May I remind you all that the marketing director of Ubisoft went out a couple months ago to say that people should get used to not owning their games. Now look at them, making games that nobody owns, just not in the way they predicted.
@@darktirkd7395that’s so much worse holy shit. At least the CEO would have the excuse of being stupid, how could the fucking marketing director ever think for even a microinstant that that would be a good PR move?
@@pneumon6990 I'm not surprised. Look at how predatory corporations are being - they probably thought they'd just continue the trend and be fine when everyone else followed. Truth be told they're probably gonna be right in the end, and they'll just serve as a cautionary tale on how not to exploit properly.
There's never a good time to launch an NFT game, but launching an NFT game immediately after disbanding the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is absolutely insane.
@@a_cat1234 And? They said every none asset flip uses unique assets, TONNES of non asset flips use store bought assets. And considering AAA games, even the awful ones, are never asset flips, they're clearly not talking about AAA games exclusively.
They wanted us to get used to not owning their games Then we got used to not buying their games And now we're getting used to not even hearing about their games
yeah ubisoft absolutely got ratio’d i feel like when they told us to get used to not owning their games everyone went “whaat oh hell no” and just stopped giving them money
Makes me think what makes them possibly justify releasing an NFT game and blame the players. They are incredibly incompetent and are blind. If studios centralizes profit over creativity then that's how games die on release or overtime (franchises included).
@@Shattered_shards Theres nothing wrong about prioritizing profit over creativity but if thats what the entire games purpose and existence is supposed to be about then I doubt it will last long. There should be some semblance of balance
"Making "solid" games isn't enough when you have "gamers expecting extraordinary experiences," - Ubisoft CEO He never said the extraordinary experience had to be good...
@@AllHailDiskordianot that shortsighted, they’ve been in decline for like a decade, and they were still making a bank. All these CEO’s made millions if not billions, they succeeded, company not so much, but who cares? They’ll about to get a golden parachute.
Unscammed? Judging by the people who bought into Logan Paul's CryptoZoo, being scammed at least once or twice isn't going to stop these dumb adults from falling for another one.
"Our shared goal is to explore new ways to play alongside bringing more value to players based on empowerment and ownership." I read that and just about spat out my coffee, I laughed to hard! 🤣😂🤣
Remember when Ubisoft CEO said "gamers should just accept not owning their games anymore" now they are championing NFTs as a good thing for gamers because it means they will "own part of their game" yeah not buying that horseshit. This becomes especially scary to me when you consider what a combination of these 2 ideas comes together. Owning the NFT, meaning you own a financial investment in a game, but you don't own the game? Does that mean you have to pay a subscription in order to maintain that investment? Scary places this could go.
It already came and went, no one gave a shit and clowned on NFTs, Ubisoft is just trying to get a couple bucks with the cheapest game they could make, hoping someone would actually use this bullshit.
@rabidkangar00 Okay I need to ask you a question and I'm being totally serious here, how old are you? Because I'm in my late 20s and my entier life owning the game you buy was the norm. Like it's so werid to me that you said that in the smug "I'll wait" tone when the thing you are acting like it never existed was always how it was. It wasn't always live services and subscriptions. Walk into a retro game store. Buy basically any console that came out before the 2010s. An Xbox 360. PS2, GameCube, N64, whatever. You buy games for it, it belongs to you. You own the physical copy and you didn't need to be online or worry about the company maintaining the service. It was just like buying a movie on Blu-ray or DVD, you own it, it's yours to watch whenever. Even if a game's online service is taken down, you still had access to the campaign and could play with friends via LAN. The apocalypse could come tomorrow and civilization could end. As long as I have a TV, my og Xbox, and a power source, I can play my copy of Halo 2 that I own.
@@rabidkangar00 I am a Pirate from Assassin's creed 4, and I here by tell you something shocking nighha, I own every 24games. Yes they are copies but I own them so let's see what point you are making dumba**
Remember Blue's Clues? The original series, not the reboot. They had very basic CGI and backgrounds drawn in CRAYON. They had ONE green screen! And yet it was a massively successful show that touched the hearts of millions of children. You don't have to use all the most expensive tech available for something to be good.
And as a more relevant example; astro bot only took 50mil to make, in comparison with concords 300mil, and is now game of the year. Meanwhile concords been listed as one of the biggest shitposts in gaming history.
A lesson Nintendo has been swearing by since their beginning. The Game Boy was one of the most popular systems ever and it was basically a souped-up graphing calculator. The Switch was a little underpowered compared to its contemporaries and it sold like hotcakes. Basically every Nintendo system (sorry, Virtual Boy) has had iconic games that are still worth replaying today because they are fun and memorable.
@@browncoatkevin I distinctly remember how much Ubisoft benefited from collaborating with them for 3 projects on Switch, and how well it turned out for them. Starlink Battle For Atlas's sales were SAVED by the inclusion of Star Fox in the Switch version specifically. Both Mario + Rabbids games had a HEAVY presence in Ubisoft's fiscal revenue, even if the 2nd sold way less than the first. It's just weird at this point how Ubisoft took absolutely NO hints from this success, going into this decade. That MAYBE they should try these little gameplay-focused experiments more often?
@@browncoatkevin nintendo is probably the only company which makes good games with actual creativity in them right now, sony drops good games aswell but i cant forgive them for killing lbp and almost killing hd2
NFT's in 2024. Embarrassing. My first videogame I ever played was Rayman when I was 4 years old. It's inconceivable that Ubisoft has fallen so low since those times.
Reminds me of the fate of Jazz Jack Rabbit by Epic Mega Games. Yes, the same Epic Games that is currently known today for a single cashcow. That was probably one of Ubisoft's hopes as well, to have that one money generating crap so they can justify all of their past actions. Such as the abysmally dogshit launcher (this applies to Epic Games as well)
This sounds like a contractual obligation they were forced to fulfill. They realised putting any money into it - or even advertising it - was going to cost them but cancelling it all together was going to cost them more. Give it to a tiny team with the directive "get it done and get it done fast" then throw it out the back door, tick it off on the to-do list, and quietly ignore it forever.
It was the same thing with skull and bones except skull and bones wasn't gotten out quickly or quietly.... But I guarantee they would not have finished that game if they weren't contractually obligated to. I could totally see that being the case here too.
Couldn’t agree more. I can’t imagine a single timeline where they see their stock price as low as it is and then say “We should really try that NFT thing again.” This had to have been a deal they signed off on years and just wanted to get it over with.
This is the equivalent of trying to silently squeeze out a fart in public and then promptly causing a biohazard evacuation because you shit yourself royally
This whole thing is shit, but don't drag procedural generation through the mud. That's been used to amazing effect for almost as long as games have existed. If the *parts* are AI generated, that's worth dragging them for, but procedural is not AI, and AI is not procedural.
@@faeranne anything ai-generated is for crypto nerds. Procedural stuff is when something can be auto-generated such as a Minecraft world. Minecraft is not ai
The fact you can't even load the Ubisoft Connect app without feeling like you're pulling a slot machine arm just hoping it won't crash REALLY makes you wonder where their priorities are.
having to login EVERY single time (high asf so i dont remember my password) with email and password is just dumb asf. "remember me" button doesn't even work
For me the launcher just re-opens in the FOREGROUND randomly, attempting to derail the game I'm playing, I swear that this seems on purpose as it's only been happening more recently. Also don't forget the fabled error message "The Ubisoft services aren't available right now, try again later"
The company trying to get you used to not owning stuff, made a videogame where the whole point is getting you to buy ownership of stuff. It simply doesn't compute.
Stardew valley has sold 30 million copies, grossed around $500,000,000, and was made by one dude with a desktop computer in his room at home. How these giant companies can't find a group of talented people and just let them do their thing is crazy to me. Good player reviews and a fair price tag next the title is better than millions of dollars in advertising, good games sell themselves.
@@kl41256-p That sounds exactly like how the execs at my previous workplace. These big wigs knows nothing but lecturing, and pressing their "subordinates" to achieve "the goals". Which is mostly just some arbitrary numbers to grant them those juicy "achievement incentives".
Stardew Valley has more than earned its fan base. It still gets major updates that are free and will remain free. It was a complete project on release and has never been a live service product.
the higher ups dont know what people care about and dont know how to lead subordinates, they only know how to keep people in line and make products, not how to make people happy and produce art. And gaming is ART, nobody cares about the value of the price of games, they care about the experience. A 60$ game thats a masterpiece is way better than a 15$ game that blows ass because people care about the experience and enjoyment, because there isnt an "inherent value" to games. You cant eat a disk or wear code.
The reason NFT bros aren't talking about the game is that most NFT bro hype for NFT projects is actually fake traffic generated by bot accounts, either directly or indirectly. Artificially inflating your worth is standard practice in every element of crypto shit.
If you look back they often had a tendency to ignore projects by companies that would've served to legitimize crypto basically because they'd no longer be able to do the back room BS they normally do- like price pumping and rug-pulling, so I'm not that surprised no one in that circuit cares about this.
You wonder if any of original people are at the company, revealing their decreasing IQ or if they've been replaced by baby sunshine minds and faces chosen to make and maintain 17+ titles.
It’s as if companies don’t understand gamers don’t want the same, AI generated, soulless corporate slop. These companies blame everybody BUT themselves for their downfall. Let me say it right now: if you make a good, polished game, people WILL buy it and in turn, you’ll make PROFIT.
How is it physically possible for an entire organization of that massive of scale to be this unbelievably tone deaf and out of touch? It doesn't make any sense...
"empowerment through ownership" coming from the company famous for subscriptions and literally taking your purchased games from you if you don't login often enough is wild
Yeah speaking of taking your games from you. They do that on this dumb horse game I played on the phone as a kid. After Ubi bought it it turned to SH1T! And I spent REAL MONEY on it but because I didn't log in for 6 months they deleted my account. Should be illegal. I BOUGHT IT
I play longer podcast type videos through my radio when I'm driving and it's becoming almost impossible to listen for even 5 minutes without an ad. It's ridiculous and annoying as hell
the Ubisoft NFT game even got hacked. Like you cannot play it, everyone gets matched with the same singular opponent that wins before the match starts.
If you look at the games website and go the marketplace everything looks AI generated. The figurines all look pretty much the same and clearly have randomly generated names that just placed two words together from a pool of 20 words. This is beyond lazy and so out of touch its wild. Ubisoft is screwed.
With the amount of times Charlie has roasted Ubisoft, you would think he’d get tired of it and let it die out and not bother giving it simple criticism.
Well, it does help boost negative press around Ubisofts bullshit, lol. 🤷🏽♀️ Their bad reputation is getting to the point where audiences see a new game ad, but then the Ubisoft logo pops up and they get turned off. These execs are so out of touch that major losses and zero drawing power are the only things that... might eventually register...? 💀
3:11, Ubisoft gone coo-coo crazy, by launch an obvious NFT Pump and Dump scheme game. Not even crypto bros themselves ain't touching that with a 200ft pole. It's because of AC Shadows controversies got delayed to next year because they're afraid of Tencent buy out Guiomont family from Ubisoft. My advice make good games again move on from open world live service games
Uh... I might be interested if it's a seasonal accommodation; the ability to just take some notebooks, a bunch of books, and freeze my ass off on another continent sounds kinda compelling ngl. Do you get supplies airdropped in? Or will I have to set that up with an external company?
Ubisoft: I don’t get it. We give people AAA games, release it alongside DLC, have live service models for most our games, and stick to the tried and true formula that we know! What else can we do? Sane person: You know, maybe instead of making games that have a focus only on money making and wide appeal, maybe go back to making games that people will enjoy? Ubisoft: Wait, Epic Games has a bunch of NFT games that make money! That’s what we’ll do! That’s a surefire success! Sane Person:…you know what? Go ahead. You haven’t listened to us at all over the last however many years and you’ve already got one foot in the grave. At this point, this is all on you…
All Ubisoft needs to do is release 3 offline single player story-based games such as platformers that are all unique. It would perform better than this even if they were buggy games like Ninjabread (which was kinda okay)
I remember when they released games like Assassin's Creed 2 and Far Cry 3. Those were the days. Now, I can't even shell out $70 for their Star Wars game when I'm a massive Star Wars fan. Such a shame.
Ubisoft's huge glory days started when they released the first Splinter Cell in 2002, and ended after they released the final Splinter Cell in 2013. Between that period, they released so many really good games that are still beloved.
Okay someone is trying to destroy Ubisoft internally, there is NO WAY this was done with the intention of actually helping the company or improving its image. I simply do not believe this is incompetence, it can’t be.
The same dudes who made watch dogs, the same people who made ghost recon, the same people who made splinter cell, the same people who made far cry, are now selling nfts, HOW DO YOU CRASH AND BURN THIS BADLY!?
To anyone saying that NFTs are the "natural evolution of item ownership"... Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike solved that problem over a decade ago in a way that doesn't require an energy hungry data storying method. In fact, i have a bigger faith in TF2's silly hats and golden pans to retain value long term and actually bring me profit than any NFT released by Ubislop. Edit: Ok, I see quite a bit of defenders of NFTs. 1. Please continue with your comments. I love watching you seething over my comment. 2. Please, just admit that you want NFTs for the money and stop pretending that somehow you genuinely "own" NFTs in games and that helps players in any way, shape or form. All those NFTs are tied to the game they are in and their existence depends solely on servers of the game running for the eternity. You can only sell stuff within the confines of the game's market, immediately making it the centralised market or the "true ownership" bs. And after the game gets shut down, the only thing you will have will be a receipt that you once owned an item in that game. 3. I can't get enough how non of you have tried to fight my claim that silly hats in TF2 somehow have better long term value than your NFTs.
@niccolocordini4787 you also don't own your nft, you only own a digital receipt saying you own the master copy of that jpeg. This isn't much different than valve items, which simply give a check to your account if you've acquired said item, opening it for use. The only difference is it didn't take 6 warehouses of servers in Kissimmee, Florida to do it lmao
nah, you don't own shit. tf2 and cs only allow you use their items. they'll delete whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. also, isn't it against TOS to use 3rd party marketplaces to trade their items?
I am convinced Ubisoft decides what games to produce and launch on the market by using darts and a bunch of printed papers with names on them glued to a wall
i was thinking its an orangutan in a room with a bunch of noise-making buttons “hey uhh mr bubbles we’re losing money.. what game should w-“ “NFT. NF- FIGHTING. GAME. TRADE. CARDS. TR-CARDS.”
Ugh as a For Honor enjoyer since launch, this hurts me so much.... I truly feel there is so much more potential in FH, and Ubi just continues to throw money at garbage instead of building upon the solid foundation of FH with a sequel or something. Big sad
They won't, they're too busy gutting both of these games by removing core aspects and overwatching their rosters. They don't care about fun or balance of the game, they only care that you buy the new dlc character, and they'll break heaven and earth to make it a required purchase
This is actually heartbreaking, Ubisoft was once one of the best publishers in the world and everyone liked the games they made, I wanna see that time come back man…
Is THIS what they meant when Ubisoft said "Gamers need to get used to not owning games"? And if so, how are they bringing more value to anything based on "empowerment and ownership"?
It's more likely to be another "EA acquires Ubisoft" headline. Or Activision-Blizzard becomes Activision-Blizzard-Ubisoft or something. They've got too many valuable ip's to just go belly-up, even if all of their games have been trash since Black Flag.
You can almost hear Ubisoft seethe as they cant comprehend how they aren’t able to make a profit making dogshit anymore.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o yeah! 😍
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o Didn't ask for your opinion pal, scram.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o You asking is about as relevant as you existing at all.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o Time to go home, guys. Ronnie didn't ask, nothing to talk about here.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8oyou should emulate the guy from your username
May I remind you all that the marketing director of Ubisoft went out a couple months ago to say that people should get used to not owning their games. Now look at them, making games that nobody owns, just not in the way they predicted.
Not the CEO that was the marketing Director
@@darktirkd7395that’s so much worse holy shit. At least the CEO would have the excuse of being stupid, how could the fucking marketing director ever think for even a microinstant that that would be a good PR move?
That sounds like they knew exactly what wadsgonna happen after their prediction.
You know, you'd think they'd realize that the same scummy antics won't work anymore but they just double down and escalate.
@@pneumon6990 I'm not surprised. Look at how predatory corporations are being - they probably thought they'd just continue the trend and be fine when everyone else followed. Truth be told they're probably gonna be right in the end, and they'll just serve as a cautionary tale on how not to exploit properly.
There's never a good time to launch an NFT game, but launching an NFT game immediately after disbanding the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is absolutely insane.
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yeah its ridiculous, ubisoft has to be one of the worst game development companies, its crazy
also hi god gamer
Hi PineappleJim123 👋
is there any chance at the game awards? you know what talking about
"The game has unique assets" ........ so like... literally any game that isn't an Asset flip? Wow
You forgot the magic words... Procedurally generated!!!
Nah, plenty of great games that aren't asset flips use non-unique assets.
Like Getting Over It, not an asset flip, still uses assets.
I mean that's a big deal on Blockchain gaming scene since every single one is a asset flip shovelware that tries to trick buzzword addicts.
@@leafshade3643that’s a infinitely smaller company than ubisoft which HAD the budget to make high quality assets but didn’t 🤷♂️
@@a_cat1234 And? They said every none asset flip uses unique assets, TONNES of non asset flips use store bought assets.
And considering AAA games, even the awful ones, are never asset flips, they're clearly not talking about AAA games exclusively.
what is ubisoft doing bruh 💀
speedrunning being sold to tencent,for ten cents
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Reminds me of the episode of 30 Rock where Jack tried to tank NBC
They wanted us to get used to not owning their games
Then we got used to not buying their games
And now we're getting used to not even hearing about their games
True
Yeah but we somehow "own" the NFTs in the games we don't own.
True
yeah ubisoft absolutely got ratio’d
i feel like when they told us to get used to not owning their games everyone went “whaat oh hell no” and just stopped giving them money
@@Lamp37820 valid point 🗿
3:37 "Empowerment and ownership" is rich coming from the same company that said we should be comfortable not owning our games just a few months ago!
B-but trust me bro it's different because now it costs astronomically more
Great point. Amazing amount of hypocrisy. They lost $530 million last year, they deserve everything that’s coming
Wasn't that Nindendo? Or was it also Nintendo?
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo No, it was ubisoft. Nintendo hasn't said that, to my knowledge.
Good point
I dunno about you guys but I've gotten quite comfortable not owning any Ubisoft games lately
I never even did.
Yeah me too
Ubi-who?
@@feliciafrench9765ubihard 😈
I dont think ive touched one since the division 2 and even that game is forgettable and meh.
It hurt itself in its confusion
Critical hit!
@@Shattered_shardsthey are self sabotaging themselves, its hilarious
Makes me think what makes them possibly justify releasing an NFT game and blame the players. They are incredibly incompetent and are blind. If studios centralizes profit over creativity then that's how games die on release or overtime (franchises included).
@@zerparadoxx9458 many studios compromise creativity for profit. It’s nothing new, but at least they make something remotely unique. Thsi is just bs
@@Shattered_shards Theres nothing wrong about prioritizing profit over creativity but if thats what the entire games purpose and existence is supposed to be about then I doubt it will last long. There should be some semblance of balance
"Making "solid" games isn't enough when you have "gamers expecting extraordinary experiences," - Ubisoft CEO
He never said the extraordinary experience had to be good...
holy shit it's salem
The Greatest Technician that's ever lived has spoken
Extraordinary by Ubisofts Standards is just like, a decent game from 2014
The greatest ubisoft hater that has ever lived
Also spam these bots with child abuse reports
How Ubisoft is operating reminds me of the Simpsons meme w Skinner where he says “Am I out of touch?…. No, it is the children who are wrong.”
What happened to Ubisoft needs to be studied in business classes they use to be loved and now they’re one of the most hated publishers
It's the greed of immensely short sighted managers
@@AllHailDiskordianot that shortsighted, they’ve been in decline for like a decade, and they were still making a bank. All these CEO’s made millions if not billions, they succeeded, company not so much, but who cares? They’ll about to get a golden parachute.
when im in a company suicide competition and my opponent is Ubisoft
😂
"I'll just take the L and respectfully bow out, GG no re."
Ubisoft is so incompetent that they’ll somehow accidentally dip into the negatives 😂
The last emote looks like the chopper crying meme
Fr i hope better video company would buy rights to rainbow siege before ubislop is closed
Both remaining unscammed NFT fans are gonna love this
I can't wait to watch them try to figure out who gets to pull the rug
LMFAO
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o 👈 found one!
No no, they've been scammed, they just don't believe it. 😂
Unscammed? Judging by the people who bought into Logan Paul's CryptoZoo, being scammed at least once or twice isn't going to stop these dumb adults from falling for another one.
3:32 Oh so NOW they care about ownership!
the biggest insulting joke I've ever seen from Ubisoft 😂 thank you for pointing that out
Wow. I didn't even catch that at first. These execs can't make up their minds, though I suppose they know that one can't actually "own" an NFT. Lol
"Our shared goal is to explore new ways to play alongside bringing more value to players based on empowerment and ownership."
I read that and just about spat out my coffee, I laughed to hard! 🤣😂🤣
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2:16 the spirit of Angry Video Game Nerd briefly possessed Charlie
I knew that bit gave me deja vu
Even such a rageful spirit could not fully penetrate the emotionless temple that is Charlie's voice lmao😅
Ubisoft makes me think of 2 words. Garbage and greed
That's 3 words mate
Also mediocrity
Assassin's Greed
Greedy garbage
Prolly dark thoughts ... but only Ezio can save the company , don't ask how.
He's a assassin , so I'm sure you know what I'm talking about..
"What are they gonna do next? Buy the Concord ip and try to rerelease it as a ubisoft original?"
ubisoft ceo: "... shit"
Sony: lets talk
they're onto us
"Why didn't i think of that?"
That would require them to have money
@@sinjin8576 At this point I'm pretty sure Sony would sell it to them for a nice lunch and a handshake.
Remember when Ubisoft CEO said "gamers should just accept not owning their games anymore" now they are championing NFTs as a good thing for gamers because it means they will "own part of their game" yeah not buying that horseshit.
This becomes especially scary to me when you consider what a combination of these 2 ideas comes together. Owning the NFT, meaning you own a financial investment in a game, but you don't own the game? Does that mean you have to pay a subscription in order to maintain that investment? Scary places this could go.
It already came and went, no one gave a shit and clowned on NFTs, Ubisoft is just trying to get a couple bucks with the cheapest game they could make, hoping someone would actually use this bullshit.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8ointeresting one
@rabidkangar00 Okay I need to ask you a question and I'm being totally serious here, how old are you? Because I'm in my late 20s and my entier life owning the game you buy was the norm. Like it's so werid to me that you said that in the smug "I'll wait" tone when the thing you are acting like it never existed was always how it was. It wasn't always live services and subscriptions.
Walk into a retro game store. Buy basically any console that came out before the 2010s. An Xbox 360. PS2, GameCube, N64, whatever. You buy games for it, it belongs to you. You own the physical copy and you didn't need to be online or worry about the company maintaining the service. It was just like buying a movie on Blu-ray or DVD, you own it, it's yours to watch whenever. Even if a game's online service is taken down, you still had access to the campaign and could play with friends via LAN. The apocalypse could come tomorrow and civilization could end. As long as I have a TV, my og Xbox, and a power source, I can play my copy of Halo 2 that I own.
@@rabidkangar00 I am a Pirate from Assassin's creed 4, and I here by tell you something shocking nighha, I own every 24games. Yes they are copies but I own them so let's see what point you are making dumba**
The guy you're relying to is the biggest clown ive ever seen "ill wait 🤡🤡" @roshango125ab
Imagining a world where No Mans Sky is an NFT game. Every single randomized planet as a transaction but there'd be no exploration
Remember Blue's Clues? The original series, not the reboot. They had very basic CGI and backgrounds drawn in CRAYON. They had ONE green screen! And yet it was a massively successful show that touched the hearts of millions of children.
You don't have to use all the most expensive tech available for something to be good.
And as a more relevant example; astro bot only took 50mil to make, in comparison with concords 300mil, and is now game of the year. Meanwhile concords been listed as one of the biggest shitposts in gaming history.
@@Sydanny.goty nominee
still peak game though
A lesson Nintendo has been swearing by since their beginning. The Game Boy was one of the most popular systems ever and it was basically a souped-up graphing calculator. The Switch was a little underpowered compared to its contemporaries and it sold like hotcakes. Basically every Nintendo system (sorry, Virtual Boy) has had iconic games that are still worth replaying today because they are fun and memorable.
@@browncoatkevin I distinctly remember how much Ubisoft benefited from collaborating with them for 3 projects on Switch, and how well it turned out for them. Starlink Battle For Atlas's sales were SAVED by the inclusion of Star Fox in the Switch version specifically. Both Mario + Rabbids games had a HEAVY presence in Ubisoft's fiscal revenue, even if the 2nd sold way less than the first. It's just weird at this point how Ubisoft took absolutely NO hints from this success, going into this decade. That MAYBE they should try these little gameplay-focused experiments more often?
@@browncoatkevin nintendo is probably the only company which makes good games with actual creativity in them right now, sony drops good games aswell but i cant forgive them for killing lbp and almost killing hd2
NFT's in 2024. Embarrassing. My first videogame I ever played was Rayman when I was 4 years old. It's inconceivable that Ubisoft has fallen so low since those times.
It would be inconceivable if we didn't see their fall from grace. They plummeted and we all played a terrible part. But arguably they played the worst
Reminds me of the fate of Jazz Jack Rabbit by Epic Mega Games.
Yes, the same Epic Games that is currently known today for a single cashcow.
That was probably one of Ubisoft's hopes as well, to have that one money generating crap so they can justify all of their past actions. Such as the abysmally dogshit launcher (this applies to Epic Games as well)
This sounds like a contractual obligation they were forced to fulfill. They realised putting any money into it - or even advertising it - was going to cost them but cancelling it all together was going to cost them more. Give it to a tiny team with the directive "get it done and get it done fast" then throw it out the back door, tick it off on the to-do list, and quietly ignore it forever.
It was the same thing with skull and bones except skull and bones wasn't gotten out quickly or quietly.... But I guarantee they would not have finished that game if they weren't contractually obligated to. I could totally see that being the case here too.
Actually makes some sense
Couldn’t agree more. I can’t imagine a single timeline where they see their stock price as low as it is and then say “We should really try that NFT thing again.” This had to have been a deal they signed off on years and just wanted to get it over with.
Obviously.
@@0potionskull and bones was mostly paid for by Singapore, not Ubisoft, including marketing
3:17 that sentence would kill a medieval peasant.
I must be a medieval peasant
This is the equivalent of trying to silently squeeze out a fart in public and then promptly causing a biohazard evacuation because you shit yourself royally
Ubisoft ate white castle and drank busch light at night then a cup of coffee/cigarette the next morning.
Crypto is infectious diarrhoea
okay this is my favorite comment in this section 😭😭
Concord: shuts down
Ubisoft: hold my beer
you don't matter when you say that
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o go away
EA/BioWare: hold my pronouns
Ubisoft: hold my blockchains
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o Your parents didnt ask for you, yet here we are
It's a bot, just report it.@@lenadams854
>unique in-game assets
>look at words later in same sentence
>procedurally generated figurines
This whole thing is shit, but don't drag procedural generation through the mud. That's been used to amazing effect for almost as long as games have existed. If the *parts* are AI generated, that's worth dragging them for, but procedural is not AI, and AI is not procedural.
@@faeranne Yeah procedural generation is the backbone of the entire roguelike genre
B-But what makes them unique?
"The hashes"
Procedural generation has been around forever and is used in games like Civilization, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft.
@@faeranne anything ai-generated is for crypto nerds. Procedural stuff is when something can be auto-generated such as a Minecraft world. Minecraft is not ai
"Procedurally generated"
"Each distinct"
I don't think you know what those words means
Sounds like ai at Work
What a beautiful day. The sky is blue, the sun is out, and Ubisoft is taking more L’s.
It's all about the sparrows and the ubisoft L's
The fact you can't even load the Ubisoft Connect app without feeling like you're pulling a slot machine arm just hoping it won't crash REALLY makes you wonder where their priorities are.
having to login EVERY single time (high asf so i dont remember my password) with email and password is just dumb asf. "remember me" button doesn't even work
@@Tobi-qu7goEntire reason I just stopped using it lol
For me the launcher just re-opens in the FOREGROUND randomly, attempting to derail the game I'm playing, I swear that this seems on purpose as it's only been happening more recently. Also don't forget the fabled error message "The Ubisoft services aren't available right now, try again later"
ubisoft may be stuck in a time loop where NFTS are still prominent
@ba-x8nWhat the fuck.
No one cares
They apparently didn't get the memo that nft ain hip with the kids nowadays 😂
Have you guys noticed Ubisoft has gone down the shitter since they made that fucked up looking 2D rayman game called Rayman Origins
@ba-x8n wtf
bro, NFT in far late 2024, Ubisoft's CEO is an AI
In Champions Tactics every hero is an NFT, so when they disappear into the void from Ubi's bugs, they’re taking your wallet with them.
And when they shut down the servers, your NFTs get deleted.
this is the biggest case of self-sabotage I've ever seen since Diddy kept announcing the existence of the Diddy party for the last 30 years.
People wanted to be at Diddy partys
I’d rather go to the Diddy party as a nightly routine than work for Ubisoft 💀
@@codered1132This shit’s not funny
@@i_am_an_idiot_but ain’t nobody tryna be funny. I’m deadass
The company trying to get you used to not owning stuff, made a videogame where the whole point is getting you to buy ownership of stuff.
It simply doesn't compute.
They want to own your money.
The funny thing will be when this game shuts down and people have a bunch of NFTs for a game that doesn't exist
@@anonony9081 Yep. It's literally a crypto bro scam, upscaled to being perpetrated by a (once-) legitimate multimillion-dollar company.
Ubisoft: "players just don't get it."...."they're supposed to just give us money."
Stardew valley has sold 30 million copies, grossed around $500,000,000, and was made by one dude with a desktop computer in his room at home. How these giant companies can't find a group of talented people and just let them do their thing is crazy to me. Good player reviews and a fair price tag next the title is better than millions of dollars in advertising, good games sell themselves.
They have very talented people but they aren't allowed to be creative 😢 because higher ups think they know what gamers want... They do not haha
@@obesesummerExactly. Executives are always obsessed with money and profit reaping.
@@kl41256-p
That sounds exactly like how the execs at my previous workplace. These big wigs knows nothing but lecturing, and pressing their "subordinates" to achieve "the goals". Which is mostly just some arbitrary numbers to grant them those juicy "achievement incentives".
Stardew Valley has more than earned its fan base. It still gets major updates that are free and will remain free. It was a complete project on release and has never been a live service product.
the higher ups dont know what people care about and dont know how to lead subordinates, they only know how to keep people in line and make products, not how to make people happy and produce art. And gaming is ART, nobody cares about the value of the price of games, they care about the experience. A 60$ game thats a masterpiece is way better than a 15$ game that blows ass because people care about the experience and enjoyment, because there isnt an "inherent value" to games. You cant eat a disk or wear code.
The reason NFT bros aren't talking about the game is that most NFT bro hype for NFT projects is actually fake traffic generated by bot accounts, either directly or indirectly. Artificially inflating your worth is standard practice in every element of crypto shit.
I heard they tried to do that here but even the bots were like "nah bro that ain't it"
If you look back they often had a tendency to ignore projects by companies that would've served to legitimize crypto basically because they'd no longer be able to do the back room BS they normally do- like price pumping and rug-pulling, so I'm not that surprised no one in that circuit cares about this.
Most of them went over to the AI grift now
@@YCCCm7 everyone who is into nfts hates ubisoft. companies like ubisoft is why decentralized networks were born.
I know some Retardio guys
Can’t help but think of the SpongeBob “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man” meme
You wonder if any of original people are at the company, revealing their decreasing IQ or if they've been replaced by baby sunshine minds and faces chosen to make and maintain 17+ titles.
It’s as if companies don’t understand gamers don’t want the same, AI generated, soulless corporate slop. These companies blame everybody BUT themselves for their downfall.
Let me say it right now: if you make a good, polished game, people WILL buy it and in turn, you’ll make PROFIT.
0:51 them creators with the 5 view videos must be pumping their fists right now knowing the infamous Charles D. White is one of the views😂
Flashbanged by charlie's tank top fit holy
Who asked
@@IsraelSolosGazaI asked now get outta here
Real
Fleshbanged?
@@Fruad_jo it's a bot bro 💀
I like being told consistently from Charlie that the floor is made out of the floor
Who asked?
That's his business model
I asked
The floor is made out of floor
Im not charlie but i hoped you liked that
Floor is lava
How is it physically possible for an entire organization of that massive of scale to be this unbelievably tone deaf and out of touch? It doesn't make any sense...
Executives being surrounded by "yes-men" and don't seek any feedback outside their colleagues.
The sweet baby inc stuff sort of explains it (but not completely).
Their size and scale is directly responsible for it.
Greed
@@AustinOgonoski that has nothing to do with this NFT game lol
Ok i know they were crashing but launching a game that violates steams no nfts rule as a big dev is hilarious
"empowerment through ownership" coming from the company famous for subscriptions and literally taking your purchased games from you if you don't login often enough is wild
Yeah speaking of taking your games from you. They do that on this dumb horse game I played on the phone as a kid. After Ubi bought it it turned to SH1T! And I spent REAL MONEY on it but because I didn't log in for 6 months they deleted my account. Should be illegal. I BOUGHT IT
Charging tens of thousands of dollars for procedurally generated figurines is wild
If you don't scrape up $64k to buy one, you "just don't get it."
Games workshop:
Even Internet Explorer could have told Ubisoft that the crypto game fad is long gone. But hey, I'm now super hyped for the resulting Jauwn episode.
as Jauwn enjoyer cant wait for him to dunk on it.
TRUUUUE
I’m sure ONE of these crypto games will be good on day… right?
Another Jauwn fan!
@ A Jauwn Fauwn
2:19 DONT GIVE THEM IDEAS
👏
2:10 maybe it's not Galaxy Gas™ but someone smoking a neutron star cigarette
I think he forgot he said he'd use it lol
@tarkelson2457 that's precisely why we need to remind him
I’m so glad you commented this because I forgot about that too and that shit had me dying
N words still tryin to smoke a Neutron Star uphill.
THE TRADEMARK
Releasing a NFT in this day and age just screams "WE WANT TO SCAM THE F*** OUT OF YOU"
Ubisoft striking while the iron has rusted away into dust and been blown away by the winds of change.
The half life of the iron caused it to degrade into another element at this point.
TAAAAAAAAKE MEEEEE!
TO THE MAGIC OF THE MOMENT
ON A GLOOOOOORY NIGHT!
They saw Sony's absolute flop of a hero shooter and decided to try and do that with an NFT game instead.
This implies the iron was ever hot to begin with. At this point Ubisoft is striking at an imaginary sheet of metal in with a squarely hammer lmao.
It's like dust in the wind, by Kansas.
It's also like the winds of change, by Scorpion.
Got an ad 1:30 into this 10 minute video, not even charlies fault, but geez YT is getting egregious with the ads
I play longer podcast type videos through my radio when I'm driving and it's becoming almost impossible to listen for even 5 minutes without an ad. It's ridiculous and annoying as hell
Ublock origin, youtube has become unsufferable without it
Fr
FireFox. No ads for me
ik they been falling off for a while, but for the first time ever, their fall off ACTUALLY has to be studied, damn near generational
Ubisofts cartoon bag of money has a hole in it and they are trying to stop money from falling out by burning the bag
Ubisoft trying to speedrun bankruptcy
No one asked
I asked
@@IsraelSolosGaza get out it aint 2023 your bots dead
Hopefully it’s over soon and we will be spared from more bs.
They never go "broke", no matter for how many years you people keep saying that
the Ubisoft NFT game even got hacked. Like you cannot play it, everyone gets matched with the same singular opponent that wins before the match starts.
Mario + Rabbids is the only modern thing that was successful AND had something to do with Ubisoft at this point
Kinda unrelated but I love your username and the smg4 Mario pfp
I'd say lost crown is also good tho
And that's probably Nintendo work, Ubisoft just gave the rabbits, at least i have that idea
Xdefaint too
And probably the best thing from that entire game was the Rayman DLC who also doesn't get games anymore, poor guy
If you look at the games website and go the marketplace everything looks AI generated. The figurines all look pretty much the same and clearly have randomly generated names that just placed two words together from a pool of 20 words. This is beyond lazy and so out of touch its wild. Ubisoft is screwed.
>Devs follow the fans' advice to improve their game.
>Game does stupendously well.
*closes book* "Like that's ever gonna happen." -Shrek
This is the comment
@@thatcadendude Thanks
With the amount of times Charlie has roasted Ubisoft, you would think he’d get tired of it and let it die out and not bother giving it simple criticism.
Well, it does help boost negative press around Ubisofts bullshit, lol. 🤷🏽♀️ Their bad reputation is getting to the point where audiences see a new game ad, but then the Ubisoft logo pops up and they get turned off. These execs are so out of touch that major losses and zero drawing power are the only things that... might eventually register...? 💀
1:38
Thought an ad for a mobile game started playing.
Thank you Ubisoft for investing millions so that Charlie can make this video
3:11, Ubisoft gone coo-coo crazy, by launch an obvious NFT Pump and Dump scheme game. Not even crypto bros themselves ain't touching that with a 200ft pole. It's because of AC Shadows controversies got delayed to next year because they're afraid of Tencent buy out Guiomont family from Ubisoft. My advice make good games again move on from open world live service games
This is like when they made a toys-to-life game way after everyone else was done with it, and had to cancel half the toys they had planned for it
I dont even remember that lol
2:46 I am crying from this lol
I've been think of the parks and recs scene straight to jail
It'll be like that scene in Drag Me to Hell where the ground literally opens up for you immediately after you press [PURCHASE] 😂
@@domenica3639 yes! lmao
this is just skylanders but bad
2:47 sounds like Heavy saying 400 thousand dollars.
If anyone feels "accomplished" buying a $60'000 "digital trading card", I have some great real estate in Antarctica for you.
I hear it’s beautiful there this time of year, best of luck with the listing!
Uh... I might be interested if it's a seasonal accommodation; the ability to just take some notebooks, a bunch of books, and freeze my ass off on another continent sounds kinda compelling ngl.
Do you get supplies airdropped in? Or will I have to set that up with an external company?
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You know it’s bad for Ubisoft when you can look at Square Enix and go “you know at least their NFT plans didn’t end up going anywhere”
"Perhaps I treated you too harshly"
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o brother this is a comment section, stfu
Yet
Square enix is losing due to over ambition with 1 game being the exception
Truly Ubisoft are the kings of the “inexplicably late failure.”
Dang charlie I thought this was a video on ubisoft, not your guns- Put them bad boys away, I'm drooling
it's crazy Ubislop kept teasing us about their bankruptcy..
Ubisoft: I don’t get it. We give people AAA games, release it alongside DLC, have live service models for most our games, and stick to the tried and true formula that we know! What else can we do?
Sane person: You know, maybe instead of making games that have a focus only on money making and wide appeal, maybe go back to making games that people will enjoy?
Ubisoft: Wait, Epic Games has a bunch of NFT games that make money! That’s what we’ll do! That’s a surefire success!
Sane Person:…you know what? Go ahead. You haven’t listened to us at all over the last however many years and you’ve already got one foot in the grave. At this point, this is all on you…
You can't forget Ubisoft's _quadruple A_ games lmao
@@___von___7377 ah fuck, how did I forget that?!
Meanwhile Vaas: "Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"
I don't even think insane people can support Ubisoft anymore.
All Ubisoft needs to do is release 3 offline single player story-based games such as platformers that are all unique. It would perform better than this even if they were buggy games like Ninjabread (which was kinda okay)
Ubisoft needs to reconsider who they have hired in their upper management
I remember when they released games like Assassin's Creed 2 and Far Cry 3. Those were the days. Now, I can't even shell out $70 for their Star Wars game when I'm a massive Star Wars fan. Such a shame.
Sadly, I must agree. Ubisoft, like Star Wars, has definitely changed (saying this as a former big fan of both).
Ubisoft's huge glory days started when they released the first Splinter Cell in 2002, and ended after they released the final Splinter Cell in 2013. Between that period, they released so many really good games that are still beloved.
@@NexusKin splinter cell conviction, ac 2 and black flag, far cry 3... such good memories
I got Outlaws for free with my new graphics card.
Its not worth that price either.
It actually just looks like an even more static Raid Shadow Legends
aw man I chose the wrong day to get a Ubisoft tattoo
No shot
No way you put a company logo on your body 🤦🏽♂️
@@renevancy I have a Nuka-Cola tattoo, but Vim! is also pretty good.
@@renevancy no way you didnt get the joke
@@renevancy The grass is green
Problem with these games is microtransactions. Haven't bought a game with microtransactions in months, you can find plenty of real games still.
Ubisoft must think NFTs are the secret sauce to gaming success-because nothing screams 'fun' like owning a virtual JPEG of a Charlie in a tank top
Who asked?
il take that pic
@@richardchargingcloud6590I would empty my bank account for a hunger games Charlie nft
@@IsraelSolosGaza yo mama
Okay someone is trying to destroy Ubisoft internally, there is NO WAY this was done with the intention of actually helping the company or improving its image. I simply do not believe this is incompetence, it can’t be.
The probably got themselves stuck with a contract and had no choice but to put something out.
The same dudes who made watch dogs, the same people who made ghost recon, the same people who made splinter cell, the same people who made far cry, are now selling nfts, HOW DO YOU CRASH AND BURN THIS BADLY!?
And rainbow six siege
Don't forget assassins creed
...and even Division (Yes I like that game, kill me.)
@ nah division is good both are
Like, genuinely. Do they have, like, _no_ self awareness, whatsoever, or is there something I'm not getting?
Ubisoft: we want to empower ownership!
Also Ubisoft: if you don’t login to our game store you lose all your games!
0:09
"Making Block Buster Blush" alliteration went pretty hard, my man Charlie was spittin'
Ubisoft looked at their stock price and said, "we can get it lower" , YOU CAN'T MAKE IT UP
I didn’t ask
Lmfao 😂 facts
@@IsraelSolosGaza Ok? He just saying.
@RonnieMcnutt-z8o Ok? He just saying.
Can we just Boycott Ubisoft at this point
2003: "Rayman 3 was fun, I can't wait for Rayman 4 in a couple of years"
2024:
No one asked
@@IsraelSolosGazai’m gonna touch you
To be fair, Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends were solid games. But I don't trust Ubisoft doing anything anymore.
:(
@@DillyTheWillyWilliamsBoth sucks ass
They are so money hungry but refuse to give their customers what they want. This needs to be studied
5:43 reminds me of when they reworked goyo in r6 and said it’s because players were using him wrong
To anyone saying that NFTs are the "natural evolution of item ownership"...
Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike solved that problem over a decade ago in a way that doesn't require an energy hungry data storying method.
In fact, i have a bigger faith in TF2's silly hats and golden pans to retain value long term and actually bring me profit than any NFT released by Ubislop.
Edit: Ok, I see quite a bit of defenders of NFTs.
1. Please continue with your comments. I love watching you seething over my comment.
2. Please, just admit that you want NFTs for the money and stop pretending that somehow you genuinely "own" NFTs in games and that helps players in any way, shape or form.
All those NFTs are tied to the game they are in and their existence depends solely on servers of the game running for the eternity. You can only sell stuff within the confines of the game's market, immediately making it the centralised market or the "true ownership" bs. And after the game gets shut down, the only thing you will have will be a receipt that you once owned an item in that game.
3. I can't get enough how non of you have tried to fight my claim that silly hats in TF2 somehow have better long term value than your NFTs.
I've made more money selling silly hats and weapon skins on the Steam Marketplace than your average joe has on Apes
In TF2 and CSGO you don't own anything since all the code is stored in centralized servers
@niccolocordini4787 you also don't own your nft, you only own a digital receipt saying you own the master copy of that jpeg. This isn't much different than valve items, which simply give a check to your account if you've acquired said item, opening it for use. The only difference is it didn't take 6 warehouses of servers in Kissimmee, Florida to do it lmao
nah, you don't own shit. tf2 and cs only allow you use their items. they'll delete whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. also, isn't it against TOS to use 3rd party marketplaces to trade their items?
@@niccolocordini4787 "With NFTs you don't own anything since all the code is stored in centralized servers", there, corrected that for you.
I am convinced Ubisoft decides what games to produce and launch on the market by using darts and a bunch of printed papers with names on them glued to a wall
i doubt that, because with this method they HAVE TO at least land on a banger once. which they didnt for a long time now.. xD
That's too reliable
True
i was thinking its an orangutan in a room with a bunch of noise-making buttons
“hey uhh mr bubbles we’re losing money.. what game should w-“
“NFT. NF- FIGHTING. GAME. TRADE. CARDS. TR-CARDS.”
Probably manatees with idea balls.
7:12 it ain't that easy, as Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown proved
7:25 - The more you squeeze the community, the more you choke them. Let us breathe.
The more they squeeze the community, the more they starve
Ugh as a For Honor enjoyer since launch, this hurts me so much.... I truly feel there is so much more potential in FH, and Ubi just continues to throw money at garbage instead of building upon the solid foundation of FH with a sequel or something. Big sad
Ya, same thing with r6
They won't, they're too busy gutting both of these games by removing core aspects and overwatching their rosters. They don't care about fun or balance of the game, they only care that you buy the new dlc character, and they'll break heaven and earth to make it a required purchase
This is actually heartbreaking, Ubisoft was once one of the best publishers in the world and everyone liked the games they made, I wanna see that time come back man…
overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
they smoked a neutron star cigarette
"empowerment and ownership" HELLO????
And I thought Ubi hit rock bottom with AC Odyssey
You need to get used to not owning that NFT you paid $64k for.
Is THIS what they meant when Ubisoft said "Gamers need to get used to not owning games"? And if so, how are they bringing more value to anything based on "empowerment and ownership"?
“Grand Humiliation Ritual”
Your word play always makes me smile. 🤣
Ubisoft will strip your ownership of a game and prevent it from ever being acquirable, yet they made an NFT game?
Greed
9:56 - Yeah that sounds about right xD
I’m looking forward to the day that I read the headline that says “Ubisoft declares bankruptcy.”
It's more likely to be another "EA acquires Ubisoft" headline. Or Activision-Blizzard becomes Activision-Blizzard-Ubisoft or something. They've got too many valuable ip's to just go belly-up, even if all of their games have been trash since Black Flag.
1:35 the random cut to the clip of the nft game, made me feel like i just got an ad since it randomly transitioned to footage of the game