Ubisoft was our childhood heroes. THE game studio we looked upto. broke our hearts when they stopped being what they used to be. i dont really have any hope.
They just have taken all the right paths in this situation at least for the betterment of their products, I think now more than ever they have truly understood where they went wrong and how to move foward
While I don't disagree with everything that the video has mentioned, let's not forget the sexual harassment exposure that happened in 2021 with their top management. When that hit, a lot of talented developers left the company leaving the company in the state of what it is as well. That resulted in delayed and cancelled project since they don't have enough senior people to execute the plan.
While I do agree that was a massive blow to them, the downfall definitely started before this time. And even with all the developers that had left, they still had more than enough resources to make good products, they were just heading down the wrong path with every game and company decision all around.
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Damn, Darwin Project. That game stings. It was AMAZING! I can't for the life of me imagine WHY that game couldn't find a fanbase. It literally makes no sense. It's the BEST game that I've ever seen fail.
@@joffedy Oh it was nothing about the video, I was just looking at the views and subscribers and I was surprised because of how little you have them compared to how much you should have in my opinion. You really deserve a lot more of them with content as high quality as this!
@@Zondels That’s a relief, I’m always about improvement and to hear people say that my content is good in any way is such a motivation booster. I appreciate it greatly.
They also need to stop putting out a Season Pass and then adding pricey DLC that isn't included in it. By extension they could stop with the multiple edition confusion and just put out one that has everything included and one that's just the base game.
To me, the decline started with the announcement of Odyssey. At that point, I knew they don’t care anymore. And I was right, they released Breakpoint, Legion, Extraction, etc. all pretty poorly received titles! Not to mention AC is a complete mess atm..
I truly do believe quality is over the horizon though. This whole situation is a massive wake up call for them and they are responding just how they should in many ways.
@@joffedy for anything already in production, I don’t have high hopes. But, for games that start production from now on, I think we will see real quality
I love this video. I'm so sick and tired of people going guns blazing on anything related to Ubisoft. At this point feels like straight up hate towards them. And as an avid Ubisoft player, it frustrates me that they get so close to make something great, and mess up trying to make it more "broad appealing" and eventually leaving the screen convoluted with HUD elements, guides, warnings, notifications. Although those can be turned off, the game is not designed to be played without them and it makes us open the map a lot more or even turn HUD back on. Also, why not go all in on the concept? Why make a pirate theme with some gore and violence, but make characters almost PG13? Why adding so much lore and storyline in games that won't be able to express that content in gameplay? All core gameplay elements feels like rinse and repeat, like it was streamlined, not handcrafted. And most of all, why waste so much map and details design if you are not implementing it into gameplay and just overshadowing it with obnoxious HUD and 2D elements?
icl when assasins creed codename red get released it prolly will the turning point for ubisoft. it took them over 10 years to link old japan with assasins. i just hope that they nail it
"when did you ever see a boom in dancing game industry" Old Chubby old me remembers dancing to DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION, to lose weight and it was a big thing. Guess I'm an old boomer
Nah don’t feel bad, I was more referring to the industry being overwhelmed by dancing games like battle royales overwhelmed the industry, not just a single game taking off. Dance Dance was incredible
Thank you so much, I'm never going to stop trying to improve myself more and more, I'm no where near perfect yet when it comes to content, but it is what I'll strive to be.
This is some juicy goodness, your presentation is on point. You can tell a lot of research and love went into this and I genuinely learned more than a thing or two, pieces of mind. You've struck a good formula, I'll be tuned for more! Personal gripes but man I'll never forgive Ubisoft for Galaxy Life and Growtopia.
Also Darwin Project was a banger man, still really bummed about the "full release" update that pretty much completely butchered the fun of the game. In my eyes, it's where the more "hunger games" genre than "battle royale" genre peaked.
1. First of all uplay started. Until they remove Uplay, I will pirate their games. They will probably never get rid of it, but that also means, the only way for me to play their games legally is if they offer it for free like Far Cry 3 (I've heard they were doing it with Far Cry 4 and 5 and Assassin's Creed Unity which I missed). 2. This is also the year when they started removing games, like World in Conflict (avaiable on GOG no thanks to Ubisoft), Heroes over Europe, Splinter Cell 2, etc. Let me put it this way, I can play Quake multiplayer, Star Wars Jedi Academy and Left 4 Dead, but not any Assassin's Creed multiplayer, Assassin's Creed Liberation or games listed above. Actually I can play Assassin's Creed Liberation trough Assassin's Creed 3 Remaster and for reference, I can play right now Mass Effect 1 despite the remaster collection and all Mass Effect 2 and 3 DLCs for free (and let's be honest that first game was the main focus of the remaster) Yet another reason, to not buy their games. 3. This is also when they started with yearly releases and while Assassin's Creed was good for a time until 2014, they damaged other games with homogenisatio. I immediately know how Division, Assassin's Creed RPGs (which are no longer Assassin's Creed games to begin with) and Watch Dogs play after 10 minutes of gameplay footage. Admitingly, they do have cool games like Valian Hearts, Child of Light and For Honor, but they are drowned in the marketing of their generic sequal generic open world garrison tower liberation and they run on Uplay. 2009 truly was the last year when Ubisoft did something of value. From 2010 to 2014 they were developing those awful trends and now they are so full of them, they don't know anything else but to do those stupid trends. I am willing to bet Avatar will also be open world with climbing and garrisons when gameplay shows up. And don't get me started on microtransaction. While EA gets (rightfully) hate for microtransactions, they are not the worst or the first to do that, nor do they always do it. Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mirror's Edge Cataclysm, Star Wars Fallen Order have no mictrotransactions and games like Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and Dead Space 3 (that one was a very poor game) have microtransactions, but you can play from start to finish without even knowing they exist. Can you say the same for Assassin's Creed Oddysey, or Divison? Also funny how those games were broken on release like they were in Beta, yet they had perfectly functional microtransaction system (that applies to all developers). And don't even think of attacking me over piracy. We are talking about Ubisoft who takes patches from Skidrow, who forces their broken Uplay, who removes your SINGLE PLAYER and multiplayer games because of servers, who adds Denuvo on top of all that and sometimes blue screen your computer and hates with guts PC players. And if that's not enough, remember what Gaben said "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not pricing problem". Do yes, Ubisoft together with Activision is by far the worst in gaming industry and frankly the only reason I don't want them to collapse is because of all those talented, intelligent and hardworking people who work there will become jobless.
I'm really sad about Roller Champions. I had high hopes for it and I still freaking love this game. The beta version was the best. They just did some really bad decisions between the beta and the release.
To be honest, none of the games should have or are bad, it's just like you said, they keep punching in more and more games and comprised a LOT of the quality they put out, Rainbow Six Extraction should've been a banger but too much downgrade in quality, same with roller champions, hyper scape, mario rabbids sparks of hope, riders republic and etc, even existing franchises like assassins' creed, the crew, tom clancy games and etc, all dropped down in quality because they trying so many things and splitting their teams and over stretching them which downgraded the quality, every game they had, had great and interesting concepts and some maybe pandering to current trends but had very little time to polish, which is what Ubisoft is now realizing, last year was the lowest year in terms of sales for them and now they pulling back the quantity to focus on the quality
Personally, I think this is a hard topic to discuss because no one ce see the future or read the minds of the people in charge. I think that all we can do is wait and hope for the best.
Dude Darwin project was sad. I tried to try it one time, it was just me and one other dude online.... Literally two of us online just sitting there waiting for half an hour for four other players to join so even a single lobby could be active ... Shit was depressing man. That dude had been waiting for a game before I started and was still waiting when I realized my efforts were futile. I wonder how long that guy waited. And I feel so bad for the devs. With battle Royales it definitely seems to matter how much funding is behind them. PUBG probably is only as successful as it is because its like the OG BR. If PUBG just came out today I wonder how successful it would be
great video. it' such a shame to see ubisoft fall off with basically all of their main series dead for good. i've played almost every far cry game in the series and far cry 6 was absolutely shit. similar with AC, played almost every title but look at the new ones now (odyssey / valhalla), they're absolutely nothing like what AC used to be. watch dogs legion is rubbish too compared to 1 and 2. trials HD and evolution on the 360 were brilliant, fusion was okay but rising was crap. the driver series back in the day were amazingh. haven't played the crew so can't comment but heard they're not particularly special. R6 was okay, haven't played any of the others in the series.
I'm dubious about the final chapter, but I suppose more unlikely redemption arcs have happened--I'm not holding my breath, but if one day I wake up and UbiSoft isn't producing barely-polished turds anymore? Pleasant surprise.
at 6:33 you mentioned Scott pilgrim vs the world as an example of these games from the "decline era" but the game itself isn't part of that decline. scott pilgrim vs the world was originally released in 2010, at same time as the original just dance games and rayman origins, but after a few years the game got delisted from stores and it created a cult following around it, only to be remastered years later. it makes no sense putting a game from the golden years of ubisoft as a Decline game, that would be the same thing as arguing a remaster of rayman 1 is part of the decline just because it was released in the same time as other forgettable game despite the game being from a totally different era. outside of this criticism, i think this video overall ok.
Cult following or not, the newer release of it did contribute to the decline because it did not appeal to the general public. So they dumped all their time, effort, and most of all money into a game which brought them back no revenue and retained no player base whatsoever. Most people didn’t even know the remaster came out at all and if they did, they didn’t care to play it, because around the time when it came out Ubisoft was already going through a lot of horrible press and poor reception toward every game they were dropping. So, this contributed to the decline because it was another one of those games at the time which got critiqued heavily due to it not being what the general population wanted aside from the cult following, and because it lost more money than it made.
@@joffedy which is honestly pretty sad for a game like this, and there is a marketing for like it, like Streets of rage IV or tmnt shredder's revenge. what really brought ubisoft into trouble was their shitty pratices, their unnecessary envolvement with NFTs and the tiredness of their franchises while ignoring others. i hope that if ubisoft improves in the future, they don't just focus on AAA games but also give new chance to smaller budget games, like they did in the past like Child of light or Valiant hearts.
@@yansproductions oh yeah definitely, that’s why I said in the video that it was just a failure upon release because it was so small and the wide audience didn’t care or didn’t know about it. Nothing against it personally as a game, just looking at the logic around it.
Hopefully Assassins Creed Mirage is treated the right way, I do not want to see those micro transactions anymore tbh cause I’m not buying them, the only thing I would buy is the dlcs if they actually correlate with the story.
Ubisoft is on its death bed. By March they'll gonna lose half a billion dollars and due to the so many cancellations, poor management, no hit game in years and now it's only a matter of time until Tencent buys their ass off.
People need to understand that more than the developers, the Guillemot family is, I would say 90% responsible for everything wrong with Ubisoft. They either need to take responsibility and work on it or f*ck off and leave Ubisoft alone.
hyperscape had a hardcore communitty but the devs were moved and left to die but they hate games with small nesh sized communitty but they are ignoring the hyperscae communitty about giving us p2p or dedicated servers back season 4 was scrapped i found stuff done for it on art station and rank rewards were cut if they wannna get back the postive reception give us hyper back
While I can most definitely see the effort and practice put into this video; I highly recommend furthering such in search of voice-Script needs more personalized; I could tell you were invested by how you talked, but not by what you said. Otherwise, great work following such a creative pursuit and wish you only the best of luck with your future
I write how I talk completely, I personalize it to that when I’m talking it sounds like it would normally come out of my mouth and all of my writing is how I feel about the topic and the information I have behind it, but I do appreciate any critique given so I will definitely take yours into account.
Gamers dont care about producers, thats the issue. A developer gets rushed by a producer makes a bad product and then everyone gets mad at the developers because the producers used their power to make it so. Games journalist and articles are made slandering their own employees, followed by a studio closing. When ubisoft aquires a preexisting ips licence and i like that ip i might play it, outside that no one goes out of their way already. Think about the andies who spend money on this shit.
Probably a good amount but I mean that’s a fair reaction to all the lost money from cancelled projects. They can’t pay as many people anymore, but hopefully this hit will be better for them in the long wrong, and a necessary step they had to take.
Nice try, paid sponsor, but ubisofts bussinessmodel is unatractive. Everyone that has bought a ubisoft game for the last 6 years knows that the games are at most ok, but the hype is gone for any game they release. Their games are unpolished and if anything, just wait and see what skull and bones have to offer, but don´t be surprised if it´s a mess. Personally i was hyped for Beyond good and evil but they got too greedy.
@@joffedy Sorry dude, but you really try to make a hard sale on something that everybody knows isn't worth it. Ubisoft games have become generic and ridiculously simplified.
Their rpg looter shooter mechanics from The Division 1 spread to other games like GR Breakpoint and Far Cry 6 and even Assassins' Creed. Their hero shooter operator superpowers from R6 Siege spread to other games like Frontline and XD effectively killing all the potential of a proper fps game. MTX and DLC/Preorder bonuses galore in all their new games. Who the hell in charge of streamlining all these game design? Must be some marketing schmuck who never played a game in his entire life.
Your comment about the Dancing Game Genre illustrates that you don't know what you're talking about. DDR was a huge phenomenon in the 2000s, and rhythm games as a whole were too such as with Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Hell, the Dance Central series was the only reason most people bought their Xbox Kinnect. The original Just Dance was immediately considered to be poorly made shovelware by critics, but was commercially successful bc shovelware aimed at the casual market was the Wii's bread and butter. You fundamentally misunderstand what Ubisoft has always been about. They have basically always been garbage peddlers (for instance, they released like 300 budget titles on Wii and DS, which is when according to you they supposedly cared more) who occasionally make good games. Their early library consisted of cheap licensed games, later they were on the Wii grift, today they're on the Season Pass/Loot Box grift. The commonality that connects all of these eras is that they make money by tricking stupid people into buying half-assed trash.
I don’t think you understood my statement. No matter how big those individual games were at the time, they were never a front runner in the plane like Battle Royales were. As a genre they never even came within a lightyear of any other. I say the phrase “boom” in a way to convey a genre takeover, not a slight rise in popularity due to a few games being liked. Also, you can’t throw games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band in there because those just aren’t even the type of games I’m referring to and don’t relate at all. And, the XBOX Kinnect statement was just untrue, they bought it for games like Kinect Sports and Adventure, and frankly most people haven’t even heard of Dance Central. Also, I don’t have anything wrong about Ubisoft, it’s called growing a catalog, they chose to publish all of these other developer’s games to get some names under their belt, they weren’t the ones developing them so they cannot take the blame for the lack of quality in any product that isn’t under their own development. You have publishing all wrong in general, publishers had to pay them to get their games out there, not the other way around, so your statement about them choosing the cheaper option was just incorrect. They published those hundreds of “budget” games because every single game made them money no matter what, without them having to pay barely anything out of their own pockets because developers were so eager to have the Ubisoft logo on and behind their game.
Great video! Such amazing editing as well🤩
Ubisoft was our childhood heroes. THE game studio we looked upto. broke our hearts when they stopped being what they used to be. i dont really have any hope.
Yeah that is true, but I still hold hopes a little
Idk if i agree about the ending, the future doesn't seen to be too bright right now, but who knows, we can only wait and see.
They just have taken all the right paths in this situation at least for the betterment of their products, I think now more than ever they have truly understood where they went wrong and how to move foward
@@joffedy I hope so, i don't have much faith, but we'll see, if after all of this, they still mess up stuff, all hope is lost for this company.
@@banjo9158 I agree entirely
@@joffedy bro you clearly haven't seen the state of siege
@@jacopobonetalli8396 I currently play siege and I am a huge enjoyer of it, along with my entire friend group.
While I don't disagree with everything that the video has mentioned, let's not forget the sexual harassment exposure that happened in 2021 with their top management. When that hit, a lot of talented developers left the company leaving the company in the state of what it is as well. That resulted in delayed and cancelled project since they don't have enough senior people to execute the plan.
While I do agree that was a massive blow to them, the downfall definitely started before this time. And even with all the developers that had left, they still had more than enough resources to make good products, they were just heading down the wrong path with every game and company decision all around.
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Damn, Darwin Project. That game stings. It was AMAZING! I can't for the life of me imagine WHY that game couldn't find a fanbase. It literally makes no sense. It's the BEST game that I've ever seen fail.
It just came too late in the battle royale trend and had poor marketing in general when big updates or events would happen in it tbh
This video is actually really well made! Much better than I thought at first.
What gave you the impression that it wouldn’t be? Just wondering
@@joffedy Oh it was nothing about the video, I was just looking at the views and subscribers and I was surprised because of how little you have them compared to how much you should have in my opinion. You really deserve a lot more of them with content as high quality as this!
@@Zondels That’s a relief, I’m always about improvement and to hear people say that my content is good in any way is such a motivation booster. I appreciate it greatly.
They also need to stop putting out a Season Pass and then adding pricey DLC that isn't included in it. By extension they could stop with the multiple edition confusion and just put out one that has everything included and one that's just the base game.
Yeah definitely another move they need to make..
This video is amazingly well made, how do you have only 268 subs??
I’m hoping to keep improving and keep growing as much as I can!
@@joffedy I look forward to more of your content!
To me, the decline started with the announcement of Odyssey. At that point, I knew they don’t care anymore. And I was right, they released Breakpoint, Legion, Extraction, etc. all pretty poorly received titles! Not to mention AC is a complete mess atm..
I truly do believe quality is over the horizon though. This whole situation is a massive wake up call for them and they are responding just how they should in many ways.
@@joffedy for anything already in production, I don’t have high hopes. But, for games that start production from now on, I think we will see real quality
@@jax_wildguess Exactly my feelings. I feel like the farther away the release, the better the quality.
I love this video. I'm so sick and tired of people going guns blazing on anything related to Ubisoft. At this point feels like straight up hate towards them. And as an avid Ubisoft player, it frustrates me that they get so close to make something great, and mess up trying to make it more "broad appealing" and eventually leaving the screen convoluted with HUD elements, guides, warnings, notifications. Although those can be turned off, the game is not designed to be played without them and it makes us open the map a lot more or even turn HUD back on. Also, why not go all in on the concept? Why make a pirate theme with some gore and violence, but make characters almost PG13? Why adding so much lore and storyline in games that won't be able to express that content in gameplay? All core gameplay elements feels like rinse and repeat, like it was streamlined, not handcrafted. And most of all, why waste so much map and details design if you are not implementing it into gameplay and just overshadowing it with obnoxious HUD and 2D elements?
Thank you so much, and yes I agree. There is always a good side to every story and Ubisoft is now at its turning point presumably.
@@joffedy I sure hope so, I can say I never quit rooting for them.
@@luciano12sa People like you keep Ubisoft going and hopefully while they keep going it will be in a positive manner
great quality vid I was suprised its from such a small channel
Thank you so much that means more than anything
Underrated channel, this video is truly well made.
icl when assasins creed codename red get released it prolly will the turning point for ubisoft. it took them over 10 years to link old japan with assasins. i just hope that they nail it
"when did you ever see a boom in dancing game industry"
Old Chubby old me remembers dancing to DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION, to lose weight and it was a big thing. Guess I'm an old boomer
Nah don’t feel bad, I was more referring to the industry being overwhelmed by dancing games like battle royales overwhelmed the industry, not just a single game taking off. Dance Dance was incredible
i watched this whole video and realised you only had 223 subscribers you are so underrated man keep going
Thank you so much, I'm never going to stop trying to improve myself more and more, I'm no where near perfect yet when it comes to content, but it is what I'll strive to be.
My favourite series in gaming has always been Assassin's creed, Far cry and Watch dogs
This is some juicy goodness, your presentation is on point. You can tell a lot of research and love went into this and I genuinely learned more than a thing or two, pieces of mind. You've struck a good formula, I'll be tuned for more! Personal gripes but man I'll never forgive Ubisoft for Galaxy Life and Growtopia.
Also Darwin Project was a banger man, still really bummed about the "full release" update that pretty much completely butchered the fun of the game. In my eyes, it's where the more "hunger games" genre than "battle royale" genre peaked.
Thank you so much, I’m very happy to have you.
I miss that game so much, times with friends on there were unmatched.
I mean, they've done OK-ish with Growtopia, I thought it would be completely dead by now
Really good video man, I love your editing style and the way you broke down all the points. Keep making more such videos
I will only continue to try to improve and produce as much content as I can, and words so kind like this are great motivation for that, so thank you
Ubisoft was a great developer and publisher that was destroyed in 2009 by Uplay, corporatisation.
I wouldn’t say 2009 marked it
1. First of all uplay started. Until they remove Uplay, I will pirate their games. They will probably never get rid of it, but that also means, the only way for me to play their games legally is if they offer it for free like Far Cry 3 (I've heard they were doing it with Far Cry 4 and 5 and Assassin's Creed Unity which I missed).
2. This is also the year when they started removing games, like World in Conflict (avaiable on GOG no thanks to Ubisoft), Heroes over Europe, Splinter Cell 2, etc. Let me put it this way, I can play Quake multiplayer, Star Wars Jedi Academy and Left 4 Dead, but not any Assassin's Creed multiplayer, Assassin's Creed Liberation or games listed above. Actually I can play Assassin's Creed Liberation trough Assassin's Creed 3 Remaster and for reference, I can play right now Mass Effect 1 despite the remaster collection and all Mass Effect 2 and 3 DLCs for free (and let's be honest that first game was the main focus of the remaster) Yet another reason, to not buy their games.
3. This is also when they started with yearly releases and while Assassin's Creed was good for a time until 2014, they damaged other games with homogenisatio. I immediately know how Division, Assassin's Creed RPGs (which are no longer Assassin's Creed games to begin with) and Watch Dogs play after 10 minutes of gameplay footage. Admitingly, they do have cool games like Valian Hearts, Child of Light and For Honor, but they are drowned in the marketing of their generic sequal generic open world garrison tower liberation and they run on Uplay.
2009 truly was the last year when Ubisoft did something of value. From 2010 to 2014 they were developing those awful trends and now they are so full of them, they don't know anything else but to do those stupid trends. I am willing to bet Avatar will also be open world with climbing and garrisons when gameplay shows up. And don't get me started on microtransaction. While EA gets (rightfully) hate for microtransactions, they are not the worst or the first to do that, nor do they always do it. Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mirror's Edge Cataclysm, Star Wars Fallen Order have no mictrotransactions and games like Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and Dead Space 3 (that one was a very poor game) have microtransactions, but you can play from start to finish without even knowing they exist. Can you say the same for Assassin's Creed Oddysey, or Divison? Also funny how those games were broken on release like they were in Beta, yet they had perfectly functional microtransaction system (that applies to all developers). And don't even think of attacking me over piracy. We are talking about Ubisoft who takes patches from Skidrow, who forces their broken Uplay, who removes your SINGLE PLAYER and multiplayer games because of servers, who adds Denuvo on top of all that and sometimes blue screen your computer and hates with guts PC players. And if that's not enough, remember what Gaben said "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not pricing problem". Do yes, Ubisoft together with Activision is by far the worst in gaming industry and frankly the only reason I don't want them to collapse is because of all those talented, intelligent and hardworking people who work there will become jobless.
Daaaang dawg... U deserve millions of subscribers for this...
Wow fr? That’s amazing to hear, thank you so much.
I love Just Dance. That was my favorite game!
I'm really sad about Roller Champions. I had high hopes for it and I still freaking love this game. The beta version was the best. They just did some really bad decisions between the beta and the release.
I kinda get that, I have the same feelings toward Knockout City. I still think that game is a great time, servers are still shutting down though
At this point, I hope some company picks up the Brothers In Arms license and dose good by the franchise
I thought Gearbox owned that IP?
One of their best series that they own is
Hungry shark
Hungry Shark is a massive W
To be honest, none of the games should have or are bad, it's just like you said, they keep punching in more and more games and comprised a LOT of the quality they put out, Rainbow Six Extraction should've been a banger but too much downgrade in quality, same with roller champions, hyper scape, mario rabbids sparks of hope, riders republic and etc, even existing franchises like assassins' creed, the crew, tom clancy games and etc, all dropped down in quality because they trying so many things and splitting their teams and over stretching them which downgraded the quality, every game they had, had great and interesting concepts and some maybe pandering to current trends but had very little time to polish, which is what Ubisoft is now realizing, last year was the lowest year in terms of sales for them and now they pulling back the quantity to focus on the quality
My thoughts exactly
my watching this video: "the f*ck is hyperscape?"
It was short lived for sure
Personally, I think this is a hard topic to discuss because no one ce see the future or read the minds of the people in charge. I think that all we can do is wait and hope for the best.
Yeah exactly. It’s kinda like gambling, you never know but you hope for a win.
Dude Darwin project was sad. I tried to try it one time, it was just me and one other dude online.... Literally two of us online just sitting there waiting for half an hour for four other players to join so even a single lobby could be active ... Shit was depressing man. That dude had been waiting for a game before I started and was still waiting when I realized my efforts were futile. I wonder how long that guy waited. And I feel so bad for the devs. With battle Royales it definitely seems to matter how much funding is behind them. PUBG probably is only as successful as it is because its like the OG BR.
If PUBG just came out today I wonder how successful it would be
I used to love running customs with all my friends on that game. It was so much fun.
Those unskippable "intoxicated" missions on far cry are the worst part of Ubisoft
One of the best game they killed the division two I have zero faith in this company, and never Will again.
great video. it' such a shame to see ubisoft fall off with basically all of their main series dead for good. i've played almost every far cry game in the series and far cry 6 was absolutely shit. similar with AC, played almost every title but look at the new ones now (odyssey / valhalla), they're absolutely nothing like what AC used to be. watch dogs legion is rubbish too compared to 1 and 2. trials HD and evolution on the 360 were brilliant, fusion was okay but rising was crap. the driver series back in the day were amazingh. haven't played the crew so can't comment but heard they're not particularly special. R6 was okay, haven't played any of the others in the series.
Thank you for the kind remarks and yeah it’s not looking bleak for them as of now but I’m really hoping for a lot in the future
Why don't you like FC6? It was a pretty good far cry game.
This video alone will help you boost your youtube career.
I hope so man
For me they will made a true comeback if day will make 3D Rayman
Rayman has always been a positive
I'm dubious about the final chapter, but I suppose more unlikely redemption arcs have happened--I'm not holding my breath, but if one day I wake up and UbiSoft isn't producing barely-polished turds anymore? Pleasant surprise.
We can only hope and speculate my friend
Man great video, if you slowed down a little it would be perfect.
I just felt as if it was too slow then people would lose interest in general so I made it a little faster paced.
Listen hyper scape was actually fun I loved the movement
at 6:33 you mentioned Scott pilgrim vs the world as an example of these games from the "decline era" but the game itself isn't part of that decline.
scott pilgrim vs the world was originally released in 2010, at same time as the original just dance games and rayman origins, but after a few years the game got delisted from stores and it created a cult following around it, only to be remastered years later.
it makes no sense putting a game from the golden years of ubisoft as a Decline game, that would be the same thing as arguing a remaster of rayman 1 is part of the decline just because it was released in the same time as other forgettable game despite the game being from a totally different era.
outside of this criticism, i think this video overall ok.
Cult following or not, the newer release of it did contribute to the decline because it did not appeal to the general public. So they dumped all their time, effort, and most of all money into a game which brought them back no revenue and retained no player base whatsoever. Most people didn’t even know the remaster came out at all and if they did, they didn’t care to play it, because around the time when it came out Ubisoft was already going through a lot of horrible press and poor reception toward every game they were dropping. So, this contributed to the decline because it was another one of those games at the time which got critiqued heavily due to it not being what the general population wanted aside from the cult following, and because it lost more money than it made.
@@joffedy which is honestly pretty sad for a game like this, and there is a marketing for like it, like Streets of rage IV or tmnt shredder's revenge.
what really brought ubisoft into trouble was their shitty pratices, their unnecessary envolvement with NFTs and the tiredness of their franchises while ignoring others.
i hope that if ubisoft improves in the future, they don't just focus on AAA games but also give new chance to smaller budget games, like they did in the past like Child of light or Valiant hearts.
@@yansproductions oh yeah definitely, that’s why I said in the video that it was just a failure upon release because it was so small and the wide audience didn’t care or didn’t know about it. Nothing against it personally as a game, just looking at the logic around it.
@@joffedy understandable.
Cant lie im still excited for XDefiant.. and you didnt even mention it lol
I showed clips but I have no feelings toward that game when games like Overwatch still exist
AC MIRAGE, NEW SPLINTER CELL, NEW GHOST RECON WILDLAND, SINGLE PLAYER RAINBOW SIX IF RELEASE IT MAKE UBISOFT GREAT AGAIN,
Hopefully Assassins Creed Mirage is treated the right way, I do not want to see those micro transactions anymore tbh cause I’m not buying them, the only thing I would buy is the dlcs if they actually correlate with the story.
Ubisoft is on its death bed. By March they'll gonna lose half a billion dollars and due to the so many cancellations, poor management, no hit game in years and now it's only a matter of time until Tencent buys their ass off.
I still hold some hope, I just hope I hold it for a good reason
rainbow 6 extraction's biggest problem was that it had no content
it's a 10$ game that they wanted to charge 70$ for
People need to understand that more than the developers, the Guillemot family is, I would say 90% responsible for everything wrong with Ubisoft.
They either need to take responsibility and work on it or f*ck off and leave Ubisoft alone.
hyperscape had a hardcore communitty but the devs were moved and left to die but they hate games with small nesh sized communitty but they are ignoring the hyperscae communitty about giving us p2p or dedicated servers back season 4 was scrapped i found stuff done for it on art station and rank rewards were cut if they wannna get back the postive reception give us hyper back
they revived r6 when it died but why not hyper
nice video
Thank you
While I can most definitely see the effort and practice put into this video; I highly recommend furthering such in search of voice-Script needs more personalized; I could tell you were invested by how you talked, but not by what you said.
Otherwise, great work following such a creative pursuit and wish you only the best of luck with your future
I write how I talk completely, I personalize it to that when I’m talking it sounds like it would normally come out of my mouth and all of my writing is how I feel about the topic and the information I have behind it, but I do appreciate any critique given so I will definitely take yours into account.
My stop smoking coach? 😂😂
You’re probably the first person to catch that I said that😂
Gamers dont care about producers, thats the issue. A developer gets rushed by a producer makes a bad product and then everyone gets mad at the developers because the producers used their power to make it so. Games journalist and articles are made slandering their own employees, followed by a studio closing.
When ubisoft aquires a preexisting ips licence and i like that ip i might play it, outside that no one goes out of their way already.
Think about the andies who spend money on this shit.
Damn completely forgot about hyper scape
How many layoffs this year, tho?
Probably a good amount but I mean that’s a fair reaction to all the lost money from cancelled projects. They can’t pay as many people anymore, but hopefully this hit will be better for them in the long wrong, and a necessary step they had to take.
No mention of Steep and Riders Republic??
My apologies, but yes those games contributed heavily too
Never hear of ubisofts, BR, but what you fail to take into account is the current political regime. That's what's killing everything. You're welcome.
I just strictly cover the gaming side on the channel so I tried my best not to involve politics is all
Is there anyone that doesn't think Ubisoft is synonymous with DRM?
Nice try, paid sponsor, but ubisofts bussinessmodel is unatractive. Everyone that has bought a ubisoft game for the last 6 years knows that the games are at most ok, but the hype is gone for any game they release. Their games are unpolished and if anything, just wait and see what skull and bones have to offer, but don´t be surprised if it´s a mess.
Personally i was hyped for Beyond good and evil but they got too greedy.
Bro what are you going on about “paid sponsor”, you do realize how small my channel is right? You think they giving me the bag for 150 subs?
@@joffedy Sorry dude, but you really try to make a hard sale on something that everybody knows isn't worth it. Ubisoft games have become generic and ridiculously simplified.
@@muridae637 I’m not selling anything, just stating an opinion of mine.
Their rpg looter shooter mechanics from The Division 1 spread to other games like GR Breakpoint and Far Cry 6 and even Assassins' Creed.
Their hero shooter operator superpowers from R6 Siege spread to other games like Frontline and XD effectively killing all the potential of a proper fps game.
MTX and DLC/Preorder bonuses galore in all their new games.
Who the hell in charge of streamlining all these game design? Must be some marketing schmuck who never played a game in his entire life.
Yeah man Idek it’s crazy what has been going on to this point
Is he playing gospel music in the background 💀
Far Cry Soundtrack
Ubisoft to Witrihard smh
Ubisoft.. sometimes Ubihard
Amen brother
Just want then to fix division 2
heck even ea prob could be better than ubisoft
Did you watch the video??
Your comment about the Dancing Game Genre illustrates that you don't know what you're talking about. DDR was a huge phenomenon in the 2000s, and rhythm games as a whole were too such as with Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Hell, the Dance Central series was the only reason most people bought their Xbox Kinnect.
The original Just Dance was immediately considered to be poorly made shovelware by critics, but was commercially successful bc shovelware aimed at the casual market was the Wii's bread and butter.
You fundamentally misunderstand what Ubisoft has always been about. They have basically always been garbage peddlers (for instance, they released like 300 budget titles on Wii and DS, which is when according to you they supposedly cared more) who occasionally make good games. Their early library consisted of cheap licensed games, later they were on the Wii grift, today they're on the Season Pass/Loot Box grift. The commonality that connects all of these eras is that they make money by tricking stupid people into buying half-assed trash.
I don’t think you understood my statement. No matter how big those individual games were at the time, they were never a front runner in the plane like Battle Royales were. As a genre they never even came within a lightyear of any other. I say the phrase “boom” in a way to convey a genre takeover, not a slight rise in popularity due to a few games being liked. Also, you can’t throw games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band in there because those just aren’t even the type of games I’m referring to and don’t relate at all.
And, the XBOX Kinnect statement was just untrue, they bought it for games like Kinect Sports and Adventure, and frankly most people haven’t even heard of Dance Central.
Also, I don’t have anything wrong about Ubisoft, it’s called growing a catalog, they chose to publish all of these other developer’s games to get some names under their belt, they weren’t the ones developing them so they cannot take the blame for the lack of quality in any product that isn’t under their own development. You have publishing all wrong in general, publishers had to pay them to get their games out there, not the other way around, so your statement about them choosing the cheaper option was just incorrect. They published those hundreds of “budget” games because every single game made them money no matter what, without them having to pay barely anything out of their own pockets because developers were so eager to have the Ubisoft logo on and behind their game.