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I'd joke more on the own nothing angle. But on stocks... I, for one. Am glad to not own UbiSoft stocks. And will fully bet on said stocks getting shorted fairly soon...
Likewise. I don't have any Ubisoft game in my Steam Profile. I didn't even pirate their games. The only game I'd want to play are their South Park but that's because they're just the Publishers. Not the Devs. Getting really comfortable not owning their games so far, won't change anytime soon.
@@delfean2666Its got garbage just too repetitive. This the average ubisoft game. We all played 1-3 of them. We dont need to play more especially were their better games are discounted 😂😂. Ubisoft games are so generic they are competing wuth themselves
Technically you don't own any of the games you didn't develop yourself, just a license to use said games. I'm not trying to defend Ubisoft here. I'm just kinda surprised people talk about this like it's a new thing Ubisoft invented.
Dude its ubisoft, they're absolute trash who havent made a good game ever, their past successes have been voided due to how many failures they keep hittin
Reasons for Star Wars Outlaw's decline: 1) Star Wars IP is in a rough spot with the fanbase. 2) Game's price tag and general polish don't seem aligned. Not sure facial animations exist. 3) General game design formula does nothing different from Ubisoft's standard formula. Somehow it does things worse or even less than what it usually does. 4) General bad vibes from Ubisoft via comments about digital purchases, practices w/ DRM, digital rights management, and other factors. 5) General mixed reviews of the game w/ poor reception 6) Game missed the mark story wise for a few. 7) Game's price tag and the fact you needed a chart to figure out what you were buying. 8) General consensus Ubisoft Games go on sale real quick. 9) Game isn't on Steam for some reason. 10) Preorder bonus snaffu further makes the game look like a joke.
@@marcusclark1339 nah i think in general we dont give a shit about that unless they are trying to make a point of it (Concord/Dustborn). In this case, it's just a meh game.
11) they released just over a week before space marine 2, a story which people are much more interested in, showing far more innovation, and gameplay beyond the singleplayer
Star Wars Outlaws is a thoroughly mediocre game. Without charm and charisma. No matter what the access media claim. An assembly line job from the UbiSoft sweat shop. And that's why it won't sell well.
Why stop at Ubislop? Let's give all companies trying to bend us over the same treatment by withholding our money. Looking at you Activision, EA, and various greedy game companies.
Ubisoft and their greedy practices and Disney and their greedy practices and DEI bullshit 😂😂😂 Never been happier to see these clowns realise they have to make games for us not the other way around 😂
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 I mean people crave indies and older games for a reason. So your logic is partially valid, it's also partially not. I'm okay if these companies go under, or need to take a few more hits to their wallets before they learn.
Ubisoft open world games have felt like the definition of mediocrity to me. It feels like ever since FarCry 3 and AC2, they got WAYYYY too comfortable with this same old formula for every single game.
And Ubisoft devs had the balls of steel to say: they were inspired by Ghost Of Tsushima while making Outlaws. Really? And what did they learn from that game? That how you turn your character to the left, or how to jump?
Good. I hope they go bankrupt. I was 38 HOURS into Pre Access. They emailed me saying I needed to DELETE and RESTART. Never heard of a patch requiring that before! Lazy devs! They refused to provide a refund. They offered 100 worthless Ubisoft credits. I deleted the game. I’m not starting over. I’m not playing season pass I already payed for. Boycott. I’m telling everyone to stay far away. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and I’m extremely disappointed. Ubisoft should be shut down!
@@Sarah.E.B yeah I mentioned that to the Playstation customer service bc they refused to provide a refund either. He basically said if I asked my bank to perform a lawful investigation I’m entitled to that Sony might punish my PSN account which basically felt threatening and ridiculous. Ubisoft and Sony should have a class action lawsuit put against them.
I’m a Star Wars nut, I could have played this game found some enjoyment, but I will not support a company that has no interest in its consumer, nor its abusive practices towards its workers. This company deserves its downfall and any negative publicity towards the company is warranted. Getting used to not owning their games has left me buying more indie games so I still win.
Yeah, ubisoft became far too comfortable within the market. The bigger something become the less they find listening to people a necessity. Most big companies don't listen at all. Bethesda having games incapable of competing with older games, xbox not having the interest of gamers in mind, playstation no longer capitalizing on powerful single player games. Ubisoft had gold mines and they decided to mine tin instead.
Same for me, especially regarding it's abusive practices, the cover up of it and not taking any accountability for one bit of it. There was a time I would have snapped this game up as it had the SW tag, even as a 'Ubisoft' game. This just seemed too average across the board, so even putting aside the company stuff it was a pass for me. Maybe when it's dirt cheap and all DLC is out. I don't feel sorry for Ubisoft, not one bit for this having disappointing sales. They created that.
@@Elwaves2925 Outlaws looked mid as hell. It seemed undercooked and strangely facial animations right out of mass effect andromeda from the stuff I've seen. The backgrounds and environments looked ok from what I saw, the gameplay just looked below par.
I am so proud of the people that used to love Star Wars who simply walked away from this game. You can't spin individual sales and concurrent player numbers like you can Disney+ viewers.
Star Wars fans have been fed shit for far too long and too much. From the sequels to Disney+'s shows (except Andor) and EA's Battlefront. They've probably gotten sick and tired of the slop served.
@@haunterdragon4580 all the videos I've seen of the ai looking at you and literally missing every shot in true stormtrooper fashion on HARD difficulty. A good game? I beg to differ...
The devs aren't the problem, it's the executives (or more accurately, the Guillemot family) who have been at the company since its founding and have been the source of 99.9% of its problems since.
…The game is $70 and has a $120 optional edition. The bigger problem is that it’s a current gen game that’s not really utilizing the hardware to be one at all
“I’ll make whatever I want, and the idiot consumers will buy it all” No sales “What’s wrong with you assholes, buy my game!!!” - a large amount of AAA games lately
Shareholders are not the real customers for any company. The real customers are the people who give a company money in exchange for a product. Shareholders buy in on profit sharing.
@@somik-i3x it would have to be outstanding in every aspect which Star Wars games are grossly known for issues in loads of places. I platinumed the Jedi games but believe me when I say each of them had issues.
@@abro14 idk even Ubi knows a brand new IP needs a unique gameplay mechanic so if it wasn’t tied to Star Wars it might’ve had one. But since they could just rely on the SW branding they tried actually removing mechanics by only allowing one weapon and bare bones stealth, just a shame it didn’t pan out for em 😭
So you're telling me flying out TH-camrs and giving them "experiences" in place of money to potentially get favorable reviews on what they played to then sell to their viewers wasn't a good way to get guaranteed sales? No. That couldn't possibly be. They did absolutely everything right! The TH-camrs weren't paid! And that means they didn't have to disclose any of that to their viewers! How did this happen? Where were all of those buyers Ubi thought they were getting? HOW WILL THE SHAREHOLDERS SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THIS GAME ISN'T SELLING ALL TOO WELL??? Fuck Ubisoft and fuck the TH-camrs that have no ethics and try to hide it from their own audience.
Yeah it was sad to see graham Stephen hop on this band wagon, sure he wasn’t paid for a good review but members of his team got to go on an experience so he talked very highly of it
Amen. Haven’t liked Star Wars for the last however long years since Disney got its grubby mitts on it. I’m still a fan of George’s era of course but anything touched by Disney turns to shit. Rouge one was half decent tho. But that didn’t last very long
@@RigobertosTacoShopsaw 7 and 8, didn't see 9, and after I heard someone coming back. Not to mention the utter BS nonsense around all of it. Yea no thanks
"despite positive reviews", y'all mean bought out reviews. The gunplay and stealth is literal f tier, with a dry story and boring protagonist. Not worth near 100$
We'll probably never get the numbers but it's most likely less than 100k sales, not the several millions they where expecting because it was Star Wars.
@@aeternusdoleo4531 The player numbers we have for Concord are for PC, from Steam. We have some estimates for PS, but no solid numbers. Also, those numbers are concurrent players. Needless to say, those players don't play 24/7. That said, people will be more inclined to rate things if they feel strongly, one way or the other. Concord probably has a higher rate of review leaving, in part due to the devs ticking people off.
Ubisoft Market Value: $2B CD Projekt Market Value: $4B CD Projekt is now the most valuable Gaming Company in Europe. Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty were made with ESG/DEI. And both are masterpieces.
@@suziechapstick8236 It's already to late, GW has that blackrock money, and is already DEI hiring. Only way to save the franchise now is for blackrock to lose enough money to cut off the investment supply; then the market will adjust itself.
What killed it for me early on upon seeing it was the price points... its about 180$ bucks Cdn for the ultimate version or whatever its called here. As soon as I saw they wanted that much I was done... No idea how we ended up at the point where these executives think corporate growth is simply upping the price on a horribly bland product rather then giving the customer a truly great game devoid of poorly thought out and executed decisions based on outside influences and live service models.
well yeah. 180$ it's absurd for any type of game! it doesn't matter how it was made. for another country the exchange rate will be abysmal. Ubisoft can crash and burn
Yeap, even the price hike to 69.99 euro to me is too much, ive bought next to no games the last few years as the quality is just not there anymore but the prices just keep going up
@@haunterdragon4580 I'm sure he did. But he also realized he didn't need the cheaper version either. It's a game. A luxury item for our entertainment, in a world with lots of other options available. Including videos about the game you're not playing.
Holy moly, that much?? It's not a terrible game, just meh from what I saw. I could maybe see $60 bc it's a costly IP, but I wouldnt buy it for that price. But I also don't want to support Disney as much as possible, so I wouldn't purchase it anyway.
My brother bought a 4070 yesterday at Microcenter but get this! Apparently it came free with a copy of StarWars Outlaws, however, he found out about this offer upon reaching the register, but when offered the code he said.... *"I Don't want it."* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@derp3305 For Wukong I would understand it bcs UE5 but for space marine 2 nah its using the same engine like the Alien fireteams Elite game and i played that with my 1060 6gb
These companies need to understand that game development ROI generally doesn't scale well past a point, and giant teams on one product aren't helping the game industry; they're treating game development like a production factory where it doesn't parallel 1:1. Companies need to invest in diverse projects with medium sized teams and smaller support teams for polish, so that multiple medium selling games can incubate over a couple of years rather than one giant game that becomes make-it-or-break-it followed by layoffs. Business basics is to hedge risks, and these corporate execs seem to be not doing their jobs.
"Star Wars : Outlaws struggle to meet sales expectations despite positive critic reviews". The gamer community already know NOT to trust "critic reviews" by Kotaku, IGN, etc. So "positive critic reviews amount to nothing.
*Rayman* : Aw man that's upsetting. If only Ubisoft had a mascot who has never sold a bad game and would make easy money. Boy that's would be useful huh? *Rayman turns off the tv and goes to bed*
Ubisoft hasn't innovated in over a decade. They've been milking the same formula over and over and over and it's no surprise people are so sick of their shit. All they do is shovel out mediocrity. They need to get with the times and start making something original and innovative again or they will continue to fail, and when they finally collapse no one will be sad.
This is not just an Ubisoft issue. Because of how the whole Gaming industry has been doing business, less people are willing to Pre-order or even buy the games until they see the real game play. This could be waiting till their fav Streamer plays it , or until enough reviews have come out that they feel comfortable. To many Gamers have been burned by their fav Gaming company to give them the benefit of the doubt. Many of these companies treat gamers as if we work for them. You need Us to buy your games to stay in business, not the other way round.
They treat us like this because we aren't their customers: the shareholders are. They are the ones these companies want make happy. They see us as an infinite source of money they can gouge
0:52 do they think the Star Wars name will draw people? That was true up until the early 2000s. It has gotten worse with each new release. The nail in that coffin for me was being told Star Wars isn’t made for me by the people making it. So the Star Wars name means to stay away.
Ubisoft needed to fire Yves Guillemot a long time ago. He oversaw years of sexual misconduct and abuse toward employees at Ubisoft but did fuck all and hasn't faced any repercussions. Maybe losing the company money will be enough to make him "resign", and give him a Bobby Kotick sized golden parachute to float away with.
Probably didn’t help Ubisoft the Star Wars property hit a real blunder with their recent failure of Acolyte. Star Wars fans just weren't a secured market anymore.
@YongYea You should have also pointed out that many people were HIGHLY against Ubisoft's decision to make this game (including physical releases) require online activation despite it not being an online game. I believe that played a part in this game's sales performance.
It’s astonishing how stupid they are. They cancel 1313. They cancel the Maul game. No Battlefront lll. No Mandalorian game. No lightsaber dueling game. NOTHING EPIC. Then they release this crap and expect it to succeed
Is it okay to say that Star Wars is a mid franchise yet? If you weren't made a fan 20 years ago, you can't made one today without also having terrible taste.
That's your opinion, which is quite rude. There's no reason that people can't appreciate the Star Wars films, whether they account for their age or just enjoy them as they are. Being told they have poor taste for not liking the things you do is just odd.
Nah its true, modern Star Wars (apart from one or two entries) also functions as an IQ test. I can confidently deduce that anyone who likes the sequel films is an absolute dingus and not worth my time.
Been thinking this even while I was a fan tbh, it is mega-mid at best. Its best of the best media has been stuff that has as little of SW in it as possible, like Andor. And Andor is still quite mid when compared to actual prestige series. It's a dumb franchise for kids made to sell toys, and people need to accept this.
There is also the fact that Star Wars as a brand has lost a lot of appeal since Disney took it over, as pretty much all of the movies and shows it has put out besides Rogue One, Andor and the first two seasons of the Mandalorian have been very bad.
Hit the nail on the head! Perfect summary of what is wrong with Star Wars right now. Disney essentially forced the IP into decline by pumping out low quality productions on to their streaming services and producing subpar films. I still think there’s a market for good Star Wars media, but the problem lies with their inability to make GOOD Star Wars media 😢
Give me a Jedi Outcast style game where I play a cool character like Kyle Katarn, let me wear a hooded robe, and give it extremely satisfying lightsaber combat and brutal dismemberment. But that would make too much sense.
Ubisoft is like the most mentally ill out of every other studio out there. 15 years ago if you were to tell me that EA would be beaten in stupidity by Ubisoft I would've laughed at you.
They are incomparable, EA are evil and don't give a fuck but they are at least a good business, Ubisoft can barely turn a profit these days. A 1.5 Billion market cap for a company like Ubisoft is embarrassing
I'ma be real. I'm 100% comfortable and able to afford a $70 game every once in a while, but the game would need to be GOOD. Expecting me to purchase a license to play a mid tier shovelware game for $100 is absolutely fucking insane. I bought Zone of the Enders for the ps2 for $5 just the other day and it's ten thousand times more fun and immersive than Star Wars: Outlaws will ever be. It's wild to me the fucked up state of modern gaming. There's no soul here anymore, it's just a giant business for corporations to leech money off of and people are starting to get wise to it.
It's a good time to go back and play the games that we've missed these past few decades. There's enough to keep us busy for a very long time anyway, at least until the actual big, good games come out.
Even investors are tired of their strategy and ask them to revive their dormant franchises, it shows how much Ubisoft executives are completely out of touch and don't understand the videogame market.
I've been saying for a while that the first AAA company to fold is 100% going to be ubisoft. They have literally nothing going on. A bunch of franchises that are all well past their prime they've been milking since the 2000's and anything new that they do is just the same copy paste open world formula with a new skin that flops. They even went out and tried to get someone to buy them and even MS is like "nah, we're good and we're buying everyone". Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of sex pests though.
Released expensive, repetitive, unimaginative mid tier filler games for years, aggressively and openly pushes for more monetization. All that work for record low numbers. Suck it Ubisoft.
Honestly I am surprised that now is the time gamers actually stop buying slop. This should have happened over a decade ago, when buggy releases, MTX and SAAS, aswell as lack of innovation started becoming the norm; but I am happy nonetheless that it is indeed happening now. Hopefully we finally get more good games again from bigger companies, if this continues.
I've been calling their death for years. They will undoubtedly get bought up by Sony or Microsoft, maybe Epic Games to siphon more exclusives from Steam to stay relevant.
That's what happen when you release an unfinished and unpolished game, this is what happens when you don't give the players the least what they want, this is what happens when you uglify a game character from her own real actor. i think AC shadows might have low sales too.
I don't think they even have the capacity to do that these days, Splinter Cell is the only franchise i care about that ubislop own, but lets be honest if they did bring it back it will more then likely be crap
They wouldn't do that and even if they somehow did, they would infest it with microtransactions and loot boxes, the old Ubisoft that used to make fun and complete single player games has been dead for a long time.
Once they get that big, CEO's think they can dictate what gamers want just like they dictate what employees have to do. Surprise jackass CEO's, we don't flunky for you.
Modern gaming sucks so much. That letter is grim. Depressing. Games aren’t about creativity anymore, they’re about maximising return on investment and satisfying shareholders. It makes me want to throw up.
Sometimes I forget that Ubisoft exists. I can't remember the last time I bought one of their games. This is coming from someone who used to be a massive Ubisoft fan, BTW.
Remember when only Konami decided to destroy their reputation for profit? Now other companies are are joining in on the "fun"! This Industry is on a highway to the dark ages.
$60 is already expensive and deters me from buying most games. $70 is just insane for a base price and I refuse to pay it for any game. Will just wait until it goes on sale at most. Also yeah, it not being on Steam also adds to me not bothering to get it.
Yep Valhalla sold really well everyone bought it because Origins & Odyssey were really good but then people realized after buying Valhalla that it wasn't really that good of a game then Ubisofts stock only dropped shortly after Valhalla launched also Valhalla was when they got involved with SBI in 5years since Valhalla launched the stock dropped by over 85% and still continues to drop. Valhalla was the starting point of Ubisofts slow death to now it's stock is worse than it was over a decade ago before Ubisoft even got popular.
The company deserves this. They protected and covered up many, credible accusations of sex pests and sexual harassers in the company. And the ceo just decided to use plausible deniability, and just said he didn't know what was going on, in his own company 🍿👀
Ubisoft had already done too much to soil their brand, so when you combine that with lackluster games, then it is no surprise that their stock is failing. The sad part is that Ubisoft does not show any sense of recognizing this to trying to fix what they have been doing so wrong lately.
In the previous decade they came out with Rainbow Six Siege, For Honor, AC Origins and Odyssey, The Crew 1 & 2, Division 1 and 2, Watch Dogs 1 and 2 , Anno 1800, Far Cry 3, 4 and 5 and that's not even all of it, and now we get Star wars Outlaws, AC Valhalla, Shadows and Mirage, Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six extraction, Crew Motorfest, Skull and Bones.. they all just seem a worse or the worst version of games we played before, coasting on the IP that was build in the past and not expanding on them and expecting it to sell.. which might work initially but that's viable long term, as the stock prices reflect. And then come out with all these games as a $70 base price or $130 to actually get all the content, a level of arrogance to think their games are that much better than what else is out there, and even 5 years later still sell these games for these prices, AC Odyssey from 2018 is still is $114 for the ultimate edition, or the audacity to sell Skull and Bones for $60 when they knew the game wasn't what it was supposed to be, and when people complain you double down and call it quadruple A.. I'm fairly sure if they sold S&B for $30 and not pretended it was the best thing ever it would have gone down a lot better.
@@xtranathor8143” just buy them on sale “ my brother in Christ the whole point is that these games are set at those prices, old sony games drop down to 20$ if they get old, ubisoft just puts the game on sale and expects purchases.
I can think of a few reasons why the game is doing as badly as it is... - Disney has driven the reputation of the Star Wars franchise to the ground - Ubisoft leadership has made some really stupid statements so gamers want nothing to do with the company - The characters look beyond terrible - The price is too high - The game not being on Steam
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Bruh ubisoft stock at this rate looking more flammable then anakin...
That's sad. This game didn't disappoint me
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news.
are you making a video on the PS5 Pro?
Has Ubisoft got comfortable with people not buying their games yet?
Brilliant
Bud's the discounts I'm seeing on some of their games on steam 90 % minimum.
Ouuuuu I ain't even buying it. FEEEEELS GEWWWWWWWWWWWWD.
Hmm nope they EGO is still strong
Goated comment, OP
They made a single-player "online-only" but are shocked when people don't buy it 💀
Sorry Ubisoft.. I couldn't hear you over how comfortable I am not owning your games.
I'd joke more on the own nothing angle. But on stocks...
I, for one. Am glad to not own UbiSoft stocks. And will fully bet on said stocks getting shorted fairly soon...
Im buying them @@masterbasher9542
Mrs. Boy chin wonder from the modern audience will swoop in and save them at any moment
they’re upset that you are comfortable not buying their shitty games. i’m right there with you.
Likewise. I don't have any Ubisoft game in my Steam Profile. I didn't even pirate their games.
The only game I'd want to play are their South Park but that's because they're just the Publishers. Not the Devs. Getting really comfortable not owning their games so far, won't change anytime soon.
Ubisoft is now in the "find out" stage of what happens when you tell all your customers they don't own their games.
I think the bigger problem is the games are garbage
Its a bit of both I think. But it's mostly because their games are garbage.
@@delfean2666Its got garbage just too repetitive.
This the average ubisoft game. We all played 1-3 of them. We dont need to play more especially were their better games are discounted 😂😂.
Ubisoft games are so generic they are competing wuth themselves
They never said that plus if you buy games digitally you don't really own almost any of them regardless of publisher
@@sayarimamani3605 it literally in most agreements 🤣 even some phsyical
Ubisoft will never live down that "gamers need to get comfortable not owning their games" quote. As Seth said in Superbad: "People don't forget".
Is Ubisoft wrong though? People are clearly comfortable not owning their games. Just not in the way they liked.
Yep. If people's choices are: "Pay $100 and don't own a game", or "Pay nothing and don't own a game", it's an easy choice.
@@nendymion pirate it
@@robsolf or even better, pirate it and own it
Technically you don't own any of the games you didn't develop yourself, just a license to use said games.
I'm not trying to defend Ubisoft here. I'm just kinda surprised people talk about this like it's a new thing Ubisoft invented.
When buying a game looks like you're purchasing an Adobe subscription, something has gone terribly wrong.
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Watch them use this as the "see, singleplayer games DON'T sell well anymore!"
They can't though given Black Myth Wukong, Stellar Blade, and Astrobot. If they do and their investors buy it, then they deserve to lose their money.
@@Tsurfdon't forget the highest selling game of last year, Hogwarts
And concord did not sell at all, so single player still win lol
Their online multiplayer only live service game XDefiant failed too, so no, they can't say that.
Cant do that after wukong tho
Not since Disney have I seen investors allow this level of incompetence to continue for so long.
Bears are real
@@tracym8952You’re not wrong, but where did that come from?
@@tracym8952 Its pretty easy to be bearish when the C level triples down on losing strategies.
Dude its ubisoft, they're absolute trash who havent made a good game ever, their past successes have been voided due to how many failures they keep hittin
@@vincent207 probably bag holding
Ubisoft needs to get comfortable at losing so much money.
don’t worry they will somehow blame us.
Ubisoft needs to get comfortable going bankrupt.
Reasons for Star Wars Outlaw's decline:
1) Star Wars IP is in a rough spot with the fanbase.
2) Game's price tag and general polish don't seem aligned. Not sure facial animations exist.
3) General game design formula does nothing different from Ubisoft's standard formula. Somehow it does things worse or even less than what it usually does.
4) General bad vibes from Ubisoft via comments about digital purchases, practices w/ DRM, digital rights management, and other factors.
5) General mixed reviews of the game w/ poor reception
6) Game missed the mark story wise for a few.
7) Game's price tag and the fact you needed a chart to figure out what you were buying.
8) General consensus Ubisoft Games go on sale real quick.
9) Game isn't on Steam for some reason.
10) Preorder bonus snaffu further makes the game look like a joke.
holy shit you're right, they straight up arent selling it on the biggest game store
11) ugly MC design butchering the models look for agenda reasons
@@marcusclark1339 nah i think in general we dont give a shit about that unless they are trying to make a point of it (Concord/Dustborn). In this case, it's just a meh game.
11) they released just over a week before space marine 2, a story which people are much more interested in, showing far more innovation, and gameplay beyond the singleplayer
More than that it's dei and esg bc they got face model worng and it's intentional
AAAA gaming at its finest.
Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so true
Just like in football, the more A’s the worse the product.
Star Wars Outlaws is a thoroughly mediocre game. Without charm and charisma. No matter what the access media claim. An assembly line job from the UbiSoft sweat shop. And that's why it won't sell well.
Less A's better product.
‘AAAA’ - Ubisoft shareholders screaming 😂
I'm never gonna feel bad for Ubisoft, they deserve it for their greedy practices 😂
@@spence6195 so as a Ubisoft hater not as a starwars hater
Why stop at Ubislop? Let's give all companies trying to bend us over the same treatment by withholding our money. Looking at you Activision, EA, and various greedy game companies.
@@christianedwards9025Literally every company does this. Some are just more blatant about it
Ubisoft and their greedy practices and Disney and their greedy practices and DEI bullshit 😂😂😂
Never been happier to see these clowns realise they have to make games for us not the other way around 😂
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 I mean people crave indies and older games for a reason. So your logic is partially valid, it's also partially not. I'm okay if these companies go under, or need to take a few more hits to their wallets before they learn.
Wait... people didn't want another generic ubisoft dead open world? I'm shocked.
but… but… but… we paid for Star Wars rights this game is slightly different from the last one we made!!!!
Please buy it!! 😂😂
Ubisoft open world games have felt like the definition of mediocrity to me. It feels like ever since FarCry 3 and AC2, they got WAYYYY too comfortable with this same old formula for every single game.
@@fuelcapgaming5753definitely FC3 was lightning in a bottle for Ubi and they’re desperate to do it again
They should've brought back the old magic of rayman. Like rayman 3 or rayman 2
Nothing I love more than crossing map markers off doing the same exact thing 50 times in a row.
And Ubisoft devs had the balls of steel to say: they were inspired by Ghost Of Tsushima while making Outlaws. Really? And what did they learn from that game? That how you turn your character to the left, or how to jump?
Good. I hope they go bankrupt. I was 38 HOURS into Pre Access. They emailed me saying I needed to DELETE and RESTART. Never heard of a patch requiring that before! Lazy devs! They refused to provide a refund. They offered 100 worthless Ubisoft credits.
I deleted the game. I’m not starting over. I’m not playing season pass I already payed for. Boycott. I’m telling everyone to stay far away. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and I’m extremely disappointed. Ubisoft should be shut down!
You found the hard way that you should NEVER pre order ubisoft games, i am sorry for your loss of time and money ! Boycott Ubishit !
Never Preorder a Game. Wait 2-3 years for a good Price.
@@nfj1995Never preorder ANY game. They don’t care about customers. They only speak Sales. When shareholders step on their necks.
get your bank involved and file for a dispute
@@Sarah.E.B yeah I mentioned that to the Playstation customer service bc they refused to provide a refund either. He basically said if I asked my bank to perform a lawful investigation I’m entitled to that Sony might punish my PSN account which basically felt threatening and ridiculous. Ubisoft and Sony should have a class action lawsuit put against them.
I’m a Star Wars nut, I could have played this game found some enjoyment, but I will not support a company that has no interest in its consumer, nor its abusive practices towards its workers. This company deserves its downfall and any negative publicity towards the company is warranted. Getting used to not owning their games has left me buying more indie games so I still win.
Yeah, ubisoft became far too comfortable within the market. The bigger something become the less they find listening to people a necessity. Most big companies don't listen at all. Bethesda having games incapable of competing with older games, xbox not having the interest of gamers in mind, playstation no longer capitalizing on powerful single player games. Ubisoft had gold mines and they decided to mine tin instead.
Hell yeah
Same for me, especially regarding it's abusive practices, the cover up of it and not taking any accountability for one bit of it. There was a time I would have snapped this game up as it had the SW tag, even as a 'Ubisoft' game. This just seemed too average across the board, so even putting aside the company stuff it was a pass for me. Maybe when it's dirt cheap and all DLC is out. I don't feel sorry for Ubisoft, not one bit for this having disappointing sales. They created that.
Let me guess, you have clothes and products from all kinds of countries that basically have slaves making your stuff 😂
@@Elwaves2925 Outlaws looked mid as hell. It seemed undercooked and strangely facial animations right out of mass effect andromeda from the stuff I've seen. The backgrounds and environments looked ok from what I saw, the gameplay just looked below par.
I am so proud of the people that used to love Star Wars who simply walked away from this game. You can't spin individual sales and concurrent player numbers like you can Disney+ viewers.
And yet, games “journalists” will do just that. Prepare to be told that you’re an alt-right sexist because you didn’t buy a video game.
Star Wars fans have been fed shit for far too long and too much. From the sequels to Disney+'s shows (except Andor) and EA's Battlefront. They've probably gotten sick and tired of the slop served.
I gotta admit I shilled out a 20 to play with Ubi+ BUT dropped the game after 2 hours and cancelled the auto sub.
I'm not it's a good game. Just a casualty of the hate aimed at Ubisoft and Disney
@@haunterdragon4580 all the videos I've seen of the ai looking at you and literally missing every shot in true stormtrooper fashion on HARD difficulty. A good game? I beg to differ...
The talent at Ubislop left a long time ago.
Only trash remains. It's a synergy of crap developers and awful publishing execs.
@@LouSassol69er i wouldnt say crap.. they just lack experience because more and more veterans jump ship or get fired.
nah, it was fired because 'profits'
Left since last Splinter Cell game, after that Ubisoft became the king of mid games that always score 6/10
The devs aren't the problem, it's the executives (or more accurately, the Guillemot family) who have been at the company since its founding and have been the source of 99.9% of its problems since.
I'm happy to see that the general public has grown wary of companies like Ubisoft.
It took too long in my book.
@@ichigokagenot to be Gandalf but it took precisely that it needed too
More people had to keep getting screwed for the masses to actually learn
@@witcherjohn3440exactly. People learn from experience.
Ubisoft should be comfortable not owning any of our money
They should get comfortable with low stocks 😂😂
What? Selling a game for $120 didn't work? HOW
Crazy how every single person except for those at Ubisoft can see that it never would work 😂
Corporate greed will get them in the end
Selling it for a $120 was never a good idea
Charging over $100 for a game that barely looks better than a $60 game, and it doesn’t even look worth that much.
This looks like a $20 game, at full price
…The game is $70 and has a $120 optional edition. The bigger problem is that it’s a current gen game that’s not really utilizing the hardware to be one at all
“I’ll make whatever I want, and the idiot consumers will buy it all”
No sales
“What’s wrong with you assholes, buy my game!!!”
- a large amount of AAA games lately
I believe you meant to say AAAA
Alternative statement: "People aren't buying this game because of the bigots on youtube complaining about it!"
So it's like concord.
Concord: "This isn't a game for you."
Yeah sure. We won't buy it then.
surprised Pikachu face
It's not even whatever they "want", it's whatever they think "people" will buy
"Only racist and sexist refuse to buy our games!"
"Investors are fed up with Ubisoft" so, players finally have something in common with investors...
Ur a really bad investor if you buy iubisoft stocks.
Shareholders are not the real customers for any company. The real customers are the people who give a company money in exchange for a product. Shareholders buy in on profit sharing.
Some delusional people really tried to tell me Outlaws would outsell Black Myth Wu Kong. Absolutely mental.
It could since it got a big IP. Problem was the game wasn't a masterpiece. Paying an okay game at 100 can $ is too much.
@@somik-i3x it could if it was a good game but it wasn’t. And ubisofts selling tactics are so predatory it should be illegal.
@@andray310 Yeah it was all going against them. A very good Star Wars could have sell just as good as Black Myth
@@somik-i3x it would have to be outstanding in every aspect which Star Wars games are grossly known for issues in loads of places. I platinumed the Jedi games but believe me when I say each of them had issues.
@@andray310 I was just saying it wasn't impossible for a star wars to sell well.
But yeah Outlaws didn't seems that interessing as a Star Wars game.
I’ll be honest: this struck me as the kind of game where if it weren’t the IP behind it, no one would pay any attention to it
Fair.
But I feel like it wouldn't be this game if not restricted to the IP
@@lucaleone4331also fair
It's a Ubisoft game. It would be exactly the same if there wasn't the same IP behind it.
@@abro14 idk even Ubi knows a brand new IP needs a unique gameplay mechanic so if it wasn’t tied to Star Wars it might’ve had one. But since they could just rely on the SW branding they tried actually removing mechanics by only allowing one weapon and bare bones stealth, just a shame it didn’t pan out for em 😭
A lot of games are like this to be fair. Most big franchises would likely lose success if it was identical gameplay but individual branding.
Garbage stealth and gunplay, facial animations like Andromeda and garbage monetization. Hard pass for me
Monetization *in a single player game.* Not even EA does that.
@@tehbeernerd IKR they made EA look good.
@@tehbeernerd Need For Speed: Payback would beg to differ.
Well, the same way we should get used to now owning our games. Ubisoft should get used to not selling their games.
Ubisoft should be comfortable with not selling games
So you're telling me flying out TH-camrs and giving them "experiences" in place of money to potentially get favorable reviews on what they played to then sell to their viewers wasn't a good way to get guaranteed sales? No. That couldn't possibly be. They did absolutely everything right! The TH-camrs weren't paid! And that means they didn't have to disclose any of that to their viewers! How did this happen? Where were all of those buyers Ubi thought they were getting? HOW WILL THE SHAREHOLDERS SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THIS GAME ISN'T SELLING ALL TOO WELL???
Fuck Ubisoft and fuck the TH-camrs that have no ethics and try to hide it from their own audience.
Which is why I love some of the youtubers like MrMattyPlays that were brutally honest on this disaster of a game.
Suits ALWAYS kill art and fun. It used to be good around Black Flag.
Yeah it was sad to see graham Stephen hop on this band wagon, sure he wasn’t paid for a good review but members of his team got to go on an experience so he talked very highly of it
@@playwars3037but he sucks up to Bethesda and seems to cuck for them
Disney has destroyed the Star Wars name.
True but this flop is all on Ubisoft
@@LouSassol69er for sure, it's just that you can't sell games, tv and films with the Star Wars name alone anymore because Disney crushed the brand
@@AlnardJedi Survivor sold and was reviewed very well last year. Pretty good game, playing it these days at last.
Amen. Haven’t liked Star Wars for the last however long years since Disney got its grubby mitts on it. I’m still a fan of George’s era of course but anything touched by Disney turns to shit. Rouge one was half decent tho. But that didn’t last very long
@@RigobertosTacoShopsaw 7 and 8, didn't see 9, and after I heard someone coming back. Not to mention the utter BS nonsense around all of it. Yea no thanks
Clicked on the notification as soon as I saw "Ubisoft stock price plummets..."
It gave me a happy feeling
Completely brightened my day
The professional hater in me is jumping with joy :)
"despite positive reviews", y'all mean bought out reviews. The gunplay and stealth is literal f tier, with a dry story and boring protagonist. Not worth near 100$
people got comfortable with not owening ubisoft games
Not a perfect metric but Outlaws on PS5 has 5.7k ratings. Concord had 8.2k. Yikes.
We'll probably never get the numbers but it's most likely less than 100k sales, not the several millions they where expecting because it was Star Wars.
So Concord had over 10 times as many ratings as players...
sounds like the numbers are just totally cooked for promotional purposes tbh
@@aeternusdoleo4531 The player numbers we have for Concord are for PC, from Steam. We have some estimates for PS, but no solid numbers. Also, those numbers are concurrent players. Needless to say, those players don't play 24/7. That said, people will be more inclined to rate things if they feel strongly, one way or the other. Concord probably has a higher rate of review leaving, in part due to the devs ticking people off.
Ubisoft Market Value: $2B
CD Projekt Market Value: $4B
CD Projekt is now the most valuable Gaming Company in Europe.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty were made with ESG/DEI. And both are masterpieces.
Cdpr deserves it
cdpr needs to go private i fear it may turn into another ubisoft
Considering ESG has been implemented in CDPR; it might affect their future games. We'll see soon enough.
both shitty companies!
Now let's pray they don't muck it up by turning into another Ubisoft or E.A.
Well, I'm very comfortable with not owning any Ubisoft game.
There is now a huge disconnect between what gamers want and what developers want what gamers should want. Their own hubris is their downfall.
Warhammer 40k game really put Ubisoft in the grave lol
Never thought I would see the day a Warhammer 40k game is doing better than a Star Wars game.
For the Imperium of Man!
No mercy to the Disney heretics 😡
Fans need to hold the line and gatekeep 40k hard or else it will end up the same way.
@@suziechapstick8236 It's already to late, GW has that blackrock money, and is already DEI hiring. Only way to save the franchise now is for blackrock to lose enough money to cut off the investment supply; then the market will adjust itself.
@@Rill_1what is blackrock money
@@paulovinasrocha6166 blackrock is a mega mega mega investment company
What killed it for me early on upon seeing it was the price points... its about 180$ bucks Cdn for the ultimate version or whatever its called here. As soon as I saw they wanted that much I was done... No idea how we ended up at the point where these executives think corporate growth is simply upping the price on a horribly bland product rather then giving the customer a truly great game devoid of poorly thought out and executed decisions based on outside influences and live service models.
well yeah. 180$ it's absurd for any type of game! it doesn't matter how it was made. for another country the exchange rate will be abysmal. Ubisoft can crash and burn
Yeap, even the price hike to 69.99 euro to me is too much, ive bought next to no games the last few years as the quality is just not there anymore but the prices just keep going up
@@cosmic-10r61 you realize you don't need the ultra expensive edition?
@@haunterdragon4580 I'm sure he did. But he also realized he didn't need the cheaper version either. It's a game. A luxury item for our entertainment, in a world with lots of other options available. Including videos about the game you're not playing.
Holy moly, that much?? It's not a terrible game, just meh from what I saw. I could maybe see $60 bc it's a costly IP, but I wouldnt buy it for that price. But I also don't want to support Disney as much as possible, so I wouldn't purchase it anyway.
My brother bought a 4070 yesterday at Microcenter but get this! Apparently it came free with a copy of StarWars Outlaws, however, he found out about this offer upon reaching the register, but when offered the code he said.... *"I Don't want it."* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seems like they are tryng to get player numbers up
and it probably even was a code for the Epig Trash store
I wouldn't play this game even if it was offered for free either.
The staff told us people have been upgrading their PC for *"Black Myth Wukong and Space Marines 2."*
@@derp3305 For Wukong I would understand it bcs UE5 but for space marine 2 nah its using the same engine like the Alien fireteams Elite game and i played that with my 1060 6gb
These companies need to understand that game development ROI generally doesn't scale well past a point, and giant teams on one product aren't helping the game industry; they're treating game development like a production factory where it doesn't parallel 1:1.
Companies need to invest in diverse projects with medium sized teams and smaller support teams for polish, so that multiple medium selling games can incubate over a couple of years rather than one giant game that becomes make-it-or-break-it followed by layoffs.
Business basics is to hedge risks, and these corporate execs seem to be not doing their jobs.
"Star Wars : Outlaws struggle to meet sales expectations despite positive critic reviews". The gamer community already know NOT to trust "critic reviews" by Kotaku, IGN, etc. So "positive critic reviews amount to nothing.
Dear Ubisoft:
Hahahahahahahaha
Greetings,
Rational gamers
**spits**
Indeed, Ubisoft can take a permanent vacation.
*Rayman* : Aw man that's upsetting. If only Ubisoft had a mascot who has never sold a bad game and would make easy money. Boy that's would be useful huh?
*Rayman turns off the tv and goes to bed*
In a way, Ubisoft and Disney are both companies that are bloated and formulaic, relying on branding over quality. It's a match made it corporate hell
The Star Wars IP used to be a reason for me to become interested in a game, now it's become a reason that I specifically avoid it.
Ubisoft hasn't innovated in over a decade. They've been milking the same formula over and over and over and it's no surprise people are so sick of their shit. All they do is shovel out mediocrity. They need to get with the times and start making something original and innovative again or they will continue to fail, and when they finally collapse no one will be sad.
Get ready to see that stock go even lower when Shadows comes out
Lady and gentlemen, we are going black.
company known for making perfectly stale bread, shocked that people don't like their bread stale
more news at 11
This is not just an Ubisoft issue. Because of how the whole Gaming industry has been doing business, less people are willing to Pre-order or even buy the games until they see the real game play. This could be waiting till their fav Streamer plays it , or until enough reviews have come out that they feel comfortable. To many Gamers have been burned by their fav Gaming company to give them the benefit of the doubt. Many of these companies treat gamers as if we work for them. You need Us to buy your games to stay in business, not the other way round.
Exactly, this also explains the big twitch numbers on release. People want to know how the game really is.
They treat us like this because we aren't their customers: the shareholders are. They are the ones these companies want make happy. They see us as an infinite source of money they can gouge
The only game I have preordered within the last ten years was bg3 and space marine 2
Only because I knew those games would slap unbelievably hard
0:52 do they think the Star Wars name will draw people? That was true up until the early 2000s. It has gotten worse with each new release. The nail in that coffin for me was being told Star Wars isn’t made for me by the people making it. So the Star Wars name means to stay away.
Lol, exactly what I thought. Star Wars is a red flag these days!
Ubisoft needed to fire Yves Guillemot a long time ago. He oversaw years of sexual misconduct and abuse toward employees at Ubisoft but did fuck all and hasn't faced any repercussions. Maybe losing the company money will be enough to make him "resign", and give him a Bobby Kotick sized golden parachute to float away with.
Star wars + Ubisoft. Two things that used to be mid level fun, but now are complete garbage. Why would anyone expect anything other than garbage?
Probably didn’t help Ubisoft the Star Wars property hit a real blunder with their recent failure of Acolyte. Star Wars fans just weren't a secured market anymore.
@@Killgore-ip2yq Well Star Wars isn't made for us anymore, or so I was told. Yet it was also my fault Acolyte was canceled.
Finally, they shoot their foot enough to feel the pain.
😂😂
I don’t wanna support an evil company like Ubisoft and I don’t wanna play a human-shaped broom. Pretty simple really
@YongYea You should have also pointed out that many people were HIGHLY against Ubisoft's decision to make this game (including physical releases) require online activation despite it not being an online game. I believe that played a part in this game's sales performance.
It’s astonishing how stupid they are. They cancel 1313. They cancel the Maul game. No Battlefront lll. No Mandalorian game. No lightsaber dueling game. NOTHING EPIC. Then they release this crap and expect it to succeed
Is it okay to say that Star Wars is a mid franchise yet? If you weren't made a fan 20 years ago, you can't made one today without also having terrible taste.
That's your opinion, which is quite rude. There's no reason that people can't appreciate the Star Wars films, whether they account for their age or just enjoy them as they are. Being told they have poor taste for not liking the things you do is just odd.
Nah its true, modern Star Wars (apart from one or two entries) also functions as an IQ test. I can confidently deduce that anyone who likes the sequel films is an absolute dingus and not worth my time.
Been thinking this even while I was a fan tbh, it is mega-mid at best. Its best of the best media has been stuff that has as little of SW in it as possible, like Andor. And Andor is still quite mid when compared to actual prestige series. It's a dumb franchise for kids made to sell toys, and people need to accept this.
@@DeadKrakento be fair, Star Wars becomes that way because of Disney. Legends and old Star Wars stuff is still pretty good.
There is also the fact that Star Wars as a brand has lost a lot of appeal since Disney took it over, as pretty much all of the movies and shows it has put out besides Rogue One, Andor and the first two seasons of the Mandalorian have been very bad.
Hit the nail on the head! Perfect summary of what is wrong with Star Wars right now. Disney essentially forced the IP into decline by pumping out low quality productions on to their streaming services and producing subpar films. I still think there’s a market for good Star Wars media, but the problem lies with their inability to make GOOD Star Wars media 😢
Give me a Jedi Outcast style game where I play a cool character like Kyle Katarn, let me wear a hooded robe, and give it extremely satisfying lightsaber combat and brutal dismemberment. But that would make too much sense.
So a new Force Unleashed?
No, he said a new Jedi Knight game. @@ichigokage
Ubisoft is like the most mentally ill out of every other studio out there.
15 years ago if you were to tell me that EA would be beaten in stupidity by Ubisoft I would've laughed at you.
They are incomparable, EA are evil and don't give a fuck but they are at least a good business, Ubisoft can barely turn a profit these days. A 1.5 Billion market cap for a company like Ubisoft is embarrassing
Honestly whoever made Captain Laserhawk on Netflix should be the lead director for Ubisoft since they were able to make an amazing cohesive product
I'ma be real. I'm 100% comfortable and able to afford a $70 game every once in a while, but the game would need to be GOOD. Expecting me to purchase a license to play a mid tier shovelware game for $100 is absolutely fucking insane. I bought Zone of the Enders for the ps2 for $5 just the other day and it's ten thousand times more fun and immersive than Star Wars: Outlaws will ever be. It's wild to me the fucked up state of modern gaming. There's no soul here anymore, it's just a giant business for corporations to leech money off of and people are starting to get wise to it.
It's a good time to go back and play the games that we've missed these past few decades. There's enough to keep us busy for a very long time anyway, at least until the actual big, good games come out.
Dude, Zone of The Enders was the shit man
Ubisoft should be comfortable with stock price plummet.
Even investors are tired of their strategy and ask them to revive their dormant franchises, it shows how much Ubisoft executives are completely out of touch and don't understand the videogame market.
I've been saying for a while that the first AAA company to fold is 100% going to be ubisoft. They have literally nothing going on. A bunch of franchises that are all well past their prime they've been milking since the 2000's and anything new that they do is just the same copy paste open world formula with a new skin that flops. They even went out and tried to get someone to buy them and even MS is like "nah, we're good and we're buying everyone". Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of sex pests though.
they think their investors are more scary than pisssing off their whole player and fanbase? what a miscalculation
At this point, Ubisoft should just cancel Assassin's Creed Shadows and write it off as a loss on their taxes.
Doesn't even look good. Just looks like a minor evolution technically from Valhalla. Animations still janky.
@@LouSassol69er
All the assassin creeds look the same. It was usually just cool to see it in a new place
@@lucaleone4331 Exactly. They reuse the same assets every game now. They are barely trying.
Whoever decided from going to EA to Ubisoft was good to license out their IP needs to be demoted. Neither of these are good choices.
It didn't go FROM EA TO Ubisoft. It's just a collaboration, not entirely owned. That's why other star wars games are still being made
@@Rough_Estimates it's just a victim of both hate groups now
It's bc disney wants someone who follows rules, not people who are creative, link the star wars game quality back to them lol
I thought EA had the rights for star wars
Because the mobile version via play store
Released expensive, repetitive, unimaginative mid tier filler games for years, aggressively and openly pushes for more monetization.
All that work for record low numbers.
Suck it Ubisoft.
If I don't own the things I buy from you, then I ain't buyin'. Simple as that
biggest error what they did* you dont own your games * like wtf , if i spend money i own it
Honestly I am surprised that now is the time gamers actually stop buying slop. This should have happened over a decade ago, when buggy releases, MTX and SAAS, aswell as lack of innovation started becoming the norm; but I am happy nonetheless that it is indeed happening now. Hopefully we finally get more good games again from bigger companies, if this continues.
I've been calling their death for years. They will undoubtedly get bought up by Sony or Microsoft, maybe Epic Games to siphon more exclusives from Steam to stay relevant.
Epic Games no longer have the finances to pull it off, they are struggling themselves
That's what happen when you release an unfinished and unpolished game, this is what happens when you don't give the players the least what they want, this is what happens when you uglify a game character from her own real actor. i think AC shadows might have low sales too.
Its a sad day when you cant even get excited for star wars games anymore. Not that I had any expectations other than colossal failure for this game.
The shareholders want Ubisoft to lay off some of their 21,000 employees.
…they want the games to be even worse?
A "AAAA" game that deliver less experience than it's rivals 20 years ago is just simply only worth as an "A" game.
I don't understand Ubisoft, just release a fully remastered Splinter Cell and watch money roll in
They won't and can't because its about pushing an ideology into it etc.
I don't think they even have the capacity to do that these days, Splinter Cell is the only franchise i care about that ubislop own, but lets be honest if they did bring it back it will more then likely be crap
That would mean Ubislop would need to make a game about a competent and strong white man protagonist...that is a big no-no for Blackrock ESG scores.
They wouldn't do that and even if they somehow did, they would infest it with microtransactions and loot boxes, the old Ubisoft that used to make fun and complete single player games has been dead for a long time.
They're too stupid to do that
Game Megacorps just don't work no more
Once they get that big, CEO's think they can dictate what gamers want just like they dictate what employees have to do. Surprise jackass CEO's, we don't flunky for you.
Remember the say people:
You play one Ubisoft game, you've played all of their games.
Modern gaming sucks so much. That letter is grim. Depressing. Games aren’t about creativity anymore, they’re about maximising return on investment and satisfying shareholders. It makes me want to throw up.
Sometimes I forget that Ubisoft exists. I can't remember the last time I bought one of their games. This is coming from someone who used to be a massive Ubisoft fan, BTW.
Same lol
Quadruple AAAA games that makes PS2 games feel more deep and lively than whatever Star Wars Outlaws was supposed to be.
Atari games have more soul put into them than Ubisoft games.
I've played Gameboy Color games that were more in depth, fun, and immersive than Outlaws.
I had more fun playing bargain bin PS2 games than recent games. Duel Masters was the bomb
The main thing that put me off this game is I don't really want to play as that character. She doesn't appeal to me in any way.
Exactly 👍 💯
Maybe if they actually made decent games and not broken uninspired cash grabs people would buy there stuff
Remember how a dev from Ubisoft mocked Elden Ring? Well, Fromsoft seems to be doing well
Remember when only Konami decided to destroy their reputation for profit? Now other companies are are joining in on the "fun"! This Industry is on a highway to the dark ages.
$60 is already expensive and deters me from buying most games. $70 is just insane for a base price and I refuse to pay it for any game. Will just wait until it goes on sale at most.
Also yeah, it not being on Steam also adds to me not bothering to get it.
Yep Valhalla sold really well everyone bought it because Origins & Odyssey were really good but then people realized after buying Valhalla that it wasn't really that good of a game then Ubisofts stock only dropped shortly after Valhalla launched also Valhalla was when they got involved with SBI in 5years since Valhalla launched the stock dropped by over 85% and still continues to drop.
Valhalla was the starting point of Ubisofts slow death to now it's stock is worse than it was over a decade ago before Ubisoft even got popular.
I'm a simple man, I am very comfortable NOT OWNING newer Ubisoft games... 🤷🏻
The company deserves this. They protected and covered up many, credible accusations of sex pests and sexual harassers in the company. And the ceo just decided to use plausible deniability, and just said he didn't know what was going on, in his own company 🍿👀
Ubisoft had already done too much to soil their brand, so when you combine that with lackluster games, then it is no surprise that their stock is failing. The sad part is that Ubisoft does not show any sense of recognizing this to trying to fix what they have been doing so wrong lately.
I dont think we hate outlaws enough.
Couldn't pay me to play that game bro, no way.
@@gengen9015 no one wants you to anyways
@@haunterdragon4580
Didn't Ask.
@@gengen9015 exactly
@@haunterdragon4580
Did not ask.
@@gengen9015 me either
In the previous decade they came out with Rainbow Six Siege, For Honor, AC Origins and Odyssey, The Crew 1 & 2, Division 1 and 2, Watch Dogs 1 and 2 , Anno 1800, Far Cry 3, 4 and 5 and that's not even all of it, and now we get Star wars Outlaws, AC Valhalla, Shadows and Mirage, Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six extraction, Crew Motorfest, Skull and Bones.. they all just seem a worse or the worst version of games we played before, coasting on the IP that was build in the past and not expanding on them and expecting it to sell.. which might work initially but that's viable long term, as the stock prices reflect.
And then come out with all these games as a $70 base price or $130 to actually get all the content, a level of arrogance to think their games are that much better than what else is out there, and even 5 years later still sell these games for these prices, AC Odyssey from 2018 is still is $114 for the ultimate edition, or the audacity to sell Skull and Bones for $60 when they knew the game wasn't what it was supposed to be, and when people complain you double down and call it quadruple A.. I'm fairly sure if they sold S&B for $30 and not pretended it was the best thing ever it would have gone down a lot better.
You can buy their games on sale all the time though, so the argument that their old games are still expensive isn't valid
@@xtranathor8143 They're still expensive when not on sale, they're still trying to sell it for that price most of the time.
@@xtranathor8143” just buy them on sale “ my brother in Christ the whole point is that these games are set at those prices, old sony games drop down to 20$ if they get old, ubisoft just puts the game on sale and expects purchases.
I just checked on Steam AC Black Flag because I am interested in trying that game, costs 40 euros. The game is 11 years old, I will just pirate it
@@miguelpereira9859 Yeah it's insane, that's a $5 game, now you're still having to wait for a sale on a decade old game.
I can think of a few reasons why the game is doing as badly as it is...
- Disney has driven the reputation of the Star Wars franchise to the ground
- Ubisoft leadership has made some really stupid statements so gamers want nothing to do with the company
- The characters look beyond terrible
- The price is too high
- The game not being on Steam