NEWS: Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders" (looks for a potential sale).
I don’t know if there’s a combination of words that has less content, or destroys any hope left for the game more thoroughly than what they chose. Never could I have imagined that one sentence would manage to bottom out both categories at once. Give my compliments to the chef MBA!
Yea, I couldn’t care less what the shareholders want. The point of a product is to be good for the purchaser. Once you take your focus off making a good product, you’re through.
They’re going to holistically synergize the market capitalization to optimize a paradigm shift for shareholders.
They expect it to bomb and they’re going to flood it with microtransactions and vague “AI-enhanced fetch quests” or some bullshit.
They’re not trying to make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.
They’re not trying ro make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.
This has been true of Ubisoft for many years. I’m glad they’re saying it out loud now though.
There is absolutely no reason to buy a Ubisoft game anymore, or from any large studio that is trying to appease shareholders first and foremost. They aren’t making games for you to have fun with; they’re making games to extract as much money from you as possible. Instead of giving you fun quests and characters, they are behind the scenes trying to figure out how to manipulate you. Fuck that noise. The last game I paid full AAA price for was Elden Ring because From deserves my money.
Ubisoft is going to go bunkrupt or private this year, selling their most valuable assets. I say good riddance. I only hope we yet get to play Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era (Unfrozen is the dev but Ubi is punlisher and IP owner) and Anno 117: Pax Romana. Also wonder who will buy these IPs. Tencent?
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Sounds like they’re adding microtransactions, buy your pack of 500 jumps, get 100 vaults for free! Also Denuvo.
The way they word that is amazing, you can’t really fluff that up anymore. Looks like they expect it to bomb.
I don’t know if there’s a combination of words that has less content, or destroys any hope left for the game more thoroughly than what they chose. Never could I have imagined that one sentence would manage to bottom out both categories at once. Give my compliments to the
chefMBA!A game set in Japan releasing on March 20 is like a game set in America releasing on September 11
Doesn’t sound like a problem to me?
“Please stand by, the game’s finished but we need to find new ways to manipulate you suckers into spending more.”
Yea, I couldn’t care less what the shareholders want. The point of a product is to be good for the purchaser. Once you take your focus off making a good product, you’re through.
They’re going to holistically synergize the market capitalization to optimize a paradigm shift for shareholders.
They expect it to bomb and they’re going to flood it with microtransactions and vague “AI-enhanced fetch quests” or some bullshit.
They’re not trying to make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.
This has been true of Ubisoft for many years. I’m glad they’re saying it out loud now though.
There is absolutely no reason to buy a Ubisoft game anymore, or from any large studio that is trying to appease shareholders first and foremost. They aren’t making games for you to have fun with; they’re making games to extract as much money from you as possible. Instead of giving you fun quests and characters, they are behind the scenes trying to figure out how to manipulate you. Fuck that noise. The last game I paid full AAA price for was Elden Ring because From deserves my money.
Didn’t they get bought out recently?
Sounds right, fuck the players.
Ubisoft is going to go bunkrupt or private this year, selling their most valuable assets. I say good riddance. I only hope we yet get to play Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era (Unfrozen is the dev but Ubi is punlisher and IP owner) and Anno 117: Pax Romana. Also wonder who will buy these IPs. Tencent?
personally i would be willing to pay 15 cents for them
Wasn’t a delay announced a few days ago? Is this the same delay or was it pushed back even further?
Same delay. This is the 2nd delay of this game.
Shit show of a game and a company.
Extracting value… Lol. :)
Not doubting it but is there a source besides Bluesky? I know he’s a game journalist but I can’t link a quote
This should work.
Thanks!
Is the CEO trying to short the stock or are they just that out of touch?
@Excrubulent @nanoUFO This is Ubisoft. It could easily be both.
That bad, huh?