Honestly, they probably just assumed anything Star Wars would sell, and the fact the game still tanked shows their game development is in dire straights
@@Li-Fu7 they thought STA would bring tham back on track. They thought it would be doing as well as RDR2. That is all you need to know. The people at Ubi have no idea about games anymore. Too many incompetent people.
We don't own most of our games most games even physical copies still download the game from the publisher. Most physical copies have a license permission on them. Mayb e some of the game but not all of it. You act like Ubi is the only one to do this.
Star Wars Outlaws doing poorly brings me immense joy. People are finally speaking with their wallets. Its been so frustrating to sit back and watch fanboys eat up literally any mediocre schlock thrown at them by Disney SW the last few years
Yasuke should have been an NPC (like every other historical figure in past AC games: George Washington, Cleopatra, Dickens, Darwin, etc.). The game should have contained a single shinobi (ASSASSIN) as the main protagonist (male or female, you pick - just like AC Odyssey or AC Valhalla). Nope. Ubisoft couldn't help themselves and are getting properly stomped for it.
@@justinadams7824 There is a reason no AC game has ever contained a historical figure as a playable character... You are watching that play out in real time.
articles that spread disinformation to the point there's currently an Edit war in the Yasuke page 💀 All of that to defend his own ideal. That should be a crime
No, he was black. Stop hating. Y'all are just so racist. Yet it's ok for tomorrow cruise to be the laugh samurai lol, white ppl for ya, it's racism when its not about them lol
Bit of a stretch to call him an expert. By his OWN words, he "filled in the gaps" of the information he recieved, his main work (that being his book that everyone cites in a massive woozle effect) is essentially historical fan fiction, and thats not even a hyperbole. Imagine if an archaeologist collected one bone and then reconstructed the entire skeleton based on how they feel it would look... that's not the makings of an expert imo.
If Ubisoft was culturally sensitive, the main character would be a Japanese samurai. I have no problem with the race of the main character, but put him in an authentic scenario.
I don't think people realize how insanely bad the outlaws sales are. The game probably cost hundreds of millions, plus the licensing fee, plus they said it was their most ambitious marketing campaign ever. The game is going to lose them hundreds of millions of dollars probably. couldn’t happen to a worse company though.
the newest yakuza and persona 3 remake both hit 1 million sales in a week versus outlaws in a month. both yakuza and p3r probably costed a fraction of starwars outlaws not even including the cost of the star wars license
Dont forget the platform cut of 25% ((i know sony and xbox for sure take it and steam as well) so in the end they are only making something like 52 dollars on a 70 dollar game. Also don't forget budget + advertisement and we are looking at them having to rake it like 400 to 500 mil to break even (just a rough estimate ) but people see that the budget was 200 mil there for they have to make 200 mil to break even and in this industry just breakinf even or not even that is a feath sentence
EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, SquareEnix…their flagship IPs are starting to fail them because they refused to listen to their fans and devs. This is what happens when you get too long in the tooth and stop listening to what put you on the map in the first place. Maybe they should stop trend chasing and focusing solely on maximizing profits. The money will come if they just stay true to their identity, know when to change course, and produce *QUALITY* games.
What flagship IP failures? All of the 4 are actually doing well while it's about the profit margins for the Board of the Directors. EA for this year is basically set because of Madden and NCAA sales. Starfield was a new IP that did sell well enough while no Bethesda game will be another Skyrim. Ubisoft is fine more or less if you listen to gamers and non-grifters while it's one of their bad years though. Square was mostly for profit and they have been saying "underperformance" since 2021 with little to no context. To be honest you're presenting mixed information with no context.
@@chris9206 FF16 underperformed. Starfield is a new IP not their flagship IP, that would be Elder Scroll and they are already telling us to expect to be disappointed in the next installment, EA has to push AC Shadows back because of huge backlash Selling well is not good enough for these CEOs and shareholders. They are still closing down studios even with decently successful games(see HiFi Rush) Now I said *Starting* to fail. Not that they have yet. Look at their stocks values. They have been in decline for awhile now. If this downward trend continues the next installments will completely fail because more and more people are losing interest in their IPs Decent sales no longer equals success. Theirs a downward trend in stocks for these companies. The shareholders notice, the CEO’s notice. We notice. They are starting to fail.
@@ShadowProject01 you clearly didn't read whati said there especially when Square has said "underperformed" with their games since 2021. If you have listened to LSM you would know this including how Square has had a release window issue since 2021. Again you didn't listen as I said with Bethesda. I said that nothing will outdo Skyrim. Currently the new Elder Scrolls interest is between how far apart installments are within the series and how some are crying "woke". You mean Ubisoft, right? EA is a completely different company. The backlash is from Outlaws and the fact that someone is trying to takeover Ubisoft again by force. Don't fall for the misinformation especially when the same backlash of AC Shadows is hitting Ghost if Yotei, which shows how fake the outrage really is. It's all fake like how some said the February decision is for Black History month when in reality it's either to end or start Ubisoft's fiscal year with a bigger hit. Dude stop following the grifters. Avoid the echo-chambers, listen to a variety of opinions as LSM is a good start, and fact check on your own.
Nah, it would require actual effort and time to make a good game. Just make a bunch of controversial decisions for publicity, release an overpriced mid game then say it's the bigots' fault that it's not selling well. Rinse and repeat.
Problem with that is Tenchu is focused squarely on the moment to moment gameplay, which ubisoft struggles with these days. They've spent the last 15 years focusing on open world activity variety and their core gameplay systems have lost any depth. That is exactly how Star Wars ended up the way it did, they wanted to cut back on some of the bloat but when you do all it does is shine a spotlight on how weak the gameplay is. They would have to actually hire game designers and put effort into the product to make that, which just ain't happening.
@@RoyConwell Not really. You expect a black dude to be a lead in a Black Panther game and you expect an asian dude to be a lead in a samurai/ninja game. Same same.
Investors just think having a bigger game is better, but gamers are starting to notice how the quality of the content suffers from this methodology. Just cuz you have a huge open world doesn't make a game great, there needs to be enough substantial content in it that doesn't feel repetitive. The ubisoft formula is just so overdone at this point
@@goldenburger836 I dont thik you know what an investor is, since you dont know how they ultimately call the shots and force executives to do shit that is counterproductive, all in the name of profits.
Hard pass (from a lifelong fan) Wukong however has blown me away. Visually stunning, punishing but fair, deep mechanics, fun gameplay, no bugs, buttery frames… I mean, it checks every box. It’s been great.
The problem is not 'inaccuracies' surrounding Yasuke, since there's such little historical information about him most of his story in the game would have to be fabricated anyway. It's simply the glaring fact that for obvious Western agenda-driven reasons this Western company is creating a game "celebrating" Japanese history starring... a non-Japanese character. Why is it so hard to just state the obvious?
@@goldenburger836 There are obviously two playable characters. And practically no one has said anything negative about the female protagonist... which should actually SPOTLIGHT the clear issue with the male protagonist. Try your strawman argument on someone else.
@@s-nova9254I mean people will say that about everything. Ghost of Yotei had a very small amount of people say it’s woke, but the vast majority are still excited.
@@s-nova9254I haven’t seen a single person complain about her. At least she seems more culturally sensitive. Ironic all these insufferable weirdos claim to care and respect other cultures when they blatantly bastardize it. Just like when they used a Cuban flag for Miles in Spider-Man 2 lmao. They literally expose themselves and us normal, reasonable folk highlighting this scumbag behavior makes us the any and/or all the -ists? 😂
"What inspired you to choose Yasuke as the protagonist?" "We saw the Stop Asian Hate movement and said to ourselves, 'y'know what, they kinda deserve it.'"
They were inspired by... 2015 American politics. A French Canadian company was inspired by American politics for their African man in Japan... Ubisoft deserves everything bit of hate they get.
UBI tried to insert black people to create "diversity." This means that it is only possible to depict just one year in Japan's more than 1,000-year history, and an area of just 10 km2 of Japan's land area of 370,000 square km2.
It's crazy ridiculous how so many of Ubisofts recent games have come out broken and dull but they blame the consumers for why they don't sell millions of copies instead of just holding themselves accountable
I absolutely hate the goal post pushing argument of "AC has never been historically accurate" when they've legit used the games to teach history in schools and even offered/may have used AC Unity to help rebuild Notre Dame! AC games are FICTIONAL STORIES set in a historically accurate setting. They do like to fictionalize historical people, but again, that was always just to spice up the FICTIONAL story, and they were never main characters or felt out of place, so it didn't seem idiotic imo.
The fact that you guys keep pushing the fake "AC unity helped rebuild the Notre Dame" story no matter how many times it gets debunked proves that this historical accuracy outrage is just racist outrage. You guys don't even care about the truth you just want to pedal your pathetic raciest agenda.
If yasuke was an NPC and maybe got DLC as a playable character later down the line like Adewale from AC 4 this wouldn’t be as big an issue if any at all. It’s just the fact that they decided to make him a main character and hide behind the he existed so it’s historical accurate excuse just exposes them for their true intentions since they’ve never done this with past games and everyone can see through it plain as day.
AC Unity didn't help rebuild Notre Dame. Ubisoft's plans for the cathedral were incomplete. They are on record saying this. What really help rebuild it were the 3D scans of the building done by Professor Andrew Tallon. They did give €500,000 to help with the cost of rebuilding
Sad to report that the Notre Dame thing isn't true, that one got me as well for years. As for the teaching it in schools I'm a bit dubious about that as well, but I've never seen anything about that either way so I couldn't say.
I think 20 years from now, gaming historians and developers in general will look to this period and really scratch their heads. In what world does it make sense to hate on your own consumer base and deliberately make decisions knowing that your core demographic consumers will not approve?
@@colonelleblanc2594 Big budget western entertainment in general, not just gaming. Hollywood is going through the exact same thing right now. I don't think historians will actually be that confused about it, though. I dunno what they will actually name this time but I'd go with the "gaslighter era." A lot of "creative" people who are dumber than a bag of rocks successfully convinced media companies that if they do x, y, and z it will open up their products to a wider audience. What they purposefully failed to tell them though is that it would close the door to like 80% of their existing audience. The alone isn't catastrophic though, the real issue is that they also greatly increased budgets under the assumption they were going to be raking in even more money. That's what has been really killing all these companies. Every large company has essentially been gaslit, and we're dealing with the end stage of that right now. Most people are aware of it (even if they can't really describe it) though, there won't be any real confusion once it's all said and done.
As a big fan of the original assassin's creed games. Ezio is one of the most iconic and best video game characters ever the fall of this franchise is so sad to me but I have no desire to play this new game.
Did you at least like Origins? I thought it was pretty good but I didn't buy another Ubisoft game until Fenyx Rising when it was on sale for like $10. I liked Fenyx Rising too but it was quite repetitive. Glad I got it for 10 bucks.
They've fallen into the same corporate trap as Blizzard - pencil pushers making game design decisions, teams run by committee instead of visionaries. These methods lead to sloppy games designed to milk customers while providing milquetoast experiences.
I have played the vast majority of the Assassin's Creed games released both on PC and console. That includes games like Assassin's Creed 2 (the whole trilogy, including Brotherhood and Revelations), Assassin's Creed 3, Black Flag, Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla. People like me are, essentially, the main target audience for this game. Yet, at this moment, I have zero interest in AC: Shadows. The game seems to be very bland, The Yasuke/Naoe duo don't seem to be very captivating as protagonist, and the whole sequence where Yasuke beats down japanese people while hip hop music plays in the background was of extremely poor taste (to say the least). This isn't the first time AC has had a black protagonist, but they are fumbling things really bad this time.
I'm the same as you, I bought every AC game over the years (even Mirage🤣) but Shadows has no appeal to me at all. I don't care it has a black lead or it's historically inaccurate I just have no interest in it. If they'd made it like Odyssey then I'd buy 3 copies tomorrow, Odyssey was my fave AC game and I still play it now just trying to get as much damage as possible from various builds.
You played valhalla, one of the most vapid soulless creed game ever made and didnt have a problem with it (apparently) but because this guy is in the game you have a problem? Sounds like the issue is you.
Similar. I have played all of the Assassin's Creed games from AC1 to AC Origins *multiple times.* AC3 I played four times, for example. AC Origins, my favorite of all of them right now, I have only played once in full, but I am on my second playthrough now. Mirage is the only one I haven't played yet. I loved all of them except for Valhalla. But... I'm completely not into Vikings, so that was always going to be the outcome. All that being said... Oh, I am *most* *_definitely_* _looking forward to Assassin's Creed Shadows._ I have been waiting for an Assassin's Creed game in Japan since I finished AC3 (the first time around). Yeah... I am *definitely* making time in February to play this bad boy. I understand that not everyone is interested, and that's fine by me. We all have different tastes and so on and so forth. But I am going to enjoy the *hell* out of this game. 😁
I dont think pre order numbers mean anything. If the game drops, and its good, people will buy it. It's that simple. I don't know anyone who pre orders games anymore
I think this is what happens when you try to force an agenda instead of writing an interesting story with captivating characters. I don't think the Ubisoft now could make a game like AC2 or Black Flag
They also had F-tier research. watch the "drunk Japanese" videos analyzing the trailers. Yasuke is the tip of the iceberg. they did crappy research into Japanese architecture and have entire building complexes just built wrong. Also, the female "lead" is apparently more Chinese than Japanese somehow? that part was interesting to me. People talk so much about Yasuke, they left out the rest of the world.
@gavo7911 "we NEED Blackrock money son, so shut up as we hamfist in some diversity so we make a good ESG score and get approved for loans". That message. These games got to expensive to make, it's kinda funny how much red tape they have to jump through to get approved for loans and such. The message they are saying is they don't really in reality have full creative control of their own creations.
@@TheJewishAzovMember Ah yes, that is totally a message the average gamer will understand or agree with. Totally. Do you even hear yourself? Blackrock? ESC scores?
A lot of Ubisoft research was the writings of a discredit western historian that completely made up Yasuke's story of becoming a samurai. And they only did it to pander to the "modern" western audience without a single thought of the Japanese.
The weird part is that same historian when his japanese version was reviewed it was basically a whole different story. So he literally fabbricated a narrative for the western audience. To me this is fraud. Worst thing you can do as a historian imo.
No matter what "concerns" they address, theyre still the company that made an African the star of a Sengoku era game in Japan. Unless they cancel the game and fire everyone who approved that decision, still a trash company.
Saying a historical professional came in "late in development" is SUCH a lie. Otherwise, this so called "professional" wouldn't have been arguing with actual Japanese fans, and saying the TH-cam comments were from Americans using translator. Gtfoh. If Yasuke is still in the game, essentially being a barbarian and overkilling Japanese people, this game can continue to kiss my ass. I can deal with day one bugs. I'm not about to play a game completely 💩ing on Japanese culture. GFY Ubisoft.
It is not just the black man it is everything. They portrayed the country completely wrong. Including their history. Then tried to pass it off as accurate.
Why February? Because it will be SOOOOO mid, they can blame its poor sales performance on trying to compete with Avowed, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, just to name a few. Its a calculated move with the intent to be able to blame shift, nothing more.
@@Kris.G Yeah, I dont think presenting your black co-main character slaughtering Japanese people is a good look to want to cash in on during Black History Month, lol.
@@predestinarianism First of all, no they should not bend to the whims of racist crybabies. Second of all, just remove…half the game? Do you understand how any of this works?
Definitely would and they should but they won't. They dropped the ball on this installment so badly that, honestly, they should just release it and take the loss. Use this to learn from their mistakes and let the tourists purchase this one to get so money back.
Sure, it's a game. It's not supposed to be accurate. But Ubishit claimed it was 100% history accurate and even had "experts" to help with the game. It is not. Yasuke is not a real samurai. Their game is filled with historical inaccuracies. If their game is just a "game", don't try to claim historical accuracy. Their fanfiction will never overwrite our history and culture.
Ubi has never claimed any of their games to be 100% historically accurate. Sorry, that's not what they're doing, and that's not what you're getting. It's a fucking GAME
@@erebusrealm Did you even read my comment? I said, yes, it is a GAME. It's NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ACCURATE. But THEY CLAMIED IT IS and based their historical fanfiction on Thomas Lockley and some random japanese "expert" called Wikipedia. Nobody would have an issue if they DIDN'T CLAIM ANYTHING BUT THEY DID. To the point that the Japanese government is looking into it! You won't gaslight anyone here, get YOUR facts straight.
I don't get the rush to blame all of management and treat developers like they're blameless. Developers make bad games sometimes,and management is just a force multiplier. Bad management can make a bad game worse or a good game not as good but I doubt the CEO was in studio messing with their systems to make a game worse. Are we going to pretend that every one of Concord's problems were management related?
I don’t know how they can think that they will be successful releasing 35 Assassins Creed titles neglecting so many other games. I dont know anyone who still buys FarCry, Assassin’s Creed or RB..
@bruhtholemew it was supposed to be that but it didn't quite get there imo. I actually enjoyed mirage way more than Valhalla because it gave og vibes because of a smaller city and actually being an assassin. But ultimately the bad story, combat, static animations/cinematics, and bad parkour didn't make it seem like it went back to it's non rpg roots completely.
They had the simplest layup ever for a slam dunk. Yasuke has been a supporting character in multiple games, and a couple that come to mind are Nioh and Nioh 2. - Stick to the Japanese protagonists, just as you have for every game thus far minus Black Flag, but it was a hit anyway. - Make Yasuke fill a role just as any other historical figure like Leonardo Da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin or whatever. The series has never really been about playing as the figures except for that Jack The Ripper DLC in Syndicate, so why do that now? Perhaps we could've had an angle where the Japanese protagonists could train Yasuke and if they were really hellbent on letting people play as him, they could do a Freedom's Cry like DLC where you play as him. - Be just as faithful to the depictions of the locations, in which the ones in Unity and Odyssey got high praise from those historians. - Tell a good story, and prioritize a good story FIRST before doing whatever it is they do for inclusion and diversity (if it makes sense that is). - Polish the hell out of it and ensure as few bugs as possible. Boom easy best seller. But instead, hubris and arrogance led them to this point and I can't say I feel sorry for them.
hip hop music for the black samurai ..... western game developers ended racism again btw. if you look at the 2-3 experts we know of who ubisoft hired as "experts" theres no suprise about all these inaccuracies its agenda before historical facts
I’m still mad at Ubisoft because they keep ignoring Rayman! That dude is awesome! We need a Rayman 4 not MORE convoluted storylines with assassins creed! Sorry, crazy rant over.
I subscribed to Ubisoft+ to play Outlaws but found the forced and very brutal stealth sections to be a major turnoff. I might check it out again at a cheap price if they make some major adjustments. There's good stuff there, but it needs work.
Every time the consumers request Ubisoft to do something the fans want Ubisoft fumbles the bag. Black Flag 2? = Skull and Bones Ninja Assasins creed? = AS Shadows 7 years too late (and being delayed ironically) TC GR AW3? = GR Wildlands Splinter Cell or Rainbow 6 Vegas 3 = The Division Don’t even get me started on NFT’s and Rayman neglect.
They’re not going to remove Yasuke. They’re making him the selling point of this game. And last I checked they’re going to release the game in February next year. They can’t make major changes to the game in mere months. And if they use AI to do that, it’ll only spell disaster.
Yasuke has been depicted as a samurai in dozens of shows, books and games before now. Why is it suddenly a problem now? And why is everyone suddenly so concerned with historical accuracy in a series like AC?
He was some random servant where there’s barely anything written about him. Why choose him as a character over actual Japanese samurai for a game set in Japan? It’s pure woke nonsense
@@internetexplorer3596 AC has always played fast and loose with historical accuracy my guy. No one has ever had a problem with it until it involved a Black man in a role they don't like. Ask yourself why that is.
They buy good games. Baldurs Gate 3, God of War Ragnarok, Spiderman 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Last of Us 2. You can’t just cherry pick bad games from dishonest companies and claim there is any sort of pattern other than gameplay as a factor
Their consultants so far have been: 1. some fujoshi obsessed with man on boy relations 2. a Japanese communist party member with an honorary degree making false claims 3. some white guy who made the whole thing up to grift
Their dev cycle is unhealthy, they don't listen to the devs, they just want to follow the trends and make more money with the minimal effort possible. Even if the devs want to make a better game, there is no time to because the game has to come out as soon as possible and quantity is more important than quality. I sincerely hope this mess will serve as a wake up call for the upper management.
It’s taken five years to get this game made. Hardly a short development time? Until Origins, they dropped one AC every single year. Plus DLCs. Then we got a two year cycle with Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla… and now it’s five years! Hardly “minimal effort”. If anything, they’re overworking these games.
How can Yasuke even be an assassin in Japan? You're supposed to take down your target and escape without detection. He wouldn't fit in at all. "Can you describe the perpetrator of this crime?" "Yes, he had black skin and was a head taller than everyone else." "Hmm, i wonder who that could be." /S
Tencent isn't automatically bad. Ubisoft would do far better under Tencent management than under their current management. Why? Because Tencent cares about making money. That's why they take a largely hands-off approach while a business is profitable, as in the case of Riot.
Doesn't matter when they hire the expert if they're hiring the wrong "experts" for the job. They need to first make sure they're hiring the right experts for the job.
6:10 So are you telling me they already knew all of that historical inaccuracies but still choose to reveal the game? So they already knew about all of those and still used copyrighted banners and such? What is wrong with these people...
assassins creed hasn't been historically accurate since the AC3 George Washington dlc. They do always respect the history, but it's never accurate. You people just don't want to play as a black person.
@@tahjhightower125 "They do respect the history" yeah, about that, not anymore it seems. Are you really sure you are up to date on this whole situation? So much shit revealed since then. Yasuke isn't even the biggest problem this game has.
@@gavo7911 There is a lot going on about Ubisoft and AC Shadows that it would take too much time and affort to write all of that. Almost every week since the game's first trailer came out people discover new almost hilariously bad things. So do your own research about that but I will tell you the last thing that happened. Last week Ubisoft has released images of a new figurine they intended to sell, which had our two main characters and a half broken, one legged torii gate. It's like a funko pop statue. The thing is, one legged torii gate is a memorial about a torii gate that was half destroyed during WW2 when the atom bomb hit Nagasaki. So people were pissed off about how disrespectful it is for Ubisoft to try and sell it as a promotional product. Now, I personally think this was just a coincidence and someone just didn't do any research about this. Which is normal but consultants exists to prevent these kind of mistakes. Now people are asking Ubisoft for weeks that "How are you being respectful to Japanese history and culture if you didn't even hire a proper consultant?". It is so ridiculous to me that they are making every wrong decision possible, for not just AC but for their every IP and still blame gamers by saying "Making "solid" games isn't enough when you have gamers expecting extraordinary experiences". (yes that is an actual quote form the Ubisoft CEO. He was talking about Outlaws not selling enough)
They need to scrap it and start over. Make Yasuke an NPC ally to the assassins. Make a single shinobi who’s gender you choose like in Odyssey and Valhalla.
Yasuke should not of been a playable character, simply due to what Assassins Creed is. He would stand out in a crowd like a sore thumb, which works against the "blade in the crowd" philosophy that has usually been at the core of the series. Its a shame, there's a lot of stuff with Naoe that I like, especially with the AI and what they were saying about how the game will react to how your playing - but then again its Ubisoft, it probably wont work. Not to mention I really hate the duo protagonist stuff, wasn't a fan of it in syndicate but you could still do more or less 95% the same stuff on both characters. This one looks like they went deeper with that and I don't like being locked out of the fun tools that I would of had in the older games where if I chose to approach a mission in stealth but then go loud when it all goes to hell. The series had the best player freedom from AC2 to around Unity IMO
So they give us an option to play as him or the other character but you’re bitching about… them making him a playable character. But you don’t have to play as him. You also don’t have to buy the game. Marks like you are why gamers have the reputation that we do.
@sincityquinn You will be forced to play as either one at points in the story. 100% guarantee it. I mean, you can continue to insult me, but your just acting like your part of "toxic positivity" camp. I am allowed as a fan of this series since day 1 to voice my opinion, and I guarantee that it will be people like you who will be the first to complain when ubisoft announce that Shadows didn't hit sales targets. So how about you stop telling me how to spend my money ey?
@@porkins1202 That’s the point, he’s not SUPPOSED to blend in with the crowd. He’s not meant for stealth, he’s purely an action character meant for the people who prefer newer AC combat while Naoe is meant for the older fans who prefer stealth. Both in gameplay and story, he’s a fish out of water, while Naoe naturally is meant to be there and blends in. It’s actually pretty smart design and a nice connection between gameplay and story, as much as I hate to compliment Ubisoft for anything.
The only good thing ubisoft has going for it in my opinion is The Crew Motorfest. You could tell Ivory Tower cares about cars and now recently announcing that the Crew 2 and Motorfest will soon have offline modes is a great gamer friendly move by them.
The big reason Ubi is going to rework Yauske is bc there is a case that was brought to the Japanese Diate centered around cultural and historical theft and rewriting. Meaning there is a real chance of the game being out right banned in Japan. If Shadows doesn't get the chance to sell in Japan, then Ubi is done without any chance of survival. So they have to do some damage control to hopefully stay afloat.
It constantly baffles me how execs are surprised when games underperform when they put out subpar mediocre slop games. I really tried to enjoy Outlaws but it was so janky and mediocre I really couldn’t keep playing. It was at a much lower standard than previous Ubisoft games (like Valhalla and Odyssey). Do they have internal play testers? Do they even listen to them? I could have told them the game was going to fail after an hour of playing.
Yeah, it is absolutely baffling. Nothing about Outlaws follows the standards we should expect in 2024. Like you said, an hour of play tells you how janky and dogshit it is.
Nah, they've made their choice now. After all, we are "toxic gamers," and our opinions don't matter, right ? Let them lose money. Our wallets have spoken.
Make the characters 100% fictional. Problem solved. In this super sensitive, overreactive society we live in, why would they even bother using a character based on real life persons? That being said, all this controversy just confirms that western society is on the brink of collapse. I give it 100 years.
See, this is the kind of bull shit we're talking about. "Skull and Bones" underperform, no shit. We the people KNEW it was going to flop, especially when at the time word got out that you weren't going to be able to leave your ship like in Sea of Thieves. "Star Wars Outlaw" under perform, again no shit. I mean we literally laid out the bread crumb on that one and Ubisoft still took the wrong turn. And yet they are wondering what's happening? What went wrong?
Idc what they do. My wallet will stay closed. They haven’t learned anything yet…at least not in my view. Suffering teaches lessons…therefore…suffer they shall.
How so? Assassin's Creed had yearly releases which led to fatigue whereas Dragon Age hasn't released a game since 2014 and Inquisition was almost the unanimous GotY winner for that year
Any normal, honest person can tell that Dragon Age Veilguard is very promising and will probably be a good game. The vast majority of people who had their hand on it have been positive about it. I haven't heard or read any proper, genuine, valid criticism against Veilguard so far outside of straight up lies about the character creation (screenshots of badly created characters to make people think characters in the games are ugly) or outrage against completely inconsequential and tiny things ("omg there are pronouns!", like who the f care, i don't like pronouns but it's completely inconsequential...). The games is looking absolutely gorgeous, the levels drip with atmosphere and lore, and any regular Dragon Age fan is hyped about going to Tevinter.
@@vee1766 if you have magic powers and you can shape-shift in dragon age... Why do you need to have your breast surgically cut off in the game? How much more modern day do you want to get? All the characters look androgynous with strong jaw lines. You can't even use dragon age origins or dragon age 2 saves... They've totally wiped that out.. But if you say it's woke.. your hater and a transphobe.. So because I don't want to be labeled.. I absolutely love this modern age dragon age 😳
I've never really seen this brought up. The particular Buddha statue we see in game / trailer is something that they very likely did not get permission to use its likeness. They do not allow it to be portrayed in media and is only given the go-ahead in very specific situations.
They should probably just get rid of Yasuke altogether. They could do it right, but I don't want to play a semi-historical game set in feudal Japan as anything other than Japanese.
This is completely Ubisoft's fault for ignoring criticism but really they over spent on mediocre products. Mainly its skull and bones....sounds like that game alone killed Ubisoft. With regards to "AAAA" gaming, only one game was referred to that by Ubisoft and that was skull and bones. The reason why they referred to that game as "AAAA" is because of how long it was in development and how much money they put into that game. Though we don't have exact numbers that game must have cost at least $400mil (including marketing) just because how long they worked on it (over 10yrs) and that game was a complete bomb. Ubisoft was probably banking on Outlaws (star wars ip until the last five years or so did perform well) and Shadows (assassins creed usually sells well) to recoup some of that money. With Star Wars only selling 1mil units we can now say that the game has lost money so Ubisoft NEEDS shadows to do really well (which idt it will). Unless Ubisoft pulls off another 3-5 smash hits with their next several games, this is the end for them imo and someone else will take over the company and their IPs.
Unless they know that these games will have them be forced to be bought tencent already ownes some of them mabey there self destroying themselves so they can be bought by tencent the other options are not great options Google apple tencent Xbox literally can’t unless Ubisoft wants to do a fire sell of all there ips it i doubt that who is ever going to buy them wants those ips
Man, the lack of success for Star Wars Outlaws finally spooked Ubisoft leadership into having some common sense lol.
Wasnt just Outlaws. It was Skull and Bones, Avatar, Xdefiant, etc. They are failing.
@@coopstain1728you could say that Outlaws was the straw that broke the camel’s back
I would say it was the camel that broke the straws back @@Marksman3434
Honestly, they probably just assumed anything Star Wars would sell, and the fact the game still tanked shows their game development is in dire straights
@@Li-Fu7 they thought STA would bring tham back on track. They thought it would be doing as well as RDR2.
That is all you need to know. The people at Ubi have no idea about games anymore. Too many incompetent people.
Ubsioft: Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games
Gamers: Aight let me get real comfortable then not buying
We don't own most of our games most games even physical copies still download the game from the publisher. Most physical copies have a license permission on them. Mayb e some of the game but not all of it. You act like Ubi is the only one to do this.
Tough guy
I get so annoyed seeing this said out of context over and over again, they do enough dumb shit that you don’t need to twist shit out of context.
There is like 3000 other comments stealing your joke… Oh wait…
They're gonna teach that in business school in the part of the course titled "Don't Ever Do Any of This".
Star Wars Outlaws doing poorly brings me immense joy. People are finally speaking with their wallets. Its been so frustrating to sit back and watch fanboys eat up literally any mediocre schlock thrown at them by Disney SW the last few years
The Brand damage is strong with this one.
Consumers have been way too tolerant of mediocrity from both Disney and Ubisoft.
Yeah I absolutely love how well the gaming community seems to be able to speak with their wallets really well sometimes, more so than with other media
I just kinda thought Star Wars went to shit with the prequels anyways so
@@ras6794It did. Outside of some animated projects and Kotor, there really hasn’t been anything worth mentioning in decades
Yasuke should have been an NPC (like every other historical figure in past AC games: George Washington, Cleopatra, Dickens, Darwin, etc.). The game should have contained a single shinobi (ASSASSIN) as the main protagonist (male or female, you pick - just like AC Odyssey or AC Valhalla). Nope. Ubisoft couldn't help themselves and are getting properly stomped for it.
This indeed, he needed to be an side charater or side quest. The main charaters should have been Japanese.
You nailed it.
I wouldn’t have cared if they chose a black dude, it’s just we know they did it for +1,000 virtue points and it backfired
We haven’t even played the game to decide if they did him justice or not.
@@justinadams7824 There is a reason no AC game has ever contained a historical figure as a playable character... You are watching that play out in real time.
Their historical expert sourced his material from his own Wikipedia articles. Go figure.
And that's not even an exaggeration.
Why didnt they hire a Japanese person ? Are they completely incompetent ?
articles that spread disinformation to the point there's currently an Edit war in the Yasuke page 💀
All of that to defend his own ideal. That should be a crime
No, he was black. Stop hating. Y'all are just so racist. Yet it's ok for tomorrow cruise to be the laugh samurai lol, white ppl for ya, it's racism when its not about them lol
Bit of a stretch to call him an expert. By his OWN words, he "filled in the gaps" of the information he recieved, his main work (that being his book that everyone cites in a massive woozle effect) is essentially historical fan fiction, and thats not even a hyperbole.
Imagine if an archaeologist collected one bone and then reconstructed the entire skeleton based on how they feel it would look... that's not the makings of an expert imo.
If Ubisoft was culturally sensitive, the main character would be a Japanese samurai. I have no problem with the race of the main character, but put him in an authentic scenario.
Bro stop the cap. Just admit to disliking playing as a black character 😂
You dont have a life do you?
@@KingKK986bigots rarely actually have self awareness
@@KingKK986 I don't like Yasuke being a main character either. However, I'd LOVE for Bayek to get a sequel. Does that make me racist?
"Authentic scenario" dude existing wasn't authentic enough.
I don't think people realize how insanely bad the outlaws sales are. The game probably cost hundreds of millions, plus the licensing fee, plus they said it was their most ambitious marketing campaign ever. The game is going to lose them hundreds of millions of dollars probably. couldn’t happen to a worse company though.
Outlaw is on ubisoft plus from day one
Star Wars used to be a brand that could see almost anything...
the newest yakuza and persona 3 remake both hit 1 million sales in a week versus outlaws in a month. both yakuza and p3r probably costed a fraction of starwars outlaws not even including the cost of the star wars license
Was anyone amazed by the marketing? Lmao ....
Dont forget the platform cut of 25% ((i know sony and xbox for sure take it and steam as well) so in the end they are only making something like 52 dollars on a 70 dollar game. Also don't forget budget + advertisement and we are looking at them having to rake it like 400 to 500 mil to break even (just a rough estimate ) but people see that the budget was 200 mil there for they have to make 200 mil to break even and in this industry just breakinf even or not even that is a feath sentence
EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, SquareEnix…their flagship IPs are starting to fail them because they refused to listen to their fans and devs.
This is what happens when you get too long in the tooth and stop listening to what put you on the map in the first place. Maybe they should stop trend chasing and focusing solely on maximizing profits.
The money will come if they just stay true to their identity, know when to change course, and produce *QUALITY* games.
That last part is hard when they DONT GIVE A SHIT.
What flagship IP failures? All of the 4 are actually doing well while it's about the profit margins for the Board of the Directors. EA for this year is basically set because of Madden and NCAA sales. Starfield was a new IP that did sell well enough while no Bethesda game will be another Skyrim. Ubisoft is fine more or less if you listen to gamers and non-grifters while it's one of their bad years though. Square was mostly for profit and they have been saying "underperformance" since 2021 with little to no context. To be honest you're presenting mixed information with no context.
@@chris9206 FF16 underperformed. Starfield is a new IP not their flagship IP, that would be Elder Scroll and they are already telling us to expect to be disappointed in the next installment, EA has to push AC Shadows back because of huge backlash
Selling well is not good enough for these CEOs and shareholders. They are still closing down studios even with decently successful games(see HiFi Rush)
Now I said *Starting* to fail. Not that they have yet. Look at their stocks values. They have been in decline for awhile now. If this downward trend continues the next installments will completely fail because more and more people are losing interest in their IPs
Decent sales no longer equals success. Theirs a downward trend in stocks for these companies. The shareholders notice, the CEO’s notice. We notice. They are starting to fail.
@@ShadowProject01 you clearly didn't read whati said there especially when Square has said "underperformed" with their games since 2021. If you have listened to LSM you would know this including how Square has had a release window issue since 2021.
Again you didn't listen as I said with Bethesda. I said that nothing will outdo Skyrim. Currently the new Elder Scrolls interest is between how far apart installments are within the series and how some are crying "woke".
You mean Ubisoft, right? EA is a completely different company. The backlash is from Outlaws and the fact that someone is trying to takeover Ubisoft again by force. Don't fall for the misinformation especially when the same backlash of AC Shadows is hitting Ghost if Yotei, which shows how fake the outrage really is. It's all fake like how some said the February decision is for Black History month when in reality it's either to end or start Ubisoft's fiscal year with a bigger hit.
Dude stop following the grifters. Avoid the echo-chambers, listen to a variety of opinions as LSM is a good start, and fact check on your own.
@@ShadowProject01 FF16 “underperformed” because Final Fantasy just isn’t a brand with a huge pull anymore. PS5 exclusivity for so long didn’t help.
They could have just focused on the ninja chick and made this a Tenchu rip-off 💀💀
Nah, it would require actual effort and time to make a good game. Just make a bunch of controversial decisions for publicity, release an overpriced mid game then say it's the bigots' fault that it's not selling well. Rinse and repeat.
Problem with that is Tenchu is focused squarely on the moment to moment gameplay, which ubisoft struggles with these days. They've spent the last 15 years focusing on open world activity variety and their core gameplay systems have lost any depth. That is exactly how Star Wars ended up the way it did, they wanted to cut back on some of the bloat but when you do all it does is shine a spotlight on how weak the gameplay is. They would have to actually hire game designers and put effort into the product to make that, which just ain't happening.
This is like putting a Japanese actor as the lead role in Black Panther.. kind of dumb.
They learning the hard way. DEI and going woke will make you go broke.
Holy WoW bro your logic is flawed on so many levels.
@@RoyConwellcare to elaborate?
@@RoyConwell Not really. You expect a black dude to be a lead in a Black Panther game and you expect an asian dude to be a lead in a samurai/ninja game. Same same.
@@jepsen1977 gotta explain to these people that 1+1=2 now lol.
In the dlc, you play as Diddy, and search the surrounding Japanese Islands to find the Lube of Eden...
Lmao 💀
Freak off DLC
The final boss is cassie
Im gonna buy it
Would pay to (not) own 10 times
Investors just think having a bigger game is better, but gamers are starting to notice how the quality of the content suffers from this methodology. Just cuz you have a huge open world doesn't make a game great, there needs to be enough substantial content in it that doesn't feel repetitive. The ubisoft formula is just so overdone at this point
As I’m getting older, I long for short cinematic games. I’ll only invest time in an open world if it’s red dead or tsushima esque
@@lssjgaming1599 I don't think you know what an investor is. They don't make the games
@@vmv4956 you don't want to play the same far cry 3 open world for the 7th time?
@@goldenburger836 I dont thik you know what an investor is, since you dont know how they ultimately call the shots and force executives to do shit that is counterproductive, all in the name of profits.
@vanessamaldonado5877 then by that logic be mad at the investors and not Ubi
Hard pass (from a lifelong fan)
Wukong however has blown me away. Visually stunning, punishing but fair, deep mechanics, fun gameplay, no bugs, buttery frames…
I mean, it checks every box. It’s been great.
I'm going to buy Assassin's Creed Shadows just to annoy you. I might never play it.
Wukong has to be the most overrated game I’ve ever played.
Hard pass on what? Just curious.
@@Dannydudelidoto be honest Shadows will be the 1st one in a long time for me. I'm a big Tenchu fan.
@@Dannydudelidothat’ll really show him 🙄 way to stick it to the chuds
The problem is not 'inaccuracies' surrounding Yasuke, since there's such little historical information about him most of his story in the game would have to be fabricated anyway. It's simply the glaring fact that for obvious Western agenda-driven reasons this Western company is creating a game "celebrating" Japanese history starring... a non-Japanese character.
Why is it so hard to just state the obvious?
@FlexLUTHORdev do you not realize that there are two protagonists. Unless you don't think women should be a lead
@@goldenburger836 There are obviously two playable characters. And practically no one has said anything negative about the female protagonist... which should actually SPOTLIGHT the clear issue with the male protagonist.
Try your strawman argument on someone else.
after the whole "stop asian hate thing", they make a game of a black guy beating up asians...so tone deaf
Not true we know exactly who he was, a Slave\Servant who fled after his masters house was attacked.
It's literally said in historical documents...
@@FlexLUTHORdev Did you have that same energy for Nioh starring a white guy in Japan? Or AC Black Flag for starring a white guy in the Caribbean?
They should have just had Naoe as the main character, don’t want another hulking tank running around in an assassin game.
People would say its woke. They want a Japanese man
@@s-nova9254I mean people will say that about everything. Ghost of Yotei had a very small amount of people say it’s woke, but the vast majority are still excited.
@@s-nova9254 That would make the most sense.
@@RiderZer0 people don't like ubisoft for good reasons but I'm certain they'd mad if it was only a female lead
@@s-nova9254I haven’t seen a single person complain about her. At least she seems more culturally sensitive. Ironic all these insufferable weirdos claim to care and respect other cultures when they blatantly bastardize it.
Just like when they used a Cuban flag for Miles in Spider-Man 2 lmao. They literally expose themselves and us normal, reasonable folk highlighting this scumbag behavior makes us the any and/or all the -ists? 😂
Hell, the drama about this game is more entertaining than the game itself. 🍿
Valhalla made over a 1 BILLION DOLLARS. Why would they switch up the formula? Blame consumers
"What inspired you to choose Yasuke as the protagonist?"
"We saw the Stop Asian Hate movement and said to ourselves, 'y'know what, they kinda deserve it.'"
What the fuck kind of audience is Mr. Matty catering to.
😂😂😂
The accuracy
there it is lol
They were inspired by... 2015 American politics. A French Canadian company was inspired by American politics for their African man in Japan... Ubisoft deserves everything bit of hate they get.
UBI tried to insert black people to create "diversity."
This means that it is only possible to depict just one year in Japan's more than 1,000-year history, and an area of just 10 km2 of Japan's land area of 370,000 square km2.
It's crazy ridiculous how so many of Ubisofts recent games have come out broken and dull but they blame the consumers for why they don't sell millions of copies instead of just holding themselves accountable
I absolutely hate the goal post pushing argument of "AC has never been historically accurate" when they've legit used the games to teach history in schools and even offered/may have used AC Unity to help rebuild Notre Dame! AC games are FICTIONAL STORIES set in a historically accurate setting. They do like to fictionalize historical people, but again, that was always just to spice up the FICTIONAL story, and they were never main characters or felt out of place, so it didn't seem idiotic imo.
Chill virgin
The fact that you guys keep pushing the fake "AC unity helped rebuild the Notre Dame" story no matter how many times it gets debunked proves that this historical accuracy outrage is just racist outrage. You guys don't even care about the truth you just want to pedal your pathetic raciest agenda.
If yasuke was an NPC and maybe got DLC as a playable character later down the line like Adewale from AC 4 this wouldn’t be as big an issue if any at all.
It’s just the fact that they decided to make him a main character and hide behind the he existed so it’s historical accurate excuse just exposes them for their true intentions since they’ve never done this with past games and everyone can see through it plain as day.
AC Unity didn't help rebuild Notre Dame. Ubisoft's plans for the cathedral were incomplete. They are on record saying this. What really help rebuild it were the 3D scans of the building done by Professor Andrew Tallon. They did give €500,000 to help with the cost of rebuilding
Sad to report that the Notre Dame thing isn't true, that one got me as well for years. As for the teaching it in schools I'm a bit dubious about that as well, but I've never seen anything about that either way so I couldn't say.
Ubisoft: Am I so Out of Touch?
No, it's the Gamers who are wrong.
I think 20 years from now, gaming historians and developers in general will look to this period and really scratch their heads. In what world does it make sense to hate on your own consumer base and deliberately make decisions knowing that your core demographic consumers will not approve?
@@colonelleblanc2594 Big budget western entertainment in general, not just gaming. Hollywood is going through the exact same thing right now. I don't think historians will actually be that confused about it, though. I dunno what they will actually name this time but I'd go with the "gaslighter era."
A lot of "creative" people who are dumber than a bag of rocks successfully convinced media companies that if they do x, y, and z it will open up their products to a wider audience. What they purposefully failed to tell them though is that it would close the door to like 80% of their existing audience. The alone isn't catastrophic though, the real issue is that they also greatly increased budgets under the assumption they were going to be raking in even more money. That's what has been really killing all these companies.
Every large company has essentially been gaslit, and we're dealing with the end stage of that right now. Most people are aware of it (even if they can't really describe it) though, there won't be any real confusion once it's all said and done.
I absolutely will never buy another Ubisoft game again until they acknowledge and apologize for their comments on game ownership.
This definitely wasn't Ubisoft's best year ever. And now their recent mistakes have landed them to their lowest point.
Haven't bought a Ubisoft game since AC Origins. Will never buy another Ubisoft game again.
One of their last good games
As a big fan of the original assassin's creed games. Ezio is one of the most iconic and best video game characters ever the fall of this franchise is so sad to me but I have no desire to play this new game.
@LouSassol69er your missing out
Did you at least like Origins? I thought it was pretty good but I didn't buy another Ubisoft game until Fenyx Rising when it was on sale for like $10. I liked Fenyx Rising too but it was quite repetitive. Glad I got it for 10 bucks.
They've fallen into the same corporate trap as Blizzard - pencil pushers making game design decisions, teams run by committee instead of visionaries.
These methods lead to sloppy games designed to milk customers while providing milquetoast experiences.
They just moved the game to February. It's going to be buried my monster hunter that month. This game is going to bomb hard
I’d bet ac out sells it
"No matter what they tell you, japan is in Africa and diddy was the first black samurai"- Ubisoft
I seem to recall a Boondocks episode that touched on a ‘blind N- samurai’ 🤔
“Insert shocked Deadpool gif” Ubisoft deserves all the hate they get.
I have played the vast majority of the Assassin's Creed games released both on PC and console. That includes games like Assassin's Creed 2 (the whole trilogy, including Brotherhood and Revelations), Assassin's Creed 3, Black Flag, Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla.
People like me are, essentially, the main target audience for this game.
Yet, at this moment, I have zero interest in AC: Shadows. The game seems to be very bland, The Yasuke/Naoe duo don't seem to be very captivating as protagonist, and the whole sequence where Yasuke beats down japanese people while hip hop music plays in the background was of extremely poor taste (to say the least). This isn't the first time AC has had a black protagonist, but they are fumbling things really bad this time.
I'm the same as you, I bought every AC game over the years (even Mirage🤣) but Shadows has no appeal to me at all. I don't care it has a black lead or it's historically inaccurate I just have no interest in it. If they'd made it like Odyssey then I'd buy 3 copies tomorrow, Odyssey was my fave AC game and I still play it now just trying to get as much damage as possible from various builds.
@@Holycurative9610 I don't think Shadows will be as good as Odyssey or Origins.
Amen 🙏
You played valhalla, one of the most vapid soulless creed game ever made and didnt have a problem with it (apparently) but because this guy is in the game you have a problem?
Sounds like the issue is you.
Similar.
I have played all of the Assassin's Creed games from AC1 to AC Origins *multiple times.* AC3 I played four times, for example. AC Origins, my favorite of all of them right now, I have only played once in full, but I am on my second playthrough now.
Mirage is the only one I haven't played yet.
I loved all of them except for Valhalla. But... I'm completely not into Vikings, so that was always going to be the outcome.
All that being said...
Oh, I am *most* *_definitely_* _looking forward to Assassin's Creed Shadows._ I have been waiting for an Assassin's Creed game in Japan since I finished AC3 (the first time around). Yeah... I am *definitely* making time in February to play this bad boy.
I understand that not everyone is interested, and that's fine by me. We all have different tastes and so on and so forth. But I am going to enjoy the *hell* out of this game. 😁
I dont think pre order numbers mean anything. If the game drops, and its good, people will buy it. It's that simple. I don't know anyone who pre orders games anymore
I think this is what happens when you try to force an agenda instead of writing an interesting story with captivating characters. I don't think the Ubisoft now could make a game like AC2 or Black Flag
They also had F-tier research. watch the "drunk Japanese" videos analyzing the trailers. Yasuke is the tip of the iceberg. they did crappy research into Japanese architecture and have entire building complexes just built wrong.
Also, the female "lead" is apparently more Chinese than Japanese somehow? that part was interesting to me. People talk so much about Yasuke, they left out the rest of the world.
games are built around dei these days bring back the days of a good story+lore and revolutionary game mechanics.
@@farmboy27 What’s the agenda? What message are they pushing?
@gavo7911 "we NEED Blackrock money son, so shut up as we hamfist in some diversity so we make a good ESG score and get approved for loans". That message. These games got to expensive to make, it's kinda funny how much red tape they have to jump through to get approved for loans and such. The message they are saying is they don't really in reality have full creative control of their own creations.
@@TheJewishAzovMember Ah yes, that is totally a message the average gamer will understand or agree with. Totally. Do you even hear yourself? Blackrock? ESC scores?
I actually DONT want Ubisoft to implode. Want I want is for them to listen to their fans and make entertaining games again.
A lot of Ubisoft research was the writings of a discredit western historian that completely made up Yasuke's story of becoming a samurai. And they only did it to pander to the "modern" western audience without a single thought of the Japanese.
The weird part is that same historian when his japanese version was reviewed it was basically a whole different story. So he literally fabbricated a narrative for the western audience. To me this is fraud. Worst thing you can do as a historian imo.
thomas lockley...he's in hiding now
No matter what "concerns" they address, theyre still the company that made an African the star of a Sengoku era game in Japan. Unless they cancel the game and fire everyone who approved that decision, still a trash company.
Exactly. The investors at being told it's a "quality" issue, but it's actually a woke, DEI, progressive issue.
You racists must really hate Afro Samurai 😂
@@stuartrodda7321 I don't play trash
Racist..much?😂😂
@@KingKK986 How so? Coming from the guy with 3 capital Ks in his name
Saying a historical professional came in "late in development" is SUCH a lie. Otherwise, this so called "professional" wouldn't have been arguing with actual Japanese fans, and saying the TH-cam comments were from Americans using translator. Gtfoh. If Yasuke is still in the game, essentially being a barbarian and overkilling Japanese people, this game can continue to kiss my ass. I can deal with day one bugs. I'm not about to play a game completely 💩ing on Japanese culture. GFY Ubisoft.
The comments were from fake Japanese people.
100%
This right here. So much this!
I think by "late in development" they mean after the Ubisoft higher ups announced the delay.... last week.
lol who gives af man
It is not just the black man it is everything. They portrayed the country completely wrong. Including their history. Then tried to pass it off as accurate.
Who cares
@@TheOne-eo4xu The entire Japanese gaming community who basically shut the localization of this game down.
@@floydthibodeaux1844 In what ways did they inaccurately portray Japan?
@@gavo7911nice work with the psyop mr shekelstein
Why February? Because it will be SOOOOO mid, they can blame its poor sales performance on trying to compete with Avowed, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, just to name a few. Its a calculated move with the intent to be able to blame shift, nothing more.
black history month
@@Kris.G Yeah, I dont think presenting your black co-main character slaughtering Japanese people is a good look to want to cash in on during Black History Month, lol.
That and you can’t blame the black guy in February 😂
You had me but then you mentioned avowed
@@Kris.G ubi is french
Ubisoft needs a whole new gameplay overhaul
They need a new everything overhaul
@@sacredpower7530 starting with guillemot and his cronies
Just remove yasuke. I’m pretty sure pre-order number will boost by 100000%
@@predestinarianism First of all, no they should not bend to the whims of racist crybabies. Second of all, just remove…half the game? Do you understand how any of this works?
Definitely would and they should but they won't. They dropped the ball on this installment so badly that, honestly, they should just release it and take the loss. Use this to learn from their mistakes and let the tourists purchase this one to get so money back.
@@gavo7911 they can remove by replacing the character? Maybe they need to replace your brain as well lol.
Its disgusting how racist the gaming community has become 😂
@@gavo7911 The historian who sold them the story got exposed for a fraud. It's not just racists complaining
Sure, it's a game. It's not supposed to be accurate. But Ubishit claimed it was 100% history accurate and even had "experts" to help with the game. It is not. Yasuke is not a real samurai. Their game is filled with historical inaccuracies. If their game is just a "game", don't try to claim historical accuracy. Their fanfiction will never overwrite our history and culture.
@@11Megane23 “Retainer” and “samurai” are so contextually synonymous that splitting hairs over it is pointless.
Ubi has never claimed any of their games to be 100% historically accurate. Sorry, that's not what they're doing, and that's not what you're getting. It's a fucking GAME
@@erebusrealm Did you even read my comment? I said, yes, it is a GAME. It's NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ACCURATE. But THEY CLAMIED IT IS and based their historical fanfiction on Thomas Lockley and some random japanese "expert" called Wikipedia. Nobody would have an issue if they DIDN'T CLAIM ANYTHING BUT THEY DID. To the point that the Japanese government is looking into it! You won't gaslight anyone here, get YOUR facts straight.
Assassin's Creed killing their Revenue. You can't make that up...
I don't get the rush to blame all of management and treat developers like they're blameless. Developers make bad games sometimes,and management is just a force multiplier. Bad management can make a bad game worse or a good game not as good but I doubt the CEO was in studio messing with their systems to make a game worse. Are we going to pretend that every one of Concord's problems were management related?
I will buy AC at Christmas 2025 for $20 with all DLC and glitches fixed. NEVER PAY FULL PRICE FOR GAMES.
Even better buy it second hand Ubi wont earn a buck from it. DLC pass when it's 5 bucks on sale.
I don’t know how they can think that they will be successful releasing 35 Assassins Creed titles neglecting so many other games. I dont know anyone who still buys FarCry, Assassin’s Creed or RB..
As an AC fan I'm with you...they needa stop releasing trash AC games and take time for other games and bring back AC to it's roots
@@musty_262_3Wasn't Mirage supposed to be that "return to roots"?
@bruhtholemew it was supposed to be that but it didn't quite get there imo. I actually enjoyed mirage way more than Valhalla because it gave og vibes because of a smaller city and actually being an assassin. But ultimately the bad story, combat, static animations/cinematics, and bad parkour didn't make it seem like it went back to it's non rpg roots completely.
You'd think a big company like Ubisoft would have at least 1 historical expert on hand in house for their biggest franchise 😅
Or simply not try to force things.
They did. When they’re talking about not being historically accurate, they’re not talking about the characters.
Ubisoft could have paid a history grad student 3k and all of this would have been caught, saving them millions.
Look at the Ubisoft team…. It literally explains the issue and explains the issue with all entertainment.
lol you think Matty actually does research before speaking?
@@toddspickelmier3728 Yup, it’s because they’re French. Damn croissants.
They had the simplest layup ever for a slam dunk.
Yasuke has been a supporting character in multiple games, and a couple that come to mind are Nioh and Nioh 2.
- Stick to the Japanese protagonists, just as you have for every game thus far minus Black Flag, but it was a hit anyway.
- Make Yasuke fill a role just as any other historical figure like Leonardo Da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin or whatever. The series has never really been about playing as the figures except for that Jack The Ripper DLC in Syndicate, so why do that now? Perhaps we could've had an angle where the Japanese protagonists could train Yasuke and if they were really hellbent on letting people play as him, they could do a Freedom's Cry like DLC where you play as him.
- Be just as faithful to the depictions of the locations, in which the ones in Unity and Odyssey got high praise from those historians.
- Tell a good story, and prioritize a good story FIRST before doing whatever it is they do for inclusion and diversity (if it makes sense that is).
- Polish the hell out of it and ensure as few bugs as possible.
Boom easy best seller. But instead, hubris and arrogance led them to this point and I can't say I feel sorry for them.
hip hop music for the black samurai .....
western game developers ended racism again
btw. if you look at the 2-3 experts we know of who ubisoft hired as "experts" theres no suprise about all these inaccuracies
its agenda before historical facts
Please. Pre order numbers were another reason why Ubisoft delayed shadows. They were not looking “solid”.
I’m still mad at Ubisoft because they keep ignoring Rayman! That dude is awesome! We need a Rayman 4 not MORE convoluted storylines with assassins creed! Sorry, crazy rant over.
It's okay, everybody needs to rant sometimes ;)
Rayman is a cis male so obviously Ubi sees him as problematic lol
@@GamingTalk-cl7xj Do we even know if Rayman has anything…under there? I don’t even think Rayman has a biological sex, he’s just Rayman lol.
If outlaws wasn’t Star Wars they’d sold 1000 units and game would already be forgotten…🤷♂️
TLJ is the most hated piece of Disney Star Wars. They tricked me into seeing that film, they couldn't pay me to watch The Acolyte.
I subscribed to Ubisoft+ to play Outlaws but found the forced and very brutal stealth sections to be a major turnoff. I might check it out again at a cheap price if they make some major adjustments. There's good stuff there, but it needs work.
Brutal? Lmfao you just suck at games. this isn't splinter cell. It's super fucking easy.
Endymion spoke to an insider (see his video) and the situation there is incredibly dire
all self inflicted
I don't think I trust grifters with insider info, idk about you
Grifter
@@anywhere_but_here "People who make money are girfters!"
Nah you just dislike what they say.
@@anywhere_but_here y'all figure out what a woman is yet?
Every time the consumers request Ubisoft to do something the fans want Ubisoft fumbles the bag.
Black Flag 2? = Skull and Bones
Ninja Assasins creed? = AS Shadows 7 years too late (and being delayed ironically)
TC GR AW3? = GR Wildlands
Splinter Cell or Rainbow 6
Vegas 3 = The Division
Don’t even get me started on NFT’s and Rayman neglect.
They’re not going to remove Yasuke. They’re making him the selling point of this game. And last I checked they’re going to release the game in February next year.
They can’t make major changes to the game in mere months. And if they use AI to do that, it’ll only spell disaster.
Then they should cancel this joke. It’s insulting to the Japanese.
They removed press kits. So maybe there is hope.
the urinalists would lose it if they removed him...the hit pieces would be hilarious though
@@mrsantoro8306its not. You just projecting 😂
Yasuke is acting alot more like a repellant than the selling point
Ubisoft went so hard trying to prove that they’re not racist that they went racist.
Ubisoft is getting burned, shadows is either make it or break it.
Yasuke has been depicted as a samurai in dozens of shows, books and games before now. Why is it suddenly a problem now? And why is everyone suddenly so concerned with historical accuracy in a series like AC?
He was some random servant where there’s barely anything written about him. Why choose him as a character over actual Japanese samurai for a game set in Japan? It’s pure woke nonsense
@@internetexplorer3596 AC has always played fast and loose with historical accuracy my guy. No one has ever had a problem with it until it involved a Black man in a role they don't like. Ask yourself why that is.
Guess that modern audience doesn't buy games.
They buy good games. Baldurs Gate 3, God of War Ragnarok, Spiderman 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Last of Us 2.
You can’t just cherry pick bad games from dishonest companies and claim there is any sort of pattern other than gameplay as a factor
Doing things the wrong way makes money short term.
Doing things the right way makes money in the long term
A Jesuit missionary’s African bodyguard being LGBT… yeah that is accurate…
NO HE WAS THE GREATEST SAMURAI OF ALL TIME, YOU'RE JUST A RACIST.
- Ubisoft PR team.
Their consultants so far have been:
1. some fujoshi obsessed with man on boy relations
2. a Japanese communist party member with an honorary degree making false claims
3. some white guy who made the whole thing up to grift
Their dev cycle is unhealthy, they don't listen to the devs, they just want to follow the trends and make more money with the minimal effort possible. Even if the devs want to make a better game, there is no time to because the game has to come out as soon as possible and quantity is more important than quality. I sincerely hope this mess will serve as a wake up call for the upper management.
It’s taken five years to get this game made. Hardly a short development time? Until Origins, they dropped one AC every single year. Plus DLCs. Then we got a two year cycle with Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla… and now it’s five years! Hardly “minimal effort”. If anything, they’re overworking these games.
Ubisoft had this share price in....... 1999
How can Yasuke even be an assassin in Japan? You're supposed to take down your target and escape without detection. He wouldn't fit in at all.
"Can you describe the perpetrator of this crime?"
"Yes, he had black skin and was a head taller than everyone else."
"Hmm, i wonder who that could be." /S
Guarantee they'll change the hip hop music
Tencent isn't automatically bad. Ubisoft would do far better under Tencent management than under their current management. Why? Because Tencent cares about making money. That's why they take a largely hands-off approach while a business is profitable, as in the case of Riot.
acolyte got cancelled BEFORE the end of season 1 😂😂😂😂
Doesn't matter when they hire the expert if they're hiring the wrong "experts" for the job. They need to first make sure they're hiring the right experts for the job.
6:10 So are you telling me they already knew all of that historical inaccuracies but still choose to reveal the game? So they already knew about all of those and still used copyrighted banners and such? What is wrong with these people...
assassins creed hasn't been historically accurate since the AC3 George Washington dlc. They do always respect the history, but it's never accurate. You people just don't want to play as a black person.
@@tahjhightower125 "They do respect the history" yeah, about that, not anymore it seems. Are you really sure you are up to date on this whole situation? So much shit revealed since then. Yasuke isn't even the biggest problem this game has.
@@whiteraven9544 What is? I’m genuinely asking, what did they get wrong?
@@gavo7911 There is a lot going on about Ubisoft and AC Shadows that it would take too much time and affort to write all of that. Almost every week since the game's first trailer came out people discover new almost hilariously bad things. So do your own research about that but I will tell you the last thing that happened.
Last week Ubisoft has released images of a new figurine they intended to sell, which had our two main characters and a half broken, one legged torii gate. It's like a funko pop statue. The thing is, one legged torii gate is a memorial about a torii gate that was half destroyed during WW2 when the atom bomb hit Nagasaki. So people were pissed off about how disrespectful it is for Ubisoft to try and sell it as a promotional product.
Now, I personally think this was just a coincidence and someone just didn't do any research about this. Which is normal but consultants exists to prevent these kind of mistakes. Now people are asking Ubisoft for weeks that "How are you being respectful to Japanese history and culture if you didn't even hire a proper consultant?". It is so ridiculous to me that they are making every wrong decision possible, for not just AC but for their every IP and still blame gamers by saying "Making "solid" games isn't enough when you have gamers expecting extraordinary experiences". (yes that is an actual quote form the Ubisoft CEO. He was talking about Outlaws not selling enough)
They need to scrap it and start over. Make Yasuke an NPC ally to the assassins. Make a single shinobi who’s gender you choose like in Odyssey and Valhalla.
You forgot AC Mirage. 😂
What about it? It didn't sell well either? I skipped it. My favorite series has been blue hair girled to death. Sigh...
Yeah, I do not like how Mirage is such a forgettable game. I had high hopes for that one.
Yasuke should not of been a playable character, simply due to what Assassins Creed is. He would stand out in a crowd like a sore thumb, which works against the "blade in the crowd" philosophy that has usually been at the core of the series. Its a shame, there's a lot of stuff with Naoe that I like, especially with the AI and what they were saying about how the game will react to how your playing - but then again its Ubisoft, it probably wont work.
Not to mention I really hate the duo protagonist stuff, wasn't a fan of it in syndicate but you could still do more or less 95% the same stuff on both characters. This one looks like they went deeper with that and I don't like being locked out of the fun tools that I would of had in the older games where if I chose to approach a mission in stealth but then go loud when it all goes to hell. The series had the best player freedom from AC2 to around Unity IMO
So they give us an option to play as him or the other character but you’re bitching about… them making him a playable character. But you don’t have to play as him. You also don’t have to buy the game. Marks like you are why gamers have the reputation that we do.
@sincityquinn You will be forced to play as either one at points in the story. 100% guarantee it. I mean, you can continue to insult me, but your just acting like your part of "toxic positivity" camp. I am allowed as a fan of this series since day 1 to voice my opinion, and I guarantee that it will be people like you who will be the first to complain when ubisoft announce that Shadows didn't hit sales targets. So how about you stop telling me how to spend my money ey?
@@porkins1202 That’s the point, he’s not SUPPOSED to blend in with the crowd. He’s not meant for stealth, he’s purely an action character meant for the people who prefer newer AC combat while Naoe is meant for the older fans who prefer stealth. Both in gameplay and story, he’s a fish out of water, while Naoe naturally is meant to be there and blends in. It’s actually pretty smart design and a nice connection between gameplay and story, as much as I hate to compliment Ubisoft for anything.
Ubisoft is failing because they listened to companies and advisors like Sweet Baby Inc 😂 now they are learning they got hustled by them
Once again the modern audience didn't show up
@@EasytheGoon lol it’s almost like there’s hardly of them out there
@@EdgarDiaz-pt4qx No they're out there, Buying Iphones and then not using them for anything but taking pictures.
They don't play Video games. We do.
@@EdgarDiaz-pt4qx Holy shit you guys need to let go of the SBI crap, it’s a complete nothingburger.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151You forgot to add that they're spending all of their time on Twitter and Reddit. Complaining about anything to everything.
The only good thing ubisoft has going for it in my opinion is The Crew Motorfest. You could tell Ivory Tower cares about cars and now recently announcing that the Crew 2 and Motorfest will soon have offline modes is a great gamer friendly move by them.
I like watching the Ubisoft dumpster fire
The big reason Ubi is going to rework Yauske is bc there is a case that was brought to the Japanese Diate centered around cultural and historical theft and rewriting. Meaning there is a real chance of the game being out right banned in Japan. If Shadows doesn't get the chance to sell in Japan, then Ubi is done without any chance of survival. So they have to do some damage control to hopefully stay afloat.
I just want a new Splinter Cell game man
It constantly baffles me how execs are surprised when games underperform when they put out subpar mediocre slop games. I really tried to enjoy Outlaws but it was so janky and mediocre I really couldn’t keep playing. It was at a much lower standard than previous Ubisoft games (like Valhalla and Odyssey). Do they have internal play testers? Do they even listen to them? I could have told them the game was going to fail after an hour of playing.
Yeah, it is absolutely baffling. Nothing about Outlaws follows the standards we should expect in 2024. Like you said, an hour of play tells you how janky and dogshit it is.
You almost forgot skull and bones but you DID forget Xdefiant 😂 (not that I blame you)
Wtf is 'Xdefiant'?
@@gagewesterhouse9558 free to play fps from ubisoft which in truth is actually decent and bot bad
Iv been waiting for a Japanese ninja assassins creed game for about 15years, but Ubisoft won’t be getting my money again
Nah, they've made their choice now. After all, we are "toxic gamers," and our opinions don't matter, right ? Let them lose money. Our wallets have spoken.
Okay Bethesda fanboy
Make the characters 100% fictional. Problem solved. In this super sensitive, overreactive society we live in, why would they even bother using a character based on real life persons?
That being said, all this controversy just confirms that western society is on the brink of collapse. I give it 100 years.
They took a black man who have no records of actually being in battle and serve less than a year under Oda and then not ever mentioned again. LMAO
See, this is the kind of bull shit we're talking about. "Skull and Bones" underperform, no shit. We the people KNEW it was going to flop, especially when at the time word got out that you weren't going to be able to leave your ship like in Sea of Thieves. "Star Wars Outlaw" under perform, again no shit. I mean we literally laid out the bread crumb on that one and Ubisoft still took the wrong turn. And yet they are wondering what's happening? What went wrong?
Leadership at Ubislop all got the tattoo on their chest: Lets go woke and broke.
If Ubisoft goes down, Microsoft should be interested in one final buyout.
Ubisoft should ask for a refund from every 'diversity' and 'cultural sensitivity' hustler they hired
Idc what they do. My wallet will stay closed. They haven’t learned anything yet…at least not in my view. Suffering teaches lessons…therefore…suffer they shall.
Sounds similar in ways to the fall of BioWare and the Dragon Age franchise.
How so? Assassin's Creed had yearly releases which led to fatigue whereas Dragon Age hasn't released a game since 2014 and Inquisition was almost the unanimous GotY winner for that year
@@spacelion4763 they're both being ruined by Sweet Baby and other similar "consulting" groups. That's what he meant, I think. Could be wrong.
@@matthewcarroll2533 exactly.. but people are scared to call it out
Any normal, honest person can tell that Dragon Age Veilguard is very promising and will probably be a good game. The vast majority of people who had their hand on it have been positive about it. I haven't heard or read any proper, genuine, valid criticism against Veilguard so far outside of straight up lies about the character creation (screenshots of badly created characters to make people think characters in the games are ugly) or outrage against completely inconsequential and tiny things ("omg there are pronouns!", like who the f care, i don't like pronouns but it's completely inconsequential...). The games is looking absolutely gorgeous, the levels drip with atmosphere and lore, and any regular Dragon Age fan is hyped about going to Tevinter.
@@vee1766 if you have magic powers and you can shape-shift in dragon age... Why do you need to have your breast surgically cut off in the game? How much more modern day do you want to get?
All the characters look androgynous with strong jaw lines.
You can't even use dragon age origins or dragon age 2 saves... They've totally wiped that out..
But if you say it's woke.. your hater and a transphobe..
So because I don't want to be labeled.. I absolutely love this modern age dragon age 😳
I've never really seen this brought up. The particular Buddha statue we see in game / trailer is something that they very likely did not get permission to use its likeness. They do not allow it to be portrayed in media and is only given the go-ahead in very specific situations.
Been a fan of ubisofts games for years. But these days..
I haven't played an AC game since Syndicate, and haven't enjoyed one since Freedom Cry...
Ubisoft games give you that feeling of “what could be” and I think outlaws is the worst offender of that
Honestly once I heard Ubisoft has a "toxic positivity" problem it made sense why there failing.
They should probably just get rid of Yasuke altogether. They could do it right, but I don't want to play a semi-historical game set in feudal Japan as anything other than Japanese.
If they don't put the Japanese Samurai, DO NOT BUY IT!
They are such liars. You can't trust them.
This is completely Ubisoft's fault for ignoring criticism but really they over spent on mediocre products. Mainly its skull and bones....sounds like that game alone killed Ubisoft. With regards to "AAAA" gaming, only one game was referred to that by Ubisoft and that was skull and bones. The reason why they referred to that game as "AAAA" is because of how long it was in development and how much money they put into that game. Though we don't have exact numbers that game must have cost at least $400mil (including marketing) just because how long they worked on it (over 10yrs) and that game was a complete bomb. Ubisoft was probably banking on Outlaws (star wars ip until the last five years or so did perform well) and Shadows (assassins creed usually sells well) to recoup some of that money. With Star Wars only selling 1mil units we can now say that the game has lost money so Ubisoft NEEDS shadows to do really well (which idt it will). Unless Ubisoft pulls off another 3-5 smash hits with their next several games, this is the end for them imo and someone else will take over the company and their IPs.
Unless they know that these games will have them be forced to be bought tencent already ownes some of them mabey there self destroying themselves so they can be bought by tencent the other options are not great options Google apple tencent Xbox literally can’t unless Ubisoft wants to do a fire sell of all there ips it i doubt that who is ever going to buy them wants those ips
My greatest and purest joy in life is watching Ubisoft go bankrupt.
The best thing that could happen to Ubisoft is if Microsoft buys it and then disbands it a year later after no successful launches. Fuck Ubisoft.