The complete and utter collapse of Ubisoft | Asmongold Reacts
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Ubisoft should get used to the idea of not owning their company.
Underrated
So real
They won’t own anything and they’ll like it.
@@gamezonereactions8388 those poops look like the global food menu these companies are trying to force on us.
Brilliant 😂
Ubisoft wanted gamers to get comfortable not owning their games
It looks like gamers did get comfortable not owning their games
And they did in record time too.
W
Yeah
Did kendrick write this ? 😂Bar 👌🏾
I own none of them, and I'm happy
Asmon is making more money milking Ubisoft’s fall than Ubisoft will make on Star Wars Outlaws and AC Shadows
true
combined
Fine with me.
@@Depressed_until_dead good boy, that is what the "and" means lol
The local mailman make more money this year than Ubisoft.
The irony of this quote being from a Ubisoft game
“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change... That. Is. Crazy.”
that was golden age pre-weird social stuff ubisoft; Farcry 3 was goated.
Vaas, is without question the best villain with the least amount of actual screen time in any video game ever imo.
@@prokjohnny7414 Jonathan Irons in CoD Advanced Warfare was pretty good. I'm torn between the two.
@@Void_Astrea Yeah and now that I’m thinking about it, I CANNOT forgot about my boy bt-7274 from titanfall 2
and then he says after a bit of rambling "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"
I can't help it. After the comment they made of "players should get used to not owning games" I can't help but smile when Ubisoft soon won't even own it's own company.
The irony is beautiful.
I sail the seas for their games 😂 they don't own them
@@spehssmahreens8258 this is real asf 🤣🤣🤣
Man, watching the karma strike is so satisfying.
Ubisoft should get used to people not buying their games
Even asmon himself said that lines out of context
I worked on Watch Dogs: Legion. The main issue with the game was how much fucking filters we had to go through with everything. Just to get a cosmetic approved for the game (I worked in 3D Design) was so fucking exhausting. I would forward it to the lead designer, who would forward it to the Head of the Design Department, who would forward it to the QA team, who would forward it to the Marketing team, who would forward it to the ethics team , who would refer it to the Director and THEN, ONLY THEN, would it potentially get approved it survived the fucking gauntlet. At Ubisoft we called The Ubitine (Guillotine) cus it felt like we where standing trial anytime we sent I cosmetic idea. Like imagine sending in a idea, then you sit down with the head of inclusion and ethics and they ask you a bunch of racially, sexually and just weird questions about your reasoning behind this game. I had to make up some retarded ass explanation for the Union Jack mask in Legion that we tilted it to the side a bit as a statement to the crooked past of imperialism in Great Britain. When in reality it just looked better on the mask.
that is rough and is a good reason why the company failed then. I've worked with other businesses and the ones that fail cannot get ideas out fast enough because there is too much bureaucratic blockers
"Head of inclusion and ethics"
Sounds like someone who needs to dissappear fast.
this is the kind of info the people want to know - thanks for posting this
👆
@@Svoorhout85 Absolutely, that sounds like the most pointless of middle management.
This wouldn't have happened to Ubihard
😂 underrated
Ubihard?
- She
I have really bad back pain and this joke made it go away for but a moment 🎉
@@kaiderhai86she/her/it/them/theyre/they/those/we/were/never/soldiers 😂
That's what she said.
Ubisoft: "Be comfortable not owning your games"
Average normal person: "Oh so we don't actually own the things we purchase?"
Ubisoft:...
Average normal person: "So, I'm gonna sell my Ubisoft stock, just in case my ownership gets yanked."
Ubisoft: "Noooooo, you bigots how dare you harass us!!!!"
"Pussified their own games", nice words
Didn't know Ubisoft published Stray.
It’s to bad andypants gaming is a grifter.
Every ally of w0k3ness, I hope you are watching.
Think hard about your future.
That's not just Ubisoft issue, and that's not even strictly DEI issue. Games become bigger, the cost more, they require more copies to be sold in a few days to reach that line where their development starts paying off. This means devs need to interest more people, to get wider audience - even wider than before, and moreover, the market of videogames is literally flooded with games - people have to choose the games now to play because they can't play everything cause there's only so many hours in a single day and so much money in their pockets. Bigger games had to become less risky in every single way possible sooner or later. And this is one of the reasons DEI bloomed that wildly too, because publishers wanted to extend their influence _even more_
But even audience has its limits in size, and eventually interests of the 'normies' have been brought to sacrifice to please DEI fans, and... well, SOME COMPANY just had to be the first which would've started suffering cause of this almost lethally.
In our timeline it just happened to be Ubisoft with all their latest fails with laughable SW:Outlaws and miserable presentation of Assassins Creed: Shadows
Yup, we have cowards that are in management position making all the decisions. They need to take chances and not care about offending soft people.
Kinda poetic how ubisoft grew with AC and now dies with AC
And the hero turned into the villain. It’s very poetic
the new shit is not ac imma be real
@@itoxicmelonorigins was amazing.
They should have just given us Rayman 4
@@EasterlySumo868True, origins was a good ac game imo, but not amazing. Odyssey was a good game, but didn't really feel like an AC game at all, Valhalla as well.
Ubisoft is going to have to sell off all their IPs. THEY will have to get used to not owning THEIR games haha
I just hope AC and FarCry go to good companies. Going to Microsoft or Sony would be a lateral move, if not a full on downgrade.
I don’t see that happening.
@@Bonesawisready926I disagree and but we are all entitled to our opinion.
This would be so poetic. Probably the best case scenario for fans of old ubisoft
LRGENDARY COMMENT
The thing with game journalists is that in the 90s and early 00s. The people who were writing reviews were actual gamers, they were playing games as a hobby. I remember buying magazines to see if the game is actually worth spending money on. You got 2 to 3 pages, specs, performance etc.
But from the 10s onwards through social media and RUclips a lot of people became game journalists/reviewers that aren't actually gamers but rather people who do it because it makes money and something they can put their 'impact' on.
At least that's how I feel about it.
I like that "ubisoft open world" became an insult to open world games.
Along with the term 'Ubification'. Filling an oversized open world with a disgusting amount of collectibles and endless mundane side activities.
Oh, and activating radio beacons or some other map-revealing gubbin.
To me I don't even consider EldenRing a true Open World RPG. EldenRing did not capitalize on the Open World in an effective way. Its alright but it could of been a lot better.
Then you have games like Dark Souls that say "Open World" and you're practically running down hallways with the occasional ballroom sized room.
@@habama1077It didn't help that Ubisoft flooded the market with endless AC sequels at that point and the Far Cry games too.
Haha you're right. "Hey is this good open world or Ubisoft open world because that really matters"
Don't look Ezio, don't look.
Oh god, poor Ezio. I loved that trilogy.
Altair run, i'll shelter you.
RIP Ezio and Altair
so glad they didn't have to see this shit
You may rest easy now, Desmond.
Fyi to those who don't know. If the stock drops below $1 they have 30 days to get it over $1 or their stocks will be removed from the market
6$ max
OTC lol
I really hate how everything boils down to stocks nowadays. This is why this is all happening, because the products themselves are worth peanuts compared to all the stock investments. I wonder if this is the real reason why everything costs more and more, just to keep up with stock demands.
After all people won't keep investing more if there's not as much profit to keep up with. An endless cycle of inflation, yet here we are, with not a penny to our names, watching it all try to milk us dry as much as it can as it struggles to stand under its own weight. All the while blaming us for their downfall. What a time to be alive..
Didn't know that lol
Thanos comin' through the cut!
I never noticed that the actor for vaas in far cry is the same guy who was in better call saul
13:01 Actually, they pussified their dev team first. The cool devs quit or changed jobs or retired, and they hired whiny babies to take their place. And now it shows in the games that are being developed.
They hired woke whiny babies
This has been true for a lot of companies in the 2010s. They got rid of the senior folks for new hires and gradually pushed out the experienced staff. Now, it's showing.
Were these people called whiney babies so often that they formed “Sweet Baby” to compensate 🤔
When you're too busy making sure to implement your own politics/ world views into your games than making a good game. Then expecting gamers to just eat it up regardless. it's like trying to force a vegan to eat meat.
It really has begun long ago, when they forced out Patrice Desilets after the release of AC2 and in the middle of ACB (it was AC3 back then) development. That was a serious hit to the series, only compensated by the fact that Ubi had many other VERY talented devs who made series work
The Division between Ubisoft and gamers has been growing for years. The company is a Far Cry from what it used to be, and they've basically Assassinated themselves in recent years. They've lost all Honor, and we can only hope for a New Dawn to rise from the Skull and Bones of this decaying company.
In before this comment gets an 1000 likes
Chatgpted, but still funny
GG
Heheh I see what you did there 😂
Gamers as the Watch Dogs of the industry have been Brothers in Arms though. Now that those anti consumer practices are killing the company they should Just Dance.
Ubisoft will own nothing and be happy.
This is perfect
😂😂
Clever lol
And fixing bugs.
@@maccagrabmeWith Klaus Schwab rolling in money in the background, like Scrooge McDuck?
Skull and Bones was to be a follow up for Black Flag because ACBF's ship combat was amazing. But they didn't allocate enough resources to capitalize on the venture, hence the 11 year development cycle. They should have canned it when Sea of Thieves beat them to the punch.
Assassin's Creed II was such a beautiful game, and it genuinely upsets me how this is somehow the same company that made that masterpiece.
Ezio was a badass. I wish we could get another trilogy were we see an entire assassin's life again.
I went back and played it lately. The mechanics are outdated but it still hits just like day 1. 👌
ubisoft is now a shadow of it's former self sadly 😔
@@rt_j5 Is there anything we can do to stop this? Maybe government intervention or we could pool our money together and buy Ubisoft?
Same company doesn't mean same people. People can quit, retire, get fired from a company and you wouldn't notice a thing. The people who mean AC2 probably doesn't work there anymore.
Old Ubisoft would've made Assassins Creed Shadows as ninja assassin vs samurai Templar
Quick, someone steals this idea and make a good game out of it !
Doesn't sound so bad.
They've made something similar with splinter cell multiplayer: spies vs mercs
I used to love this mode @@sigida
@@sigida what I meant is that the first games of assassins creed were focused on the war assassin vs Templar . Seems to have been lost
Let's be honest, it's not a surprise after almost a decade of them cashgrabbing instead of using passion to work on their videogame.
that's true i just recently replayed assassin's creed 2 and wow man the passion the love put into the game compared to the shitty woke cashgrab games there putting out right now is a night and day difference i miss old ubisoft 😔
The last game that were any good were for honor and siege.
Lets hope EA will follow suit
especially when now they litteraly berate their players for not agreeing with their alternative history and pandering. LIke bruh
It all started to go downhill after Far Cry 3 and AC: Black Flag
The idea that more play time in a game makes it better has some merit, not many people want to pay $60 for a game that is easily beaten in less than 1.5 to 2 hours with no replay ability. That being said once a game is 6 hours long making it longer for the sake of it holds no merit, if you have more different and engaging gameplay or story sure but definitely not more of the same thing you did for the last hour or 2.
When you hire someone that clicks the box of "modern audiences" rather then hire someone that clicks the box of "good programer/developer"... what do you friggin expect?😢
For the npcs that see this comment Rockstar has stated that gta 6 will be for a modern audience
@@rushpatriot2866 Most familiar with gta5 servers aren't surprised.
Step 1: Small game dev makes smash hit
Step 2: Small game dev hires help and makes sequel smash hit
Step 3: Game Dev become huge with hundreds of employees
Step 4: Suits take over company
Step 5: Suits make the company about making money and turning a profit. The Suits sell their soul for shareholders
Step 6: All the original talent sees the writing on the wall and bails
Step 7: Suits hire nepotism/diversity hires to replace talent
Step 8: the Suits and activists ignore criticisms and attack fanbase
Step 9 (Ubisoft is currently here): The company is hemorrhaging money: Because they lost all their fans because the constant poor releases.
Seems perfectly accurate to me
So is Disney
A story as old as gaming
9:30 wtf happened, well 2 hostile take-over attempts, a rapid need for cash flow and then letting in politically driven people, which as gamers well understand now, are usually quite the cancer to let in... amongst other things
Gamers knew they were cancer since 2013
What hostile takeovers are you talking about? The only one I can find anything about is when Vivendi tried, failed, and Tencent was quick to swoop in and buy a bunch of shares that have only since lost a ton of money. I don't even know what happens after a hostile takeover. The company stays public and beholden to a board? Honestly it seems like Ubisoft would've benefited from a hostile takeover turning it back into a private company, maybe they would've focused on releasing fewer good games rather than slop-flops and ultimately grovelling for ESG loans.
Dude they have billions on hand... what actually happened is you made up a bunch of crap to get attention.
@@thomgizzizif you think Ubisoft has billions on hand when they're not even worth billions... I don't even know how to engage with this level of stupidity past this
@@thomgizziz They are currently sitting on about 1 billion.
9:09 blue haired women happened.
That makes a lot of sense
Remember when dying your hair meant you were edgy and different… now it’s a calling card for sheep who won’t shut up.
😂
9:12 "What the F happened"
DEI hiring. I'm not kidding. It's that simple. Ubisoft used to be a bunch of male gamers. Now it's a bunch of pink/purple haired feminists who have never played a video game in their life. Same thing happened to Bungie and a bunch of other studios too.
Literally what the entirety of 343 industries is, they’ve never touched a game in their lives besides animal crossing
Not necessarily related, but that’s what happened to Rooster Teeth, too. Warner Bros went DEI crazy and hired a ton of alphabet cult members who subsequently got founding members fired (this is all without addressing also hiring pedophiles, so there’s more to it but this is definitely still a factor), and a ton of OG’s up and left, I’m assuming because they didn’t like or could at least foresee the direction of the company.
@@LobotomizeMeCapn I mean sorta bc they definitely got dei cult people but basically all the founders besides Bernie were still there at the end when WB scrapped them, the dei hires were annoying but by that time I had stopped watching most RT related content, and that’s definitely the reason a ton of them left especially after some of the pedos got exposed in 2021
Any company with Sweet Baby Inc ties = auto fail
I don't think it's "just" DEI hiring. I think it's also poor management and the fact that they want money more than enjoyment for us the consumers.
Long term games with micro transactions are much more important than good games that you pay for once.
Plus like you said, their reputation is important. That way, when their games fail they can blame the consumers for not accepting "LGBTQ content" or being "racist" etc.
They use DEI as a shield to protect themselves when they ultimately fail. But underneath it all is pure greed for milking the gamer's wallet like a parasite.
We allow this to happen. So many gamers open their wallet for this garbage which allows them to milk them dry. They don't need many gamers. They only need the whales. Those with thousands to spend.
I love how studios have no problem with your character murdering thousands of people, but if they say mean words and hurt someones feelings? Thats just too far 😂
We need the days of "No Russian" back
@@bommyTomTimindeed we do
@@bommyTomTimwe indeed damn do.
South park Bigger longer and Uncut nailed this.
"Horrific deplorable violence is ok, as long as no one says any naughty words."
-Sheila Broflovski
its always been the double standard, how many nameless men have you seen in movies and games , being mutilated and brutally killed by both male and female "protagonists" ?
Note: In Japan, on Valentine's Day, women give chocolate to men.
Based
and march 14, men give back something to women who gave them chocolates. and it"s called white day.
@@mihey4022 White day? Ayo 🤨?
@@phlixcarbon It was made up by candy companies to see more candy. I believe it's called White Day because the typical gift for men to give is marshmallows.
@phlixcarbon our friend is referring to sperms, though vocabulary choices were questionable the sentiment is inclusive feel free to take part.
“If you are not constantly evolving your product eventually someone else will make a better product and consumers will go there.” bro just summed up life holy.
These companies really underestimate the silent majority. they’re making games for the handful of people that love to yap about everything online and frankly mostly with mental issues of a sort.
Sane people are just watching from the sidelines voting with their wallets
Indeed 😋
Exactly, it’s incredible these companies don’t realize that and are making multi-multi-million dollar blunders.
Ubisoft got woke cancer and it's spreading like wildfire eating them up from the inside, these companies think their ideologies are a lot more popular than they are due to their echo chamber, they are about to find out the hard way just how small and unpopular their ideology is, whether they can come back from it is debateable, I can guarantee you now the new Assassins creed is going to flop hard no matter how long they delay it.
Sweet baby inc came out of ex ubisoft employees, let that sink in
@@SWOTHDRA Exactly and there lies the issue.
Nah, Ubisoft was shit before sweet baby, those guys starting to do bad praxis since 2012, sweet baby was just the nail on the coffin
@wetzinalvarado6930 because when sweet baby inc didn't exist the members were in ubisoft...
I think the woke cancer is just a symptom of unapologetic greed.
"Maximizing Shareholder Value" gets you short term success, cultivating a good reputation keeps you alive during good and bad years.
We had a Dreamcast at the bachelor pad in the early 2000’s and we rocked Toy Commander. It was like war thunder in a living room. I haven’t thought of that in years.
"If you don't like it, don't watch it" -progressives at G4
"If you don't like it, it's not made for you, don't play it" -progressives at kotaku
I'm seeing a theme here.
and then they call you bigot because you don't want to play the games that are not made for you so you are racist, sexist, homophobic etc. I actually had a argument with someone but it was over The Acolyte tv series. I commented that the show doesnt look interesting for me and its not made for me so a dude started arguing that im a bigot and racist.
When they say this to you, smile and thank them. They saved you a lot of money.
I mean... They ain't wrong though, right? I don't buy games until after release anymore.
They forgot that customers are their God and that they cannot try to overthrow them
They remade all their games for the 🏳🌈"modern audience." So where is the audience?
If you put a loaf of bread in the garden for your unicorn, by the end of the week there will be loads of loaves in your garden.
you are the modern audience you just dont know it yet. Just wait until the american economy collapses, no one will be able to afford games anymore.
The demand for “modern audiences” far exceeds the supply. It’s like they hate money
😂😂😂
The modern audience is at a small subreddit where they cry about how wrong everyone else is about Ubisoft
UbiSoft was the goat from like 1998-2010. Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, R6S, AC, Prince of Persia and Far Cry were all bangers in the beginning. But all them have went in the toilet.
I think Ghost Recon Wildlands and Farcry 5 were also good. Of course they butchered Ghost Recon..Farcry is going downward too.
The people changed or had shitty minds, now they are doomed
@14:50 - "no testosterone"
"The downfall needs to be studied", taking literally
No cap, Ubisoft should be a case study in all MBA classes what not to do.
This isn’t the first time, just the newest one.
💩WEF ESG DEI SBI IGN DISNEY BUD LIGHT BRIDGE WOKE LEFT💩
@@gamezonereactions8388 Do you mean to make this sound insane?
We're studying all the downfalls, we're seeing a trend in them.
Black flag was INSANE. i have played that game 100% 2 times now. Unity was the last innovative and good AC game and that was literally 10 years ago.
odyssey was also amazing tho
You mean camel simulator?😂@@thefeaj
@@_Azur that's Origins
Nah, unity was mid AF
Agree!! Unity is the best assassins creed for me because of gameplay and unfortunately boring story) Black Flag is masterpiece
When ubisoft went woke, greedy, and introduced DEI, they destroyed themselves.
Um as a Creator developer myself trying to brake into the market any reputation is better then no reputation. People keep talking about wreck studios and horrid games losing 100s of millions. Yet what is actually changing in the gamer behavior? Every streamer crying out the hope hype for the next corporate outlet to deliver them greatness. The generation of artist creators has moved and is moving on in age. They are being replaced with non artist government educated identity marxists. Support something different, someone whom is a artist with a vision they are willing to tell you out in the open everything you want to know. Our IP is up on the website and anyone can ask me anything buy mystery is what streamers sell. The true question is when the money is being loaned and choices are being made why isnt the number one interest in the room mattering anymore, the gamer. Time to find transparent artistic creators with fun and you in the main driver seat.
Customers usually don’t know what they want, and a company needs to figure that out and try to give it to them, but customers definitely know what they don’t want. These activists that take over these companies think they can make what consumers don’t want and force them to want it 😂
I've always disliked the expression "Who asked for this?". I loved a lot of media that I didn't ask for. _Dark City_, _The Matrix_, _The Crow_, _Warhammer 40k_ and many others, I never asked for those and I loved them when I watched, read or played them. I think you're pointing out well a large part of the problem, that being that if something doesn't catch on, they go into hissy fits because it's always worked for them before. In the old days, if a product failed, it would be quietly forgotten and people would move on with their lives.
Customers do know what they want. You are just slow and take sayings literally.
The company can't listen to every suggestion from every customer and the company need to find the things that the majority of customers want and don't get too niche and and in futures that not many people want.
How are you this slow?
@@thomgizziz are you not supposed to read/interpret sayings literally? How else would you suggest?
@@thomgizziz loosely?
imprecisely?
metaphorically?
I'll wait. In the meantime. Since you need to be filled in. Most innovations are combinations of things we didn't know we wanted. Yet it works, and it's amazing. Case closed.
@@thomgizzizyou obviously need to look into the psychology of that saying and the research that has gone into it. Just cause you sound correct in your head doesn't mean you are correct
Remember Prince of Persia the warrior within? Anybody?
My younger self does.
That Godsmack soundtrack...o ya. Loved it
That Ubisoft is gone
My nostalgia game
Awesome game. Story was really good too with the whole Dahaka demon thing and the Sand Wraith.
Ezio didn’t deserve to see this failure. I want to buy the ezio collection but won’t support this company anymore
Same
Just sail the seven seas if you want to play the old masterpiece and don't want to support them
@@starrynight8709 good idea but need a reliable ocean as many are infested with dirty pirates
@@stevegonzales527 Fitgirl repacks.
buy a preowned disc copy, ubi doesn't get any money from that
13:18 bro completely skipped over FAR CRY PRIMAL!!!!
Hey Asmon, IGN just blacklisted Wukong off their game of the year by force. It had a 90% vote as GOTY and suddenly it's gone. This would be a great next story to cover for ya
This type of stuff is what makes me think wukong might not end up winning game of the year despite its popularity, game industry have been trying to take it down
@@GreatRaijin Sales numbers don't lie, its the one thing we can depend on for truth.
...I don't know why you'd say that, I'm looking at the list and it's still there. At no point did it reach 90%, that's nuts, the highest was like 75% I think? It's good, but clearly not THAT good. There's enough bull going on out there without just making stuff up. Your 'great story' is just a fantasy you made up? lmao
That's not even true, at all. Like...no part of what you said. It's literally still there, on the list. I've no idea why you'd bother making up something so obviously false lmao
The highest it got was like 75-80%, all the top games on the list are hovering around 70%
@@GreatRaijin happened with hogwartss legacy
whoever bought the "dip" ...well that dip just went lower...at $ 9.22 today.
Buy the dip, until the dip buys you.
Rip dip
It's going to continue going lower and lower lol
That dip is looking like a clear pathway to privatization
Honestly if you want buy the dip just wait until it gets to 5$ or something which is plausible looking at how things goes
Ubisoft's dialogue went from Breaking Bad to High School Musical in 8 years.
😂😂😂😂
Same with Bioware's
Heavily agree with the "Time spent playing being used as a metric to measure how good a game is" thing. Take Journey for example. Short game. But, it is definitely a great game. Same could be said for a lot of the Indie games out there. A good chunk of them are short games, but the quality of the content you consume in those short hours are amazing.
90% stock plummet since January 2021. You would have been better off buying degen cryptocurrency meme coins than Ubisoft stocks
Good. These companies forgot who the fuck owns them. The gamer.
Bet your giblets @@joshbuxton8249
STONKS 📈
Or even some lame ass NFT scam - probably
@@joshbuxton8249 EA laughing in the corner, making billions every year by selling copy pasted fifa games
Yasuke may not be what's wrong with the game, but he is the canary in the coal mine. The choice to make him the protagonist shows all we need to know about the priorities of the developers.
12:52 but really, writers can't make a truly vile and reprehensible character they have to make all villains misunderstood good guys since Thanos i swear thats the tipping point for that type of villian, what was a cool provocative head scratching idea is now boring and cookie cutter. Make villains, villiains again Vauss was relatable on some level but only in part because he's human not because he had moral justification.
I agree, no one wants to write a villian who will act like a villian. The "sympathy for the devil" is getting overplayed.
and here i am wanting a good game where we get to be the villian. baldurs gate is one of the only ones ive played where i really got that feeling. The sad thing is though that people think if your willing to play a character like that you must be evil yourself when in reality its just a different side of the story. Like ive played dozens of games as the hero but i want a good rpg where im fighting those heros and trying to take over the world lol
@@mech0phave you played tyranny? It’s by the guys who made fallout 1 and 2 I think, super good bad guy game
@@Stxrend yea i have but i only played the good playthrough and meant to go through it again to do the bad one but forgot. Will definitely have to play it again though as it was an awesome game.
I guess you missed the last thousand or so years where villains are near-universally the most interesting and deeply flawed character of most stories. Some of the best villains of all time have been sympathetic. In Ubisoft alone, the fan favorites are Vauss and Pagan Min: both charismatic characters with relatable motivations and backstories. And Vauss was 100% relatable specifically because of his charisma and motivations, no clue wtf you're on about. Did you even play the game?
Frankly, what you seem to be asking for is literally just a poorly written one-note character.
Being a villain for the sake of being a villain is boring outside of specific settings. A good example of when this is okay is the Wolfenstein games. They're over-the-top Nazi bad guys with no depth or meaning beyond being a justifiable target to brutalize in an over-the-top uber violent game. It works.
Trying to do so in a more nuanced character-driven story is just asking for a bad game.
Dreamcast wasnt overpriced at all, it came out at like 199.99 on 9-9-99 I was there at launch bought the system and every game that launched it, along with the gun an extra controller a memory card and the fishing controller all for under 800 bucks.
keep it up boys this woke crap will be gone soon.
lmao you sweet sweet child
Ya it's on its way out
@@SurvivorFo It running it's course like everything else does. They'll go "kicking and screaming" just they're going
It would take a decade of failing games, and even then the "people" who are making these types of games would rather burn the industry down than admit they aren't wanted.
Lmfao do you think the media/entertainment is going to go against depop?@@cappy2282
2:42 dude really said black shadows
That’s the point
@@joshin9326😂
fk black shadows :)
The implied name
LOOL
Ubisoft makes games for their financiers like blackrock and woke journalists. They dont make games for the players anymore.
The irony of “live-service” games dying more rapidly than any other is not lost on me.
Everyone: Get Woke Go Broke!
Ubisoft: Nah, it'll be FINE.
Tell that to Budweiser 😂
Ubisoft: "Nah, I'd win."
*cuts to Ubisoft on an airport*
narrator: turns out it wasn’t, in fact, fine
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@@Prebondus :) A man of culture, I see!
Flops worth hundreds of millions of dollars, lmao. Woke, ESG, and DEI brings great businesses to the ground.
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I am still never going to buy AC: asian hate simulator the game.
It's so funny they made protag a basketball player, considering what they do to Asians in US
So tone-deaf
@@Psycorde this is double standards on top of double standards, all in the name of "them" stroking their ego and claiming they did a good thing
What the heck are they putting hiphop in it for?
Did ypu buy all the white ones?
@@Psycorde dude please 😂😂😂
At 13:20, the helicopter had static rotors
You reap what you sow.
Next is Bioware calling it.
And CDPR sadly
Isn t bioware already dead since Anthem ?
Basically
ETA: Veilguard is their last hoorah to stay relevant.@@etienne8110
CDPR is still going strong what are you on about? @@PutraRhm
@SpardaAlucard1 witcher 4 is coming
it's sad how much damage the "woke" and "DEI" did to possible ways of telling a story. they erased entire character setups and plots from existence because if you even only try to use them you will be acused to have Woke or DEI in your game.
i'm not saying that you have to have them in your game or story but some stories just have them by nature of their setup and region they play in.
that said, in the end the story only matters if the gameplay itself is good, fun and bug free.
Nah, Ubisoft's downfall has nothing to do with "woke" or DEI games.
They've just been objectively making dogshit games for about a decade now.
*This is what happens when you don’t fight against Woke feminists since 2016 they have ruined Comics and western gaming it’s bout time alot of gamers fight back*
@@NaughtyJuri best way tyo fight back is support games like baldurs gate 3 and shun the trash thats been being put out which everyone has been doing for the most part. Look ath the 100 million+ concord that was loaded with trash. Theyre gonna learn and get rid of dei or theyll go under. Like ill never get why these huge companies are so obsessed with pleasing people that arent even gonna play their games.
It's not surprising. After they ousted Hascoet and a bunch of other executives and employees for sexual harassment and racism allegations the environment probably felt tense.
Those who were left at the studio probably felt like they had to comply with whatever DEI crap was pushed on them, otherwise they wouldn't just lose their job, they'd also get smeared as predators or villains.
Correct me if I’m wrong.. Are you trying to say placing a black character in feudal Japan instead of just having a character from the region is good writing or story telling? It’s like putting white people as the main characters in a game in India or Africa. I agree that there are morons who are just labeling anything woke, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t generally correct. Ghost of Yotei is a good example of people calling woke, when honestly it’ll probably be a great game with a great story that is compelling and makes sense to the theme and setting. (Also it makes sense, women did fight in Japan. There were entire female companies and units during the Sengoku Jidai and during the edo period women born into samurai families could receive training.) However, Shadows is nothing similar it’s blatantly a shallow character that has zero proven history and changes nothing aside from inserting diversity in a region that LACKED diversity, it just doesn’t fit with its setting.
Also, whoever remembers, Ubisoft also took Heroes Of Might And Magic, and they fked that up too.
That game got Thanos-snapped out of relevancy.
New HoMM is being made by a smaller studio, they licensed it out. Might be their best decision, honestly.
@@FaultyGear9 for Real???
I member
At least HOTA is still somewhat alive
14:56 i think the word you are looking for is flat or bland. Back then games had spice and flavor. They were things we all could sit down and enjoy
Wokeness is more important than profit making - Game creation companies 2024
But why, why are they doing this? What's the plot
@@futavadumnezoI know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, and maybe it is, but we're seeing it play out in real time. They basically want to slowly and gradually change/distort/destroy established social and cultural norms to create a "utopia" where everybody is on equal footing and nobody is sad. Of course this is impossible and stupid.
@@futavadumnezo they really thought they would make more money that way by including those .... really sad.
The company itself doesn't care about wokeness, they care about making money. Its middle-management consultant companies like Sweet Baby Inc who trick the investors/CEOs into creating games for an audience that doesn't exist that causes this problem. Ubisoft (and every other major media entertainment corp) wasn't trying to push wokeness onto you, they were led to believe wokeness is what sells, and now they are learning the hard way that they were very wrong.
@@futavadumnezoBlack Rock
Ubisoft, working on a Japanese themed game, dropped out of the Tokyo game show.
Battlestate Games, the Tarkov devs, are going.
the absolute state.
Ubisoft should feel comfortable losing money.
In fact if this keeps up, they will be the one to « own nothing and be happy ».
I loved Black Flag but it's the only AC i actually really played a lot.
Ubisoft between 2010 - 2015 was actually very based. Assassin's creed brotherhood, Far Cry 3, Rainbow Six Siege (which is still a decent game). Now it seems like they've turned all of their series into repetitive slop full of buggy BS and are just rehashing the same old formula in every game, just in a different setting.
Everytime they add something new to R6 it's complete garbage and makes the game worse unfortunately.
because 2010-2015 developers are either retired or quit, now they got replaced with camels and donkeys on a farm
Far Cry 3 gameplay was ok, story sucked. Brotherhood sucked, and so did Siege.
Black Flag is still the best pirate game of all time too. Ezio and Edward Kenway are legit great characters.
@@conscripthornet4430 Eh, I'd disagree slightly. Taking out terrorist hunt definetly sucked, but the firing range is good, free-for-all deathmatch is a good way to warm up, and some of the new operators are fun to play. The map reworks for the most part have been good (except for house). Honestly I think the worst thing about the game is the lack of a real anti-cheat and the ranked system being totally garbage.
you know whats funny? if the new AC game had a fictional japanese samurai as the main character and have Yasuke as a side character helping out as a blacksmith or something that's historical accurate just like how Da Vinci was with Ezio, it would be 1000 times better than whatever crap they are trying to pull here.
Heck, maybe even *TRAIN* Yasuke as a samurai could have been cool, like he gets better as the game goes along and helps you in the end if you help him long enough
He could be the MC errand, he could tell the MC about what gossip or conversation is going on in some areas, which later the MC can investigate themself and he could be the quest manager.
would habe been so easy lol.
all in all, even bringing "diversity" into games would be so easy without much backlash if they would integrate "them" just as normal, realistic people. Remember the dlc of black flag which was awesome and had a black lead?
or any other pre 2010 movie with Denzel Washington and co
You play yauske because he isn't a real historical figure.
A fictional Japanese ninja is the main character. Yasuke is the playable side kick.
This is crazy that sweet baby single handedly destroyed a company
One of their goals is to burn down the industry. They are pretty successful so far.
Not just this company either!
$BI spawned from Ubisoft. Kim Belair is an ex-employee. Ubisoft is kind of patient zero for narrative consultants.
It's not crazy. I saw a video today about one of their employees and they were showing some kind of presentation explicitly stating they want to burn game companies into the ground. Seems like they keep their promises. Job done.
@@Pixelsoep why tho? I mean what do they gain except the employment from these companies that will all implode ala Ubisoft?
I am not denying it man, as it seems obvious that is their intent. But what the hell do they gain when companies see them as a disaster being tied too for their upcoming titles?!?
As a developer myself, I can assure you. this situation will never be fixed. Big companies will keep on producing more expensive garbage with bunch of talents rushing into their studios, while the indies will struggle to create legends.
AC Black Flag was peak Ubisoft. Miss those times...
Fucking LOVED BF
BF was the only AC I beaten and would absolutely replay
Can I just remind everyone that Black Flag featured cross-dressing, homosexuality, aggressive anti-colonialism, and a massive racial conflict. Assassin's Creed has _always_ been woke... it just _used_ to also be good.
I don't think I beat Black Flag, but I sailed around and basically fought everybody because it was awesome.
Black flag was the last assassin's creed I played and it was badass.
Who remembers the massive graphics downgrade debacle from Watch Dogs 1?
To be fair, they had to do it since the ps4 and Xbox one where underpowered.
I still remember thinking the game looked amazing. Then, I saw it was made by Ubisoft and immediately lost interest.
Was a great game still
@@PeterSkaOididn’t matter if you had a top tier pc it was still massively downgraded
This is what happens when you start thinking of short term profits and prioritize it over making quality games and thinking long term. I think we all knew this was coming. Not surprised at all
I'm shocked, I'm a old gamer, being of the market for 10y just about to re-enter the market and wtf happened.. there's no way
Scary how quickly things change.
The issue with gaming today is two-fold, but stem from the same root problem, which is that the industry simply became too big for its own good. It started attracting the wrong kind of people in too great numbers.
The one issue, is that due to the massive growth of the industry at large, the top executive and decision-making positions have attracted suits who are there for the money first, gameplay and game design understanding second. They wanna see profits rather than good games, and they don't have the intellect, insight, nor passion, to understand that good gameplay and profits need to be interlinked, never separated.
The other issue, is that at the lower levels of the working floors, due to the size of the industry the job positions now seem more established and secure, on par with any other big industry, and thus attracts the type of people who aren't actually living and breathing game design, but rather they simply want to pursue "an artistic/creative career", and game design, script writing, story telling, all these positions suddenly become attractive to them. We see the same issue in Hollywood, where there now is a horde of writers who can't for the life of them write a good story, because the only perspective on life they have, is that little Hollywood bubble they have isolated themselves in. They don't write stories because they have something meaningful to tell and share. They do it because it's convenient and the idea of this type of career pleases their ego.
Gameplay and story writers in videogames now are no different. They don't actually have real world experience living full lives, and they also aren't really hardcore gamers who understand what good gameplay and storytelling means to a gamer. These people instead just live in their little "creative career" bubbles where everyone else are like them, where no one really has any passion or vision or dedication, but instead most of them are more attached to what their career says about them, than actually having something meaningful to say themselves.
Consider this. A real game designer/story teller, will make their work on their own even if it only reaches a handful of people, even if they don't get paid for it they will still sit up hours at night to work on it on the side. Why? Because they have a passion for it, and because the work itself is meaningful to them, so they can't not do it. It's their soul they pour into it. But these career creatives who never had deep aspirations and motivation to share something novel and honest, they lack that deep attachment to the soul of the work they put out. They care more about who they work for, than what they work on - and again that is because the industry has grown too big and fosters too many incentives for people to get involved that doesn't include good gameplay development and interesting story telling. Rather it's status, social media worth, money, career opportunities, and padding their own self to appear as something on the paper rather than letting their work speak for itself.
This analysis is still too surface-level. It's not merely economics and status: woke ideology itself is fundamentally misaligned with the transcendental. In other words, activists can't tell a good story, regardless of how hard they try or how much money or support they have, because they can always only imitate and pervert, by definition. They're incapable of actually tapping into the timeless themes and archetypes that good stories need, because they've conciously turned away from the source.
Everything having a battle pass now is what people are getting sick of as well.
Dreamcast was way ahead of its time. Too much so. PS2 hardware before the PS1, first online, first mmo on console, multiple other firsts.
Dreamcast was the best console of the generation and stood up to the next generation imo. Sadly they had a poor gaming catalogue and was easily pirated. My brother came home from visiting a friend out of state and had a boot disk and the entire console's game catalogue.
I bet being a part of Fantasy Star Online was exciting.
@@jericosha2842it was great
Way ahead of it's time and very ambitious, but I believe it achieved it's ambitions.
I loved it. Best Sega console of all time.
I guess it failed due to marketing.
And it was $100 cheaper than the PS2,XBOX and I believe even the GameCube(I'm not 100% sure on this one)
Dreamcast will always be my favorite console.
On the topic of the playable characters going soft. In Farcry 3, the character you Play as. Ends up showing psychopathic characteristics and seems like a monster. Gripping gameplay and story.
Ubisoft pushed Assassin’s Creed: Shadows back to BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🙄
When you're Japanese game is just a black power fantasy
Honestly, when they started playing the battle music and it had american rap music mixed into it, that really shows how little respect they have for black history.
Yasuke had nothing to do with black American culture and rap music. Ubisoft is just lumping all black people together.
The best part of far cry 3 was the youtube commercials they had, leading up to the game, where Vaas captured a tourist, burried him in the sand and gave him a straw to breathe during high tide.
And every week they released a video where the dude was getting tired more and more, and Vaas completely giving him hope and destroying it.
The best part? Once you are in the game, you can find that beach and actually see the skeleton left
Okay, that's pretty boss.
Games used to be good and interesting.
its absolutely insane that this is the same company who made shit like farcry 3😂(actual loser in the replies)
I am pretty sure all the devs who worked on Ubisoft classics have left by now.
@Bonesawisready926 yup
@@Bonesawisready926or they were fired for not sticking to the narrative
Blood Dragon is literally a reskin and it still felt fresh and new.
Ac4
Rayman
Splinter cell
So much potential
55:57 that cross eyed impression was pure gold 😂
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Ubisofts biggest problem is that it takes 5 years to make a good game but they don't have that long to bleed out, or the people in place to make meaningful change
" Requiescat in pace " - Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Haven't heard that in a minute. Big W
In AC Odyssey the xp booster is almost required if you don't want to grind for hours. I gave up on the game for that exact reason, I was just playing the story and doing all the side quests and I ended up so under leveled that I couldn't progress without hours of grinding levels.
Woke is the cause. Woke is destroying entertainment. Tv shows, movies, games etc.
So Elden ring, Bg3 and Spider-Man 2 got destroyed. I must be out of the loop.
Poor writing, forced diversity, incompetence and forced propaganda is what's ruining the entertainment industry. Some projects can have lgbtq+ representation but it has to be done tastefully and respectfully, not being forced down your throat
It's entropy
@@idrinktapwater6174 Bingo.
@@ApsmneShsbshuelden ring? Why did you even mention that game?
Spiderman 2, yes is an absolute garbage. In spanish those mf even change our lenguage not to mention the trash side missions. It's all lgbtq propaganda. I will wait till they release the Pc version so I could play the arab version of the game without rainbow flags and that propaganda
The Division sold a lot but was met with disappointment. Took a while to patch it up. Anyone remember the launch. What a mess.
TD2 problem is balancing at dark zone, i don't care with microtransaction because exotic weapon is now easy to get
I do remember that but I did end up loving that game and Division 2
Hell yea
Was that the game that had a helicopter as a final boss and it had MASSIVE amounts of health?
@@Arcademan09 yes it definitely was. That was damn as all hell, but it definitely got better since that.
go woke go broke lmao
I dont mind cosmetics in live service games as long as improving the game play is the main focus in all their meetings and secondary you have a creative team who just develops skins
Those Splinter Cell games are so badass. I miss those.
Chaos theory was game of that generation imo, or mgs solid 3
@@SWOTHDRA Both those games are sick. I need a Chaos Theory replay soon for sure.
Montreal was a Titan of industry. We also had Eidos Montreal as well. Then Ubisoft destroyed all the companies & now they are the biggest & look what they did. Pathetic. I am a Montrealer & I’m ashamed of what they became.
EZIO, ALTAIR AND DESMOND DIED WITH A FRANCHISE
58:42 or Lightning powers. The entertainment industry loves their “black people all have electric powers”