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Get used to having a good 2025, not like Ubislop. And what's that? What is my resolution? I don't have any resolutions. I don't do resolutions. I've condemned them like I condemning Ubisoft and Tencent.
In the absolute dumbest move I've ever seen in the entire history of gaming their CEO basically told gamers not to buy their games... and that's exactly what happened.
It's baffling that game companies think they're threatening us by saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it" and go all surprised Pikachu when we say bet and don't buy their shit.
He didn't, though. In the full context of the quote, he said for gaming to shift over to digital like movies and music did, people would need to become more comfortable in not owning their games. Not that people should get comfortable with it like it was a demand. That said, I'm sure Ubisoft believes it the way people have taken the quote out of context, but they never did say it out loud.
@@kira-dk2mx Well that's not exactly what he said. What he said was "You're gonna eat shit and like it, because you're stupid mindless sheep". And instead of responding "baaaa" like he was counting on, we told him to go take a long walk off a short pier into a lake of boiling piss.
@@SakuraAvalon This ain't a legal battle. They said the quiet part so they gonna suffer the consequences. They f*cked around and they finding out. Good luck with Ubisoft.
The thing with Skull and Bones is that Ubisoft would have cancelled the project years ago. But they have a contract with the Singapore government which requires Skull and Bones to not only release but receive a minimum of 3 years of full post-launch support iirc. So Ubisoft are stuck with the complete failure of Skull and Bones for at least another two and a half years and they cannot do anything to get out of it.
Honestly, that's a good decision by the Singapore government. If Ubisoft wanted Singapore's tax dollars money, the government should get their money's worth in return. Ubisoft dug their own grave with S&B with unclear direction, causing repeated course corrections and delays. Ubisoft are 100% to blame for their financial and management decisions.
What I don't get is why they didn't just make a decent game. Like, they made boarding a cutscene. Nothing tells me you are not even trying more than this does.
@@MisterNightfishIrrc, the company's upper management is terrible and full of nepotism. So, it's to be expected they wouldn't know how to direct people to make a good game.
@@ManOutofTime913 yep. did the top manager at time go against each other. Like top manager A would say do X. then Manadger B would say scrap X do X2. Top manager C do X3 instead of X2. and then top manager A would coem back and yell at the worker for doing X3 instead of X. note manadger A, B or C have not said a word to each other ones.
@@mekacrab They decided to work for that awful company, the "they were just following orders" excuse does not work anymore, womp womp thoughts and prayers
@@raidenshotgun5997 lmao, it's one of the biggest videogame studios out there, there are reasons why people would want to work there... You sound like a very smart individual.
What the Guillemot's don't seem to understand when trying to retain control beyond a buyout, is that the Guillemot's being in charge is the problem putting them in such a situation in the first place.
Same thing is happening with Bob Iger and Disney and how the shareholders keep expecting Iger to fix things when he is the one actively destroying the company intentionally.
@@danieldragotti2608 there is ac rogue, witch is basically black flag, except you are more of soldier than a pirate but gameplay is very similiar with small changes
The biggest issue with Ubisoft is that all of their games are virtually the same. There is no variety in their core game design and the customer base has finally caught on. The same game with different skin every time.
Ironically, that was almost always the same, before the mainstream era of copy-pasting things to comply to the algorithms or the likes. Time has passed and people have had more time to grow wiser to their terrible design and business practices, on top of the newer idiocies that has happened.
Yep, all of their titles are just open world time sinks, with huge maps with icons and objectives to fill out as completed. I love open world games, but not copy and paste ones. Currently playing rise of Ronin. And it's great. 😊
The biggest issue with their games is that every single thing in them feels like it's there by obligation and not like anybody actually cared about the concept of what they were making. I've rarely seen more passionless games than Ubisoft games.
I don’t think it can get any worse for Ubisoft with both the players and shareholders dissatisfied. Guillemot will reluctantly give in to the buyout. Tencent will find a way to “EA-itize” the company more than it already has to turn a profit. And nothing will improve for the players. Calling all this now in January 2025
lets be realistic, shareholders demand more AC games, those are getting more profitable with each entry. Next is projected to make well over billion dollars easily. Considering there is line of at least 6 more AC games coming out in next two years. Ubisoft is very comfortable when considering future.
Funny thing about Avatar. Only reason why I didn't get it was because it was from Ubisoft. Their name itself is synonymous with controversy, greed, and copy/pasted mechanics. I get the feeling others did the same, especially since ACG - a very prolific game reviewer, actually praised this game for being unique compared to other Ubisoft open worlds. Same goes with PoP Lost Crown - I was really interested, but Ubisoft's name heavily curbed my enthusiasm. When it gets to the point your brand is harming your sales, it's time to rethink everything.
Tried it on my friends gamepass for roughly two hours and never bought it myself. It’s just Farcry with an Avatar skin and didn’t bring anything interesting to the table
I'm the same way, if it has Ubisoft or EA on it, I don't touch it, so many games I really wanted to play, but I refuse to spend a dime on their products.
@@_Cetarial The Division's devs are under Ubisoft. My entire post's focus was on how Ubisoft's brand is harming its sales, not the games or developer teams themselves. Avatar and Lost Crown are just examples.
Every time he says "Ubisoft decided", that means the company's incompetent CEO Yves Guillemot decided... Although Yves Guillemot apparently was appointed CEO already back in 1988, he and his family has somehow managed to hold on to power despite only owning 14% of the company! Perhaps it is time for the remaining 86% to join together and oust Yves Guillemot once and for all?!? The gaming industry has changed a lot in the past 35+ years and although "Chasing Trends" might have been a viable strategy back when a game could be made in a year or two for relatively little money, that very same strategy obviously becomes a recipe for disaster when a game instead takes 5-10 years and $100+ millions to develop!
Ubisoft deciding to now release Assassin’s Creed Shadows two weeks before Monster Hunter Wilds is madness. It’s not gonna kill the game’s momentum but it’ll certainly hurt.
New Like a Dragon game featuring Majima is gonna drop the same month. And I know the Japanese gamers in Japan would rather play the new MH game and Majima.
10000000000000%, especially after making the second game actual slop, and then expect us to buy motorfest when they take away the crew 1, they deserve to dissolve.
@@verafeiyd the reason for this they pushed us to play their sequels The Crew 2 and Motorfest But on the flip side of Things Ubisoft and Ivory tower confirmed that The crew 2 and Motorfest will be playable offline afterthe disastrous launch of Test Drive Solar Crown So I'll try and Praise for that one even though it's a mf joke whoever own TC1
They had the audacity to try to put a PAID BATTLE PASS IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they backed out of it when all of the backlash came to them. They even launched 2 nft games This year
@ahmadrunningwild85 you know they could have just chose not to make it for a single player campaign right? The fact that you're even trying to defend this company is stupid
@@ahmadrunningwild85 The "just don't buy it" line doesn't fucking work. We aren't buying them, we are speaking with our wallets, that's why Ubisoft had such a shit year
Ubisoft makes a bunch of generic mid crap that doesnt sell well, then they release one GOOD game that doesnt sell well and close the studio. No mystery why their games keep getting worse year after year.
Ubisoft to me is the most frustrating game dev in the industry rn. They did so many awesome games, they were trend setters, have a good amount of great IPs under their name, they managed to save a game from a very poor launch state twice, they basically have, or had, all the potential in the world to do so much. Now they went from trend setters, to followers, to this. Makes me sad really, I always thought they made some incredibly consistent games, even as they felt stale they felt solid still. It is incredibly sad.
Ubisoft forgot a foundational rule for making money with a business: The customer controls your profits, not a political message. But by all means keep doing what you're doing. It's for sure going to work the next time! Honestly, it's basically a rick roll meme at this point. No one cares anymore or enough to even look in their direction. Numbers don't lie.
The case of ubislop should be studied honestly, it's unreal to fail this hard while having so many good IPs, it's not that complicated to understand what gamers want either so it has to be on purpose or an ego trip.
I disagree with the claim that it's not hard to understand what gamers want. More people than ever play video games; not just teenage boys and 20-something men. Everyone has different demands.
@@kranichkrone And you're welcome to have that opinion, yet even the director of larian studios (baldur's gate 3) in his speech at the game awards this year said something similar. It's not hard because of the multitude of different tastes of gamers nowadays, it's hard because they're going out of their way to implement moneytization and all kinds of artificial way to make the game longer. It's really not that hard to imagine what a gamer in a specific genre would want, let's say a sports game, it's not rocket science, yet we don't have good ones anymore. Same with any type of games really.
Why are you surprised? They choose to go down this way, At this point it is not worth asking the question, Let them continue to act stupid when things go downhill
Games being designed by people with no idea how video games work prioritizing profit and engagement over fun, basically just mismanagement on a mass scale
I love how YongYea is so optimistic that AC:Shadows will sell well and will save Ubisoft from bankruptcy. Come on, Yong, mention the REAL reason why no one wants to buy that game.
@ahmadrunningwild85 It wont...atleast not at the level they need it to. Case and point the collectors edition is still available for pre order. That tells you there is no intrest and people dont even want to display the game.
@@ahmadrunningwild85 I knew the ac franchise went to shit and to "that side" at syndicate. If you know what I'm talking about, you knew they pretty much were never going to get good again and dug themselves in a weird hole. The rest of their games followed suit in quality.
@@lsebastian9086PoP: TLC is one of the best metroidvanias I've ever played, but Ubisoft seemed hellbent on making the world forget about it in favor of shoving garbage like Skull and Bones into our faces. A really bizarre business tactic.
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That Prince of Persia game was pretty damn good. And... basically that's it.
Overpriced, buggy games that come bundled with malware (DENUVO) and require a 3rd party buggy launcher - what could possibly be the problem? The sooner UBISLOP ceases to exist, the better it will be for gamers.
I understand the desire to wanna work from home, however, how can a team move all in the same direction when you never come together as a team? Creative minds should have disagreements, conflict and a clash of ideas which all congeal towards a great product! Without that, you just get weird, contrived results….which is what we are seeing in AAA right now.
Aside from people losing jobs which really sucks, Ubisoft failing is healthy. Make more room for the talented teams and companies innovating today. Ubisoft games feel like they’re stuck in 2011 combined with all the junk people hate about modern day cash grabs.
The engineers and administrative staff will land on their feet and find other work. The executives, however, will (hopefully) suffer. If you had management and executive positions open, would you hire those that were responsible for the downfall of one of the biggest companies within its industry?
7:34 I have to wonder why people would want to play AC Shadows when Ghost of Yotei is right around the corner. Sucker Punch did Assassin’s Creed better than Ubisoft nearly 5 years ago with Tsushima; and now, with Shadows’ Japan setting, the comparisons are going to be more critical than before.
Great video, Yong. I actually wanted to alert you about something I haven't seen anyone else discuss that I just learned about. Did you know that Modern Warfare 2019 is now 100% unplayable, due to how the game was mishandled when Warzone 2 dropped (this includes the campaign)? Did you know, despite this fact, Activision is still selling the game at full price. From what I've seen, they haven't addressed this at all, even including the game in a recent sale, despite the fact it literally does not function (this is how I discovered this in the first place) Just a terrible thing that nobody is talking about, probably why Activision is able to get away with it
People need to start realizing that Star wars is not a cultural phenomena anymore. Disney has run it into the ground, and newer generations just don't really care about it anymore. I work as a music instructor and I'm around kids very often and I've literally never heard a single kid I work with ever talk about Star wars in any form.
As a XDefiant lover, at this point this is all super satisfying. I'm bummed the developers of course feel the repercussions of all this first, however the management has been so bad at Ubisoft the higher ups are absolutely going to feel it. Hope that family leaves the company alone.
Where I live, Star Wars Outlaws was only being sold for the deluxe edition and seeing how buggy it was I didn't want to waste $120 on it. 2024 I only bought one game the entire year so it's not just Ubisoft but a lot of AAA game studios.
I just want them to make a new Splinter Cell game. Blacklist was the last one, and it was amazing. Great co-op too, I had so much fun... That was 12 years ago :(
Nope you really don't. They would rip the soul out of it, stuff it full of battle passes and micro transactions, kill the franchise then blame the players when it sells poorly.
@@xander1934 i dunno man, I guess having the IPs go to other Devs could be a blessing or a curse. We would have to hope that whoever acquired them would actually care about those IPs and not just shove out any old crap just for a nostalgic payday.
What they have to do to succeed? No more DEI, focus on quality over quantity and more variety. Where's the next Rayman? What about Splinter Cell? What about a new Driver game? A new Prince of Persia mayhaps?
This is what they wanted & worked for. They LOVE not owning stuff. Like owning money or owning a buiness. It is good for them, it is good for us. All good!
Ubisoft charged way too much for Prince of Persia as metroidvania games simply can't command a 'AAA' price. They would have made more money and sales numbers selling it for half the price but Ubisoft let greed get in the way
@@terryliliana he is right, if game at first glance looks like mobile game and you are expecting 40 euro for it, then you are looking at disappointing sales, just my opinion
When it comes to Skull and Bones getting 2nd season, I'm still convinced the only reason why that game wasn't shut down boils down to contractual obligations coming from millions of $ in government grants taken from the Singaporean government.
@TheSammySuperShow Yes, i did and i write this type of comment every time Skull and Bones gets mentioned. As I'm a fan of AC Black Flag, I have a personal vendetta against S&B, as it was originally supposed to be a Black Flag DLC, only to be bastardised into what we have today. They massacred my boy for this.
Let Ubisoft be a warning to the other game developers. When your CEO says "People need to get used to not owning their games." Don't be surprised when the players turn around and prove that Ubisoft needs to get used to not having money.
Havent bought a Ubisoft game in years and it looks like this trend is gonna continue if they keep making games like this and ignoring their consumers for quick cash grabs.
the people running Ubisoft might get used to nit owning a company. I hope that the buyout will happen. I hope that other companies wil put player satisfaction on a higher priority
@@JerziTBoss Quick google search says it was Phillipe Tremblay, who holds the Director of Subscriptions office at the company. I really doubt he cringes at it in hindsight, his position is basically MBA written all over it, and business degree alums often have no sense of irony or introspection, and they generally don't care what anyone else thinks. The only thing that matters to them is money, and even good will and perception are worthless to them.
I think the unspoken caveat to that sentence is "unless that game is GTA V", because GTA V has made an anomalous amount of money even compared with other uber-successful games
I still find it hilarious how Guillemot wants the company to have a buy-out and do better under new management. But, the Guillemot family wants the same management in control. That's like wanting a diverse just so you can marry these same person again.
I just watched a list of things that 'died' in gaming during 2024. Here's Ubisoft make next years list. They don't deserve to continue after what they've done and covered up.
Ubisoft's worst year *so far*. Yves Guillemot has clearly shown the quality of his leadership as well as his willingness to follow through with his plans despite any potential pushback. I don't doubt he'll continue to drive Ubisoft to new heights in exceeding expectations.
Turns out when you put out a bunch of non-functional, unfinished product that costs more money to fix after initial purchase, nobody buys it. Who knew!?
Ubisoft seems like it is bordering on bankruptcy, I seriously do not understand how they are still acting this careless when the amount of mistakes they are making are running out. I think Ubisoft is going to go under in the next few years
that stupid launcher is about 75% of the reason why I never buy their games, same with EA, their launchers are bloated resource hogs that do nothing but try and shove ads in your face, they do nothing to make the games any better, so it's entirely unnecessary to have them.
Its not just Ubisoft having it bad now, Activision and others are not far behind them. All these AAA developers and publishers have dug their own graves and its well deserved for betraying customers and gamers. They created their own failure and now they will collapse cause of it as the gamers have become apathetic to them.
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Man profits are bit ubiSOFT...
Get used to having a good 2025, not like Ubislop. And what's that? What is my resolution? I don't have any resolutions. I don't do resolutions. I've condemned them like I condemning Ubisoft and Tencent.
Hope 2025 will be as great a year for you as 2024 was.
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news
It seems people took ubisofts advice to heart and got comfortable not owning ubisoft games
Ubisoft has to get comfortable with people not owning Ubisoft games.
Absolutely 😂
I haven't bought a new Ubisoft game in years lol
The last Ubisoft game I bought was Rainbow Six Siege and that was almost a decade ago.
Ubisoft and Gillette, fuck em. I am an elephant. I remember
Crazy too imagine how much impact this one brain rotted comment actually had.
In the absolute dumbest move I've ever seen in the entire history of gaming their CEO basically told gamers not to buy their games... and that's exactly what happened.
It's baffling that game companies think they're threatening us by saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it" and go all surprised Pikachu when we say bet and don't buy their shit.
He didn't, though.
In the full context of the quote, he said for gaming to shift over to digital like movies and music did, people would need to become more comfortable in not owning their games.
Not that people should get comfortable with it like it was a demand.
That said, I'm sure Ubisoft believes it the way people have taken the quote out of context, but they never did say it out loud.
@@kira-dk2mx Well that's not exactly what he said. What he said was "You're gonna eat shit and like it, because you're stupid mindless sheep". And instead of responding "baaaa" like he was counting on, we told him to go take a long walk off a short pier into a lake of boiling piss.
Same thing with Battlefield V. Thry told us not to buy it if we font like it. Sooooo nobody purchased it lol.
@@SakuraAvalon This ain't a legal battle. They said the quiet part so they gonna suffer the consequences. They f*cked around and they finding out. Good luck with Ubisoft.
Ubisoft nedds to get comfortable with people not owning their games.
Nah more like needs to get comfortable with not existing
For good and forever. I'm living on the prayers of those who Who pray Administration to Ubislop.
hilarious and original
You mean Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with people not spending their money on their games.
Unrelated but what's your pfp
The thing with Skull and Bones is that Ubisoft would have cancelled the project years ago. But they have a contract with the Singapore government which requires Skull and Bones to not only release but receive a minimum of 3 years of full post-launch support iirc. So Ubisoft are stuck with the complete failure of Skull and Bones for at least another two and a half years and they cannot do anything to get out of it.
Honestly, that's a good decision by the Singapore government. If Ubisoft wanted Singapore's tax dollars money, the government should get their money's worth in return. Ubisoft dug their own grave with S&B with unclear direction, causing repeated course corrections and delays. Ubisoft are 100% to blame for their financial and management decisions.
What I don't get is why they didn't just make a decent game. Like, they made boarding a cutscene. Nothing tells me you are not even trying more than this does.
@@MisterNightfishIrrc, the company's upper management is terrible and full of nepotism. So, it's to be expected they wouldn't know how to direct people to make a good game.
Love the cute profile picture Gabbie!
@@ManOutofTime913 yep.
did the top manager at time go against each other.
Like top manager A would say do X.
then Manadger B would say scrap X do X2.
Top manager C do X3 instead of X2.
and then top manager A would coem back and yell at the worker for doing X3 instead of X.
note manadger A, B or C have not said a word to each other ones.
Ubisoft's worst year so far!! ♡♡ lets keep it going, lads!!!
I'm not glad that some people are losing their job over this though
It’s their new new new NEW worst year ever
@@mekacrabUnfortunately, they would lose their jobs even if the business was successful. Snip snip, line go up, y'know?
@@mekacrab They decided to work for that awful company, the "they were just following orders" excuse does not work anymore, womp womp thoughts and prayers
@@raidenshotgun5997 lmao, it's one of the biggest videogame studios out there, there are reasons why people would want to work there...
You sound like a very smart individual.
What the Guillemot's don't seem to understand when trying to retain control beyond a buyout, is that the Guillemot's being in charge is the problem putting them in such a situation in the first place.
It’s not that they don’t know, it’s that they don’t really care or probably even think about it
Same thing is happening with Bob Iger and Disney and how the shareholders keep expecting Iger to fix things when he is the one actively destroying the company intentionally.
I'm still amazed how since black flage, the only thing close to a "pirate rpg" we got was sea of thieves.
Erm... Aren't you forgetting the first and only AAAA game skull and bones? 🤣🤣🤣
@BigBossM1911 like I said the only thing close was sea of thieves.
Its sad. And sea of Theive's is only four player.
@@danieldragotti2608 there is ac rogue, witch is basically black flag, except you are more of soldier than a pirate but gameplay is very similiar with small changes
@cordingdesert9566 To make matters worse, you ever hear of a game called pirates of the Caribbean armada of the damed ?
The consequences of their actions
And it's only going to get worse from here
The biggest issue with Ubisoft is that all of their games are virtually the same.
There is no variety in their core game design and the customer base has finally caught on.
The same game with different skin every time.
Once you’ve played one or two you’ve played them all. Their old games may have had some differences but their modern games today? Not so much
Ironically, that was almost always the same, before the mainstream era of copy-pasting things to comply to the algorithms or the likes. Time has passed and people have had more time to grow wiser to their terrible design and business practices, on top of the newer idiocies that has happened.
Yep, all of their titles are just open world time sinks, with huge maps with icons and objectives to fill out as completed. I love open world games, but not copy and paste ones.
Currently playing rise of Ronin. And it's great. 😊
The biggest issue with their games is that every single thing in them feels like it's there by obligation and not like anybody actually cared about the concept of what they were making. I've rarely seen more passionless games than Ubisoft games.
Prince of Persia the Lost Crown was different and excellent.
Don’t ignore the Japanese government even having beef with them
Bro what did ubisoft did do garner the attention to the Japanese government?! 😭
@@abdulrahmanalajaji3277 are you forgetting the new AC?...
That false. The Japanese governement doesn't give a single fuck.
The Japanese government have more important things to deal with than with a foreign video game company
@ oh, I heard people hate it, but i didn’t know the news for the japan government
Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with people not bothering to buy their games.
I don’t think it can get any worse for Ubisoft with both the players and shareholders dissatisfied.
Guillemot will reluctantly give in to the buyout. Tencent will find a way to “EA-itize” the company more than it already has to turn a profit. And nothing will improve for the players. Calling all this now in January 2025
Lose-lose for everyone. Except for tencent, obviously
lets be realistic, shareholders demand more AC games, those are getting more profitable with each entry. Next is projected to make well over billion dollars easily. Considering there is line of at least 6 more AC games coming out in next two years. Ubisoft is very comfortable when considering future.
Tencent rubbing their hands and licking their lips like they are that goblin from the shadow of Mordor shop.
Shadow of War.
why i can imagine that lol
Only communist China can save Ubisoft now
Wouldn't be suprised if Tencent won't buy up Ubisoft.
They buy companies, what will make them money, and Ubisoft is not very good at that.
@@bookfish Many well know IP's for the chinese mobile market tho :)
These kinds of in depth recaps are why I subbed to you all those years ago.
Ubisoft brought this on themselves. There's no way they aren't being bought out.
I bet microsoft slurps up another AAA game company
Funny thing about Avatar. Only reason why I didn't get it was because it was from Ubisoft. Their name itself is synonymous with controversy, greed, and copy/pasted mechanics. I get the feeling others did the same, especially since ACG - a very prolific game reviewer, actually praised this game for being unique compared to other Ubisoft open worlds.
Same goes with PoP Lost Crown - I was really interested, but Ubisoft's name heavily curbed my enthusiasm. When it gets to the point your brand is harming your sales, it's time to rethink everything.
Peak observation.
Tried it on my friends gamepass for roughly two hours and never bought it myself. It’s just Farcry with an Avatar skin and didn’t bring anything interesting to the table
I'm the same way, if it has Ubisoft or EA on it, I don't touch it, so many games I really wanted to play, but I refuse to spend a dime on their products.
Ubisoft didn’t make it, The Division devs did.
@@_Cetarial The Division's devs are under Ubisoft. My entire post's focus was on how Ubisoft's brand is harming its sales, not the games or developer teams themselves. Avatar and Lost Crown are just examples.
Every time he says "Ubisoft decided", that means the company's incompetent CEO Yves Guillemot decided... Although Yves Guillemot apparently was appointed CEO already back in 1988, he and his family has somehow managed to hold on to power despite only owning 14% of the company! Perhaps it is time for the remaining 86% to join together and oust Yves Guillemot once and for all?!? The gaming industry has changed a lot in the past 35+ years and although "Chasing Trends" might have been a viable strategy back when a game could be made in a year or two for relatively little money, that very same strategy obviously becomes a recipe for disaster when a game instead takes 5-10 years and $100+ millions to develop!
I wish i could post meme's as comments.. I would post that one of Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear, going "Oh no... Anyway."
Ubisoft deciding to now release Assassin’s Creed Shadows two weeks before Monster Hunter Wilds is madness. It’s not gonna kill the game’s momentum but it’ll certainly hurt.
It wont just fail, but hurt the national pride of Japan. It's going to get bad really quick with Ubisoft.
Lets also not forget that ghost of yotai drops in the same month.
@Nolyaw Since when did Ghost of Yotei have a month announced for release date? I thought it was just 2025 but no month specified
like it had ANY momentum, I don't know a single person that's waiting to buy that steaming pile.
New Like a Dragon game featuring Majima is gonna drop the same month. And I know the Japanese gamers in Japan would rather play the new MH game and Majima.
Ubisoft should be comfortable being broke
We would never forget what they did with The Crew 1
10000000000000%, especially after making the second game actual slop, and then expect us to buy motorfest when they take away the crew 1, they deserve to dissolve.
And I will never forgive.
@@verafeiyd the reason for this they pushed us to play their sequels The Crew 2 and Motorfest
But on the flip side of Things Ubisoft and Ivory tower confirmed that The crew 2 and Motorfest will be playable offline afterthe disastrous launch of Test Drive Solar Crown
So I'll try and Praise for that one even though it's a mf joke whoever own TC1
They had the audacity to try to put a PAID BATTLE PASS IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And they backed out of it when all of the backlash came to them.
They even launched 2 nft games This year
You know you can choose not to buy the battlepass, right?
@ahmadrunningwild85 you know they could have just chose not to make it for a single player campaign right? The fact that you're even trying to defend this company is stupid
@@ahmadrunningwild85And people can give their opinion about it.
@@ahmadrunningwild85 The "just don't buy it" line doesn't fucking work. We aren't buying them, we are speaking with our wallets, that's why Ubisoft had such a shit year
@@ahmadrunningwild85just like we can choose not to buy the game :)
Ubisoft makes a bunch of generic mid crap that doesnt sell well, then they release one GOOD game that doesnt sell well and close the studio. No mystery why their games keep getting worse year after year.
Ubisoft to me is the most frustrating game dev in the industry rn. They did so many awesome games, they were trend setters, have a good amount of great IPs under their name, they managed to save a game from a very poor launch state twice, they basically have, or had, all the potential in the world to do so much.
Now they went from trend setters, to followers, to this. Makes me sad really, I always thought they made some incredibly consistent games, even as they felt stale they felt solid still. It is incredibly sad.
Ubisoft forgot a foundational rule for making money with a business: The customer controls your profits, not a political message.
But by all means keep doing what you're doing. It's for sure going to work the next time!
Honestly, it's basically a rick roll meme at this point. No one cares anymore or enough to even look in their direction. Numbers don't lie.
They said to get comfortable not owning games, so we stopped buying. Can’t own their games if we don’t buy them. 🤷♂️
Make stupid games, win stupid stocks
I think we are actually witnessing the end of a major AAA development company.
Let's hope 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I see this as a slow burn karma for them not dealing with their abusive management
You spelled yet wrong in the thumbnail.
Happy new year man !
Content related with Ubisofts downfall was more entertaining than any game from 2024 so i'm satisfied with their work
My last Ubisoft game was Anno 1800, which required to register to their third-party launcher, otherwise its unplayable. Returned the game immediately.
And that's what bothers you?
The case of ubislop should be studied honestly, it's unreal to fail this hard while having so many good IPs, it's not that complicated to understand what gamers want either so it has to be on purpose or an ego trip.
I disagree with the claim that it's not hard to understand what gamers want. More people than ever play video games; not just teenage boys and 20-something men. Everyone has different demands.
@@kranichkrone And you're welcome to have that opinion, yet even the director of larian studios (baldur's gate 3) in his speech at the game awards this year said something similar.
It's not hard because of the multitude of different tastes of gamers nowadays, it's hard because they're going out of their way to implement moneytization and all kinds of artificial way to make the game longer.
It's really not that hard to imagine what a gamer in a specific genre would want, let's say a sports game, it's not rocket science, yet we don't have good ones anymore.
Same with any type of games really.
0:39 And 2025 may be their last.
Good. We're due for some luck.
Can't wait to hear what's abysmal about them in 2025. If there's a Ubisoft left by then.
I'd say "so far" but they actually might not exist another year to have a worse year...
What the hell is happening with AAA video games nowadays man…seriously?
The "modern audience" is what's happening
@@mr.abrams9885100%!
Why are you surprised? They choose to go down this way, At this point it is not worth asking the question, Let them continue to act stupid when things go downhill
Eh Ubisoft sucks anyway not a big loss , there’s still good games releasing
Games being designed by people with no idea how video games work prioritizing profit and engagement over fun, basically just mismanagement on a mass scale
I love how YongYea is so optimistic that AC:Shadows will sell well and will save Ubisoft from bankruptcy. Come on, Yong, mention the REAL reason why no one wants to buy that game.
Nahhhh even with his glasses, Yong won't notice the huge-ass elephant riding a unicycle next to his Death Stranding womb baby figure.
It's Assassin's Creed. I would be surprised if it doesn't do well
@ahmadrunningwild85
It wont...atleast not at the level they need it to. Case and point the collectors edition is still available for pre order. That tells you there is no intrest and people dont even want to display the game.
@@ahmadrunningwild85 I knew the ac franchise went to shit and to "that side" at syndicate. If you know what I'm talking about, you knew they pretty much were never going to get good again and dug themselves in a weird hole. The rest of their games followed suit in quality.
"So obviously the solution will be to double down and do even more of the same!" - Ubisoft, probably.
*most definitely
Music to my ears 🎶
Ubisoft hasn't made a good game in a long time
They had something decent iwth the prince of persia game but...then they are determined to continue overexploiting assasains creed
Besides The Crew Motorfest, the last Ubisoft game I genuinely enjoyed was Watch-Dogs 2 back in 2016
@@lsebastian9086PoP: TLC is one of the best metroidvanias I've ever played, but Ubisoft seemed hellbent on making the world forget about it in favor of shoving garbage like Skull and Bones into our faces. A really bizarre business tactic.
That Prince of Persia game was pretty damn good. And... basically that's it.
Assassin's Creed Origins.. yea 8 years
Overpriced, buggy games that come bundled with malware (DENUVO) and require a 3rd party buggy launcher - what could possibly be the problem?
The sooner UBISLOP ceases to exist, the better it will be for gamers.
I understand the desire to wanna work from home, however, how can a team move all in the same direction when you never come together as a team? Creative minds should have disagreements, conflict and a clash of ideas which all congeal towards a great product! Without that, you just get weird, contrived results….which is what we are seeing in AAA right now.
its ironic how they expect players to get used to owning games yet they cant get used to not owning our money
Would really love if this was because of its endemic protection of sex pests within the company but I know already that it’s not.
Did Ubisoft get comfortable about people not buying their games last year? Hopefully that continues throughout 2025.
Aside from people losing jobs which really sucks, Ubisoft failing is healthy. Make more room for the talented teams and companies innovating today. Ubisoft games feel like they’re stuck in 2011 combined with all the junk people hate about modern day cash grabs.
The engineers and administrative staff will land on their feet and find other work. The executives, however, will (hopefully) suffer. If you had management and executive positions open, would you hire those that were responsible for the downfall of one of the biggest companies within its industry?
If ten cent buys anything that will be put on my black list right away. Evil company.
7:34 I have to wonder why people would want to play AC Shadows when Ghost of Yotei is right around the corner.
Sucker Punch did Assassin’s Creed better than Ubisoft nearly 5 years ago with Tsushima; and now, with Shadows’ Japan setting, the comparisons are going to be more critical than before.
Turns out people hate buying games they won’t own. Who knew…
2024 is the year when I completely gave up on buying Ubisoft game. What a coincidence.
Ubisoft is a masterclass in self-sabotage
Great video, Yong. I actually wanted to alert you about something I haven't seen anyone else discuss that I just learned about.
Did you know that Modern Warfare 2019 is now 100% unplayable, due to how the game was mishandled when Warzone 2 dropped (this includes the campaign)?
Did you know, despite this fact, Activision is still selling the game at full price. From what I've seen, they haven't addressed this at all, even including the game in a recent sale, despite the fact it literally does not function (this is how I discovered this in the first place)
Just a terrible thing that nobody is talking about, probably why Activision is able to get away with it
People need to start realizing that Star wars is not a cultural phenomena anymore. Disney has run it into the ground, and newer generations just don't really care about it anymore. I work as a music instructor and I'm around kids very often and I've literally never heard a single kid I work with ever talk about Star wars in any form.
Some of us still remember star wars. It's still interesting.
I can't not look at that lop sided paper on the board behind you
Great thanks now I’m focused on it too 😂
Legend says it’s slowly falling off
It's... It's beautiful, a company finding out the consequences of their actions.
Ubisoft's worst year so far.
Funny part it felt like this lineage of failure was a suprised pikachu moment except the heads at ubisoft saw it unironically
Ubisoft's advice about being comfortable to NEVER actually owning games we gamers play is cruel and heartless.
As a XDefiant lover, at this point this is all super satisfying. I'm bummed the developers of course feel the repercussions of all this first, however the management has been so bad at Ubisoft the higher ups are absolutely going to feel it. Hope that family leaves the company alone.
Where I live, Star Wars Outlaws was only being sold for the deluxe edition and seeing how buggy it was I didn't want to waste $120 on it. 2024 I only bought one game the entire year so it's not just Ubisoft but a lot of AAA game studios.
I just want them to make a new Splinter Cell game. Blacklist was the last one, and it was amazing. Great co-op too, I had so much fun... That was 12 years ago :(
Nope you really don't. They would rip the soul out of it, stuff it full of battle passes and micro transactions, kill the franchise then blame the players when it sells poorly.
@@BigBossM1911 You're probably right... But what's the best case scenario then? Ubisoft being bought out, having some new studio's work on their IP's?
@@xander1934 i dunno man, I guess having the IPs go to other Devs could be a blessing or a curse. We would have to hope that whoever acquired them would actually care about those IPs and not just shove out any old crap just for a nostalgic payday.
Chaos Theory was the last great SC game in my opinion.
Now that tencent is gonna buy it, you can forget about SC having any dept to it's story abd gameplay.
What they have to do to succeed? No more DEI, focus on quality over quantity and more variety. Where's the next Rayman? What about Splinter Cell? What about a new Driver game? A new Prince of Persia mayhaps?
THey will see this comment and say that couldnt be the issue, gamers are just "insert" phobic
Where is the DEI? The games are bad, it has nothing to do with your one sided culture war
Well... they really need to get comfortable not owning their company
This is what they wanted & worked for.
They LOVE not owning stuff. Like owning money or owning a buiness. It is good for them, it is good for us. All good!
Ubisoft charged way too much for Prince of Persia as metroidvania games simply can't command a 'AAA' price. They would have made more money and sales numbers selling it for half the price but Ubisoft let greed get in the way
"metroidvania games can't command a AAA price"
And like that your entire argument is invalid.
@@terryliliana he is right, if game at first glance looks like mobile game and you are expecting 40 euro for it, then you are looking at disappointing sales, just my opinion
When it comes to Skull and Bones getting 2nd season, I'm still convinced the only reason why that game wasn't shut down boils down to contractual obligations coming from millions of $ in government grants taken from the Singaporean government.
Did u even watch the video
@TheSammySuperShow Yes, i did and i write this type of comment every time Skull and Bones gets mentioned.
As I'm a fan of AC Black Flag, I have a personal vendetta against S&B, as it was originally supposed to be a Black Flag DLC, only to be bastardised into what we have today.
They massacred my boy for this.
They’re just out of touch. They need fresh mind who won’t be held back by corporate greed.
Epic exclusives paying off I see.
Let Ubisoft be a warning to the other game developers. When your CEO says "People need to get used to not owning their games." Don't be surprised when the players turn around and prove that Ubisoft needs to get used to not having money.
Bandcamp - Righteous Destruction
TH-cam - Righteous Destruction
Havent bought a Ubisoft game in years and it looks like this trend is gonna continue if they keep making games like this and ignoring their consumers for quick cash grabs.
May your 2025 the best
Worth pointing out that 2024 had an Assassin's Creed Magic: the Gathering set. It *also* sold like crap.
Was the cards not useful to use in the mtg game?
the people running Ubisoft might get used to nit owning a company. I hope that the buyout will happen. I hope that other companies wil put player satisfaction on a higher priority
We all know Assassin's Creed Shadows is going to shit the bed. And we all know why...
I actually bought Outlaws... but then I saw it was developed by Ubisoft so I got a refund.
😂😂😂
Meanwhile, Sega FEASTED last year. 😤
I hope whatever dev said the “be comfortable not owning your games” line is cringing himself to sleep every night
I don't it was dev saying that. I think it was someone from the leadership if not CEO himself.
@@JerziTBoss Quick google search says it was Phillipe Tremblay, who holds the Director of Subscriptions office at the company. I really doubt he cringes at it in hindsight, his position is basically MBA written all over it, and business degree alums often have no sense of irony or introspection, and they generally don't care what anyone else thinks. The only thing that matters to them is money, and even good will and perception are worthless to them.
Happy new year Mr Yong
Don’t worry guys, they’re gonna lay off a whole lot more developers and everything will be fine
I honestly had no idea XDefiant even released, or what it was, it just looked like a knockoff rainbow six seige on the surface.
"One game alone can't carry an entire company"
I dunno, I think GTA V had been carrying Rockstar pretty well by itself
Yeah cause Red Dead hasn't sold shit...
I think the unspoken caveat to that sentence is "unless that game is GTA V", because GTA V has made an anomalous amount of money even compared with other uber-successful games
Nothing prevents Ubisoft from making their own GTA. Except their greed and lack of talent
Another possible scenario: other companies buy Ubisoft franchises in an auction, but leave Ubisoft in the dust
If they want us to be comfortable with not owning games then they need to be comfortable with us not buying them
I still find it hilarious how Guillemot wants the company to have a buy-out and do better under new management.
But, the Guillemot family wants the same management in control.
That's like wanting a diverse just so you can marry these same person again.
I just watched a list of things that 'died' in gaming during 2024.
Here's Ubisoft make next years list. They don't deserve to continue after what they've done and covered up.
The new Prince of Persia was a great game... and they disbanded the team 😢
Ubisoft's worst year *so far*. Yves Guillemot has clearly shown the quality of his leadership as well as his willingness to follow through with his plans despite any potential pushback. I don't doubt he'll continue to drive Ubisoft to new heights in exceeding expectations.
I thought you left commentary and went to bluesky?
I'm at a point where i wouldn't play Ubisoft games for free.
Wow. Really?
I see that Ubisoft's infinite cycle of live service profitability is working about as well as could be expected.
Turns out when you put out a bunch of non-functional, unfinished product that costs more money to fix after initial purchase, nobody buys it. Who knew!?
Ubisoft seems like it is bordering on bankruptcy, I seriously do not understand how they are still acting this careless when the amount of mistakes they are making are running out. I think Ubisoft is going to go under in the next few years
The best PR move they could make is to remove Ubisoft Connect launcher for single player games.
that stupid launcher is about 75% of the reason why I never buy their games, same with EA, their launchers are bloated resource hogs that do nothing but try and shove ads in your face, they do nothing to make the games any better, so it's entirely unnecessary to have them.
It's none other than their own fault by making the games and decisions they wanted to impose over players instead of listening.
Ubisoft needs a full rebrand at this point, even changing the company name. Just too tainted at this point.
No surprise there, given the amount of slop Ubisoft punted out. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop for that company to go kaput.
That tends to happen when you haven't made a good game in like 10 years or more.
Its not just Ubisoft having it bad now, Activision and others are not far behind them. All these AAA developers and publishers have dug their own graves and its well deserved for betraying customers and gamers. They created their own failure and now they will collapse cause of it as the gamers have become apathetic to them.
Put Bungie on that list too. Im all here for it.