We Need To Talk About The Ubisoft Situation.

Even more Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks have emerged, as have dire reports of Outlaws sales figures. Yet amid the chaos, Ubisoft's stock price is surged. Today, you'll learn why.
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Sources:
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-04/tencent-guillemot-family-are-said-to-consider-buyout-of-ubisoft
insider-gaming.com/exclusive-context-around-the-assassins-creed-shadows-delay/
bellular.games/ubisoft-are-giving-audiences-what-they-asked-for/
www.gamesradar.com/games/action/star-wars-outlaws-massive-entertainment-interview-creative-director-julian-gerighty-and-game-director-mathias-karlson-exclusive/
www.siliconera.com/ubisoft-apologies-for-assassins-creed-shadows-flag-art-infringement/
www.gamesradar.com/games/assassin-s-creed/assassins-creed-shadows-debate-somehow-reaches-japanese-government-ministries-who-reportedly-remind-everyone-that-historical-fiction-isnt-really-their-concern-at-all/
www.rockpapershotgun.com/unsurprisingly-assassins-creed-valhalla-isnt-that-historically-accurate
insider-gaming.com/star-wars-outlaws-sales-1-million/
www.vgchartz.com/article/271116/star-wars-battlefront-ii-sells-an-estimated-133-million-units-first-week-at-retail/
www.thegamer.com/star-wars-squadrons-sold-1-1-million-digital-units-october/
x.com/Chris_Dring/status/1655455567870148610
www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/star-wars/outlaws/news-updates/1Kq2ABlTdHgkdbGRQZ20he/star-wars-outlaws-title-update-12
x.com/DavideSoliani/status/1816050633343938597
www.gamesindustry.biz/mario-rabbids-and-red-dead-redemption-creators-form-new-studio-day-4-night
insider-gaming.com/vice-president-of-rainbow-6-cameron-lee-has-left-ubisoft/
www.wsj.com/articles/vivendi-succeeds-in-gameloft-takeover-1465303696
www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/UBISOFT-ENTERTAINMENT-4719/company-shareholders/
www.reuters.com/technology/ubisoft-activist-investor-says-it-has-support-10-shareholders-management-tussle-2024-09-26/
The End Of Ubi’s Troubles In Sight? 00:00
Family First Beginnings 00:37
Shadows Across The Creed 01:54
Outlaws’ Struggle 04:59
Bloomberg’s Report 06:41
Vying For Control 08:12
The Fight Isn’t Over 11:11

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[@garytsang5673]

Gamers can now get used to not owning UBISOFT games And UBISOFT CEO can now get used to not owning UBISOFT Perfect timeline.

[@Kirshbia]

I mean. You're half right. Ubisoft's CEO never owned Ubisoft. They're a publicly traded company. Like it'd be perfect if this dude didn't get a golden parachute deal but if he gets fired he's going to be taking away more money then what most people will see in a life time. XD

[@Marinealver]

The CEO needs to get use to NOT being a CEO.

[@TheTacoAlmighty]

@@Kirshbia He founded it, its his baby, he'll fight tooth and nail because he doesn't want to loose it. Him staying rich was always going to be the outcome but loosing the company this way is something he wants to avoid at all costs. If you haven't realized yet people like this tend to be prideful and that's what got him to the place he's at right now.

[@SimuLord]

Look on the bright side. Plenty of people are making money thanks to Ubisoft. We call those people "Gaming KZbinrs", who are reaping the gift that keeps on giving of content.

[@Nytrusdeathcyde]

there is no situation ubisoft just needs to just get comfortable with not owning thair company is all

[@emirhaneksioglu4503]

Nah they can have their garbage company. They need to get comfortable with people not owning any of their products.

[@Bonehead_Paladin]

@@emirhaneksioglu4503 That's what they want, what they need to get comfortable with is not having our money

[@Bonehead_Paladin]

​@@emirhaneksioglu4503 Problem is, that's what they want. What they need to get comfortable with is not having our money in their pocket.

[@deathproof8732]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOTTEM

[@genlando327plays2]

Not that that result would be any better for gamers...

[@Marinealver]

The stock bump just SCREAMS out BLACKROCK Ubisoft just got a new investor

[@HikaruKatayamma]

Private equity destroys everything they touch. Then again, Ubisoft has been doing a good job of destroying their games without outside help.

[@phoxworx]

9:40 This is the sort of thing that is waking people up to the fact that contrary to what many would like you to think, publicly trading in a company doesn't make it better, most times arguably it makes it worse and this leads to absolute greed taking over. It is what enables monopolies in the first place. This is why Indie is taking off so much, because you don't have to worry about a company going evil because while individual people change a little bit over time, publicly traded can change dramatically in a short period of time and suddenly products and/or services you liked go to waste and you don't generally get that with Indie brands unless the founder(s) are unhinged to begin with.

[@tehbeernerd]

Indies are at the whims of publisher funding too, unfortunately. Those publishers aren’t overbearing about the games that they want made (yet), but right now, they aren’t giving out money.

[@Lazy_Viking]

There is also the fact that publicly traded companies often act short sighted. To increase share value in the present they do things that a couple years later will come full circle and destroy them. For example, in my town there was a factory with a couple hundred employes. The factory was making good profit. Their customers were happy with the quality of the goods they produced. Then the owners realised they could make slightly more money by moving production to a low-salary country. This move seemed good on paper and the stock went up and the board got a bonus. A couple years later the company was no more. So what happened? Where they used to be somewhat close to their customers they were now far away so cost of shipping went through the roof. Also, since they were now in a low-salary country it was impossible to find skilled labor to run their advanced machines. Production problems were common and quality went down, triggering many of their longtime customers to leave them. They had to search in other countries for skilled enginers that could fix the machines but nobody wanted to move there permanently, they had to be flown in at a premium, one problem at a time. After the company had gone under a chinese company moved in and bought it all for next to nothing to set up a factory in China.

[@tehbeernerd]

@@Lazy_Vikingthat shortsighted attitude is why publicly traded companies tend to only focus on quarterly earnings with no eye for the future. So this hedge fund should be THRILLED!

[@tehbeernerd]

I find it ironic that the Guillemot brothers founded Ubisoft on diversifying their business, when they’ve made nothing but knockoffs of Far Cry 3 for the last decade-plus.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

1:40 ... Ubisoft. *UBISOFT* happened to their games.

[@Relkond]

Are we sure this isn't some form plot akin to corporate betrayal in Eve Online? Because this this level of stupidity from the people at the top seems implausible - people at that level tend to not be stupid, so if they do stupid things they have their own plans.

[@hippieyoda1993]

Something everyone needs to remember is... these sharks circling Ubi... they're just as bad some worse...

[@ZaricaLP]

some people forget, investors own the company in a sense.. they pull out, the company dies.. so you cater to them. Ubisoft is no saint, their pretty bad at this point, but investors ripping them appart to make a worse situation isnt going to help it.

[@rogan4338]

Yeah Tencent is just a villain absorbing a weaker villain

[@tehbeernerd]

That’s why I liked the previous video this channel did about the Ubisoft situation- the main idea was that them going private might actually make it *worse.* Also, a hedge fund throwing a tantrum that Ubisoft only cares about their quarterly earnings is hilariously ironic. One of the central tenets of neoliberalism is that publicly traded companies need to maximize profit, which usually means… caring about quarterly earnings above everything else!

[@ZaricaLP]

I wasn't pointing fingers at tencent here either, i was being neutral to clarify. them going private may, or may not make it better or worse as well. you cant exactly predict the future 100%

[@miguelpereira9859]

​@@ZaricaLPThey wouldn't have to cater to the investors if their cash flows were in order

[@alaeriia01]

1:25 I always thought they chose "Ubi" because it means "where", thus being a pun: "Ubi Soft" translates to "soft where", or software.

[@lenowoo]

😂😂😂

[@mrkouleur8366]

It’s not because they saturated us with Star Wars games it’s because the games were shit

[@stage6fan475]

All of this Ubisoft intrigue and drama is far more interesting than any of their recent super expensive games. Best of all, its free for us to enjoy. If all these AAA game companies and big movie companies are going to create absolute cringe trash, we can save money by not buying tickets, and sit back with popcorn to enjoy the corporate faceplant dramas.

[@-Believeinyourself-]

Nothing is free. While we consume things we hate for entertainment, we waste our time not developing skills or indulging in hobbies we enjoy and can progress in.

[@davidrenton]

are you saying they should season pass it,buy a season get a live stream from the Ubisoft Boardroom, plus a free Skull and Bones skin. Might be their best option

[@SimuLord]

@@-Believeinyourself- Spoken like someone who's never had one of these KZbin gaming news channels on in the background at work. I'm getting _paid_ to enjoy Ubi (and Blizzard, and the Concord devs, and Bethesda, and...) drama! And paid quite handsomely-I live in Seattle and don't need to have a roommate!

[@jac1207]

Not going to sell well in Japan, not even a chance if they stick with their February release. Just like how out of touch Ubisoft is with the Japanese, they seemed to miss that Monster Hunter Wilds is also slated for February and MH is a goliath of a series in Japan.

[@TangiersIntrigue]

I guess at least the idea of refusing to take in private equity cash is a good move, it's not like private equity doesn't have a history of stripping companies for parts and selling off their assets and leaving the company bankrupt.

[@brelshar4968]

Ubisoft are unburdened by what has been.

[@CandleLover69]

Just coming here to say that Yves Guillimot is the problem with Ubisoft and no one should buy their games until he’s gone.

[@Bonehead_Paladin]

Ubisoft's entire upper management is rotten to the core, there's no for a potential redemption arc here

[@CandleLover69]

@@Bonehead_Paladin I agree, but they need to completely clean house. Ubisoft needs to lay of ~30-40% of staff, mostly middle management. Ubisoft’s costs are utterly insane for a software company.

[@ChrissW528]

The CEOs of these gaming companies are literally just the fall guy for the boards, they'll make all the unpopular changes that people hate but the board wants. Then they'll get fired with massive severance packages. The board will bring in a new CEO, never revert any of the changes, and you guys will clap like seals over the original CEO being fired

[@Bonehead_Paladin]

@@CandleLover69 They're a bloated company yes, but laying off staff is not gonna change anything as long as the current upper management and pencil pushers still hold this much power

[@OryxAU]

​@@Bonehead_Paladin They have 45 game dev studios and nothing to show for it. There's absolutely no way that is sustainable.

[@woozy96]

It's official, ladies and gentlemen. Western gaming is in ruins. Smoke and ash.

[@michaelcoward1902]

It's late stage Capitalism...everything is in ruins.

[@TheRetroPerspective]

Most Japanese games can't even render grass 5 feet from the player character and the people making the decisions are 75 year old's that made some brilliant games in the 90s but have forgotten how they did it.

[@eccomi21]

I... What? Which ones are you talking about?

[@TheRetroPerspective]

@@eccomi21 majority of Square Enix titles, especially using their own engine. Tales Of series. Not sure who the Devs of hyperdimension Neptunia or senran kagura (or similar) are but those games feel dated as hell with nothing original or unique, awful graphics and just there for people who want to play a mindless game with boobs. From software a little better but still doing the same shit over and over, terrible frame rates (I'm not even a frame rate snob but it's very noticeable in their games.) Need I go on?

[@kentreed2011]

God I wish

[@zmmmzmmmz]

Gamers taught Ubisoft and Activision that they can sell DLC for popular franchises as entire games. Its only a matter of time before they sell us season passes that just literally include seasonal costmetics

[@MoonLitChild]

This is true for the industry at large as well. If people buy it, the companies are going to keep making them, and push that envolope to see how much they can get people to pay for stuff that has no material impact on the game whatsoever. I honestly think that there's a retail therapy phenomena that goes on with DLC, skins and every other type of "micro" transaction. They get that teeny little dopamine hit when they press the 'buy now!' button, and that becomes a reliable *source* of dopamine so they keep buying. Telling them to stop will never work, because at that point, it's an addiction.

[@GrayAndGrey]

A second wind or a dying gasp? Ubisoft and its CEO will grasp defeat from the jaws of victory sooner than later; just watch.

[@SimuLord]

Second wind? Dying gasp? Neither. It's Steve1989 cracking it open 50 years later and saying "nice hiss."

[@Rafael64_]

Noted. If you own something you care about, NEVER go public. (As in: publicly traded company)

[@thecompanioncube4211]

What if you only cared about money...

[@Otochiro1]

Going public has its merits. If you do things right, you will sell many actions when you go public. All this cash can be invested in larger projects that will(may) make even more money. So it allows to grow quicker, but that's a double-edged sword because the more actions you sell, the more decision power you lose.

[@DerFreiegedanke]

Well, WTF, I thought the company was full of toxic positivity, and Guilliman himself said they are super duper proud of their high-quality games. So what is it now? Endlessly patting themselves on the back for shoveling shit, or desperately clawing to make good products but the evil, evil manager pushes for release?

[@aster4jaden]

I'd thought they'd be happy with not owning their own Company.

[@Sasasala386]

Yves has Tencent finger so up his butt he doesn't know it's there.

[@SimuLord]

Whatever Tencent's using as a numbing agent to pull off a stunt like that, they can send some to my dentist.

[@GetAwesomeGaming]

Ubisoft if you are going to make 10 assassins creed games how about 1 free to play version of the Multiplayer mode that ended with Black Flag? Probably the only tacked on multiplayer mode that felt unique outside of the last of us

[@BlackCoffeePlanet]

Agreed Although I'd say the splinter cell blacklist multiplayer was fun too

[@edmundmondo1682]

I invested all my life saving into ubi stock before the surge...

[@zmmmzmmmz]

What did that $3.50 turn into

[@WelcometoTheFoxhole]

Finally someone has talked about the Vivendi factor in all this, thank you! I speculated on Vivendi over on my channel just a few days ago and I don't know why no one else has noticed it! Thanks for filling in the gaps Bellular and corroborating my suspicions on all of this.

[@karenpojar2514]

10 sequels in 5 years? How'd that go for Star Wars? **Opens Casket** Yup, still dead.

[@TheFallingFlamingo]

Outlaws I think would've benefited from a character creator, as most modern games would. Star Wars games in general are better when the devs let their players create an avatar that they can relate to. It's more immersive and there's the added benefit of avoiding potential unlikable protagonist situations like with Forsaken. Sometimes I think developers just don't learn, because we went from almost every game protagonist being male, to the opposite, when both solutions are flawed and we've had the obvious answer in front of us the entire time. *Let players make their own protagonist.* You don't have to give them control over the voice of the character or even let them change anything other than superficial things like appearance, but even just that does so much more than what developers are currently doing. It's like we're still trying to emulate these action movie heroes in our games, when we should be trying to make the players feel like they are the heroes. And just to be totally clear, I feel the same way about Jedi Order and Jedi Survivor. I haven't played or purchased any of them.

[@Leah_Newton]

Nah. My friends and I ARE NEVER GOING BACK TO ANY GAMES FROM UBISOFT. You screw your customers, we SCREW WITH YOU! Let the SPIRAL take them out! 😂

[@BobBillies]

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth

[@FilthEffect]

3%?! I'll alert the village right now

[@TheLuceon]

I absolutely have my problems with how Ubisoft has pushed monetization in the industry but to me public investing is truly a plague. It is largely lead by few with massive wallets that push for nothing but profit, sometimes (perhaps often times) at the expense of the company invested in for the long term.

[@paulhorneschillings1212]

Honestly this is Ubisoft's fault for not following up on Beyond Good & Evil 2. They deserve this.

[@hitoriwa]

We Need To Talk About The Bellular News Situation.

[@lemond2007]

"Ubisoft's stock just went up. Let me tell you the story of how Ubisoft was founded."

[@Pheonixco]

Whatever cow they intend to milk all the Assassin Creed games from is going to be dead by the end of this. This is what happens when you think you make a product and not actual entertainment.

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

I've just bought 18 shares, if it drops again I'll buy some more.

[@ElDaumo]

How Gamers (tm) still follow AAA studios is beyond me

[@lemnajcavite]

Even if their value goes up from here, would that make people wanna buy what they're offering if at any point they could just take it all away potentially? Also metrics wouldn't magically make their games textbook fun. Chorelessly fun in that case. If they don't radically change, it's still going six feet under most like.

[@johnnyairplane2896]

Their stock peaked at July 2018 2 months before the release of Odyssey and 1 year after Origins. My 2 favorite AC games. good times

[@nocturnalverse5739]

Damn I wish I had some of that insider information.

[@BlackCoffeePlanet]

Don't we all XD

[@superbtrilogy5049]

Would have bought some if I knew too

[@EoinLynch-v1y]

Something something rich people trying to make themselves richer something.

[@Gest-wg2yb]

I know it's been said a lot, but I'm riding the high seas until they publish a pathetic apology and retraction of players being comfortable not owning their games as well as a well laid out plan on how this won't be an issue going into the future Making better games would help as well, because honestly there isn't a reason to get any of their games right now anyway

[@seriade]

Monday Steam told you, that you do not own your games and you only own licenses the matter was settled by the government of California going into the future.

[@Bajoli86]

Ubi produces to much (mediocre) content and Bethesda and Rockstar to little/to slow.

[@SimuLord]

Ubi: Quantity over quality. Rockstar: Quality over quantity. Bethesda: Umm...have a Nuka-Cola Quantum?

[@lm9029]

Bethesda: Incompetent R*: Greedy Ubi: Greedy and incompetent

[@jayjay6156]

The only reason the price increase is because Tencent may buy them

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Exactly. It's vultures digging their claws in hoping to get swooped up

[@L1vv4n]

If you don't want to lose control over company or turning into a device only to make money, never sell of publicly trade. Investors are a bane for any business which wants to maintain any semblance of artistic integrity, ethics or not rely on barely legal defrauding of customers.

[@BenderBendingRodriguezOFFICIAL]

That increase is literally nothing, and there is more to a company than just it's stock price. Shares outstanding, P/E ratio especially, and trade volume. Watching gamers talk about stocks is painful, I've invested in penny stocks that have hit higher lmao.

[@PyroGobbo]

Their only hope would be to stop the anti-consumer shit completely. But they would also need a time machine to do that 5 years ago.

[@goffe2282]

Why is this company even publicly traded if it is a family company? That just makes you beholden to shareholders.

[@karenpojar2514]

The family wanted money. But they were stupid about it, and had to use "the poison pill" to avoid a buyout from Vivendi a decade ago. They never recovered.

[@kaleiohulee6693]

All the money flying around and I wonder to myself how many new indie studios could have been founded with it instead.

[@10-OSwords]

Lost Crown was a great idea...but was another trash bloated empty game where all you do is run around with nothing to do & minimal basic combat mechanics just like every other ubisoft game...That's what wrong with ubisoft, not dei or bad story telling or historical inaccuracies or whatever other crap people with low IQs want to blame it on. Empty games, basic mechanics.

[@rickybuhl3176]

7:25 - notice how the investors in question only bought their shares a couple of *weeks* before the letter. These aren't long standing shareholders.

[@asddasasdful]

I've been Assasins Creed tired for years now, time to make something new!

[@gonzaloapestegui9421]

I am glad this is happening, more indie companies will rise from all the devs that leave, with better quality games and a developer that actually hears therir consumers.

[@karmicbacklash]

Shame about Lost Crown getting so little attention, it was a really decent Metroidvania and the best Ubi game I've played in years.

[@joeshmoe7485]

Doesn't Ubisoft get huge subsidies and tax credits from the French government?

[@nirmaljustin2530]

"Surge"? I don't see any "surge"

[@miguelpereira9859]

It rose like 30% in a few days

[@ronniefazzio6979]

Prince of Persia was an excellent game but a lot of people just didn’t give it a chance.

[@greedowins]

So there's some clear interest by Tencent for Ubisoft to have bad launches. Not sure Ubisoft needed any help, but does explain how a company as valuable as Ubisoft could be making such bad decisions (e.g. fixed main character for Star Wars, provoking backlash with a non-historical black Samauri, laughable plans to release 10 AC games in 5 years, etc.).

[@Cat_in_The-Box]

Gonna be real. I just want good games from them, I dont think them dying or being bought by worse companies will bring me good games.

[@autumnalgloom5360]

Maaaaaaaan, I am still pissed Prince of Persia: Lost Crown sold so badly. It's Ubisofts best game in, like, 10 years as far as I am concerned.

[@spaceghost8891]

What happened is that they are targeting people that don't play videogames with their products. Very predictable result.

[@OneWayTwoBrazil]

Game production would be better off building off a stable game template, reusing resources from previous games in a series to achieve a COD-level release schedule.

[@yaelz6043]

A society where insane amounts of money appear and disappear due to all this talk and office politics is always going to be a bad joke.

[@GegoXaren]

AJ Investments "plan" is absolutely awful.

[@cathulionetharn5139]

so it did go back to 13 60, and it's already at 13 10 it's still less than a month ago, we'll see in days to come, and in years to come we'll see if that changes anything about their games You know, the thing that matters

[@fearan9406]

Did manor lords have the revenue close to outlaws? beautiful

[@lenowoo]

Even if, outlaw launched without bugs. I don't think it can pull enough sales.😂

[@Bryghtpath]

Ubisoft's stock is climbing, but Outlaws is struggling. They're better at stocks than making hit games. Need a success cheat code?

[@gamer2101]

Hate Ubisoft but love assassins creed with all my heart. Even the bad games I find some to enjoy. I hope after all of this AC turns around

[@_ergdev]

yap yap yap, summary, Ubisoft in trouble.

[@ricozkirihara2798]

Doesnt seem like anything is wrong. The whole stockholder system was to hold the management accountable when they are not doing a good job.. and i dare say they are not doing a good job now. If the Guillemots hold control, it will be status quo as usual and putting out more games that actual gamers are really not interested in.

[@tabs1913]

We do?

[@IshayuG]

Apparently. Ubisoft's situation is real simple - they have hired a lot of people who don't know how to make games, don't know what they're doing in other ways, and are very disagreeable. The only way to clean this mess up is to take control of the company and systematically fire these people, leaving behind a core team that can nurse the company back to health. But the question is - is that core even still there?

[@SimuLord]

@@IshayuG When you put it that way, I'm kind of sad to see Ubisoft go. Keeping the most useless elements of society in Keynesian makework where they can do as little harm as possible to society at large is a valuable public service.

[@grayearly3116]

I just want this company to dissolve and auction off their IP

[@charlesgentry3758]

They got what they deserved. They should get used to not owning their own company with their quadripple A games.

[@casualonemmo-player2167]

They have ten games in the pipeline... wtf... just imagine if they sticked to only a couple at a time.... = we could get absolute bangers "goty"'s coming out on the regular.... instead we get all these meh ones... Sidenote: i looked thru ubisoft, Ea etc schemes aaages ago and boycotted them.

[@seriade]

10 in the pipeline is remaking the originals.

[@GegoXaren]

That is not how that works at all. Most of those games will never see the day of light, or are just small games. Battle Core Arena did probobly not take much to make, for example.

[@jedrzejkoszewski4342]

That's literally mafia.

[@horst_gott]

I am going to mald over shareholder value if this continues

[@VoidEternal]

No, there's really nothing to talk about. This is just a filler episode to some actual news coming down the line later.

[@darkcult99]

Very good video 👍

[@sedevri864]

Honestly i cant see a positive outcome here for ubisoft, if they sell to china then we get propaganda, if they go private and the family keep control we get propaganda. The least likely outcome would be for the company to go private under a third party, this is the only way i see the company changing for the better imo.

[@MortucusInvictus]

so its above 80 euros and making all the investors money again oh wait its @ 4$ yea long way to fucking go mate before we talk about a comback lol

[@XerrolAvengerII]

Ubisoft needs to embrace coop, it's an underserved market and their coop games tend to do great

[@thecompanioncube4211]

These are way too big of shenanigans to produce mediocre products every decade

[@adamramsey5787]

Assassins Creed has been over done. The Historical Fiction genre, there is a lot of interesting stories someone could tell. Why go to Ancient Greece.....in Assassin Creed.....when there are more interesting ways to tell a story....outside of Crusades Assassins v Templar. They have been just milking it instead of taking some slight risks, and telling a great story.

[@RavenDai]

I keep thinking that we really need to get new rules about how stock trading works. Personal opinion is to limit them in some fashion. Such as shares expire once you have received dividends equal to 10x the original purchase price. That way you don't have these continual chasing of growth over profit situations and things like hostile takeovers end up not working. Initial investors still end up getting a 1000% return on investment and can then reinvest in other places instead of continually using it to control multiple companies and causing all of these in-fighting issues.

[@zmmmzmmmz]

That's not how any of this works

[@RavenDai]

@@zmmmzmmmz It's not. But it is how it should work.

[@HeK.]

They already lost it.

[@MrTeal888]

Ouch

[@project.jericho]

Its only a bluff if it's a lie.

[@905JimRaynor]

BS excuses and ignoring history mean Ubisoft can not lecture me about their ethical views. How is the antisemitism going in Quebec these days any way?

[@omarcomming722]

Mirage was cheap janky garbage, that game shouldn't exist and its budget should have gone into Shadows. Story is trash, facial animations are trash, gameplay is copy paste Valhalla which is mediocre jank, and it's only "highlight" is nostalgia bait for looking like a classic city-based AC game, even though it's literally Valhalla tossed into a larger city.

[@sum1337]

when a AAAA company becomes a HAHAHAHA company

[@robkiller205]

I'm genuinely worried for Ubisoft in the next year. I'm not a fan of their recent business choices and strategies, but I think they have many passionate game devs who genuinely want to make a good game which would be absolutely devastated by the company collapsing.

[@MJSGamingSanctuary]

Former Activision QA here, but improper or failure to get approval for religious or historical details. Found in a video game that is deemed offensive or could be a potiential lawsuit and cost. Its often out right removed from the game which may seem small unless said symbols, monuments, signs and even mythology in some cases is deemed a "legal" issue it could set back art team back, could set writing back, could set the WHOLE GAME back. And if you had my guess this is part of the issue with AC: Shadows. Is QA is retroactively finding HUGE issues and its completely screwing up development. One doesn't simply shuffle a deadline like a release back MULTIPLE months without critical issues.

[@MJSGamingSanctuary]

My guess is someone near director level forgot AC: Shadows is a "Japan" game. And started mishmashing cultures, religions and beliefs under the guise of AC/Ubisofts legalise disclaimer and thought it was gonna fly cause the whole "multi-cultural team bs." Its easy if you aren't careful with Asian cultures to blur lines even if their languages and cultures aren't the same.

[@zmmmzmmmz]

Bro you need to QA your comment, not being picky, it's hard to understand as written

[@AndreasScout]

The historical experts would go "there was no black samurai in Japan" and "it will cause such a cultural uproar it would be intellectually neutered to try it". They completely ignored said advice. Its good that you have an * when you quote "leaked numbers". When i hear "leaked numbers" you have to double said number because its a tactic to drop the stock price so the ones trying to take over can do so through the stock %.They just should have had Ubisoft and steam release dates on the same day. Steam is the biggest game venue you can possibly imagine. If it was released on steam as well on that ubisoft shop it would have reached3-6 million in sales because: 1 its "open world" 2. its star wars 3. there is a crapton to do and there is something for everyone be it space battles, just exploring the worlds or racing. So far only 1 game reviewer has been honest about star wars outlaws and that is ACG on yt. Above mediocre game, but way less bugs than say a starfield. You also need to take into account that the anti current star wars guys faked footage en masse. Outlaws clearly stated that you need an SSD to run it properly. Most of these "critics" and crybullies recorded the game installed on regular HD and yeah that looks like it was crapped out by some bantha. Install and run it on an SSD and it looks good... provided you have the required memory and graphics card... which also is one way these "critics" scam their audience.. we all know the screamers out there from the UK, who has openly admitted it that "if it makes money and eyeballs by me lying i will do that".

[@SimuLord]

I have only one issue with your comment-who in 2024 is installing an old-school HDD in a PC intended for even the most casual of gaming purposes? NVMe drives are so dirt cheap these days that even "old lady emails the grandkids" laptops have them.

[@zmmmzmmmz]

​​@@SimuLordadults with a lot of data...I'm not spending an extra $2000 to hold terabytes of data that doesn't benefit from being on an SSD. The system drive should be an SSD and I use a gen 4 m2 for gaming, but I need the HDD

[@Pulverizer2000]

@@SimuLord nvme drives are cheap yeah sure but hdd drives are even cheaper. You can buy a 4tb hdd for the price of a 1 tb ssd. That's just plain simple to understand.

[@zazoreal5536]

Brought in history consultants too late!? More like too early! We know what it means to be a Ubisoft Professional! I Heard that they initially had a japanese main character that actually made sense and they completely threw that idea out because the "Professionals" at Ubisoft didn't like it because it wasn't diverse enough! You can't trust anything they Say! It's utter BS!

[@TheDragonshunter]

FREE THE IPS

[@Azrael79a]

1 minute ago lol.

[@gitgud5141]

4th