." -These companies incorporate Marxist ideology under the notion that it is the risk averse option. Marxist policies attract Marxist staff, and slowly the company is replaced. -Marxists don't really care about the success of the company, because financial responsibility is antithetical to Marxism. But they can drive a company into the ground by threatening boycotts if the company doesn't do exactly what they say. -Consumers hate Marxism because it's bigoted and dishonest about what it is. Consumers stop buying the company's product, causing financial ruin. -So, ironically, the "fiduciary responsibility" requirement of corporations leads to companies going bankrupt.

[@ianhemingway5687]

it's fascinating how the ideology has risen to the status of religion. there really are tons of companies that place 'the message' above profits, which is mind boggling at the least.

[@marhawkman303]

They're being told to by investors. That's the root of the problem. They're doing it for a REASON not because they personally want to.

[@noname-gp6hk]

Lots of parallels to the chinese communist revolution

[@RazielAU]

FYI the backlash in Japan IS real. I know because we work with a team in Japan, and I have a hardcore gamer friend in that team, who is a huge Assassin's Creed fan, and he told me this will be the first Assassin's Creed that he won't buy. You would think being set in Japan, this would be right up his alley, but he just says no, he won't buy it.

[@newdivide9882]

5:53 THANK YOU, KIRSCHE. Perfectly explains why I hate this “toxic positivity” term. Honestly, I feel like it’s a term that activists themselves seeded into the discourse to make people think they’re just “making mistakes.” They are not. They are evil. They hate us because we don’t submit to them. Their goal is to make every area of life submit to them

[@Relkond]

It's not purely toxic positivity, they are extremely negative about some things too, but as an echo chamber, only the positive elements are left to echo and the negative elements are discarded.

[@SpookSkellington]

And yet again Yuri Bezmenov was spot on about everything.

[@maccagrabme]

All part of the demoralisation process I guess. Not working whatsoever though as we are stronger than ever.

[@storiesofindiana]

The entire Western gaming industry is having its Bud Light moment.

[@unapologeticart45]

Share holders are the host, Stake holders are a parasite. That is the difference between them.

[@dantespardaposter5315]

I'm holding a steak.... I'm a STEAKHOLDER...

[@tiberius8390]

Simply put a Stakeholder can be anyone that has an interest of some sort in what the company is doing. That could be an environment activist group, a government of a country or some minority who doesn't feel properly represented. According to stakeholder capitalism they have a right to be represented, so they can just go to Ubisoft and complain and Ubisoft - because they have DEI standards - need to listen and do something about it. It's maximum toxic and ruins companies, as stakeholders do not have business and money in mind, but only their selfish interests. They also don't care if the company goes bankrupt because of their actions.

[@SterileNeutrino]

12:35 "Decimated" actually means you lose 1/10, not 9/10, so you multiply by 9/10 not 1/10. This is a decimal shift.

[@scottydu81]

THANK YOU

[@solicitr666]

Don't ignore the influence of venture capital. Even a company the size of Ubisoft doesn't finance a project like AC Shadows or SW Outlaws out of pocket- they don't have hundreds of millions in liquid cash. Instead, they borrow it, usuually from a company like Black Rock. And the problem is, those loans come with ESG strings attached.

[@toomanyaccounts]

the thing is the loans wind up bankrupting. they would be better off not taking loans from Blackrock or Vanguard and just do a normal bank

[@maigrande-wang696]

This sound antisemitic

[@robertlombardo8437]

​@@maigrande-wang696 Only an AI with faulty programming could get 'antisemitic' from that statement up there.

[@solicitr666]

@@toomanyaccounts the thing is, banks are disinclined to finance videogames, because unlike say a factory, if it tanks there’s nothing to foreclose on

[@solicitr666]

@@maigrande-wang696 What sort of mind reads the word “capital” and immediately thinks “Jews”?

[@yol_n]

I love the vtuber just playing with the jiggly physics 😂

[@Booma4142]

The concept and terminology of 'stakeholders' comes directly from marxism and communism.

[@SolidNeodark]

"Stakeholder" means everyone who doesn't have a direct financial interest in a company, but who will, supposedly, be affected by the actions of said company. For instance, if a company does not celebrate and promote pride month, it is not fulfulling it's supposed duty to its "social stakeholders". In short, it is a way to put politics above profit, but it only ever goes one way (woke).

[@Madashell1200]

Let them fail because they refuse to learn. If people really think echo chambers in the entertainment industry are effective then they deserve failure.

[@bgko91880]

Toxic positivity is being referred to the journalists, quote unquote fans online, and all the people that praise every little thing that these companies do

[@wrongthinker843]

The based fox is right. If you want a moderately compact exposition on why, look up the interview with Yuri Bezmenov from the ironic year of 1984.

[@SpitshineSneakers]

Oh boy, Kirsche on a podcast at the same time as a normie? I hope she doesn't scare away valiant with tales of her mother or other cursed topics

[@OutLanderUSN]

Definitely not the crossover any of us were expecting.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

A normie is a person who doesn't understand the game being played. You are likely a normie. Most people are normies.

[@oompalumpus699]

​@@EQOAnostalgia A normie doesn't have self-awareness. Literally IRL NPCs.

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

Normies are not NPCs. A Normie doesn't just spew talking points like an NPC does. They're called Normies, because they don't get involved in, let alone know about, things that are outside of the Norm. A Normie can play video games or talk about politics, but it's usually morw one way with the other party explaining things to Normies. NPCs are thought voids, while a Normie is capable of taking in new information. How they react to that information will determine their NPC status, as the two are separate, but not mutually so.

[@aethelfrithofbernica]

​@@oompalumpus699normies are just normal people. Typically uninformed about whatever topic is at hand. Sometimes they act like they're knowledgeable, sometimes they're humble. The scale would be: Autist ‐> Normie -> NPC Normies are the middleman, the everyman. You're probably a normie

[@tiberius8390]

The issue with that activist investor discussion is that it works both ways and indeed it is the reason many companies have DEI written in their guidelines in the first place. Big investment firms like Blackrock, that have a globalist WEF agenda mandate all the companies they hold a usually quite sizable share of to introduce those DEI standards. My guess is getting rid of them will be quite hard and could backfire on the share price as Blackrock (and others) probably will sell their shares if the DEI statues are removed.

[@TheDough19]

Soo happy I have found this channel. Big propps to you and your channel. Keep up the great work with all the videos/pods/discusions.Peace from Sweden

[@MasterRyoSakurai]

Man the fact that thry really picked Black History month to delay this stupid game is a slap in the face to the minorities they're trying to target 😒 I WILL NOT BE BUYING THIS GAME!

[@marhawkman303]

You know... I bet Ubisoft's "talented" researchers don't even know who Ainu are.

[@NathanCassidy721]

It should be noted that the end of the financial quarter (Q1 I believe?) ends in February. I’d say that was the real reason it got pushed with “Black History Month” being a bonus. But it’s gonna backfire on them because there are THREE major AAA games coming out then that will take away sales from them. Notably Monster Hunter Wilds which is absurdly popular in Japan.

[@marhawkman303]

@@NathanCassidy721 Monster Hunter ain't exactly a Japan-only game either. Heck I've streamed myself playing it a few times. :D

[@NathanCassidy721]

@@marhawkman303 Oh yeah, it’s definitely seen a boost in popularity since World. But I point out the popularity in Japan of MH because that country is more likely to play that then a game about their country by a Western dev.

[@marhawkman303]

@@NathanCassidy721 I would expect more in the US to play that than this.

[@australiainfelix7307]

Those shares used to be over EUR 100.

[@RusticRonnie]

@@australiainfelix7307 not even that long ago only like 5 years ago.

[@Draconisrex1]

I watched that Legendary Drops episode. Yeah, Ubisoft is a mess.

[@halrichard1969]

What a load of Executive Speech. Us former UbiSoft fans told him time and again what we were unhappy with and what we wanted from the Ghost Recon franchise. He gave the same type of speech like this 5 years ago in response to our complaints. We were already complaining about Assassin's Creed as well because it was just the same game in a different setting. He didnt listen then and he is not listening now. This guy and his family really think they are a cut above humanity.

[@kouzuka]

wouldnt this make the audience/gamers/actual people who will consume and purchase the media that's produced a huge stakeholder as well? It's shortsighted for ubi tu overlook this huge stakeholder unit, rather would rather cater to a minute 0.000001% of the consumer market. Thank you for this panel discussion. It's been very enlightening

[@mrbigglezworth42]

It's INCREDIBLY cathartic to watch people who would deliberately sabotage a project just to push current year political talking points to fail, and do so in grandiose fashion.

[@Tobabobis]

Delicious schadenfreude

[@pharon5297]

I remembered the days when Ubisoft was considered the “lesser evil” of the triple-A companies and EA was dubbed one of the most evil companies of all time. Funny how now Ubisoft is now the one at the center of controversies, and EA’s been pretty quiet lately. But I guess that’ll change cause of Dragon Age: Veilguard.

[@MegaManJake]

It's so funny that they seem to think pushing it to Black History Month is gonna save this game, when February already has some heavy hitters being released, including a lesser known title by the name of MONSTER HUNTER WILDS. Yeah, AC: Shadows is DOA even more, i predict.

[@Zeoran]

I love Valiant Renegade. I love Craig and his girls. Every time you put them together, I'm in heaven!

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Killing off Desmond Miles was AC’s biggest mistake

[@phattjohnson]

SPOILER ALERT! But seriously, the game should've stopped after the main trilogy. The (modern day) element of story with Abstergo was done, yeah? Maybe Black Flag's a suitable 'final sequel' for a victory lap. Had some kickass sea combat. But the series hasn't really added anything new since. Ubisoft's inability to come up with a new IP is half their problem.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@phattjohnson sounds like Warner bros….

[@Ozzystrayroo]

​@@phattjohnson i used to like their little project like Child of light....i think we really lost the adventorous, risk taking, inventive ubisoft somewhere after 2014. And the dei invasion post 2016 just accelerate this process

[@KopperNeoman]

The mistake wasn't following through on it. The Templars won, the Assassins lost, okay? Maybe make the past story reflect that. Most of the Indians were on the side of the Loyalists during the War of Independence due to Yankee mistreatment being one of the causes of that very conflict. Make Connor a Loyalist. Have the Assassins back the British while the Templars back the USA. Have that be the reason the Yanks win. Then you can parallel Desmond's death at their hands to Connor's at the hands of, say, George Washington. That all they fought for was for naught, and history would remember them as the villains. Even as Templars tyrannise the people, those same people would blame the Assassins - the ones who tried to prevent it. Bam, now AssCreed is a trilogy all about the tragic failure of heroes and a warning about blindly trusting popular history.

[@deezee2965]

Firing Assassin's Creed creator, Patrice Désilets, during the development of Brotherhood back in 2010 was Ubisoft greatest mistake.

[@Rockuaumijlocu]

Loved Blabs's take

[@sigmacademy]

17:43. Shareholders (in my understanding) have to do with ownership (like Valliant said, someone who bought shares), while stakeholders are all the people the company interacts with, whether that be manufacturers, customers, employees, suppliers, financiers, journalists, etc. (essentially anyone who ISN'T "owners" (in terms of financial stake), but who interacts with the company in some form or another). In essence, any person or group that has a STAKE in interacting with the company, since the company's actions or decisions might IMPACT them personally.

[@lostlothbrok7156]

Yay!!! Kirsche is back ❤❤❤

[@smti1985]

If Ubisoft ignore critics of their former customers (gamers), calling it just toxic and just listen now to "modern audience" they need to get used to a smaller group of customers, as gamers will walk away and just the "modern audience" will buy.

[@JoshuaGauze]

@smti1985 what modern audience? The 600 people that played Concord or the 80 people that played dustborn? 😆

[@smti1985]

@@JoshuaGauze It is time to become an indie company then with only a few developers for ubisoft, I guess. The companies still have some money in pocket, but if they make one political game after another, they will go down, except they have some investors which like to burn money.

[@polloduh]

You can still pre order that statue

[@Plus_Escapee]

Watching this huge samurai who isn't Japanese bowl over the locals on top of seeing the half-gate (which I suspected was a hint that the Japanese are a conquered people) featured with their toy seemed to me completely on the nose and blatantly disrespectful as well as vile and condescending. Although I think the "R" word applies it's such an overused word that it lacks impact at this time. If I could only record the director's words once their tongue is loosened with a few drinks...I wonder if my suspicions would be validated?

[@tyranidswarmlord9722]

It's worse. That half standing Torri Gate is pointing to only 1 specific monument: The Nagasaki standing one after the nuke dropped. It's like selling 9/11 as merch.

[@maigrande-wang696]

The city where the figures was design and made (Shenzhen, China) just had an anti Japanese attack not even a Week ago. a Japanese mother and her 10 year old child was attacked. The 10 year old didn't make it.

[@Elban19]

Phase Connect won't let it happen, but I'd love if Pippa joined Kirsche on one of these.

[@Xerophun]

For those who aren't in software: "Scrum" and "Agile" are terms for corporate communism as related to "stakeholder capitalism".

[@Renrogue2446]

Considering there's no risk to stakeholders. What's going to happen to them when they have no say, due to nobody buying their products. Surely the corporation has to do something.

[@Gungrave123]

A stakeholder is an individual or a group of individuals with an interest, often financial, in the success of a business. The primary stakeholders in a corporation include its investors, employees, customers, and suppliers.

[@adamuadamu5081]

12:36 Tsk. You nearly had it. If it lost 10% it would be decimated.

[@StayAtHomeHippo]

Just to compare in USD, as of writing this message, Ubisoft stock is at $2.21 and share while Roblox Corp is at $44.87 a share. Roblox is beating Ubisoft; I never thought I'd say that at all.

[@rildsilverlok]

When the "leadership" has failure after failure after failure, should we not call them manglement rather than managment ( failureship works too, along with : do you like my esg dei albatross necklace? )

[@Drevlock]

A stakeholder is an person/group/entity that has a vested interest in the success/failure and profitability of an endeavour or company. As such the stockholder is also a stakeholder. Now-a-days the term "stakeholder" when used in reports has very little to do with the smaller effected groups but tends to refer to those larger, vested, investor groups. It has very little to do with the stockholders, save for the "ven" overlap, suppliers, contractors and definitely very little to do with the "coalface" employees. And let's be real, unless a stock has been bought at the time of the public float, general stockholders are not invested in the company, they are invested in a bet on how that company will perform, they are invested in how much they can get from the company for the money they gave someone else to give them their piece of paper that says they own a miniscule portion of the company. Not much different from the ante up at the blackjack table, just a longer stand before the next hand.

[@philosopherking506]

I thought the "equity" in DEI was referring to "equality of outcome" for the "included" and "diverse". The equity Valiant was referring to fits under the "G" for "Governance" in "ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)".

[@PillowEgg]

I'm making my bets Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be the next woke flop. This will be the game that shuts down Bioware.

[@BRAINFOXINFINITE]

I'm thinking it'll be an "underperform" at worst since that crowd actually does buy DA as opposed to just tweeting about it before playing Stardew Valley again. This is also the "A" Bioware team IIRC and not a rebranded newbie Canadian one like ME:A (even accounting for the turnover), so it's probably not gonna be a complete glitchy disaster like that was.

[@chrismiller5940]

Personally, I don't think Ubisoft intentionally used the One Legged Tori for the figure, they just wanted something for the girl to crouch from and using an entire gate would have made it too large. Other than Yasuke and diversity choices of the playable characters most everything is just sheer incompetence from hiring DEI focused people and advisors to the game. It is obvious that they have just superficial knowledge of Japanese history and culture. As for much of the game design itself it looks like most of the devs are DEI hires and were obviously not the best people for the job either and it isn't just Ubisoft doing this. Ubisoft is run by DEI instead of as a Meritocracy so certain physical and political attributes drive the company instead of skill. And no, I'm not an Ubisoft fan, in fact I have never bought / played ANY Ubisoft game ever so if they completely fail it would make no difference to me.

[@fatbro7283]

fascinating video, just goes to show how far something can fall and still keep going

[@thelaughingrouge]

Ubisoft knew they were gonna get boo'd off the stage and the stock was gonna take yet another hit.

[@Enyoiyourself]

"Ubisoft has lost investors 9 billion dollars" "Now to further that home" Stop it, he's already dead ;A;

[@przemekkobel4874]

I don't think game dev company can be rescued just by management changes. If the talent went somewhere else, it's gone. You need to build a new one.

[@GaijinMecha]

The thing that blows my mind is that they have the data, they know that 80% of the audience is straight guys, every time people are giving an option to choose a character, player retention time, what activities are the most appealing, in the entire internet is full of fan commissioned artwork of what people actually want to see. And they have done everything possible to act in contrary to that information

[@rodrigofaria9109]

Ubisoft got what they wanted: gamers are finally confortable not owning their games.

[@jaxwillis905]

blockrock ceo told us all, theyre going to force change , we just have to hold out till the other investors get sick

[@tetsuoakira8294]

Disagree with the broadest audience possible. Ive only seen poor quality when aimed at the broadest audience.

[@halrox247]

5:29 She's 1000% on point here. We're in control, You don't agree, we don't care. Where's else you gonna go to get your games. This is how arrogant they are and how entitled they are to your money.

[@Slitheringpeanut]

Ubisoft has been failing since AC Valhalla. This isn't surprising to anyone who had been watching, but it saddening. Valiant Renegade showed us, when he had that chart pop up, the peak was 2021, and then the precipitous decline.

[@are3287]

Since 2018 at least and the seeds of doom were planted years before that. Its wild people didnt talk about how insanely woke Odyssey was.

[@Anon4859]

@@are3287 People did, loudly, but at the time the bigger controversy was them making the series GaaS and massively expanding the use of microtransations in a single player game.

[@theritchie2173]

I've been out of the loop for a bit, what's with the Blabs profile pic? Not that it's a bad pic... I've played about 30 mins of Assassin's Creed total - it just never grabbed me - but Far Cry 1 was legendary back in the day, before it turned into generic Ubisoft "find the radio tower" series #17. I also loved some of their Clancy stuff, sad to see what's become of them now.

[@Anthonyelmio2]

Blabs have been sick these past week? 🤔

[@shiroimarcio]

If stakeholder means the same as it means on development, they used it right. (on development means everybody interested in the app, users, devs, owners of the bussiness, etc... everybody at same time, not one or another)

[@antigrav6004]

How long has kirsche been joining?

[@toomanyaccounts]

awhile.

[@charliemilroy6497]

I was wondering if gravity existed considering that Assassin's Creed kept on selling

[@davidmeyer5316]

If stake holders don't have coin in the game matters more than shareholders, that business is going broke.

[@andreiga76]

Sony is happy nobody is talking about Concord anymore, maybe they even paid Ubisoft to "take one for the team".

[@LordSpleach]

It would be funny if Ubisoft ran from the Tokyo Game Show cause they saw hired Yakuza.

[@deltavagen9796]

i hope so

[@TheDgamesD]

wild to see Kirsche here lol

[@TheWayabo]

I mean we told them since years ago, get woke go broke

[@EddieFonzarelli]

So i cant find this half tori figuring anywhere. Some sites returned a 404 tho. Is it possible theyve been taken down today?

[@Genethagenius]

Let’s not let this let us forget about the fact that so many Ubisoft games play exactly the same! (And that they tried to turn “Assassin’s Creed” into “Witcher 3” instead of just making a spin-off or new series). I was never interested in this upcoming “AC” game. I have played the feudal Japan setting to death.

[@polionly9632]

Even the sight doesn't look like a Japanese scene. It looks like Southeast Asia. (I don't mean to speak ill of Southeast Asia. I just want to say, "It's not Japan.)

[@Jokoko2828]

A drunk man and his drunk Japanese wife basically said the same thing, it's all vaguely Asian and not really Japanese.

[@GummiArms]

Thing is, I'm getting the impression that the investors trying to unseat Ubisoft's ruling family are just as much woke ideologues, based on the nature of their complaints. They aren't mad about DEI destroying the credibility and profitability of the company, the complaints are all woke issues. So even if this coup happens, I don't expect anything to change in a meaningful way. This strikes me more as the usefulness of one figurehead running out, and they're being replaced.

[@evilsock12]

rumors are saying that they offered refunds to every BUT Japan.

[@AlphaAurora]

@SideScrollersPodcast Shareholders: People who are financially invested in a Company, through the purchase of its public shares. In essence, they own a part of the Company, and have lent out their money to the firm, in exchange for future earnings from said company. Stakeholders: LIterally anyone who is affected by a project/action. This is so expansive, it includes all form of social harm, and in the context of DEI, Racial (D), Climate/Environment (Not actual environmental degradation, just manmade climate change), and Sexual preference (I). The term was intended to encompass anyone who might have an interest in the project, but didnt quite have a voice via the Company's internal feedback process.

[@AF-ei5yi]

Shadows is being delayed until Black History month. They're going to surf the hype around BHM and hope that it being crap will be missed until they've made their money back. They won't make their money back and we'll see this for sale in 2nd hand shops around April

[@alexbiehn978]

Valiant Renegade is the GOAT!

[@kbforme]

Why do we know that? Because current day Ubisoft made it. These are not the same people who made Black Flag.

[@JohnSmith-mf3dh]

That torii Is the one from Nagasaki, It was an insult, It was on purpose!

[@MaxskiSynths]

"No white males" - Ubisoft

[@cknaus005]

Im glad somebody mentioned Stakeholder capitalism in their coverage of another woke failure. Keep it up! Don't forget to mention who dreamt it up, the ones who really fund and perpetuate it, and where they, ultimately, want to take us with it.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

Has somebody seen the Ballerina's trailer? For those who haven't: John Wick universe but it's a girlboss by Ana de Armas. I don't know what to think...

[@teslapilot5755]

Isnt decimation the elimination of 1/10? This is obliteration, 9/10.

[@etrangray-mane8610]

Everything else aside, when did Kirsche get the hat? It's adorable.

[@Ender424]

ACShadows defenders try to bring up the fact that Yasuke (or characters based on him) has appeared in Japanese media/anime before but they fail to note that it has always been in a fantastical context and not a historical setting. They claim that gamers are OK with white characters like William Adams in Nioh however again Nioh is a fantasy horror game and never claimed to be "authentic" AND it was developed by a Japanese studio not a European one. I'm quite certain if Team Ninja had made a Nioh 3 or a different game altogether with Yasuke as the main character it would definitely sell.

[@skibidi.G]

HEY KIRSCHE 👑 !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏

[@kentlindal5422]

Remember "To the moon!"? ... Like that, but backwards.

[@JohnSmith-ps7yq]

What a voice this fella has!