I don't understand the problem. All I did was follow their advice of being perfectly happy not owning any of their games. I'm so used to the idea in fact that I haven't bought one since Far Cry 3 😶
Yep. Asmongold pointed out that this is why they're failing. They're making games for game journalists, that's why they include DEI stuff for them. Game journalists don't buy their games. It explains why they're so stupid. The CEO doesn't even understand how any of this works.
We should stop quoting and taking into consideration words of someone who's not working in the company anymore, and is now Tencet employee. Because as far as we know, he might be doing Sony bad PR on purpose.
I mean... ubisoft are delaying the game because outlaws didn't sell as well as they wanted it to, so they're spending additional time improving Shadows if the insider is to be believed This is what we want no?
@@D4C_LoveTrain1the inherent issues with Ubisoft still stand, regardless of whether they're letting one game get to a reasonable state. They've bastardized the series' players grew up on all for the sake of squeezing a little more, and they've time after time proved that they are more than willing to make poor decisions until their very company is on life support. I'd say the only thing that makes things better at this point is one of two things: either Guillemot drops control in Ubisoft and we'll see if the new leaders are capable of making proper long lasting change, or ubisoft closes, and the developers that DO care can move on to hopefully new teams that will listen to their devs. It isn't about one game, it's the history of poor decisions. One step forward does not change the conga line back we've taken.
"hopefully" is doing a lot of work. I don't think any of them are gonna course-correct at any point. Their investors have a single braincell dinging around in their skulls and it can't handle self-awareness.
Bugthesda are on this road too, all their games are in a terrible state currently their engine is ancient and people are worried elder scrolls 6 will be as bad as starfield
What an interesting time to live in. Do we like...have to care anymore? If Ubisoft goes under, what do we lose other than another 10 Assassin's Creed games over the next decade?
@@beepy9666bro .. if you actually liked the terrible excuses of "games" that was the last few Splinter Cells than your mentally deficient. Why else do you think Ubi just went ahead and threw him Into siege?? There were like one or two good splinter cells. An O K splinter cell, and the rest was shovelware 2010's garbage... I'm sorry to offend you but it's time to grow up, splinter cell and the Sam Fischer we know Is dead F O R E V E R..
Mario X Rabbids were pretty good, and Fenyx also. But yeah they rely too much on a few tentpole franchises - although that is indicative of the overall malaise of AAA with stupid budgets and the corresponding risk aversion.
I have been gaming since 1982, its great seeing generations of gamers understanding their consumption has power. Remember, one of the most powerful tools you have to affect change is your consumption. What you buy will shape what is produced going forward.
this is pretty close to nonsense, cause gamers ignore it as soon as theres a medium ok remake or sequel nr 17 of a game. were the vocal minority. and if you look at games as a whole is really obvious how little power we have. we got more gacha games, predatory monitary systems than ever, and it hasnt slowed down. ubisoft is just one corporation, the rest of em are swimming in money. how many original/creative games did AAA studios make recently? how many new IPs? close to 0, and the ones they did makes have become an example to not make anything new. Were average people, while they gather teams upon teams of psychologist on how to groom children into becoming paying gamers
@@GoalOrientedLifting I kinda agree but its not as bad. Because of gamers indie games have become more and more popular. AA and indie studios make better and better games
10:50 that 76 score on Metacritic is actually the critics' score. the user score is actually much worse at 5.4, so this CEO either deliberately lied or was ignorant of that fact. either way, it helps explain why Ubislop has fallen so far, so fast.
2 flops and around a dozen canceled titles that were in production and dropped. They've literally wasted tens of millions of dollars chasing "the next big payout" instead of doubling down on their core franchises. UBI walks around telling us that they know what we want and they know best. It's about time it bit them in their asses.
I can't believe someone looked at the work Ubisoft has done over the last 5-10 years and was like, "yea, let's let them take a shot at a game with the Star Wars IP". They must know next to nothing about games.
The people who liscened out the game are doing fine. They get paid regardless. Ubisoft utterly failed with Star Wars Outlaw and has to pay the Mouse. It's a good business deal for Disney.
To be fair, Outlaws was far worse than ubisoft's average AC, Watch Dogs or Far Cry game. Watch Dogs with a Star Wars skin would've made bank. Outlaws wishes it was mediocre.
Considering how what we have gotten from Disney’s Star Wars has been all over the place, it’s no surprise that they don’t know who might be able to make a good Star Wars game.
The reason I haven’t bought an Ubisoft game in like 5+ years isn’t because they are “woke” lol it’s because they’re boring, bloated, derivative, checklist simulators
Who do you think Ubisoft actually is? Cause if you mean Papa Yves and his acolytes, they don't care. They're set up for life. The little guys however...
@@thrrax You really ought to stop sympathizing with people that work for these aaa game companies, they willingly signed on to make that slop, they ought to be blacklisted from the industry.
@@kirareacts In Japan, you file a petition to protest. It is not organic. Meaning, Ubisoft probably got a notification that thousands of angry Japanese were showing up with their media to do a public protest. Ubisoft could not have that, so they cancelled, then delayed the game because they could not have two big losses in a year to report to their shareholders.
Have you any evidence of this japanese filed protest tchud? And yes, I knew it was pulled. It was in the video. I was being sarcastic. Because japanese people aren't confrontational, and would be incredibly unlikely to bully anyone in person at a game show. I was pointing that out. Japanese people have seen the game, and social media is split on the reception there.
@@kirareacts Ubi sure feels that way to me. At the end the fact that they are willing to cut the loses now is already something to me. It cant be cheap to prepare and book for a venue in TGS
the reason they push out games early is investors. They need to hit certain numbers each quarter or the money gets scared. I'm sure the people working at ubisoft knew that star wars game wasn't ready, but try telling the monopoly man that you'll lose this quarter's number because in the long term it'll be better, investors don't understand long term as a concept
But they've been losing for 6 years. I'm pretty sure investors would be more open to a short term loss for a long term gain versus a short term loss for a long term loss. It's pretty easy to zoom out on a chart and see that this is not the case here.
It probably doesn't help that it seems the same group of CEOs and senior management keep circulating seemingly systematically destroying the studios as well
8:40 "When was the last time [Ubisoft] had a game of the year candidate?" Not sure about candidate - probably one of the Farcry or Rainbow 6 games would've made shortlists - but the last time they had GOTY itself was Assassin's Creed 2... in 2009; Fifteen years!
XP boosts and microtransactions in singleplayer games? Ubisoft launcher forced on every game? Retarded comments the suits have been making for years? Ubisoft quartz? They have so many great IPs (HoMM, Anno, The Devision, AC, Far Cry etc.) and somehow managed to fumble it this badly? Finally the chickens have come home to roost, hopefully that company ceases to exist the way it is now and something far better rises from the ashes.
Just a reminder: Watch Dogs was supposed to come out in 2013 but Ubisoft delayed it for half a year for "further polishing". Considering what the actual game was like, I have no idea what those 6 months did in its favor. They ain't gonna spend another minute on AC Shadows during its delay; just watch.
Well.. you CAN keep releasing the same game actually with minor changes. Just a "lucky" few AAA game IPs have consumers that are ok with that and can get away with just about anything. Madden comes to mind as an example where those fans never seem to care. Ubisoft found out the hard way though they aren't that lucky
Call of Duty Activision can basically do whatever they want or absolutely nothing and it's still going to be the series that sells the most for the entire year
To be fair, while I hate that Madden players keep buying the game, they also don't have any other options. Once EA bought the exclusive NFL license back in 2005, it's Madden or nothing. They killed the competition.
The sad part is ubisoft can't even keep up with their own mediocre standards anymore. Starwars outlaws was supposed to be a fun division/farcry clone but somehow we got a astonishingly outdated stealth game that couldn't even surpass AC 1 or even sly cooper. Can't wait for ghost of yotei.
I love when people cry that we shouldn't celebrate people losing their jobs. Why not? These are the exact people who have done this nonsense and put their own jobs in the firing line. Let them all be fired and let them all be out look for a new job. Lifes lessons can be very painful but when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes (like unemployment).
That’s the best way to explain what Ubisoft and EA are, they are mediocre. Their games aren’t unplayable LJN trash or anything like that but they are just mindless mediocre sandbox experiences that become repetitive after a few hours. There are people out there that love stuff like that but it’s not the majority. The gaming landscape is full of too much competition to eek your way by with mediocrity. We’ve all been saying this for years because it’s so obvious.
Kinda surprised it took that long with the whole "get used to not owning your games" and "yeah crypto is the future of gaming" thing. Never understood how they made money with their uplay+ option either.
Saying that you don't caee what's in Dragon Age is a bit weird. They took an entire race, who's been know for looking frightening and cool, gave them face lifting with some botox treatment and turned them into "prince charming with horns". For this alone they deserve the bullying.
Saying that the historical accuracy doesn't matter is like saying being true to the source material wasn't important for the live action Avatar movie or Dragonball movie.
They're not going to die; but they're going to have to go through a rough patch of comeuppance that will be well deserved. They're already reversing all the stupid decisions that they've made in the last 10 or so years. And as I predicted at the beginning of this year; they came crawling back to Steam before the end of the year, planning to release all their games come November and having day one releases moving forward. Now if they can only release their games on PC without their garbage launcher; but I guess they have to suffer some more before that happens. I guess we'll have to be satisfied with day one Steam releases and them removing most if not all their garbage monetization schemes that they've been pushing the last few years.
@@djentleman8116this, AC Shadows is a day two buy from me now that it's on steam but if you're forced to go through their launcher then what's the point lol.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. You obviously don't understand the difference between Yasuke in AC and Yasuke in other media, and why it's a problem with the game's story.
I'm not a fortune teller, but I predict the following: When the game releases in February (assuming it does), Ubisoft will automatically announce a free DLC featuring the most stereotypical Japanese male character and samurai (or maybe a ninja) they can find. Then, the game's marketing will focus almost exclusively on this character, trying to downplay the African American character. Time will tell.
The Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse to both the office of a Priest and later to a Roman Consul. It is doubtful that the horse ever influenced religious life in Rome or ever made any decisions affecting the political system either. Like the case of Yasuke "modern" historians are split on the accuracy of contemporary history. In the case of Incitatus, "modern" historians cast doubt on the accuracy of reports by the ancient historical record claiming it unlikely the horse ever held those positions. In the case of Yasuke, "modern" historians cast doubt the Japanese historians of the time reporting that Yasuke was little more than a slave gifted to Oda Nobunaga who traveled with him showing him off as an "oddity" at court functions, later granting him lordship over a minor town. He did receive a sword with his position and title but was never trained in its use or fought in any battles and he was returned to his former owner on Nobunaga's death.
The point of AC has always been immersion in its setting, which is always a detailed historical setting. What is not a major selling point for these games is the science fiction backstory or the fantasy stuff that Ubi adds as filler or DLC. Of course the developers are within their rights to have the whole game be shown from the perspective of an unbreakable African Samurai but it does detract from the main selling point of the game which is as always its setting. While the protagonist choice of Yasuke appears to be an attempt to subvert video game hero cliches and get the Western audience to reflect on racial attitudes (while ignoring Japanese attitudes whoops!), it would also be a sales killer to have the story told from a Portugese missionary ninja's perspective.
I was an ubisoft apologist for a while, I always considered their games comfort food. BUT MAN... - X defiant - skull and bones - starwars outlaws (how do you fuck that up!?) - cancelled division game - ac shadows/mirage It's looking bleak they need to do better their offerings of late have been abysmal failures for gaming
That "passion" part of taking it to feudal Japan has to be bull. I heard a rumor that Ubisoft has a sign or something at their headquarters that says something like, "Make the Japanese one when we're desperate" I believed that the last few years and here we are
They pioneered the cash shop in single player games with such innovations as XP boosters instead of a casual mode. They cashed in all the goodwill they ever had plus some with their customers.
I absolutely hate that they need one game to fail to realize they should polish and fix the next one. Imagine if Outlaws did alright. Wouldn't that mean they'd release Shadows in a broken and buggy state? Shouldn't game companies strive to release games in as best a quality as they possibly could in the first place? Nevermind the cultural issues, but the idea of 'sell it now and fix it later' is a terrible thing all its own.
When the CEO let out a resounding "you will own nothing and be happy about it" it reverberated around the gaming world faster than any game they've made has sold, turning any good will they had in to a sour taste for the consumer....
I mean, it's good they take more time to actually finish a game, isn't it? ... okay, maybe not so much with pulling out from game shows and everything.
17:15 Ubisoft never said Ezio was historical, certainly not out of universe. They say Yasuke is, with reference to a single weird historian's work who's fan fictioned this into reality. People who like truth don't like that.
People who like truth will verify with other historians like Yu Hirayama who has studied the Sengoku Period not some RUclipsr or grifter because it agrees with their politics. Yasuke is a real person whether people like it or not, disagreeing with multiple historians smarter than you on this subject makes you a fool and the problem.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 The tiny little detail is that while the Yasuke IS a historic character, as in - there WAS a black person called Yasuke in Azushi Moyama era [I think it was roughly 1580s, using our calendar] he WAS NOT what Japanese would call 'a samurai', in fact the most prominent records of the person appear to describe the curiosity his presence created among population, and he is NOT listed in record as Samurai. In fact - as far as Japanese sources are concerned - he is listed as neither "海外出身の武士" (Samurai from overseas), nor 武家の家臣であり((a vassal of samurai family). In fact he is not even listed as 帯刀が認められていたが (person who was allowed to wear a belt and a sword). In record he is listed in 黒田家譜 [Kuroda family records] as 'a person given support', and as per 寛政重修諸家譜 [Kanji Masamori] he was brought by Jesuit missionary and presented to Oda Nobunaga, and would later be given a house but NOT Samurai honors. Quite a far cry from what is presented as is currently in Assasin's Creed Shadows, to the point where I'm officially making a claim that AC:S Yasuke is NOT 弥助 (Yasuke) from history, making the character in-game ahistorical, despite sharing name and environment. What You WILL find however is a major discrepancy between original country sources [Japanese] vs Western global sources, the later of which suddenly lose ability to cite original country's sources directly. You would think that if the historical figure was as controversial in global discourse, and yet was presented exactly as records claim, the sources supporting Yasuke being a Samurai (as Ubisoft claims), would have been numerous, and nearly ubiquitous, alas that is not the case. Heck, even wikipedia 'somehow' adds Yasuke in english version to list of overseas samurai citing... what is functionally a random French article, as opposed to Japanese variant which uses official records as sources for every single one of the Overseas Samurai listed.
Only people who are chronically online give a heck. Either the game is good or it isn’t. That’s all that matters to the vast majority of players who don’t spend their time debating about the historical accuracy or wokeness of game characters.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1The person who wrote the book on Yasuke literally had his title stripped from him in Japan and all his works are being investigated. He found one historical figure who has a scant few lines of text, made a fictitious novel on him which is what everyone references and now has gone on to ‘advise’ many different projects based around the fictitious version he made like the play. There is clear financial incentive for him to do so. No one debates that he wasn’t a real person; what’s debated is if, during his barely year of time in Japan outside the Portuguese work, he was given a full status of samurai or if he was only in the rai class so he can carry the gear. He had no land like a samurai, no people to rule over like a samurai, and no responsibilities of a samurai. Nobunaga liked to show off his status by giving lavish gifts and liked having exotic things; both of those fit well with taking the lone African man in, giving him nice things while enjoying the spectacle of it all. Need you be reminded Nobunaga had Yasuke bathed at first believing he was covered in ink; he was a novelty.
@@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato Honestly speaking - I disagree. No matter how good a gameplay is, if one of selling points is historical aspect of a game [rather than set in alternate history, like in earlier Assassin's' Creed for example, or loosely based on history, like e.g. most strategy games set in historic times, including e.g. Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Crusader Kings, Knights of Honor or Total War series], then the expectations is that at very least major historic points stay as they were. There are a ton of people who, if suddenly in main historic mode of e.g. HOI4, Soviets and Allies started fighting side-by-side not with Nazis but Xenomorph, who in turn allied with Lovecraftian The Great Old Ones, that would not only annoy fans of history, who play specifically for historical setting itself, but also fans of cosmic horror and Lovecraft Mythos [for entirely different reason than historic accuracy] Hilariously enough - hadn't AC:S claim its historical accuracy as a selling point, and instead treated their version of Yasuke as character loosely based on real life character, the outrage wouldn't be anywhere near as stark. In other words - depending on how You market and advertise Your setting different levels of suspension of disbelief regarding historical accuracy is needed, and different standard to judge it will be used, for those who are interested in this aspect of game. Fantasy games will be less scrutinized for historic sense than games 'set in xxxx setting' (for example - set in feudal japan setting), which in turn will be less scrutinized than 'loosely based on history', which in turn will be less scrutinized than 'based on history' or 'historical'. You also get less leeway with storylines as the line progresses towards historical, leaning further towards linear experience (though not always). Similarly - degree in which storyline is scrutinized depends on focus of storyline in both game itself as well as franchise. Assassin's Creed series never was a simple shot-the-up or action game, as the storyline always had rather prominent position in the game itself, as opposed to excuse plots of such classics as e.g. Contra (two dudes get dropped on an island to take care of evil faction) or Factorio (You crashed. You want to get out of here, have fun). Notably - again - different players will lean towards different games in regards to story. Some may even go into games fully focused on story, such as visual novels, or interactive movie games to name two of the types. A major dissonance between story and gameplay may even lead to reduced enjoyment of gameplay part, at least in games in which story is not simply an excuse plot to e.g. build factory or shoot bad guys (to use previous examples). As such I disagree that the only players that will care about discrepancy between history in what ubisoft calls 'historically accurate portrayal' will be 'chronically online' people. With that out of the way I WILL point out that Your comment itself it at best - immature, by trying to poison the well from get to, and claim that those who DO care are [insert insult/bad connotation here], especially in the situation where Your comment implies that Your position [don't care about story, just gameplay] is the only valid way to consume media that is gaming, which is NOT the case.
These million-dollar companies are finally finding out that it's no long acceptable to release crap, and expect your customers to stick around. The problem is so bad, even investors are starting to notice the drop in profits.
Ubisoft has more employees than almost every other AAA publisher on the planet. They could layoff half their staff and still have more than most game companies.
The black samurai finished off an enemy in the gameplay demo to a hip hop music sting. In 1500s Japan. He might as well have spewed a dated one-liner too like "fo shizzle ma nizzle."
Should the game being set in the 1500s mean that they can only have music that would fit the period? Or music that they would have listened to? Because last I checked, none of the other games really have this either. I understand the implication is that "black man and hip hop lol", but a Japanese inspired hip hop beat is not exactly out of place, considering hip hop is fairly big in Japan currently and they feature it in a lot of their own media too. If they had like a west coast beat come in, or an Atlanta club banger, I'd say yeah that seems incredibly out of place and goofy. But I've just rewatched that section and it's clearly Japan inspired hip hop, which doesn't seem out of place for a video game, but each to their own.
The problem isn't so much that Ubisoft put Yasuke in the game it's more the aggressive approach ubisoft took towards anyone that had an issue with it. It would be like if in the first Assassin's creed someone said "Hey why are there Teutonic Knights during this time period?" and as a response Ubisoft hired a bunch of experts to try and prove themselves right and then accused anyone that disagreed with them of being German-Phobic
Star Wars: Outlaws is unfixably bad. Even ignoring the ungodly number of bugs, where you can't go 5 min. without something fundamentally breaking, the core of the game is playing as a Star Wars cat lady. The most complete and polished part of the game is the unskippable 2 min. long eating QTE's that are used to upgrade your cat so you can be a better cat lady. I am not joking. You sit for a minimum of 2 min. pressing a series of buttons (at least a couple dozen per QTE) and watch a lovingly rendered cutscene of catlady and cat chew food at each other. You can't fail these, it's just a "press button to continue". I fully believe that this was the exact way the developers envisioned this mechanic working. The greatest heights this game could hope to achieve would be to fix enough bugs that you could be lulled into a stupor and have no conscious memory of playing it once you are done.
Now Tencent has to kick the bucket and Nintendo to camp themselves into boredom and things can start going back to normal when more than a few people actually cared.
I really hope Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 blows up and totally overshadows Assassin's Creed's launch. A game that actually tries it's best to do the area and period they are covering justice, vs, A game who is using the area and period as skinsuit not caring in the slightest about it.
The fact that they are so incompetent that they have back-to-back fuck ups including both AssCreed: Weebs AND a Star Wars game is absolutely hilarious.
The conception that Ubisoft is a big company isn't correct. Compared to their peers they are fairly small. Ubi's market cap is 1.6 Billion, compared to Sega they are half as big and Sega isn't even a AAA studio. Compare them to actual competitors like Capcom and EA and it's about 10% as big, and to Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, it's an ant. Do you think Paradox Interactive is a big game studio? No? Me neither, but they're still twice as big as Ubisoft market cap wise. AAA games costs 100s of millions to make now. If you're Ubisoft, if you release 5 to 6 flops in a short time you're going bankrupt, and that's if the games break even. Loose money on 2 to 3 games and it's a Ubisoft mobile games only future. Not too mention lawsuits and other overhead, 25 million here, 5 million there, new office, DEI consultant fees.
@13:30 I might be wrong, but the reason why companies push games out and fix them later might be their relation to investors/the stock market. They expect a financial repot every quarter. Delaying a game means that quarter looks worse and investors don't like that. Numbers have to go up all the time. IMHO it's the same with EA and Paradox. Once good publisher became shit once they went to the stock market and became a public company.
Would you mind looking into what is going on with 11 bit studios, since we're on the topic? Frostpunk 2 is out, it's not godawful, but somehow their stocks are down 50%. It's not normal.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to change the restrictive castes of his time, which allowed for samurai to be the only ones to legally have swords and they were allowed to kill the lower castes (they were all nobles) and face no repercussions for it. Yes, he gave Yasuke a sword and small land (almost to the level of the Scottish mini-scam to be a Lord) so he was technically a samurai. HOWEVER: Ubisoft is trying to minimize the legitimate criticism of having an African who wasn't raised in Japan, faced xenophobia as the first/only black man on the shores, and AS FAR AS WE KNOW? Might never have USED a sword, much less been trained in it, to represent -all- the samurai of Japan. ACIII is fucking wild. I'm Native American and I love it. You fight with George Washington to prevent time traveling space aliens taking over. Boss. The representation of native tribes is wild and not 100% on point, (half Navajo in the 1700s New England? As if lol) but fun and respectful. Shadows isn't respectful. That's the real problem. People don't care that Yasuke's a samurai. If he was a cameo as a samurai? Cool, I'm pretty sure any complaints left would just be from racists or ignorant idiots. Instead, people care that he's the main playable character representing samurai, but there is NO historical evidence he even used a sword, he was Nobunaga's bodyguard for size and intimidation factor, and because Oda was a crazy dude who loved everything foreign and pestered him for stories about Africa and Yasuke spoke 4 languages lol. That's already cool, you don't need to treat him like a hero. And he wouldn't have been ever, and neither would Oda. Demon King of 6th Heaven etc. etc. LBR the gaming world is not the same as pre covid, much less 15 years ago. And neither is Ubisoft. They don't have the same writers and devs that once made them successful and they're trying to minmax their business strategy based on very obsolete models. I'd love, LOVE LOVE LOVE a good AC Japan game, ESPECIALLY about anything related to Nobunaga my autistic obsession. I'm very skeptical I can ever have that.
I appreciate your level-headed take on this, but I feel you are fundamentally missing the reasons for the drop in quality and the reception UBI games receive. This journey started long before Shadows and Outlaws. PS love the 'Dribbling in the corner' :) Totally! So much IP wasted
I just wish it was easier to hate Ubisoft games. I don't want to be lumped in with the anti-woke freaks that screech at women and the ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURE 😔 Their open world stuff is dogwater enough on it's own 😂
I still think it's insane that the company most known for it's games going on sale under half price within a year thinks they're in a position to be releasing $100+ "editions" of their games
I'm really curious to see how this plays out. Is this simply to forestall the game's launch being too close to Outlaws' "soft" numbers, or will they be making changes to the game, or will they simply change their marketing strategy? Fascinating stuff, really.
The talent was gone a bit before and during the pandemic. I'd argue since Tencent got into the pictures, editorial and publishing got weirder and more conservative than before. There was no interesting projects and pay was way lower than the competition... Lots of experience left at that point. Ubisoft is still recovering from that period
It's so refreshing to see somebody with a normal human opinion about the culture war stuff going on lmfao. I definitely agree that a CEO talking about culture war topics in an official document is an opposite world bizarre experience also XD
What's even funnier about Ubisoft using the culture war as a copout for their own failure is that outrage against "wokeness" or "DEI" characters in these games is actually free marketing because it gets people to complain about it everywhere they go and regular people who aren't mentally stuck in high-school don't see anything wrong with it. They're literally counting on the outrage to happen, and now that it's not enough anymore of course it's an excellent excuse on top of that.
I think I speak for quite a few people when I say we don't mind a lack samurai. There was a very popular anime called Afro Samurai. Of course, it was fiction. Ok, so DEI or not, I don't mind the idea of a black samurai, but what I, and many have a problem with is when they claim historical accuracy and take someone who was documented as a retainer, and make him into an authentic samurai. AC is obviously fueled by fictitious concepts of a forerunner race, and societies sprung from them, so it's no surprise of Ubisoft to fictionalize history. So the point being; why not make up a fictional black samurai? All AC protagonists have been fictional. So instead of taking the solidified/non-fictional concept (Yasuke) and twisting him into what he wasn't, they could have just made a character based on him. The argument to that would be Ok, fiction, it's a fictional version of him. But that argument is dwarfed by claiming historical accuracy by it, and not even originating from their own culture, or knowledge of it. It isn't putting a spin on it, it's foreign gaslighting. To be completely honest, part of me thinks it's no big deal. But then I factor in that it's simply and obnoxiously DEI, and intentional mistruth, then I'm not down with that.
Have you actually sought out a multitude of expert opinions on what he was and was not? Because the consensus is split and you seem to be presenting this as if there is a factual and objective conclusion. As for Ubisoft's messaging, if they had taken the advise of an, or a group of experts who feel that they have the correct read on the situation, what about that then becomes inauthentic? The idea that the jury has come back with a verdict here is doing a lot of heavy lifting on what you're claiming to be twisting of history. Did they claim historical accuracy to this exact point even? I don't recall seeing that, but I haven't sought out every interview on the topic from Ubisoft's side.
@@kirareacts The only source that claim he is a samurai if from Lockley(not sure how to spell his name) plus evidence of him making different version of his study for English and Japanese which is why it no one in Japan actually notice this until recently. Actual citation and documented stuff about him is barely 4 page long in total and Lock manage to make a book about Yasuke. Sounds really sus to me. Just because you ask an expert they still can be wrong and misleading just like oil companies hiring actual scientist to debunk the effect of lead and lead has always been in the air they say so they can keep selling lead in the fuel.
@@kirareacts Kind of have to call foul on a Lockley using alt account to support his own fictional account of the guy and sell books and get other job offers. Walks like a duck and all that.
Kira in the comments just missing the point of why people are mad especially the Japanese is sad to see. Bro theirs an official investigation into lockley happening now because of this and some Japanese big shot/s basically told ubi to go kick rocks. Lockley is the only dude who was propagating the "he was a samurai " stuff. He wrote two completely different papers in English and Japanese. The dude somehow wrote an entire non-fiction book about yaskue despite there not being nearly enough historical material to do so. He has also basically dissappeared from the internet now which is hilarious. Stop defending historical revision because that is what ubi is doing.
If anyone, even for a split second, believes that this game will be ANY better or any more different than the rest of the slop ubisofts has been barfing out for the past 15+ years then I got a bridge to se... no wait - I have a Starfield game to sell ya lol. Remember how Bethesda was utter dogshit but the second they said they were making Starfield everyone INSTANTLY forgot who was making Starfield and thought they'd be getting something revolutionary.. my god people not only have the memory of a goldfish but also zero fucking critical assessment skills. Good thing is that the free market will eventually kill off these fucking game publishers one by one. 2024 is really THE most amazing year ever. It just keeps on giving!
Besides all their flops I think the bigger issue with Ubisoft is how they kept antagonizing gamers. Back when they released NFTs they blamed everyone for "not understanding them". When they shut down servers they said "you should be comfortable not owning games". With the yasuke controversy they also acted like they know the truth and everyone else is wrong. They are always combative, escalating the argument instead of trying to calm the waters and this is why no one cares if they go under now.
The culture war doesn't have a major impact if normies remain unconvinced. If they become convinced one way or the other though... the tide is turning, and if the average beer-swilling, cake-eating consumer decides anything tangentially "woke" is lame, the whole video game industry is in serious trouble. I don't think it's accurate to say most people like or tolerate this stuff either--just look at how bad the viewership for Hollywood award shows and Hollywood stuff in general has been in recent years. As I've observed for actual decades at this point, normies aren't actually stupid or completely ignorant, they're just REALLY slow to learn. Once they learn, though, they remain in that new learned state for just as long as it took them to get swayed in the first place. It's why it seems like bad games get rewarded with profits--because the average consumer is still processing the old reality where the game before it, or the game 2 games before it was good. So it takes a string of failures before that market reality sets in and the company faces strong punishment for failures. But the flip side of that is once they start to see the consumer demand drop out and they start losing money, an abrupt change in direction won't save them. It will take years and years of building their brand cred back up before they can succeed again, if they ever do build it back up. More likely they'll just abandon the brand and buy a new one that is more liked. That was EA's strategy was years.
I don't think you example has any relevance, can you explain what it has to do with anything on this topic? and also I don't think normies rely on "learning" here. There isn't anything to learn. There is opinions, on one side or the other. You don't learn how you view inclusion.
@@kirareacts I was making a more general point on "learning" there--but generally speaking, when it comes to entertainment, people are looking to be entertained, not lectured. If you don't think modern entertainment spends a lot of time lecturing the audience, then it's probably because you agree with the Message, not because there is no message. That's also how Ubisoft can think they have no agenda. Because to them, it ISN'T an agenda. It's just what all right-thinking, moral people should believe.
This makes me feel so positive about AAA games in the future, it was about time we hit the tipping point of consumers not eating shit forever and companies getting away with shitting on their fans without consequences
Larian, who was a relatively unknown development studio, is still making a killing on Baldur's Gate 3. The secret, it turns out, is releasing a polished, complete, extremely high value for the money finished game. Since release and winning every possible award at every contest they were nominated for, they have continued to release multiple hours worth of game content and fixed all of the few bugs found at release, since then. People asked, "well how much is the dlc going to cost", and they said "we don't intend to charge for anything additional after release." They showed the consumers that they don't have to settle for incomplete garbage. It IS possible to make an actual AAA value game that is complete and polished at release. I think that contributed to the positive pressure and changes that are now happening and causing these companies to relealize what is happening.
When they say historically accurate they dont mean the protag but the general setting in that time period and certain characters that lived in that period like George Washington in AC3, Socrates in AC Odyssey. The protag and the alien stuff are just part of your average AC story. In AC shadows, for certainly the first time a historical person (his relevance to the period is still being debated) has been made a protag (Yasuke) and given these false accolades which has no real backing yet. There certainly wouldn't be much off any complaints had this been a random black character that had no real connection to Japan as these Jesuit priests were know to have bl**k slav** . Second all protag of almost all AC games belonged to the region the game took place....so why not just have a Japanese chars as leads instead? GoT does it well and the game was praised. While this might not be a factor you (Kira) but its certainly a thing players like me enjoy besides the monotonous gameplay loop that's present in all AC games.
As a French guy I used to be proud to have such a big company in the video game industry from France back in the day, a long time ago. But they absolutely deserve their downfall. Yves Guillemot is the most out of touch CEO in the video game industry, he's greedy, pretentious. I'm sad for all the honest working devs and everyone not being an executive. But it's still satisfying to see the ship sink. And I hope that in the future they'll let creative people and people passionate about video games take the important decisions instead of the marketing team
Some of these great games coming out of nowhere are being made by people that can’t get hired by big studios that do have talent, or people that left big studios and were replaced by lower paid less experienced staff from mentorship programmes
Ubisoft is rotten to the core. Their studios and all of management is rotten, they have to purge the whole lot, to even have a chance of regaining anything back,
15 years ago, if you told me that a big budget Star Wars game had flopped hard enough that the company's stock had crashed, I would have said there's no way. The Star Wars liscense in video games used to be the magic mark that made even mediocre games sell well and become beloved by the fandom. What a wild Fall From Grace the franchise has had. Of course, 15 years ago, Ubisoft were still making pretty reasonable games too, so lots has changed since then, lol.
We all know how hard some people used to run defense for studios like Ubisoft. Im actually impressed, how much that studio messed up. They forgot the most important rule. You need a decent base game and THEN you can milk your fans dry (see Diablo 4 or Immortal). If you spit in their faces before they even opened the game, you gonna end up like this sooner or later. And we all know blizzards version of "inclusivity" (suddenly it smells like milk in here). I honestly have no clue how studios ever could hire sweet baby inc after seeing the success of blizzard despite all the drama. Nothing screams louder "it doesnt matter" than this. Ubisoft needs new CEOs. These guys have no clue what they are doing.
Ubisoft could have dominated this era if they weren’t so dumb and greedy. They slowly adjusted all of their games to basically be the same game instead of making them more unique and all of them are the same type of bad that no one really cares about.
AC1-Arab in Jerusalem AC2- Italian in Italy AC3- Native American in America ACBF- European in the Caribbean during height of European Piracy ACU: Parisian in Paris ACS: Brits in England ACO: Egyptians in Egypt ACOd: Greeks in Greece ACVL Vikings in England AC Shadows: Black guy in Japan......
@@D4C_LoveTrain1That’s because not everyone is aware that during that timeframe pirates roamed the Caribbean and coming from European nations. As for your disclaimer, in the previous games where you have a choice of two protagonists, both the male and female characters hail from the same region. Shadows is the one that bucks the trend by having an African man and Japanese woman as the two options. Furthermore, no previous AC title had you playing as a historical figure. Sure, you rubbed shoulders with them, but never played as. This wouldn’t be a controversy if Yasuke was an NPC retainer under Nobunaga that you interacted with, and with his background with the Jesuits you even get a great tie in hook for the Templars.
@@Zaczac111 See, you say that nobody would care if Yasuke was an NPC, but I just don't believe you. From someone on the outside looking in, it really just looks like people are upset that a black guy dared to exist in their Japanese setting, and I don't really see people being less angry about his race if he was an NPC.
"some noted areas of improvements". no, stop it. you dont get to say that Ubisoft. the game is broken. it does not hold water, it has gaping holes, you released it leaking. these are things you can see and fix without needing a player to point it out. its kind of game if were serious about quality of your games you would throw it in the trash. im just picturing in a university handing this kind of work in as your assignment. you would not dare and if you did then you would understand why your teacher threw in the trash and gave you an auto fail. there are basic things we had to get right and no excuse on earth could get you out trouble if you din't. i think if you are AAA you should be held on that same standard.
I’ve never heard the term “chocolate fire-god“ before, but I immediately recognize it as the superior form of “screen door on a submarine” and I’m adding it to my lexicon, lmao 😂
As an older gamer let me say this is on of the major issues right here "players expect extraordinary experiences and ultra-polished games on Day 1" Do you remember back in my day when you couldn't download patches and fix your game "after you release it". What a crazy concept in this day and age.. players want a finished game that works when we release it!! WOW.. crazy right!
Ubisoft should feel comfortable losing money.
In fact if this keeps up, they will be the one to « own nothing and be happy ».
Legally if it falls under 1 euro they 30 days to get the stock over one dollar or the company is delisted.
That quote is out of context, you should just take one feom Ubisoft instead, lots to pick from.
I don't understand the problem. All I did was follow their advice of being perfectly happy not owning any of their games. I'm so used to the idea in fact that I haven't bought one since Far Cry 3 😶
"They will own nothing and be happy" the snake in the grass Schwab will be happy.
post mortem: Daily reminder that Ubisoft was woke af
10:30
It's not a 76 user score, it's 76 critic score users gave it 5.4/10.
Id rather label them Ideological Shills. @@lenol0315
@@lenol0315 That includes IGN 8/10's
Yep. Asmongold pointed out that this is why they're failing. They're making games for game journalists, that's why they include DEI stuff for them. Game journalists don't buy their games. It explains why they're so stupid. The CEO doesn't even understand how any of this works.
@@ferrouswheel2677 Nothing about this particular game is DEI.
5.4 is kind of high too.
"don't like it, don't play it"
"Wait no, not like that!"
We should stop quoting and taking into consideration words of someone who's not working in the company anymore, and is now Tencet employee. Because as far as we know, he might be doing Sony bad PR on purpose.
I mean... ubisoft are delaying the game because outlaws didn't sell as well as they wanted it to, so they're spending additional time improving Shadows if the insider is to be believed
This is what we want no?
@@D4C_LoveTrain1the inherent issues with Ubisoft still stand, regardless of whether they're letting one game get to a reasonable state. They've bastardized the series' players grew up on all for the sake of squeezing a little more, and they've time after time proved that they are more than willing to make poor decisions until their very company is on life support.
I'd say the only thing that makes things better at this point is one of two things: either Guillemot drops control in Ubisoft and we'll see if the new leaders are capable of making proper long lasting change, or ubisoft closes, and the developers that DO care can move on to hopefully new teams that will listen to their devs.
It isn't about one game, it's the history of poor decisions. One step forward does not change the conga line back we've taken.
"Gamers should get comfortable not owning ga-.. wait, where are you guys going?!... you need to buy our game, why are you leaving ?!"
You are supposed to buy and not own it, not ignore it!
Hopefully this will serve as a warning to other AAA studios. Consumers are not going to put up with this garbage they do anymore.
"hopefully" is doing a lot of work.
I don't think any of them are gonna course-correct at any point.
Their investors have a single braincell dinging around in their skulls and it can't handle self-awareness.
@@ectothermic They might not care about optics, but investors do care about money over all else
@@ectothermic I disagree. Changes are happening. Gamers are finally not putting up with their shit.
Bugthesda are on this road too, all their games are in a terrible state currently their engine is ancient and people are worried elder scrolls 6 will be as bad as starfield
Well only AAAA Studios
It's incredible how Ubisoft's stock price almost looks like a crypto coin rug pull with how hard it plummeted
Quartz, baby!
@@bloodbath-and-beyondwhy did you have to remind me that they _did_ try their hand at nft and crypto bs
What an interesting time to live in. Do we like...have to care anymore? If Ubisoft goes under, what do we lose other than another 10 Assassin's Creed games over the next decade?
The entire span of Tom Clancy franchises? The Division, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six (no, not that pile of shit called Siege.), Splinter Cell...
@@beepy9666bro .. if you actually liked the terrible excuses of "games" that was the last few Splinter Cells than your mentally deficient. Why else do you think Ubi just went ahead and threw him Into siege?? There were like one or two good splinter cells. An O K splinter cell, and the rest was shovelware 2010's garbage... I'm sorry to offend you but it's time to grow up, splinter cell and the Sam Fischer we know Is dead F O R E V E R..
@@beepy9666 So, a bunch of generic first person shooters and a Metal Gear Solid rip-off?
Mario X Rabbids were pretty good, and Fenyx also. But yeah they rely too much on a few tentpole franchises - although that is indicative of the overall malaise of AAA with stupid budgets and the corresponding risk aversion.
@@beepy9666 All of those series have been terrible for the last 10-12 years, if not longer.
I have been gaming since 1982, its great seeing generations of gamers understanding their consumption has power. Remember, one of the most powerful tools you have to affect change is your consumption. What you buy will shape what is produced going forward.
I was gaming in '82 as well! Altho it was blocks, shapes and colours, but still.
"What you buy will shape what is produced going forward" that line right there absolute chad
this is pretty close to nonsense, cause gamers ignore it as soon as theres a medium ok remake or sequel nr 17 of a game. were the vocal minority. and if you look at games as a whole is really obvious how little power we have. we got more gacha games, predatory monitary systems than ever, and it hasnt slowed down. ubisoft is just one corporation, the rest of em are swimming in money.
how many original/creative games did AAA studios make recently? how many new IPs? close to 0, and the ones they did makes have become an example to not make anything new.
Were average people, while they gather teams upon teams of psychologist on how to groom children into becoming paying gamers
@@GoalOrientedLifting I kinda agree but its not as bad. Because of gamers indie games have become more and more popular. AA and indie studios make better and better games
@@GoalOrientedLiftinggacha games have created a new market. Gacha players arent gamers, they are closet gamblers.
10:50 that 76 score on Metacritic is actually the critics' score. the user score is actually much worse at 5.4, so this CEO either deliberately lied or was ignorant of that fact. either way, it helps explain why Ubislop has fallen so far, so fast.
They had 2 giant flops lately. The other AC pirate game and now Star wars outhouse.
Majority of their modern releases have been flops. Watchdogs Legion, AC Mirage, Skull and Bones, etc.
WB released two flops too I really think there giant bloated corps forgot how to make games
2 flops and around a dozen canceled titles that were in production and dropped. They've literally wasted tens of millions of dollars chasing "the next big payout" instead of doubling down on their core franchises. UBI walks around telling us that they know what we want and they know best. It's about time it bit them in their asses.
@@Battledongus i dont think bloated corporations can make anything of value
I can't believe someone looked at the work Ubisoft has done over the last 5-10 years and was like, "yea, let's let them take a shot at a game with the Star Wars IP". They must know next to nothing about games.
You did see what EA did yeah? (Ignore Cal, those are Outliers.)
Probably because only AAA publishers can afford whatever stupid pricetag Disney demands for the Star Wars license.
The people who liscened out the game are doing fine. They get paid regardless. Ubisoft utterly failed with Star Wars Outlaw and has to pay the Mouse. It's a good business deal for Disney.
To be fair, Outlaws was far worse than ubisoft's average AC, Watch Dogs or Far Cry game.
Watch Dogs with a Star Wars skin would've made bank.
Outlaws wishes it was mediocre.
Considering how what we have gotten from Disney’s Star Wars has been all over the place, it’s no surprise that they don’t know who might be able to make a good Star Wars game.
The reason I haven’t bought an Ubisoft game in like 5+ years isn’t because they are “woke” lol it’s because they’re boring, bloated, derivative, checklist simulators
honestly good riddance. ubishite has gotten so so bad and i dont have hopes that itll get better
Now we just need to get ea, activision blizzard, paradox interactive, sega, sony, microsoft, and capcom to follow suit.
‘The game was really good, it got a 76’
> Reviewer score, not Audience.
User score was 5.4.
When a game is woke it's always 70ish ,but in reality 2
After they stole The Crew from my account I cursed them. They've been struggling ever since. I may be too powerful.
Could you try to uncurse me? My tummy hurts and i hate it. Too many chicken wings in too short of a time :/
All hail Ferrouswheel2677
@@bi7630cringe..
@sirvalhart7464 this is actually funny tho uwu
@@bi7630awww poor baby. Come here let uncle kiss that boo boo tummy wummy away. 😘
Ubisoft should get used to not owning their company anymore 😆
Who do you think Ubisoft actually is? Cause if you mean Papa Yves and his acolytes, they don't care. They're set up for life. The little guys however...
They'll rrobably get bought by EA forced to churn out one last mediocre chunk of slop before being taken to the developer pit out back
@@thrrax You really ought to stop sympathizing with people that work for these aaa game companies, they willingly signed on to make that slop, they ought to be blacklisted from the industry.
Ubisoft knew that they'd be bullied relentlessly if they tried to take AC Shadows to the Tokyo Game Show lol
On the internet? They're already being bullied. In person at the "TOKYO" game show? By Japanese people?
@@kirareacts
Yes, they pulled AC Shadows from the TGS, where Japanese people would've seen the game
@@kirareacts In Japan, you file a petition to protest. It is not organic. Meaning, Ubisoft probably got a notification that thousands of angry Japanese were showing up with their media to do a public protest.
Ubisoft could not have that, so they cancelled, then delayed the game because they could not have two big losses in a year to report to their shareholders.
Have you any evidence of this japanese filed protest tchud?
And yes, I knew it was pulled. It was in the video. I was being sarcastic. Because japanese people aren't confrontational, and would be incredibly unlikely to bully anyone in person at a game show. I was pointing that out. Japanese people have seen the game, and social media is split on the reception there.
@@kirareacts Ubi sure feels that way to me. At the end the fact that they are willing to cut the loses now is already something to me. It cant be cheap to prepare and book for a venue in TGS
the reason they push out games early is investors. They need to hit certain numbers each quarter or the money gets scared. I'm sure the people working at ubisoft knew that star wars game wasn't ready, but try telling the monopoly man that you'll lose this quarter's number because in the long term it'll be better, investors don't understand long term as a concept
But they've been losing for 6 years. I'm pretty sure investors would be more open to a short term loss for a long term gain versus a short term loss for a long term loss. It's pretty easy to zoom out on a chart and see that this is not the case here.
I'm sure the guys pushing for the hostile takeover fully understand how to take short-term losses for the benefit of long-term gains.
@@kirareactshonestly you're putting too much faith into those people intelligence than they are actually capable of..
Investors and shareholders are a curse
Nah, that's a lame excuse that we can't accept here. There is something going fundamentally wrong within Ubislob itself.
I hope Yves is getting comfortable not owning a financially viable company.
I see what you did there. Well played 😅
Is this a buns thing or am I terminally online? 💀
It's wild how all these people that are running all these huge companies have become infected with brain rot simultaneously.
The brave and stunning DEI hires over at CA have a lot to do with it
Ah, I was wondering when you guys were going to show up
It probably doesn't help that it seems the same group of CEOs and senior management keep circulating seemingly systematically destroying the studios as well
The white men running the companies and making these decisions are dei hires now?@@Jabarri74
@@Wanelmaskwhich guys?
8:40 "When was the last time [Ubisoft] had a game of the year candidate?"
Not sure about candidate - probably one of the Farcry or Rainbow 6 games would've made shortlists - but the last time they had GOTY itself was Assassin's Creed 2... in 2009; Fifteen years!
Man AC2, what a game.
Farcry 3 if you didn't play the second half maybe?
That's just the last one of theirs I played I think 🤷♂️
@@llamatronian101 FarCry 3 was the first and last FarCry I played. I really didn't like it and killed any further interest in the franchise.
So back when AC was fun
Loved the trilogy. The only 3 AC games i played
XP boosts and microtransactions in singleplayer games?
Ubisoft launcher forced on every game?
Retarded comments the suits have been making for years?
Ubisoft quartz?
They have so many great IPs (HoMM, Anno, The Devision, AC, Far Cry etc.) and somehow managed to fumble it this badly?
Finally the chickens have come home to roost, hopefully that company ceases to exist the way it is now and something far better rises from the ashes.
I'm calling this now. This game Assassins' Creed Shadows is going to need a day one patch
Most games have a day 1 or week 1 patch
And one particular mod, if you know what I mean.
@AnaICarnaval I don't think that will be a priority for most people, but who knows
@@AnaICarnavalwith a username like that it’s not hard to speculate…
@@Preston241 Are you homophobic or smth?! Twitter squad, get your forks and torches!
I had an idea a couple months ago about investing in these terrible forever companies like Ubisoft and EA, I've never been more happy to be poor
Just a reminder:
Watch Dogs was supposed to come out in 2013 but Ubisoft delayed it for half a year for "further polishing".
Considering what the actual game was like, I have no idea what those 6 months did in its favor.
They ain't gonna spend another minute on AC Shadows during its delay; just watch.
"Star wars outlaws by all account is good!" Not even mediocre. Rethink your standards KIRA!
It’s so bad the game triggers me.
The game isn't exactly terrible lol, it's extremely buggy which breaks a bunch of core mechanics like stealth
Well.. you CAN keep releasing the same game actually with minor changes. Just a "lucky" few AAA game IPs have consumers that are ok with that and can get away with just about anything.
Madden comes to mind as an example where those fans never seem to care.
Ubisoft found out the hard way though they aren't that lucky
Call of Duty
Activision can basically do whatever they want or absolutely nothing and it's still going to be the series that sells the most for the entire year
To be fair, while I hate that Madden players keep buying the game, they also don't have any other options. Once EA bought the exclusive NFL license back in 2005, it's Madden or nothing. They killed the competition.
@dacalmb4dastorm that's always true, I think the exclusive rights end in 2026 if the don't renew
@@dacalmb4dastormit's good to have a monopoly eh? It's either me or nothing
The sad part is ubisoft can't even keep up with their own mediocre standards anymore. Starwars outlaws was supposed to be a fun division/farcry clone but somehow we got a astonishingly outdated stealth game that couldn't even surpass AC 1 or even sly cooper.
Can't wait for ghost of yotei.
I love when people cry that we shouldn't celebrate people losing their jobs. Why not? These are the exact people who have done this nonsense and put their own jobs in the firing line. Let them all be fired and let them all be out look for a new job. Lifes lessons can be very painful but when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes (like unemployment).
That’s the best way to explain what Ubisoft and EA are, they are mediocre. Their games aren’t unplayable LJN trash or anything like that but they are just mindless mediocre sandbox experiences that become repetitive after a few hours. There are people out there that love stuff like that but it’s not the majority. The gaming landscape is full of too much competition to eek your way by with mediocrity. We’ve all been saying this for years because it’s so obvious.
Kinda surprised it took that long with the whole "get used to not owning your games" and "yeah crypto is the future of gaming" thing. Never understood how they made money with their uplay+ option either.
Saying that you don't caee what's in Dragon Age is a bit weird.
They took an entire race, who's been know for looking frightening and cool, gave them face lifting with some botox treatment and turned them into "prince charming with horns".
For this alone they deserve the bullying.
Lol sounds like you wanted to fuck those big boys, sorry they got rid of your fapbait
It's weird why?
Saying that the historical accuracy doesn't matter is like saying being true to the source material wasn't important for the live action Avatar movie or Dragonball movie.
They're not going to die; but they're going to have to go through a rough patch of comeuppance that will be well deserved. They're already reversing all the stupid decisions that they've made in the last 10 or so years. And as I predicted at the beginning of this year; they came crawling back to Steam before the end of the year, planning to release all their games come November and having day one releases moving forward. Now if they can only release their games on PC without their garbage launcher; but I guess they have to suffer some more before that happens. I guess we'll have to be satisfied with day one Steam releases and them removing most if not all their garbage monetization schemes that they've been pushing the last few years.
@@djentleman8116this, AC Shadows is a day two buy from me now that it's on steam but if you're forced to go through their launcher then what's the point lol.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
You obviously don't understand the difference between Yasuke in AC and Yasuke in other media, and why it's a problem with the game's story.
I'm not a fortune teller, but I predict the following: When the game releases in February (assuming it does), Ubisoft will automatically announce a free DLC featuring the most stereotypical Japanese male character and samurai (or maybe a ninja) they can find. Then, the game's marketing will focus almost exclusively on this character, trying to downplay the African American character. Time will tell.
Yes. I think they announce that dlc minium but they are done in all cases. They dig their hole and cant change it at this point
Yasuke was probably born in Portuguese controlled Mozambique also he DIED(~1582) before the BEFORE the settlement of Jamestown(1607)
and if the game flops they would accuse us being rac ists, the game is releasing during black history month
African, not american btw lol (Altough I understand where you're coming from, with the hiphop in the trailer)
@@miguelguillermo6159 Yes I should’ve wrote American in quotations. You got my point.
The Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse to both the office of a Priest and later to a Roman Consul. It is doubtful that the horse ever influenced religious life in Rome or ever made any decisions affecting the political system either. Like the case of Yasuke "modern" historians are split on the accuracy of contemporary history. In the case of Incitatus, "modern" historians cast doubt on the accuracy of reports by the ancient historical record claiming it unlikely the horse ever held those positions. In the case of Yasuke, "modern" historians cast doubt the Japanese historians of the time reporting that Yasuke was little more than a slave gifted to Oda Nobunaga who traveled with him showing him off as an "oddity" at court functions, later granting him lordship over a minor town. He did receive a sword with his position and title but was never trained in its use or fought in any battles and he was returned to his former owner on Nobunaga's death.
The point of AC has always been immersion in its setting, which is always a detailed historical setting. What is not a major selling point for these games is the science fiction backstory or the fantasy stuff that Ubi adds as filler or DLC. Of course the developers are within their rights to have the whole game be shown from the perspective of an unbreakable African Samurai but it does detract from the main selling point of the game which is as always its setting. While the protagonist choice of Yasuke appears to be an attempt to subvert video game hero cliches and get the Western audience to reflect on racial attitudes (while ignoring Japanese attitudes whoops!), it would also be a sales killer to have the story told from a Portugese missionary ninja's perspective.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of failures.
I was an ubisoft apologist for a while, I always considered their games comfort food. BUT MAN...
- X defiant
- skull and bones
- starwars outlaws (how do you fuck that up!?)
- cancelled division game
- ac shadows/mirage
It's looking bleak they need to do better their offerings of late have been abysmal failures for gaming
Mirage was pretty good though, not great but better than anything else they've released in years
If you want to know how you fuck up star wars, ask Disney
That "passion" part of taking it to feudal Japan has to be bull.
I heard a rumor that Ubisoft has a sign or something at their headquarters that says something like,
"Make the Japanese one when we're desperate"
I believed that the last few years and here we are
The idiotic people who praise companies for pandering with meaningless pride flags will never not annoyed me.
Yeah alienating like 45% of the audience surely has very little impact on sales
They pioneered the cash shop in single player games with such innovations as XP boosters instead of a casual mode. They cashed in all the goodwill they ever had plus some with their customers.
I absolutely hate that they need one game to fail to realize they should polish and fix the next one. Imagine if Outlaws did alright. Wouldn't that mean they'd release Shadows in a broken and buggy state? Shouldn't game companies strive to release games in as best a quality as they possibly could in the first place? Nevermind the cultural issues, but the idea of 'sell it now and fix it later' is a terrible thing all its own.
When the CEO let out a resounding "you will own nothing and be happy about it" it reverberated around the gaming world faster than any game they've made has sold, turning any good will they had in to a sour taste for the consumer....
at the end of the day Ubisoft forgot the #1 rule of business, make a product your customers want to buy.
Ubisoft should be comfortable not owning their games BECAUSE they will have to sell their IPs hahahaha❤
We just exist in a time were average does not cut it and Ubisoft is the King of average in recent Years
I mean, it's good they take more time to actually finish a game, isn't it?
... okay, maybe not so much with pulling out from game shows and everything.
For sure
Ubisoft leadership covered up abuse and harassment for years. I feel comfortable not owning their games.
Ubisoft stock has fallen about 800% in the last 5 years or so.
17:15 Ubisoft never said Ezio was historical, certainly not out of universe. They say Yasuke is, with reference to a single weird historian's work who's fan fictioned this into reality. People who like truth don't like that.
People who like truth will verify with other historians like Yu Hirayama who has studied the Sengoku Period not some RUclipsr or grifter because it agrees with their politics.
Yasuke is a real person whether people like it or not, disagreeing with multiple historians smarter than you on this subject makes you a fool and the problem.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 The tiny little detail is that while the Yasuke IS a historic character, as in - there WAS a black person called Yasuke in Azushi Moyama era [I think it was roughly 1580s, using our calendar] he WAS NOT what Japanese would call 'a samurai', in fact the most prominent records of the person appear to describe the curiosity his presence created among population, and he is NOT listed in record as Samurai.
In fact - as far as Japanese sources are concerned - he is listed as neither "海外出身の武士" (Samurai from overseas), nor 武家の家臣であり((a vassal of samurai family). In fact he is not even listed as 帯刀が認められていたが (person who was allowed to wear a belt and a sword).
In record he is listed in 黒田家譜 [Kuroda family records] as 'a person given support', and as per 寛政重修諸家譜 [Kanji Masamori] he was brought by Jesuit missionary and presented to Oda Nobunaga, and would later be given a house but NOT Samurai honors.
Quite a far cry from what is presented as is currently in Assasin's Creed Shadows, to the point where I'm officially making a claim that AC:S Yasuke is NOT 弥助 (Yasuke) from history, making the character in-game ahistorical, despite sharing name and environment.
What You WILL find however is a major discrepancy between original country sources [Japanese] vs Western global sources, the later of which suddenly lose ability to cite original country's sources directly. You would think that if the historical figure was as controversial in global discourse, and yet was presented exactly as records claim, the sources supporting Yasuke being a Samurai (as Ubisoft claims), would have been numerous, and nearly ubiquitous, alas that is not the case.
Heck, even wikipedia 'somehow' adds Yasuke in english version to list of overseas samurai citing... what is functionally a random French article, as opposed to Japanese variant which uses official records as sources for every single one of the Overseas Samurai listed.
Only people who are chronically online give a heck. Either the game is good or it isn’t. That’s all that matters to the vast majority of players who don’t spend their time debating about the historical accuracy or wokeness of game characters.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1The person who wrote the book on Yasuke literally had his title stripped from him in Japan and all his works are being investigated. He found one historical figure who has a scant few lines of text, made a fictitious novel on him which is what everyone references and now has gone on to ‘advise’ many different projects based around the fictitious version he made like the play.
There is clear financial incentive for him to do so.
No one debates that he wasn’t a real person; what’s debated is if, during his barely year of time in Japan outside the Portuguese work, he was given a full status of samurai or if he was only in the rai class so he can carry the gear. He had no land like a samurai, no people to rule over like a samurai, and no responsibilities of a samurai. Nobunaga liked to show off his status by giving lavish gifts and liked having exotic things; both of those fit well with taking the lone African man in, giving him nice things while enjoying the spectacle of it all. Need you be reminded Nobunaga had Yasuke bathed at first believing he was covered in ink; he was a novelty.
@@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato Honestly speaking - I disagree.
No matter how good a gameplay is, if one of selling points is historical aspect of a game [rather than set in alternate history, like in earlier Assassin's' Creed for example, or loosely based on history, like e.g. most strategy games set in historic times, including e.g. Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Crusader Kings, Knights of Honor or Total War series], then the expectations is that at very least major historic points stay as they were.
There are a ton of people who, if suddenly in main historic mode of e.g. HOI4, Soviets and Allies started fighting side-by-side not with Nazis but Xenomorph, who in turn allied with Lovecraftian The Great Old Ones, that would not only annoy fans of history, who play specifically for historical setting itself, but also fans of cosmic horror and Lovecraft Mythos [for entirely different reason than historic accuracy]
Hilariously enough - hadn't AC:S claim its historical accuracy as a selling point, and instead treated their version of Yasuke as character loosely based on real life character, the outrage wouldn't be anywhere near as stark.
In other words - depending on how You market and advertise Your setting different levels of suspension of disbelief regarding historical accuracy is needed, and different standard to judge it will be used, for those who are interested in this aspect of game.
Fantasy games will be less scrutinized for historic sense than games 'set in xxxx setting' (for example - set in feudal japan setting), which in turn will be less scrutinized than 'loosely based on history', which in turn will be less scrutinized than 'based on history' or 'historical'. You also get less leeway with storylines as the line progresses towards historical, leaning further towards linear experience (though not always).
Similarly - degree in which storyline is scrutinized depends on focus of storyline in both game itself as well as franchise. Assassin's Creed series never was a simple shot-the-up or action game, as the storyline always had rather prominent position in the game itself, as opposed to excuse plots of such classics as e.g. Contra (two dudes get dropped on an island to take care of evil faction) or Factorio (You crashed. You want to get out of here, have fun). Notably - again - different players will lean towards different games in regards to story. Some may even go into games fully focused on story, such as visual novels, or interactive movie games to name two of the types.
A major dissonance between story and gameplay may even lead to reduced enjoyment of gameplay part, at least in games in which story is not simply an excuse plot to e.g. build factory or shoot bad guys (to use previous examples).
As such I disagree that the only players that will care about discrepancy between history in what ubisoft calls 'historically accurate portrayal' will be 'chronically online' people.
With that out of the way I WILL point out that Your comment itself it at best - immature, by trying to poison the well from get to, and claim that those who DO care are [insert insult/bad connotation here], especially in the situation where Your comment implies that Your position [don't care about story, just gameplay] is the only valid way to consume media that is gaming, which is NOT the case.
These million-dollar companies are finally finding out that it's no long acceptable to release crap, and expect your customers to stick around. The problem is so bad, even investors are starting to notice the drop in profits.
Ubisoft isn't even going to make it to february...
Ubisoft has more employees than almost every other AAA publisher on the planet. They could layoff half their staff and still have more than most game companies.
The black samurai finished off an enemy in the gameplay demo to a hip hop music sting. In 1500s Japan. He might as well have spewed a dated one-liner too like "fo shizzle ma nizzle."
Should the game being set in the 1500s mean that they can only have music that would fit the period? Or music that they would have listened to? Because last I checked, none of the other games really have this either. I understand the implication is that "black man and hip hop lol", but a Japanese inspired hip hop beat is not exactly out of place, considering hip hop is fairly big in Japan currently and they feature it in a lot of their own media too. If they had like a west coast beat come in, or an Atlanta club banger, I'd say yeah that seems incredibly out of place and goofy. But I've just rewatched that section and it's clearly Japan inspired hip hop, which doesn't seem out of place for a video game, but each to their own.
@@kirareacts But he is from Afrika, not America. Because Hip Hop is only an american thing.
They think Afrika and America is the same thing.
Hip hop is only American? Are you OK? Do you know anything about the world or are you just playing ignorant?
@@kirareacts do you know if hip hop is even popular/even a thing in africa?
@@kirareacts feels like you are supporting stereotypes about black africans.
The problem isn't so much that Ubisoft put Yasuke in the game it's more the aggressive approach ubisoft took towards anyone that had an issue with it. It would be like if in the first Assassin's creed someone said "Hey why are there Teutonic Knights during this time period?" and as a response Ubisoft hired a bunch of experts to try and prove themselves right and then accused anyone that disagreed with them of being German-Phobic
Star Wars: Outlaws is unfixably bad. Even ignoring the ungodly number of bugs, where you can't go 5 min. without something fundamentally breaking, the core of the game is playing as a Star Wars cat lady. The most complete and polished part of the game is the unskippable 2 min. long eating QTE's that are used to upgrade your cat so you can be a better cat lady. I am not joking. You sit for a minimum of 2 min. pressing a series of buttons (at least a couple dozen per QTE) and watch a lovingly rendered cutscene of catlady and cat chew food at each other. You can't fail these, it's just a "press button to continue". I fully believe that this was the exact way the developers envisioned this mechanic working. The greatest heights this game could hope to achieve would be to fix enough bugs that you could be lulled into a stupor and have no conscious memory of playing it once you are done.
And the company will continue to do this nonsense because there are still people buying this garbage :'-)
Now Tencent has to kick the bucket and Nintendo to camp themselves into boredom and things can start going back to normal when more than a few people actually cared.
I really hope Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 blows up and totally overshadows Assassin's Creed's launch.
A game that actually tries it's best to do the area and period they are covering justice, vs, A game who is using the area and period as skinsuit not caring in the slightest about it.
The fact that they are so incompetent that they have back-to-back fuck ups including both AssCreed: Weebs AND a Star Wars game is absolutely hilarious.
The conception that Ubisoft is a big company isn't correct. Compared to their peers they are fairly small. Ubi's market cap is 1.6 Billion, compared to Sega they are half as big and Sega isn't even a AAA studio. Compare them to actual competitors like Capcom and EA and it's about 10% as big, and to Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, it's an ant. Do you think Paradox Interactive is a big game studio? No? Me neither, but they're still twice as big as Ubisoft market cap wise.
AAA games costs 100s of millions to make now. If you're Ubisoft, if you release 5 to 6 flops in a short time you're going bankrupt, and that's if the games break even. Loose money on 2 to 3 games and it's a Ubisoft mobile games only future. Not too mention lawsuits and other overhead, 25 million here, 5 million there, new office, DEI consultant fees.
Ubisoft basically admitted the games are released unfinished and rushed and only NOW they are trying to finish them properly.
Act even more quickly? So more crunch enforced mediocre games. Just dissolve the company already
When you release nothing but mediocre products you get mediocre financial results, who could've seen this one coming? *Surprised pikachu face*
@13:30 I might be wrong, but the reason why companies push games out and fix them later might be their relation to investors/the stock market. They expect a financial repot every quarter. Delaying a game means that quarter looks worse and investors don't like that. Numbers have to go up all the time. IMHO it's the same with EA and Paradox. Once good publisher became shit once they went to the stock market and became a public company.
Would you mind looking into what is going on with 11 bit studios, since we're on the topic? Frostpunk 2 is out, it's not godawful, but somehow their stocks are down 50%. It's not normal.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to change the restrictive castes of his time, which allowed for samurai to be the only ones to legally have swords and they were allowed to kill the lower castes (they were all nobles) and face no repercussions for it. Yes, he gave Yasuke a sword and small land (almost to the level of the Scottish mini-scam to be a Lord) so he was technically a samurai. HOWEVER: Ubisoft is trying to minimize the legitimate criticism of having an African who wasn't raised in Japan, faced xenophobia as the first/only black man on the shores, and AS FAR AS WE KNOW? Might never have USED a sword, much less been trained in it, to represent -all- the samurai of Japan.
ACIII is fucking wild. I'm Native American and I love it. You fight with George Washington to prevent time traveling space aliens taking over. Boss. The representation of native tribes is wild and not 100% on point, (half Navajo in the 1700s New England? As if lol) but fun and respectful. Shadows isn't respectful. That's the real problem. People don't care that Yasuke's a samurai. If he was a cameo as a samurai? Cool, I'm pretty sure any complaints left would just be from racists or ignorant idiots. Instead, people care that he's the main playable character representing samurai, but there is NO historical evidence he even used a sword, he was Nobunaga's bodyguard for size and intimidation factor, and because Oda was a crazy dude who loved everything foreign and pestered him for stories about Africa and Yasuke spoke 4 languages lol. That's already cool, you don't need to treat him like a hero. And he wouldn't have been ever, and neither would Oda. Demon King of 6th Heaven etc. etc.
LBR the gaming world is not the same as pre covid, much less 15 years ago. And neither is Ubisoft. They don't have the same writers and devs that once made them successful and they're trying to minmax their business strategy based on very obsolete models. I'd love, LOVE LOVE LOVE a good AC Japan game, ESPECIALLY about anything related to Nobunaga my autistic obsession. I'm very skeptical I can ever have that.
Been a bit since I watched a vid; just wanted to say you are looking good! (no diddy)
Thanks bruv
I appreciate your level-headed take on this, but I feel you are fundamentally missing the reasons for the drop in quality and the reception UBI games receive. This journey started long before Shadows and Outlaws.
PS love the 'Dribbling in the corner' :) Totally! So much IP wasted
What reason did I miss? You pointed out I missed it, but didn't say what it is.
I just wish it was easier to hate Ubisoft games. I don't want to be lumped in with the anti-woke freaks that screech at women and the ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURE 😔 Their open world stuff is dogwater enough on it's own 😂
I still think it's insane that the company most known for it's games going on sale under half price within a year thinks they're in a position to be releasing $100+ "editions" of their games
I'm really curious to see how this plays out. Is this simply to forestall the game's launch being too close to Outlaws' "soft" numbers, or will they be making changes to the game, or will they simply change their marketing strategy? Fascinating stuff, really.
The talent was gone a bit before and during the pandemic. I'd argue since Tencent got into the pictures, editorial and publishing got weirder and more conservative than before. There was no interesting projects and pay was way lower than the competition... Lots of experience left at that point. Ubisoft is still recovering from that period
It's so refreshing to see somebody with a normal human opinion about the culture war stuff going on lmfao. I definitely agree that a CEO talking about culture war topics in an official document is an opposite world bizarre experience also XD
What's even funnier about Ubisoft using the culture war as a copout for their own failure is that outrage against "wokeness" or "DEI" characters in these games is actually free marketing because it gets people to complain about it everywhere they go and regular people who aren't mentally stuck in high-school don't see anything wrong with it. They're literally counting on the outrage to happen, and now that it's not enough anymore of course it's an excellent excuse on top of that.
I think I speak for quite a few people when I say we don't mind a lack samurai. There was a very popular anime called Afro Samurai. Of course, it was fiction. Ok, so DEI or not, I don't mind the idea of a black samurai, but what I, and many have a problem with is when they claim historical accuracy and take someone who was documented as a retainer, and make him into an authentic samurai.
AC is obviously fueled by fictitious concepts of a forerunner race, and societies sprung from them, so it's no surprise of Ubisoft to fictionalize history. So the point being; why not make up a fictional black samurai? All AC protagonists have been fictional. So instead of taking the solidified/non-fictional concept (Yasuke) and twisting him into what he wasn't, they could have just made a character based on him. The argument to that would be Ok, fiction, it's a fictional version of him. But that argument is dwarfed by claiming historical accuracy by it, and not even originating from their own culture, or knowledge of it. It isn't putting a spin on it, it's foreign gaslighting.
To be completely honest, part of me thinks it's no big deal. But then I factor in that it's simply and obnoxiously DEI, and intentional mistruth, then I'm not down with that.
Have you actually sought out a multitude of expert opinions on what he was and was not? Because the consensus is split and you seem to be presenting this as if there is a factual and objective conclusion.
As for Ubisoft's messaging, if they had taken the advise of an, or a group of experts who feel that they have the correct read on the situation, what about that then becomes inauthentic? The idea that the jury has come back with a verdict here is doing a lot of heavy lifting on what you're claiming to be twisting of history.
Did they claim historical accuracy to this exact point even? I don't recall seeing that, but I haven't sought out every interview on the topic from Ubisoft's side.
@@kirareacts The only source that claim he is a samurai if from Lockley(not sure how to spell his name) plus evidence of him making different version of his study for English and Japanese which is why it no one in Japan actually notice this until recently. Actual citation and documented stuff about him is barely 4 page long in total and Lock manage to make a book about Yasuke. Sounds really sus to me. Just because you ask an expert they still can be wrong and misleading just like oil companies hiring actual scientist to debunk the effect of lead and lead has always been in the air they say so they can keep selling lead in the fuel.
No it isn't.
@@kirareacts your source is? since you say with such confidence.
@@kirareacts Kind of have to call foul on a Lockley using alt account to support his own fictional account of the guy and sell books and get other job offers. Walks like a duck and all that.
Kira in the comments just missing the point of why people are mad especially the Japanese is sad to see. Bro theirs an official investigation into lockley happening now because of this and some Japanese big shot/s basically told ubi to go kick rocks. Lockley is the only dude who was propagating the "he was a samurai " stuff. He wrote two completely different papers in English and Japanese. The dude somehow wrote an entire non-fiction book about yaskue despite there not being nearly enough historical material to do so. He has also basically dissappeared from the internet now which is hilarious. Stop defending historical revision because that is what ubi is doing.
If anyone, even for a split second, believes that this game will be ANY better or any more different than the rest of the slop ubisofts has been barfing out for the past 15+ years then I got a bridge to se... no wait - I have a Starfield game to sell ya lol. Remember how Bethesda was utter dogshit but the second they said they were making Starfield everyone INSTANTLY forgot who was making Starfield and thought they'd be getting something revolutionary.. my god people not only have the memory of a goldfish but also zero fucking critical assessment skills. Good thing is that the free market will eventually kill off these fucking game publishers one by one. 2024 is really THE most amazing year ever. It just keeps on giving!
Polishing it now is just polishing a rotten apple.
Core problems will still be there.
Weren't there internal issues regarding harrassment at the company as well? Their downfall isn't just the games but the company as a whole.
Besides all their flops I think the bigger issue with Ubisoft is how they kept antagonizing gamers. Back when they released NFTs they blamed everyone for "not understanding them". When they shut down servers they said "you should be comfortable not owning games". With the yasuke controversy they also acted like they know the truth and everyone else is wrong. They are always combative, escalating the argument instead of trying to calm the waters and this is why no one cares if they go under now.
It's crazy that Shadows was their only chance to save their company, and they chose a black samurai and a female ninja as the protagonists.
The culture war doesn't have a major impact if normies remain unconvinced. If they become convinced one way or the other though... the tide is turning, and if the average beer-swilling, cake-eating consumer decides anything tangentially "woke" is lame, the whole video game industry is in serious trouble. I don't think it's accurate to say most people like or tolerate this stuff either--just look at how bad the viewership for Hollywood award shows and Hollywood stuff in general has been in recent years. As I've observed for actual decades at this point, normies aren't actually stupid or completely ignorant, they're just REALLY slow to learn. Once they learn, though, they remain in that new learned state for just as long as it took them to get swayed in the first place. It's why it seems like bad games get rewarded with profits--because the average consumer is still processing the old reality where the game before it, or the game 2 games before it was good. So it takes a string of failures before that market reality sets in and the company faces strong punishment for failures. But the flip side of that is once they start to see the consumer demand drop out and they start losing money, an abrupt change in direction won't save them. It will take years and years of building their brand cred back up before they can succeed again, if they ever do build it back up. More likely they'll just abandon the brand and buy a new one that is more liked. That was EA's strategy was years.
I don't think you example has any relevance, can you explain what it has to do with anything on this topic? and also I don't think normies rely on "learning" here. There isn't anything to learn. There is opinions, on one side or the other. You don't learn how you view inclusion.
@@kirareacts I was making a more general point on "learning" there--but generally speaking, when it comes to entertainment, people are looking to be entertained, not lectured. If you don't think modern entertainment spends a lot of time lecturing the audience, then it's probably because you agree with the Message, not because there is no message. That's also how Ubisoft can think they have no agenda. Because to them, it ISN'T an agenda. It's just what all right-thinking, moral people should believe.
This makes me feel so positive about AAA games in the future, it was about time we hit the tipping point of consumers not eating shit forever and companies getting away with shitting on their fans without consequences
Larian, who was a relatively unknown development studio, is still making a killing on Baldur's Gate 3. The secret, it turns out, is releasing a polished, complete, extremely high value for the money finished game. Since release and winning every possible award at every contest they were nominated for, they have continued to release multiple hours worth of game content and fixed all of the few bugs found at release, since then. People asked, "well how much is the dlc going to cost", and they said "we don't intend to charge for anything additional after release."
They showed the consumers that they don't have to settle for incomplete garbage. It IS possible to make an actual AAA value game that is complete and polished at release. I think that contributed to the positive pressure and changes that are now happening and causing these companies to relealize what is happening.
where the heck is my grumpy viking bearded reviewer? (I've not seen a video in a long time)
When they say historically accurate they dont mean the protag but the general setting in that time period and certain characters that lived in that period like George Washington in AC3, Socrates in AC Odyssey. The protag and the alien stuff are just part of your average AC story. In AC shadows, for certainly the first time a historical person (his relevance to the period is still being debated) has been made a protag (Yasuke) and given these false accolades which has no real backing yet. There certainly wouldn't be much off any complaints had this been a random black character that had no real connection to Japan as these Jesuit priests were know to have bl**k slav** . Second all protag of almost all AC games belonged to the region the game took place....so why not just have a Japanese chars as leads instead? GoT does it well and the game was praised. While this might not be a factor you (Kira) but its certainly a thing players like me enjoy besides the monotonous gameplay loop that's present in all AC games.
As a French guy I used to be proud to have such a big company in the video game industry from France back in the day, a long time ago. But they absolutely deserve their downfall.
Yves Guillemot is the most out of touch CEO in the video game industry, he's greedy, pretentious. I'm sad for all the honest working devs and everyone not being an executive. But it's still satisfying to see the ship sink. And I hope that in the future they'll let creative people and people passionate about video games take the important decisions instead of the marketing team
Some of these great games coming out of nowhere are being made by people that can’t get hired by big studios that do have talent, or people that left big studios and were replaced by lower paid less experienced staff from mentorship programmes
Ubisoft is rotten to the core.
Their studios and all of management is rotten, they have to purge the whole lot, to even have a chance of regaining anything back,
Re-adding the games to Steam, is going to really help them.
15 years ago, if you told me that a big budget Star Wars game had flopped hard enough that the company's stock had crashed, I would have said there's no way. The Star Wars liscense in video games used to be the magic mark that made even mediocre games sell well and become beloved by the fandom.
What a wild Fall From Grace the franchise has had. Of course, 15 years ago, Ubisoft were still making pretty reasonable games too, so lots has changed since then, lol.
We all know how hard some people used to run defense for studios like Ubisoft. Im actually impressed, how much that studio messed up.
They forgot the most important rule. You need a decent base game and THEN you can milk your fans dry (see Diablo 4 or Immortal).
If you spit in their faces before they even opened the game, you gonna end up like this sooner or later.
And we all know blizzards version of "inclusivity" (suddenly it smells like milk in here). I honestly have no clue how studios ever could hire sweet baby inc after seeing the success of blizzard despite all the drama. Nothing screams louder "it doesnt matter" than this.
Ubisoft needs new CEOs. These guys have no clue what they are doing.
Ubisoft could have dominated this era if they weren’t so dumb and greedy. They slowly adjusted all of their games to basically be the same game instead of making them more unique and all of them are the same type of bad that no one really cares about.
Could you please zoom in your browser so we can see it on smaller screens?
AC1-Arab in Jerusalem
AC2- Italian in Italy
AC3- Native American in America
ACBF- European in the Caribbean during height of European Piracy
ACU: Parisian in Paris
ACS: Brits in England
ACO: Egyptians in Egypt
ACOd: Greeks in Greece
ACVL Vikings in England
AC Shadows: Black guy in Japan......
black guy (who was in japan in that period) and a japanese woman in japan, stop trying to bullshit
*Japanese woman in japan.
love how you put the disclaimer for a white guy in a predominantly black set of Islands, no bias here 😭
@@D4C_LoveTrain1That’s because not everyone is aware that during that timeframe pirates roamed the Caribbean and coming from European nations.
As for your disclaimer, in the previous games where you have a choice of two protagonists, both the male and female characters hail from the same region. Shadows is the one that bucks the trend by having an African man and Japanese woman as the two options. Furthermore, no previous AC title had you playing as a historical figure. Sure, you rubbed shoulders with them, but never played as. This wouldn’t be a controversy if Yasuke was an NPC retainer under Nobunaga that you interacted with, and with his background with the Jesuits you even get a great tie in hook for the Templars.
@@Zaczac111 See, you say that nobody would care if Yasuke was an NPC, but I just don't believe you. From someone on the outside looking in, it really just looks like people are upset that a black guy dared to exist in their Japanese setting, and I don't really see people being less angry about his race if he was an NPC.
@@Nevernamed No where did I say 'nobody would care'. You're already trying to taint my comment with points I didn't say.
How are you late when you just keep making the same game for the 20th time with the only real change making it somehow even worse every time?
"some noted areas of improvements". no, stop it. you dont get to say that Ubisoft. the game is broken. it does not hold water, it has gaping holes, you released it leaking. these are things you can see and fix without needing a player to point it out. its kind of game if were serious about quality of your games you would throw it in the trash. im just picturing in a university handing this kind of work in as your assignment. you would not dare and if you did then you would understand why your teacher threw in the trash and gave you an auto fail. there are basic things we had to get right and no excuse on earth could get you out trouble if you din't. i think if you are AAA you should be held on that same standard.
I’ve never heard the term “chocolate fire-god“ before, but I immediately recognize it as the superior form of “screen door on a submarine” and I’m adding it to my lexicon, lmao 😂
I don't worry. I'm pretty sure the "modern audience" will come and buy multiple copies of AC Shadows and the company will be back on track. (jk)
As an older gamer let me say this is on of the major issues right here "players expect extraordinary experiences and ultra-polished games on Day 1" Do you remember back in my day when you couldn't download patches and fix your game "after you release it". What a crazy concept in this day and age.. players want a finished game that works when we release it!! WOW.. crazy right!