I think a lot of their problems stem from not listening to gamers, paywalling content, and releasing buggy games. Their CEOs comments saying “gamers should get used to not owning games” hasn’t helped either
I doubt they are making money nowdways from splinter cell and other games. Maybe 10 thousand a year. Why not sell it for 50 million or so. Splinter Cell 3 Chaos Theory best masterpiece game ever
@ to be honest I agree with you. I don’t care for the open world Ghost Recon and I miss the Rainbow 6’s of yesteryear. Ghost Recon Advanced Solider was incredible, I wish they’d go back to that formula. Hopefully we get to enjoy some Splinter Cell in the future.
@@robertodiaz1597 I played advanced soldier back then on pc both titles. I read that this are bad versions and the real ones are the console versions. But still as teenager I enjoyed it and it was hard. I think I couldnt even pass half the game of Advance Warfighter 2 ;D I tried it for many years back then but I couldnt pass a certain level in the half. So it was a good game where you have to be very stealthy and tactical.
What people don't understand is that even IF Ubisoft had a big hit like Assassin's Creed Shadows being an IGN 10 game, the profits from a success would only begin to pay themselves for the backlog of high budget failures like Skull & Bones. They wouldn't be "in the green" they'd be fighting to reach net zero and not be in debt with prior losses.
There balance sheet is bad but they still had 2.3billion sales in 23/24 it’s all online and makes interesting reading. But you’re correct it doesn’t hinge on one game.
Skull&Bones is a different story. That one NEEDED to be pushed out no matter what, since that one got millions of dollar from Singapore government. Ubisoft cannot just canceled it like other games.
Ive been saying this exact statement in comments for years: "Ubisoft has The Fear. They can't make a new I.P.." That's turned out to be true. I've also been saying for at least 2 years that Ubisoft will be the first AAA studio to fold, and that is looking very, very true. The CEOs of the company simply don't play video games. It's the only rational explanation for so many irrational decisions.
I’m all for Ubisoft to fail at this point. They spent years not listening to the customers criticisms and have finally reaped the consequences. Nobody is entitled to a comeback. They had several chances to reverse course but chose to keep chugging along toward the cliff where a sack of money was sitting just out of reach. Let em fall so they can be a cautionary tale of what not to do to a gaming company
Anyone can see that big corporations rarely are innovation leaders. This is not an accident, but by design through their risk-control strategies employed by the management. Small corporations take risks, big corporations avoid them if possible. Thus, big corporations will focus on existing IPs rather than gambling on (expensive) new ones.
ehhhh This type of editing style is very common nowadays. You'll see a ton of channels like this who pad out the runtime a lot just to give you a history lesson instead of talking about the actual subject of the video. The first few times it was genuinely entertaining. But the more of these type of content farm-ish videos I watched. They felt so soulless and a waste of time.
Actually I though that one is quite fun. The basic shooting & running mechanic is solid. It cost me nothing since it is a free-to-play. The issue with XDefiant is that the rewards are too far & between. There is not enough carrot for gamers to grain for.
Kinda weird to use the PS2 as the console Ubisoft took off on when the PS2 versions of those Tom Clancy games were literally the worst versions. They literally had missing levels that were included on the PC and Xbox and looked significantly worse. Also, the first Far Cry was made by Crytek. Ubisoft had nothing to do with it.
You did a great job laying out Ubisoft's development history and overall frustrations in recent years, but something I'm shocked you didn't touch upon is the topic of ownership rights as Ubisoft is one of the worst cases for consumers. They're the kind of company to make you connect to the internet to play single-player games. I'm someone that buys physical discs if possible, and Ubisoft game discs are essentially useless. Most game discs actually have data and let you play/download offline, but down the line some of these Ubisoft games might not be able to play. Only time will tell...but it's already happened with Ubisoft's game The Crew, which they took away from digital owners even though the game has a single player mode. Forget who said it, but one executive has said on record that customers should get comfortable with not owning games.
“Does this mean we cant expect good games from Ubisoft anymore?” Yes. That’s exactly what it means. We cant trust ubisoft nor expect good games from them. “Ubosoft was founded by 5 Guillemot brothers who still own Ubisoft today”…. Yeahhhhhhh, not for long 💀
Ubisoft’s collapse is long overdue.. I am a huge fan of the avatar movies and was super hype to hear that after years the movie was finally receiving a stand alone game. When I found out Ubisoft was making it I completely lost all interest and knew it would just be a farcry spin off with blue cats… It seems my prediction was correct. That absolutely ruined the franchise for me.
how many times am I going to see comments like this that praise the editing? because this type of editing is everywhere on RUclips now. Maube the first few times I watched these content farm type videos its entertaining. But It's not very common or surprising to me the more I watch these types of videos.
What gamers want never comes from corporate executive and investor meeting. They take away from the gamer experience. We need to go back to these large conglomerates waiting for independant studios to release a game and just handle the marketing. No more deadlines and demands to the studios.
Releasing unity in that condition hurt the franchise severely and I don't think they've ever redeemed themselves on it. Alright, origins and odyssey are great games but they've distanced themselves too far from what AC was always meant to he about.
from other's comments, it seems that the whole SBI company & a lot of the woke things in gaming industry today actually originated from Ubisoft (since a lot of the SBI current or former employees were old Ubisoft employee).
The talent is probably not working at Ubisoft anymore, like Patrice Desilects the guy that made Assassin's Creed and the best ones were made by him and he worked on many of the iconic Prince of Persia games and what is going on with the Tom Clancy Series, where's Splinter Cell?, where is Beyond Good and Evil 2? Where's Rayman? And the original development teams, who knows what of them now remains. And the shareholders are holding not only Ubisoft back, but the gaming industry as a whole. I don't think Ubisoft is the same anymore. They're not really coming up with new IP's either or even fresh new idea as much as they used to. But who knows that could change I could be proven wrong. Hopefully that is the case. I played a lot of there iconic titles.
Hanzo Hattori is the best choice for Assassin Creed: Shadow. He is a famous Ninja in Japan history. people who play hack-n-slash koei games know him very well. Yes, Yasuke is real but I don't understand why put him in a ninja game? I am Asian so I have no problem with black or white character but why can't the game stay true to their name?
If they end up closing, I want to buy the Rayman license, because I have very amazing ideas for that series, like making a game that ACTUALLY tells Rayman's origins, while still keeping that same feeling that the Rayman Origins game has.
@@Sonicman4155 Yeah I think it is a pretty good idea. I would next make another 3d Rayman game, like Rayman 4, or make a finale to the Ubiart games called, Rayman: Forever, Or even make a full remake of Rayman 1 using the Ubiart engine. The latter is probably my favorite idea to be honest.
I know it will sounds cruel but ubisoft needs to cut like 85% of all of their developers. They have too many project at single time, yet non of this projects are good quality. Skull and bones, Star wars outlaws, Avatar, Far cry 6 were such a mid games with overblown budgets. Now they should focus on one game at the time, deliver a good product so maybe people would recognize that this company still can make good games. But nope, flop after flop is what they give us.
About the Skill Trees. I feel like the Skill Trees in Origins and Odyssey were awful mainly because of how f*cking hard it is to level up, ESPECIALLY Odyssey. I remember giving up on Odyssey for nearly a YEAR because I was sick of slogging around, barely being able to get EXP to level up. However, Valhalla did remedy this because now levelling up is like the easiest thing possible. Main Missions, Side Missions, Collectables, and etc. They all give Skill Points and don't solely require you to level up or grind out EXP. I mean, I'd prefer it if my ability to clear missions was based not on my Character Level but rather based on my own personal skill level and understand of the in-game mechanics just like back during the early days of Assassins Creed, but I mean, I'll take what I can get y'know?
UbiSoft was deom 1998 to 2016 a powerhouse in gaming world, but then it went fast out. The fact there own mascot and first commercial sucsess Rayman have completely been shelved and given no prio to have a new full game. No 3D world Rayman has been made since Rayman 3, while there have been millions of people since then expressed to see a new such adventure. But how they have only been BS the gamer community in recent couple of years truly killed them.
They are repeating same IP over and over. It's going to be stale. It's a carbon copy of each other. No innovation. EA COD is like that. Same formula, dull story. They are milking it dry. It's like a yearly sportgame with a different numbered year. At least Mario and Zelda have evolved for 30+ years and give out 4-5 years apart to look at the video landscapes of new innocations.
When you pumped over $500 mil into a single title, the cost of failure is usually the sale of the entire company or getting dissolved. The cost is so huge that if you ain't earn the billions, you can't make enough to appease the investors. I wish game companies would just stay mid-sized, consistently developing humble but fun games. Instead of churning out overated AAA titles within short span of time. These days, the strategy is that whatever appeals to consumers, they'll be sure to flood the market with it and similar as fast as they can to earn the most out of that period of trend. When development cost gets so big, it should only make sense to keep any released title alive for multiple years while they develop the next distinctively different successor to replace it several years later. I certainly don't need a new COD every year, I'd rather they keep a single COD alive with updates and DLCs long enough until a new and significantly different COD is ready to take over from its predecessor. I dropped my years of support for COD after BO2, came back during WWII and continued throughout the entire MW2019. After trying out BOCW, I decided it's time to leave COD again because it really doesn't give much newer experience to warrant my support with my wallet. Maybe some 5 years down, I may be back to try out another COD then. That's if the gaming giants are still standing at that point. I don't know which microtransaction is worst, in-game XP boosters and skins that doesn't affect the gaming experience much? Or selling you the main items, like characters that can break the game, in gacha fashion. Gacha is making good money, if Tencent does buy out Ubi, your future AC, R6 characters and weapons may cost you the price equivalent to a limited collector edition AAA full game just to get a single copy of that character + signature weapon. 😂
wait...folks complained because a game took 60 hours for the main story? That amount was almost a standard back in the day, to allow stories to breath and develop. Paying 70$ for 60+ hours gaming is more than fair price. Ubisoft is no saint, but dude....how far brain capacities have fallen if people prefer to pay 70$ for a 10-20 hours worth game? Oh no..... sorry...they would complain that is overpriced. Expectations are in the head of players, not on the company. Again: Ubisoft should have pulled its head out of its bottom, but also players nowadays are bipolar lunatics, at best. That's why following trends is not advisable. If Tencent buys off Ubisoft, expect assasin's creed gacha in 2 seconds, flattening even more the creative department and lowering the general quality of the products. Look what happened to Rot Games ( owed by Tencent), LoL and Arcane ( top stellar TV show, studio laid off and now planning to use a-i...the garbage generator)
Ubisoft used to once in a while come up with genius games like ac or r6 or splinter cell but they for some reason release same content over and over again instead of doing something new which would be fun to play.
Games were developed by people that had a vision in terms of on how a game would play and look, the experience you would get as a gamer. The focus now is on graphics as a mass appeal with in game purchases. So you buy a game that is not complete and if desired is never finished. The for focus is mass appeal and profit, not a quality game. Deadlines is another hot topic. The budgets are so huge that one must make a return of investment at a point. Deadlines are often times unrealistic (TinTin?) it ruins the atmospere, people leaving (often times the ones you need the most) and pressure get even higher ruining the atmosphere even more. The work ethics of making long (and often unproductive) days is what backfired in the computer industry in general. CEO's (this started in the car industry I believe) have no experience in terms of game development and try to make believe that you can put 65 minutes in an hour.
Rayman is only glorified in their bought game called Growtopia. The game itself is in a verge of dying or being forgotten, not for his fists in Growtopia.
You also forgot their very poor Launcher and the fact that people for years have had troubles just getting games they've bought to even OPEN. I can't get Wildlands after a fresh format, Win 10 install, new drivers and windows update. Their support system also sucks arse as well, so people having trouble with their games don't have relevant help to remedy their problems.
When Ubisoft can't even make a monopoly game without it crashing (on next gen consoles I might add) then it's only a matter of time before they fuck up big time
Am I the only one who believes gamers dont actually want their franchises to "evolve and change" and actually want the same thing over and over again, just with a few changes in between? I mean, they still sell so much, and only few people get angry at them and tell it "lacks innovation". It's only when they change so much of the game that gamers in general start to get angry at the changes.
Today´s games are almost all form over content. Majority of development time focuses on microtransactions, ironing out all the monetization bugs, while the game itself is made to alpha or pre-alpha state with most of its bugs present at release, and possibly NEVER fixed. Releasing unfinished products should be made illegal. I find most new games uninteresting. They´re either reskins of older titles with just some graphics enhancements, or the same game as some older one, but made WORSE than its predecessor. As a result, i no longer see any point in upgrading my computer any further. Also, the gaming critic reviews no longer work. It seems people are finally catching up to the thought of the critics simply being paid to evaluate the game high on their list in order to increase initial sales. I personally consider it funny, that on a scale of 0-10, they only keep using 6-10 part (bad games get 6-7/10, mediocre 7-9/10 and the rest gets 10/10) of their review evaluation charts. Tencent acquiring Ubisoft will not be a salvation, but obliteration of Ubisoft as we know it.
"As a result, i no longer see any point in upgrading my computer any further" I like how you only use your computer for only Ubosft games and pretend that other great games don't exist. Because there is still a ton of good/great games releasing even today (Obviously)
I don’t game as much like i did year ago, i’ve been following the gaming industry for years and still see the same problem, can someone please help me understand the corporate side of this? why is it always the same conclusion that the customer, we as gamers opinion doesn’t matter until they almost are bankrupt? it’s the same cycle for every game publisher and always the same thing if fatigue and people eventually stop playing the games etc etc. why isn’t anyone trying to always have the customer in focus instead of quick money?
As someone who got ac valhalla from relatives as a Christmas gift last year i swear if the campaign was 30 hours or even less and the open world was shrunk down only leaving a few monestaries/castles and random side quests, just the cream of the crop, it could have been a game of the year contendor
i like far cry 2 3 4 5 and have my eye on far cry primal, but until ubisoft fixes their launcher or completely remove it, i refuse to spend any money on their game ever again.
Being games cost a lot to make and the risk of investing in new IP that might fail is worrying. I do wonder why companies dont just create a demo of a new game idea, i guess the same as PT on playstation. They could charge £5 or whatever for it and if the demo got a lot of hype they could make it into a full game. Maybe that would enable an easier way for companies to risk new IP without the financhial risk?
They should have made Fenyx Rising an anime game. Maybe with a story where you lose your sibling and have a small flying creature with a high pitch voice. If they have done that they would be swimming in money by now. I don't think that innovation is the main culprit, there morels are. The are more focused on sending a message then making a good game.
You saying about fenyx rising should be an anime game reminds me that Ubisoft used to make Naruto games. remember they made two open world games while nowadays the IP is stock in arena fighter hell, I missed those days.
You guys know all these videos are made by AI right? Even the Narrator is AI. Please stop supporting this kind of content, we don’t need more robots flooding the internet.
Hey, Just a small clarification, Only the VO is AI, Everything else (Script writing, Editing) is human made. I don’t have a compelling voice, so AI voice worked better than my own voice😅🥲
@@Minutes_of_Riches that would explain my suspicion then. But even then it still feels very soulless to watch or even listen to And all I can add to that ending is if your videos are genuinely good to most people, then no one will care about how your voice sounds
Massive Ghost Recon player, they made a game called GR mainline 3 years ago, to universal condemnation from our community as it was nothing like the games before. They then completely shelved it, its now been 5 years since a new GR game with no news on a new one. They are spectacularly useless.
The biggest mistake what they made was reviving the Settles. They turned it to online biggest mess. Old players who remember that series, not really interested about that garbage.
@@Minutes_of_Riches oof, idk man. i'm not gonna analyze your vid. it just feels so off at first glance and you use so much buzzwords while saying nothing.
@@Tantalos79 I think its the way hes delivering the words from the script. It's like a text to Speech or an AI is doing the reading for him. Oddly enough I've seen a lot of other channels who follow this way of editing and voicing over their videos too. Its very very soulless
A lot of people say this. Far Cry 1&2 were both better in several ways. Far Cry 3 just had stellar acting. Most didn't start on the Far Cry series until 3 came around. FC1 was thr best FPS of the year it released, competing with HL2, Doom 3, and FEAR. FC2 had some of the best fire physics in a game to this very day. I've only seen better fire physics in Red Dead. FC3 had a HUD that was too busy and dogshit enemy A.I..
Thanks Glad to hear it ,hope your right . I'm playing right now my first Far Cry game #5 on a Ps5 ,it is so much fun . I found out #5 is not even the best FC game? #3 and #4 I hear are even better as well. Playing those next I'm hooked .
i stopped playing when assassins creed had that long cutscene of the guy coming out of the animus and they ask him "how did it feel to live and make love as a black woman" i cut that shit off immediately. i think it was ac3 liberation or somethin like that.
i would not give my hope on tencet. Being a customer to Tencent mobile games, they rarely release content but many microtransactions. some of the paid to play games become free but the amount of microtransactions is insane, you can say it even worse than EA approach
You got one part, the company have not listened to gamers, along with attacking gamers. And pretty much all of the creative talen of Ubisoft is either silenced by DEI/ESG or left the studios. So IMO ubisoft is a dying giant. Even if they listened, they cant make one great game that is able to save the company.
I love how people hate ubisoft while i moved on after six siege and AC oddessy. That time I understood tht aint that developer anymore who made games like AC2 and FC3 and FC4. Because of that i exolore lots of games from different companies and developer.
It’s not the fact they use the same IP that made them fall. I don’t mind that and I guess other people don’t mind that as well. We just need them to make the games with love and passion again and a few new things there and then. I just want the story of each game to be good and more engaging than the last one and give the world around us with life. It can have the same gameplay as the last game just give me a good story and good engagement into the game and I’ll be all set. People want something different but sometimes asking for too much can hurt the game.
Dunno how correct some of this data and takes... the RPG styling actually bounced Ubisoft back. Also, it's "Far Cry: New Dawn" not just Dawn. Decent video anyway.
@Minutes_of_Riches The Crew Motorfest is one of the best racing games i ever played. That's not just because of the narrative. You want to diminish the shine of their work. Watch Dogs 2 is one of the best open world game on the market. Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a masterpiece. But okay, they are infested with woke people in there. That is the problem. Ha!! And They fired Ashraf Ismail just because he cheated on his wife. The mentor behind Black flag and Origins.
“Woke” and “DEI” are nonexistent issue. Plenty of “woke” games do great, it’s when out of touch executives get greedy when games get bad. Pay to win, pay to progress, pay to play early, pay developers less and crunch them more to get a game out faster to appease investors. Stuff like that. 🤷
@@KC-pz4mdI don't think so. Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League, Unknown 9, Dustborn, Dragon Age the Veilguard and Concord would suggest the word still works quite well.
Ubisoft spends a crap load of money making games so when they don't do well it hurts I haven't played their games in a while. But trying the avatar game from a couple years ago it's crazy It looks amazing sounds great and has a lot of accessibility options. Gameplay has been good of the short amount I played so far. You can feel the game was expensive to make. I only got it because it was $20 or so for black Friday.
They might have had a financial success with AC Valhalla but to me it is definitely were I suffered fatigue with the series. I’ve finished every AC game except that one and probably never will finish it. Origins and Odyssey are better yet you included them in the “repetitive” section. Makes mo sense.
"YOU BE SOFT"
I thought it was pronounced as "OOH BEE SOFT"
but sure I guess. I do be soft too
"Do you wanna be soft this week?"😉
Can’t unhear it 😂
Ikr, why cant he just say it normal 😂
That's how you pronounce it, although he does put too much distance between each syllable
I think a lot of their problems stem from not listening to gamers, paywalling content, and releasing buggy games. Their CEOs comments saying “gamers should get used to not owning games” hasn’t helped either
Paywalling the content could proven costly for Ubisoft for sure.
Forgot about the whole NFT bullshit they were gonna invest in
Everyone was. By everyone I mean all their piers.
Ubisoft in late 2010s doing like what EA always does.
Ubisoft used to be my favorite gaming company. I just wish now they would sell the Tom Clancy series to some passionate developers.
Same thing with me, but with Rayman and Prince of Persia.
I doubt they are making money nowdways from splinter cell and other games. Maybe 10 thousand a year. Why not sell it for 50 million or so.
Splinter Cell 3 Chaos Theory best masterpiece game ever
@@robertodiaz1597 to be honest I don't really care about the Tom Clancy series the only exception is probably Splinter Cell. 🤷
@ to be honest I agree with you. I don’t care for the open world Ghost Recon and I miss the Rainbow 6’s of yesteryear. Ghost Recon Advanced Solider was incredible, I wish they’d go back to that formula. Hopefully we get to enjoy some Splinter Cell in the future.
@@robertodiaz1597 I played advanced soldier back then on pc both titles. I read that this are bad versions and the real ones are the console versions. But still as teenager I enjoyed it and it was hard. I think I couldnt even pass half the game of Advance Warfighter 2 ;D I tried it for many years back then but I couldnt pass a certain level in the half. So it was a good game where you have to be very stealthy and tactical.
What people don't understand is that even IF Ubisoft had a big hit like Assassin's Creed Shadows being an IGN 10 game, the profits from a success would only begin to pay themselves for the backlog of high budget failures like Skull & Bones. They wouldn't be "in the green" they'd be fighting to reach net zero and not be in debt with prior losses.
There balance sheet is bad but they still had 2.3billion sales in 23/24 it’s all online and makes interesting reading. But you’re correct it doesn’t hinge on one game.
Skull&Bones is a different story. That one NEEDED to be pushed out no matter what, since that one got millions of dollar from Singapore government. Ubisoft cannot just canceled it like other games.
people in assasincreed reddit will keep buying any ubisoft sells as long as it have AC in it.
@@glennhkboyASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS for me is like last hurrah for Ubisoft if they cant improve Ubisoft as a whole.
Ive been saying this exact statement in comments for years: "Ubisoft has The Fear. They can't make a new I.P.." That's turned out to be true. I've also been saying for at least 2 years that Ubisoft will be the first AAA studio to fold, and that is looking very, very true.
The CEOs of the company simply don't play video games. It's the only rational explanation for so many irrational decisions.
it's always small youtubers that make masterpieces of videos
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@@Minutes_of_RichesHappy new year 2025, @minutes_of_Riches.
It's AI, there's no way the same guy could find four different ways to pronounce ubisoft😂
Trees fall and new ones grow to take over.
The indie game 2D mowing sim, rpg idel game. Cookie clicker fnaf ripoff dynasty begins. Yay, a big F'ing yay.
Quote goes hard ngl
@@betwrixolive9431Ubisoft in 2020s seemingly faced tons of tough challenges.
Yuu Bee Soft
Even Coco Hayashi also feeling pessimistic about AC SHADOWS.
UBISOFT in 2000s to mid 2010s are considered to be the true peak.
@purwantiallan5089 Ubisoft best years, and I so miss that era 😢
The nostalgia when you see those first AC games... And Mass Effect was coming out at the same time, it was a great period
Indeed😮
It's when I really got into gaming, first 2 games were ac 1 and mw2
The mass effect trilogy wasnt far behind in my list
Good times
I’m all for Ubisoft to fail at this point. They spent years not listening to the customers criticisms and have finally reaped the consequences. Nobody is entitled to a comeback. They had several chances to reverse course but chose to keep chugging along toward the cliff where a sack of money was sitting just out of reach. Let em fall so they can be a cautionary tale of what not to do to a gaming company
Anyone can see that big corporations rarely are innovation leaders. This is not an accident, but by design through their risk-control strategies employed by the management. Small corporations take risks, big corporations avoid them if possible. Thus, big corporations will focus on existing IPs rather than gambling on (expensive) new ones.
Not even 2k subs? Wowie, you’re one to watch! Best of luck dude 😊
Thank you very much🙌🏻❤️
ehhhh
This type of editing style is very common nowadays. You'll see a ton of channels like this who pad out the runtime a lot just to give you a history lesson instead of talking about the actual subject of the video. The first few times it was genuinely entertaining. But the more of these type of content farm-ish videos I watched. They felt so soulless and a waste of time.
The music used on Assassins Creed II scene reminds me how good thier music was. Still love the music track ‘Ezio’s Family’
True, I too remember🙌🏻
I relistened AC ROGUE main theme also.
Dude The editing is amazing rare to see at such a young channel, honestly I thought I was watching a magnates media video
Thank you very much🙌🏻❤️ Appreciate your words..
Oh, you forgot to mention the failure of their supposed "CoD killer", XDefiant.
None of us remember that
Actually I though that one is quite fun. The basic shooting & running mechanic is solid. It cost me nothing since it is a free-to-play. The issue with XDefiant is that the rewards are too far & between. There is not enough carrot for gamers to grain for.
Kinda weird to use the PS2 as the console Ubisoft took off on when the PS2 versions of those Tom Clancy games were literally the worst versions. They literally had missing levels that were included on the PC and Xbox and looked significantly worse. Also, the first Far Cry was made by Crytek. Ubisoft had nothing to do with it.
You did a great job laying out Ubisoft's development history and overall frustrations in recent years, but something I'm shocked you didn't touch upon is the topic of ownership rights as Ubisoft is one of the worst cases for consumers. They're the kind of company to make you connect to the internet to play single-player games.
I'm someone that buys physical discs if possible, and Ubisoft game discs are essentially useless. Most game discs actually have data and let you play/download offline, but down the line some of these Ubisoft games might not be able to play. Only time will tell...but it's already happened with Ubisoft's game The Crew, which they took away from digital owners even though the game has a single player mode. Forget who said it, but one executive has said on record that customers should get comfortable with not owning games.
Rayman 4: *still waiting to be created*
“Does this mean we cant expect good games from Ubisoft anymore?” Yes. That’s exactly what it means. We cant trust ubisoft nor expect good games from them.
“Ubosoft was founded by 5 Guillemot brothers who still own Ubisoft today”…. Yeahhhhhhh, not for long 💀
Ubisoft’s collapse is long overdue.. I am a huge fan of the avatar movies and was super hype to hear that after years the movie was finally receiving a stand alone game. When I found out Ubisoft was making it I completely lost all interest and knew it would just be a farcry spin off with blue cats… It seems my prediction was correct. That absolutely ruined the franchise for me.
Great video, amazing editing quality 🙏
Thank you very much❤️🙌🏻
how many times am I going to see comments like this that praise the editing? because this type of editing is everywhere on RUclips now. Maube the first few times I watched these content farm type videos its entertaining. But It's not very common or surprising to me the more I watch these types of videos.
Everytime he says ubisoft i say no bro" YOU BE SOFT" "I HARD"
What gamers want never comes from corporate executive and investor meeting. They take away from the gamer experience. We need to go back to these large conglomerates waiting for independant studios to release a game and just handle the marketing. No more deadlines and demands to the studios.
>Watch_Dogs
>Well received on launch
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@a0001521 It's a shame that some people don't like this game. Personally, I think Watch_Dogs is probably Ubisoft's underrated game they made.
@@Sonicman4155Yes especially the PS3 WATCH DOGS, despite its quite buggy its still underrated too.
Good video! Should get more attention.
Thank you! Appreciate it🙌🏻
To me: it started with AC Unity. Then went down hill, after far cry 6 they died... For the first consoles (PS4/Xbox one)
Releasing unity in that condition hurt the franchise severely and I don't think they've ever redeemed themselves on it. Alright, origins and odyssey are great games but they've distanced themselves too far from what AC was always meant to he about.
The French had it coming just like Electronic Arts if they don’t get their shit together soon once GTA 6 is out it’s over for these conglomerates
I remember when that Ubisoft jingle gave me joy, now it only makes me feel sad.
@@wyattjones6077 agreed, I missed Ubisoft 😢
Ubisoft went Woke... Too Woke over the years...
from other's comments, it seems that the whole SBI company & a lot of the woke things in gaming industry today actually originated from Ubisoft (since a lot of the SBI current or former employees were old Ubisoft employee).
Nah, it's not woke. It's poor writing. Even if they went anti-woke, they would still be doomed.
@@triadwarfarethe poor writing is because of the woke ideology
This ain't pandering. This is poor business choices.
pure delusion @@mr.niceguy1913
Idc at this point. Sell AC and pop to someone who actually can send off those games like they deserved
The talent is probably not working at Ubisoft anymore, like Patrice Desilects the guy that made Assassin's Creed and the best ones were made by him and he worked on many of the iconic Prince of Persia games and what is going on with the Tom Clancy Series, where's Splinter Cell?, where is Beyond Good and Evil 2? Where's Rayman? And the original development teams, who knows what of them now remains. And the shareholders are holding not only Ubisoft back, but the gaming industry as a whole. I don't think Ubisoft is the same anymore. They're not really coming up with new IP's either or even fresh new idea as much as they used to. But who knows that could change I could be proven wrong. Hopefully that is the case. I played a lot of there iconic titles.
This is actually really sad. I really hope they change their ways and go back to their roots.
I stopped supporting ubisoft when i found out i cant play the games if you didnt log in to uplay for 5 months. Thats the last straw.
I remember that happening to me way back. They just make everything always online now.
Hanzo Hattori is the best choice for Assassin Creed: Shadow. He is a famous Ninja in Japan history. people who play hack-n-slash koei games know him very well. Yes, Yasuke is real but I don't understand why put him in a ninja game? I am Asian so I have no problem with black or white character but why can't the game stay true to their name?
I am 4 minutes in the vieo and already liked an subscribed.
Thank you very much brother❤️🙌🏻
If they end up closing, I want to buy the Rayman license, because I have very amazing ideas for that series, like making a game that ACTUALLY tells Rayman's origins, while still keeping that same feeling that the Rayman Origins game has.
@kadenkingery cool idea. very unlikely, but still.
@@Sonicman4155 Yeah I think it is a pretty good idea. I would next make another 3d Rayman game, like Rayman 4, or make a finale to the Ubiart games called, Rayman: Forever, Or even make a full remake of Rayman 1 using the Ubiart engine. The latter is probably my favorite idea to be honest.
My favorite Ubisoft game is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic which offers a first person melee experience still unmatched.
I know that game is made by ubisoft but tbh i always looked at that game like valve made it , probably because source engine
@@droljanz It does look and feel like a total conversion mod for a Half Life 2 that became a standalone game, I agree.
I know it will sounds cruel but ubisoft needs to cut like 85% of all of their developers.
They have too many project at single time, yet non of this projects are good quality. Skull and bones, Star wars outlaws, Avatar, Far cry 6 were such a mid games with overblown budgets. Now they should focus on one game at the time, deliver a good product so maybe people would recognize that this company still can make good games. But nope, flop after flop is what they give us.
They should just get comfortable for not having thier male devs
About the Skill Trees. I feel like the Skill Trees in Origins and Odyssey were awful mainly because of how f*cking hard it is to level up, ESPECIALLY Odyssey. I remember giving up on Odyssey for nearly a YEAR because I was sick of slogging around, barely being able to get EXP to level up. However, Valhalla did remedy this because now levelling up is like the easiest thing possible. Main Missions, Side Missions, Collectables, and etc. They all give Skill Points and don't solely require you to level up or grind out EXP. I mean, I'd prefer it if my ability to clear missions was based not on my Character Level but rather based on my own personal skill level and understand of the in-game mechanics just like back during the early days of Assassins Creed, but I mean, I'll take what I can get y'know?
UbiSoft was deom 1998 to 2016 a powerhouse in gaming world, but then it went fast out.
The fact there own mascot and first commercial sucsess Rayman have completely been shelved and given no prio to have a new full game. No 3D world Rayman has been made since Rayman 3, while there have been millions of people since then expressed to see a new such adventure. But how they have only been BS the gamer community in recent couple of years truly killed them.
@@WarioSaysSo RIP Ubisoft 😔
@@Sonicman4155 Amen !!!!
Where are all the original games like splinter cell and assassin’s creed. They where amazing and original when they first came out
They are repeating same IP over and over. It's going to be stale. It's a carbon copy of each other. No innovation.
EA COD is like that. Same formula, dull story.
They are milking it dry. It's like a yearly sportgame with a different numbered year.
At least Mario and Zelda have evolved for 30+ years and give out 4-5 years apart to look at the video landscapes of new innocations.
And indeed, we gamers must realize that we, in a certain POV, are the bosses to these companies, with the ability to speak through our wallets.
When you pumped over $500 mil into a single title, the cost of failure is usually the sale of the entire company or getting dissolved. The cost is so huge that if you ain't earn the billions, you can't make enough to appease the investors.
I wish game companies would just stay mid-sized, consistently developing humble but fun games. Instead of churning out overated AAA titles within short span of time.
These days, the strategy is that whatever appeals to consumers, they'll be sure to flood the market with it and similar as fast as they can to earn the most out of that period of trend.
When development cost gets so big, it should only make sense to keep any released title alive for multiple years while they develop the next distinctively different successor to replace it several years later. I certainly don't need a new COD every year, I'd rather they keep a single COD alive with updates and DLCs long enough until a new and significantly different COD is ready to take over from its predecessor. I dropped my years of support for COD after BO2, came back during WWII and continued throughout the entire MW2019. After trying out BOCW, I decided it's time to leave COD again because it really doesn't give much newer experience to warrant my support with my wallet. Maybe some 5 years down, I may be back to try out another COD then. That's if the gaming giants are still standing at that point.
I don't know which microtransaction is worst, in-game XP boosters and skins that doesn't affect the gaming experience much? Or selling you the main items, like characters that can break the game, in gacha fashion. Gacha is making good money, if Tencent does buy out Ubi, your future AC, R6 characters and weapons may cost you the price equivalent to a limited collector edition AAA full game just to get a single copy of that character + signature weapon. 😂
wait...folks complained because a game took 60 hours for the main story? That amount was almost a standard back in the day, to allow stories to breath and develop. Paying 70$ for 60+ hours gaming is more than fair price. Ubisoft is no saint, but dude....how far brain capacities have fallen if people prefer to pay 70$ for a 10-20 hours worth game? Oh no..... sorry...they would complain that is overpriced. Expectations are in the head of players, not on the company. Again: Ubisoft should have pulled its head out of its bottom, but also players nowadays are bipolar lunatics, at best. That's why following trends is not advisable. If Tencent buys off Ubisoft, expect assasin's creed gacha in 2 seconds, flattening even more the creative department and lowering the general quality of the products. Look what happened to Rot Games ( owed by Tencent), LoL and Arcane ( top stellar TV show, studio laid off and now planning to use a-i...the garbage generator)
Again, repetitiveness and poor writing plague the Ubisoft games
60+ hrs of nothing brother. Boring tasks, repetitive tasks, there's a limit. That's not fun anymore.
Ubisoft used to once in a while come up with genius games like ac or r6 or splinter cell but they for some reason release same content over and over again instead of doing something new which would be fun to play.
Man they basically lobotomized watch dogs with Legion. Yeah it’s still a watch dogs game,but is anybody ACTUALLY happy with that game?
Games were developed by people that had a vision in terms of on how a game would play and look, the experience you would get as a gamer. The focus now is on graphics as a mass appeal with in game purchases. So you buy a game that is not complete and if desired is never finished. The for focus is mass appeal and profit, not a quality game.
Deadlines is another hot topic. The budgets are so huge that one must make a return of investment at a point. Deadlines are often times unrealistic (TinTin?) it ruins the atmospere, people leaving (often times the ones you need the most) and pressure get even higher ruining the atmosphere even more. The work ethics of making long (and often unproductive) days is what backfired in the computer industry in general.
CEO's (this started in the car industry I believe) have no experience in terms of game development and try to make believe that you can put 65 minutes in an hour.
Rayman is only glorified in their bought game called Growtopia. The game itself is in a verge of dying or being forgotten, not for his fists in Growtopia.
You forgot to talk about the whole franchise history of Rainbow Six began on PC first and after later on consoles.
You also forgot their very poor Launcher and the fact that people for years have had troubles just getting games they've bought to even OPEN. I can't get Wildlands after a fresh format, Win 10 install, new drivers and windows update. Their support system also sucks arse as well, so people having trouble with their games don't have relevant help to remedy their problems.
Not to be that guy but it's a France company and it's pronounced: you buy soft
😅
Non c'est pas le cas. On dit "oo-bee-soft". Regarde des vidéos où des francophones parlent d'Ubisoft sur des podcasts etc.
Not much longer, it's not.
Quebec is in Canada, dumb ass.
Not to be that guy but the word you're looking for is "French."
Criticism is needed, but sometimes criticism can be more bad than good if it isn’t done in a respectable and professional understanding manner.
When Ubisoft can't even make a monopoly game without it crashing (on next gen consoles I might add) then it's only a matter of time before they fuck up big time
Am I the only one who believes gamers dont actually want their franchises to "evolve and change" and actually want the same thing over and over again, just with a few changes in between? I mean, they still sell so much, and only few people get angry at them and tell it "lacks innovation".
It's only when they change so much of the game that gamers in general start to get angry at the changes.
Today´s games are almost all form over content. Majority of development time focuses on microtransactions, ironing out all the monetization bugs, while the game itself is made to alpha or pre-alpha state with most of its bugs present at release, and possibly NEVER fixed.
Releasing unfinished products should be made illegal.
I find most new games uninteresting. They´re either reskins of older titles with just some graphics enhancements, or the same game as some older one, but made WORSE than its predecessor. As a result, i no longer see any point in upgrading my computer any further.
Also, the gaming critic reviews no longer work. It seems people are finally catching up to the thought of the critics simply being paid to evaluate the game high on their list in order to increase initial sales. I personally consider it funny, that on a scale of 0-10, they only keep using 6-10 part (bad games get 6-7/10, mediocre 7-9/10 and the rest gets 10/10) of their review evaluation charts.
Tencent acquiring Ubisoft will not be a salvation, but obliteration of Ubisoft as we know it.
"As a result, i no longer see any point in upgrading my computer any further"
I like how you only use your computer for only Ubosft games and pretend that other great games don't exist. Because there is still a ton of good/great games releasing even today (Obviously)
I just wish I got a upscale Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
I don’t game as much like i did year ago, i’ve been following the gaming industry for years and still see the same problem, can someone please help me understand the corporate side of this? why is it always the same conclusion that the customer, we as gamers opinion doesn’t matter until they almost are bankrupt?
it’s the same cycle for every game publisher and always the same thing if fatigue and people eventually stop playing the games etc etc. why isn’t anyone trying to always have the customer in focus instead of quick money?
So assassins creed back then was like cyberpunk now
I think the last good ubisoft game was AC : Syndicate. After that, the fall started happening. I can't say than the two ghost recon games were "good".
You have it all wrong, ubisoft did not create rainbow six or ghost recon franchise! That was redstorm entertainment
same with farcry since its made by crytek
There was NEVER this time.
There were islands of talent amidst an ocean of toxic politics, horrendous decisions and a shit load of bad games.
I wish we got rayman games again, i loved those so much
As someone who got ac valhalla from relatives as a Christmas gift last year i swear if the campaign was 30 hours or even less and the open world was shrunk down only leaving a few monestaries/castles and random side quests, just the cream of the crop, it could have been a game of the year contendor
Ubisoft is trash thanks the the thems
i like far cry 2 3 4 5 and have my eye on far cry primal, but until ubisoft fixes their launcher or completely remove it, i refuse to spend any money on their game ever again.
0:27 u know what else is massive?
Low taper fade🎉🎉🎉
Surprised there was no mention of Just Dance
Being games cost a lot to make and the risk of investing in new IP that might fail is worrying. I do wonder why companies dont just create a demo of a new game idea, i guess the same as PT on playstation. They could charge £5 or whatever for it and if the demo got a lot of hype they could make it into a full game. Maybe that would enable an easier way for companies to risk new IP without the financhial risk?
They should have made Fenyx Rising an anime game. Maybe with a story where you lose your sibling and have a small flying creature with a high pitch voice. If they have done that they would be swimming in money by now. I don't think that innovation is the main culprit, there morels are. The are more focused on sending a message then making a good game.
You saying about fenyx rising should be an anime game reminds me that Ubisoft used to make Naruto games. remember they made two open world games while nowadays the IP is stock in arena fighter hell, I missed those days.
Terrific video.
You guys know all these videos are made by AI right? Even the Narrator is AI. Please stop supporting this kind of content, we don’t need more robots flooding the internet.
Hey, Just a small clarification, Only the VO is AI, Everything else (Script writing, Editing) is human made.
I don’t have a compelling voice, so AI voice worked better than my own voice😅🥲
As long as the voice is good I do not care if R2-D2 is narrating it .
Yeah, the You-Bee-soft pronounciation is kinda irritating not gunna lie.
@@Minutes_of_Riches that would explain my suspicion then. But even then it still feels very soulless to watch or even listen to
And all I can add to that ending is if your videos are genuinely good to most people, then no one will care about how your voice sounds
@@nintony2994 Thanks for you feedback! Definitely there's lot to be improved in story telling.
Massive Ghost Recon player, they made a game called GR mainline 3 years ago, to universal condemnation from our community as it was nothing like the games before. They then completely shelved it, its now been 5 years since a new GR game with no news on a new one. They are spectacularly useless.
The biggest mistake what they made was reviving the Settles. They turned it to online biggest mess. Old players who remember that series, not really interested about that garbage.
bru, does gpt write your scripts?
yea totally
Not really, I wrote it, Tell me what needs to be improved?😅 I’m still learning
@@Minutes_of_Riches oof, idk man. i'm not gonna analyze your vid. it just feels so off at first glance and you use so much buzzwords while saying nothing.
Thank you for the feedback!🙌🏻
@@Tantalos79 I think its the way hes delivering the words from the script. It's like a text to Speech or an AI is doing the reading for him. Oddly enough I've seen a lot of other channels who follow this way of editing and voicing over their videos too. Its very very soulless
So is the whole video made by AI or only voice over?
Hey, Only the VO.
Yeah this is AI slop
I stopped playing Assassins Creed After AC Unity. Far Cry 3 was the best.
Thanks!!🙌🏻
A lot of people say this. Far Cry 1&2 were both better in several ways. Far Cry 3 just had stellar acting. Most didn't start on the Far Cry series until 3 came around. FC1 was thr best FPS of the year it released, competing with HL2, Doom 3, and FEAR. FC2 had some of the best fire physics in a game to this very day. I've only seen better fire physics in Red Dead. FC3 had a HUD that was too busy and dogshit enemy A.I..
Thanks Glad to hear it ,hope your right .
I'm playing right now my first Far Cry game #5 on a Ps5 ,it is so much fun .
I found out #5 is not even the best FC game? #3 and #4 I hear are even better as well.
Playing those next I'm hooked .
i stopped playing when assassins creed had that long cutscene of the guy coming out of the animus and they ask him "how did it feel to live and make love as a black woman" i cut that shit off immediately. i think it was ac3 liberation or somethin like that.
@@hudenough3475 FC 1 was not made by Ubisoft. Ubisoft was just the publisher of that game.
i would not give my hope on tencet.
Being a customer to Tencent mobile games, they rarely release content but many microtransactions.
some of the paid to play games become free but the amount of microtransactions is insane, you can say it even worse than EA approach
You got one part, the company have not listened to gamers, along with attacking gamers. And pretty much all of the creative talen of Ubisoft is either silenced by DEI/ESG or left the studios. So IMO ubisoft is a dying giant. Even if they listened, they cant make one great game that is able to save the company.
I love how people hate ubisoft while i moved on after six siege and AC oddessy. That time I understood tht aint that developer anymore who made games like AC2 and FC3 and FC4. Because of that i exolore lots of games from different companies and developer.
It’s not the fact they use the same IP that made them fall. I don’t mind that and I guess other people don’t mind that as well. We just need them to make the games with love and passion again and a few new things there and then. I just want the story of each game to be good and more engaging than the last one and give the world around us with life.
It can have the same gameplay as the last game just give me a good story and good engagement into the game and I’ll be all set.
People want something different but sometimes asking for too much can hurt the game.
Nice edit
Why are you unable to say "Ubisoft" without sounding like a robot?
Dunno how correct some of this data and takes... the RPG styling actually bounced Ubisoft back. Also, it's "Far Cry: New Dawn" not just Dawn. Decent video anyway.
Well said. Keep up.
At least they gave us great games to enjoy without chasing money and making gameplay bad like E.A and Activision
Downfall of a corp is always about how severe their company politics is
You should research more on this video. You forgot to mension "The Crew" & driver San Francisco. Wich are amazing games.
Yeah.. True… There were few games which I left because the narrative was getting little longer.
@Minutes_of_Riches The Crew Motorfest is one of the best racing games i ever played. That's not just because of the narrative. You want to diminish the shine of their work. Watch Dogs 2 is one of the best open world game on the market. Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a masterpiece.
But okay, they are infested with woke people in there. That is the problem. Ha!! And They fired Ashraf Ismail just because he cheated on his wife. The mentor behind Black flag and Origins.
You need to demonstrate the mandolin with the safety guard on your hand. Not the hand slicer 9000 method.
“Woke” and “DEI” are nonexistent issue. Plenty of “woke” games do great, it’s when out of touch executives get greedy when games get bad. Pay to win, pay to progress, pay to play early, pay developers less and crunch them more to get a game out faster to appease investors. Stuff like that. 🤷
Why, because of woke... there, safed you 25 mins!
Pahh you all throw this word woke around so much it’s lost all meaning just like being called racist😅😂
@@KC-pz4mdI don't think so. Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League, Unknown 9, Dustborn, Dragon Age the Veilguard and Concord would suggest the word still works quite well.
@ yeah? And? You know there are probably people out there that call them games woke too mate, don’t act stupid
100%.
It should be called social insomnia, because of how deranged they are.
0:50 missing the old Ubi,including its tune
I know..😅
Naughty dog is getting bashed right now but they arent scared to move on with whats succesful, you be soft is right innovate dude
Ubisoft spends a crap load of money making games so when they don't do well it hurts
I haven't played their games in a while. But trying the avatar game from a couple years ago it's crazy
It looks amazing sounds great and has a lot of accessibility options. Gameplay has been good of the short amount I played so far.
You can feel the game was expensive to make.
I only got it because it was $20 or so for black Friday.
Simple explanation: They went woke
Is it intentional that you pronounce Ubisoft; "you be soft"?
They might have had a financial success with AC Valhalla but to me it is definitely were I suffered fatigue with the series. I’ve finished every AC game except that one and probably never will finish it. Origins and Odyssey are better yet you included them in the “repetitive” section. Makes mo sense.
The people behind these games are long since gone.