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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“In the light of recent challenges, we acknowledge the need for greater efficiency while delighting players

They love claiming they aren't efficient don't they? Shifts the blame to the workers and makes it sound like great ideas when they do layoffs. They never fucking listen to the customers.

They keep trying games that will appease everyone, so instead they're boring and have no great story. They have gorgeous worlds that they fill with endless fetch quests and flat plotlines. Their entire business is telling gamers what they want instead of giving gamers what they want. They deserve to fail with how arrogant they are in this space.

And I haven't even gotten to the fact that I don't want to buy any games from them because they're probably just going to delist them anyway!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk where, but some commenter once said "Ubisoft saw the success of FarCry3 and, since then, every game they released has been made into a FarCry3 clone"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's a real good way to put it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird, isn't it? Their efficiency fetish i mean, art should never be efficient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

art should never be ~~efficient~~ defined in absolutes or otherwise arbitrarily constrained

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's hoping they face many, many more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'd drink to that

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I mean they could start by actually addressing the toxic work culture and dealing with that hateful cunt Yves Guillemot:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-has-reportedly-made-minimal-changes-following-abuse-allegations

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s a bit sad, as Ubisoft made some of my favorite games growing up. I remember playing AC Black Flag and Far Cry 3 10+ years ago, and wanting to move to a tropical island after

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

No, that can't be right, Black Flag released just a few years ago ... I remember it like it's yesterday ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I love how basically the whole gaming space was excited about "more ship/fleet focused Black Flag" and it morphed into some shitty live service trash.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I haven't played AC shadows, but I guarantee its the exact same game with the same glitches and issues that have been around since the first game. I remember thinking how cool an open world AC Japan would be like... 15 years ago. Tsushima satisfied that craving so AC is too late now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I really liked the old assassin creed games but around the time they started scoring your assassinations I started to lose interest it messed with how I felt about my assassinations. Might as well play hitman 47 at that point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want Shadows so badly to be good, I've been looking forward to an AC in Japan or the Far East in general for so long.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

So was I 15 years ago. It's too late now. Tsushima already did better than AC will ever do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I completed a marathon of all AC games last year, from the very first title, all the way up to Valhalla.

The games serves as a good reflection of Ubisoft over the years. The issues in the series and Ubisoft’s approach are amplified when one plays the games back to back.

The first title from 2007, albeit with clunky movements, had a promising story which was only elevated by its sequels.

The titles post-Revelations experimented a lot but the series settled at Origins, which was the last playable game, all aspects considered.

Valhalla is the worst of the series. It offers nothing new in terms of gameplay or story. It is just more of the same. Mundane and boring. It kept painfully reminding me that I am playing a video game.

Yet, I firmly believe that Shadows will be a lot worse with its live service mechanics.

A sidebar on AC 2007I would be remiss if I did not mention that nostalgia might be compensating for some of the game’s flaws. I still remember reading the full/multi page spreads about the game in the local computer magazines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh boy, if the shares are low enough Vivendi will eventually be able to do a hostile takeover (and that isn't a good thing either).

Well, Ubisoft dropped the ball hard. (or balls)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, they are clowns, you can't knock them too hard for trying to juggle so much. Now if only they could learn people don't want to watch clowns any more...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The last good game for me was AC 3. It has all been downhill since Black Flag.