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).
the wording of that announcement evokes a similar feeling to how i write things when im nearing the end of a project, experiencing extreme crunch, and begging for the sweet release of the deadline finally approaching. i’m in a trance like state during those times, barely conscious, barely coherent, just doing what i need to in order to reach tomorrow.
i can imagine there are a lot of people at ubisoft right now experiencing something similar. do not mistake this for empathy. i don’t know what im saying.
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.
Almost like shareholders would get value if they focused on making good games. Make good product, people buy, shareholder money go up. Why do we have to keep explaining that to them?
Nintendo, a Japanese company, is releasing Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on the same day. Every day is the anniversary of a tragedy somewhere.
“We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets.”
At this point, it is better to let Ubisoft die. It is so interested in raising it’s share prices, it has alienated it’s customers. Now it refuses to learn from it too.
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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the wording of that announcement evokes a similar feeling to how i write things when im nearing the end of a project, experiencing extreme crunch, and begging for the sweet release of the deadline finally approaching. i’m in a trance like state during those times, barely conscious, barely coherent, just doing what i need to in order to reach tomorrow.
i can imagine there are a lot of people at ubisoft right now experiencing something similar. do not mistake this for empathy. i don’t know what im saying.
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.
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!Sounds right, fuck the players.
Sounds like they’re adding microtransactions, buy your pack of 500 jumps, get 100 vaults for free! Also Denuvo.
That bad, huh?
Shit show of a game and a company.
Extracting value… Lol. :)
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.
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!
Yeah. Making games should always about providing value for shareholders. Not about making a good game
Almost like shareholders would get value if they focused on making good games. Make good product, people buy, shareholder money go up. Why do we have to keep explaining that to them?
Thank goodness its not on a date that would cause more controversy with the Japanese people…What’s this 30th anniversary about,Tokyo subway sarin attack? They literally cannot stop foot shooting
Nintendo, a Japanese company, is releasing Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on the same day. Every day is the anniversary of a tragedy somewhere.
Sure, but Xenoblade isn’t about Japanese historical events. It’s a little too on-the-nose with Assassin’s Creed.
1579 vs 1995? That’s a huge stretch.
Problem is that it’s already rife with other insensitivities towards Japanese culture, it wouldn’t be so bad if this was the only thing.
“We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets.”
At this point, it is better to let Ubisoft die. It is so interested in raising it’s share prices, it has alienated it’s customers. Now it refuses to learn from it too.
But think about the shareholders! Now they cannot afford that fourth yacht. How will they survive?
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