Ubisoft is about to get REALLY desperate...
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i think a better analogy would be the batman fallacy where he finds the bad guys and takes them to jail only for them to be released once again to create havoc for batman to do the same shit of putting them back in jail.
putting the criminals back in jail is not the solution damnit! you need to take some lead bullets and get rid of them, or in Ubisoft's case, fire them to prevent further spread of the disease.
i mean when you have cancer, do you allow it to spread? or do you cut off the effected area and prevent it from spreading? i think it's pretty fucking clear what they should do.
i love this, they deserve this for ruining AC
I bet the brothers are still delusional about their situation enough they don't wanna leave the company because they want to be there when the stock raises again. Dumbasses. They hold the rights to one old game i love a lot S.C.A.R.S. that could very well see a resurgence.
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hopefully some other company will purchase them and make their games good again.
Yves Guillemot saying "the ball is in your court" and putting the onus on his staff to make up for his crappy leadership very much reminds me of "the beatings will continue until morale improves", it's an unwinnable situation
I have a very similar situation in my own company. The management is incompetent and without any direction, yet they will just throw their key employees under the bus.
he is a weasel, they made all the nft decisions, they made all the service games and crappy monetization decisions, they made the move away from steam decisions, and all the other questionable execs behavior non-apologies but its somehow the staff fault.
The 80% drop in stock value over 5 years is explained in that e-mail alone lol
@@yellowscarlightningscream8347 hopefully you’re not a key employee…
@@m4nt1c0r3s Somebody is advising him I think man,he's not cut out for this , he's probably pissed because he's following some advisor and his company is flopping and taking out on his employees. It's so shameful , but I want to buy their stock now on the cheap.
Ngl, I never thought Ubisoft's constant mediocrity was ever going to have consequences.
yeah they basically do it to themselves every time, they have the right idea of taking a break and actually innovating and then once it gets successful revert back to the milk it until its dry with constant rehashes ways.
Doubt they did either.
Not even sure that’s the case. Their last Assassins Creed was super successful. Far Cry 6 maybe not so much but that looked dated already when it came out. The Mario game underperforming is a bit sad because it’s probably one of the games with most passion (also means Rayman won’t get a new game since no one will buy the dlc😢)
All we can really hope for is when they go under, someone with good intent and is/ was a fan or at least understands the ip buys it for their developers.
They feel like a company that could make great games if they wanted to, but they just never quite get there. Every game feels unpolished.
Hey Luke, from Singapore here, and to add on to the Skull and Bones (S&B) contract: through the grapevine that I heard: the details of the contract is that the Singapore Government wanted to boost the local game industry, and so Ubisoft was allowed to set up at a new tech hub in the country, and leased prime real estate at a subsidized rate.
The two major conditions are that a) the Singapore studio must develop a game, locally, from scratch, and b) hire local talents as a means to boost the local game dev talents. Ubi is still allowed to use the local team to work on major projects like AC Origins and Valhalla, so long as they meet the conditions.
S&B was said local project, and while they hire locals, they also burn through them with their horrible pay and work conditions. Racism exists in the form of language barriers: higher ups (usually from France HQ) refuse to communicate in English, and often ignore anyone who doesn't speak their language. Sexism and sexual harassment is also rampant, and a friend's friend actually went through counselling after working there.
They also hold back pay for workers, and I personally got an insulting offer when I tried to apply some years back. Their reason being that most Singaporeans often live with their parents to their 20-30s, so they don't need as much pay.
For context, most Singaporeans live in the same house to adulthood not because of choice, but rather lack of available and affordable housing. Even most people my generation stay with their parents after marriage because they are still waiting for their homes to be built.
Lastly, their direction and management is absolutely horrendous, with employees working on a project, then suddenly changing direction and focus, all with the old deadline, resulting in a lot of unnecessary crunch and wasted efforts.
It's kinda unbelievable in the sense of: why would they refuse to speak English instead of French? It's Singapore not Paris how does that work?
Even if staying with their parents was a choice, its totally their personal decision. Its not Ubisoft's concern on how someone lives. In India, it is our culture to stay with our parents forever. We stay by OUR CHOICE. Not because we can't afford another house or something.
Telling people to speak a certain language is not racist lol
@@nicolaramoso3286 well, looking at the development of S&B, I guess we can safely say that it is in fact, not working very well at all.
Considering it’s Ubisoft is run by the French that’s par for the course.
What’s crazy is that fans have been telling them how to fix this for YEARS and they’ve not listened to a single thing!
@@deetsitmeisterjd Activision has done the same with COD
@@daksans6764 But Activision is bigger and has other successful IP despite having the exact same issues
@@wrestlinganime4life288 Ubisoft has better IPs than Activision
They listen, but then the Monkeys Paw curls a finger and they misunderstand completely what the audience wants.
Because they were making money. Simple as that
Ngl seeing them lose and all the coverage just brings me joy. They’ve been fumbling for years now and haven’t taken any feedback from the fans. Love to see it.
You shouldn’t be happy about this. There’s a lot of great people who work under Ubisoft who’s jobs are at risk. Think about the people. You being happy about this shouldn’t even be in your mind
@@Bandstand I’m sure the talented developers on these teams will be compensated as they always have been. Like I said, very happy to see them reaping what they sow. Hopefully this results in change.
@@biodidu25 Compassion goes a long way. Just because you’re lacking it doesn’t mean you can’t find it ♥️
@@biodidu25 let the market weed out the AAA companies that can't actually produce quality products and make up for those profit losses by further milking of the "consumers".
@@biodidu25 Did you buy Mario+Rabbids 2? No. And that was a 10/10 game
Hope the devs and artists find somewhere to go. There's a lot of talent at ubisoft that deserve better.
I think most of the best talent left years ago in the time between Odyssey and Valhalla ..... Look at that stock chart and you'll see peak Ubisoft was shortly after Odyssey released then it trends downward with a slight boost when Valhalla released and then immediately dropped after everyone saw what a dog it was .... All that I've bought from Ubisoft since late 2020 is the Valhalla Season pass for 10 bucks in late 2021 and I still haven't gotten around to playing it because the game is still unstable on PC and crashes a lot ... Actually it's been even longer because I got Valhalla for free with a Ryzen CPU upgrade so really I've bought 1 thing from Ubisoft since I bought the Odyssey Gold edition in late 2018 ..... And I own every AC game except the first one
Ubi$oft has been abusing its audience for well over a decade and every time they get desperate the abuse gets worse. I doubt they've learned anything that benefits their audience or their reputation.
I still think ea and 2k are worse when it comes to charging money but ubisoft games just really downgraded which is sad since they were making bangers for like the entirety of the ps3 era. I saw nhl 23 by ea was $99 and I couldn’t find any other version💀if u have a subscription w ea tho u can get it $89🤣 sad days we live in
Also it's not just the audience they're abusing
3:47 agreed
Karma payback time
Abusing their audience?
If you think the way they treat their audience is bad, learn what they did to their employees (really sick shit everyone sweeps under the rug).
I will never understand how older guys like Guillemot don't just quit. The guy is in his 60s and could easily just enjoy the rest of his life comfortably without all the stress that comes with a job like this. Sell Ubi to Embracer Group or something and leave please lol.
If he would just leave, ubisoft has a chance of surviving.
Ego
They don’t just want money, they want ALL of the money.
Not long ago there was news about Ubi actually wanting to be bought, problem seems to be, nobody wants them or at least not for the price they're asking.
Yves isn't leaving because as soon as he does all the dirt about the abuse cover ups will surface and heads will roll at the top of ubisoft food chain. I bet the board of directors have a ton of shit on guillemot himself too
My heart goes out for all the devs, artists and overall the average worker in Ubisoft, hopefully they can find something better or don't let their passion destroy their livelihood being part of such a toxic and horrible company. May they find something better, and may the execs burn or at the very least watch their company burn knowing it was all their fault.
@@tencraziest5697 braindead take
@therotten6152 they haven't made a good game in years. Devs sit around on bean bags eating soy. All the veterans have left.
@@martinsmith8019 Bad management -> Vets leave -> no good mentors for new staff -> untrained mismanaged staff + "greedy" executive decisions -> bad games
Unfortunately in some places you really can't find better. I'm a French 3D Artist living in France, and here Ubisoft is the biggest and best-paying company. Although everybody knows how it is working for them (being totally anonymous among thousands of workers, having one ultra-specialized task that you'll do forever without change, weir company culture etc..), the pay and name on your resume makes it almost impossible to refuse, at least until you've got some more experience.
@@AlvyneSebalj If you are French can I ask you something? Is it possible for Microsoft, an American company to acquire Ubisoft? Are there any laws in France which prevent from that happening?
One of the major issues is that Ubisoft is known within the industry for offering very low wages. The result is that competent and experienced employees don't stay long as they can get much better salaries somewhere else very easily. So the big AAA open world end up being developped by an army of juniors and trainees. You can't expect much from people who are still learning their job so in the end, the best they can produce is a mediocre game at a very high morale and mental cost. Then they just leave at the end of the production and the next game is made by the next human wave of juniors without benefiting from the mistakes and successes of the previous project.
True. My Senior actually worked in Unisoft before back in 2014-2015. He was in Testing project of the games like Crew and left because other companies were providing better salary and those were actually Non-gaming companies.
Unfortunately many industries rely on an army of minimum wage workers that leave as soon as a better offer arises, as they should do. Although I guess depending on the job it can be more noticeable in some finished products than others
My dad and grandpa worked in aerospace.
This sounds similar to the nonsense people deal with in big corporations that do government work.
Ridiculous budgets, even more ridiculous time lines.
Big corporate idiots blaming everything on the workers.
Just makes me sick how pathetic it is.
These are amazing companies with ridiculous potential being ruined by idiots who failed upwards.
As Joel once said, "You are treading on mighty thin ice here", Ubisoft.
I’ve been saying this for a long time: let the talent create! Don’t interfere with the creative teams.. don’t rush their projects! In the end, a good game is a good game and will always benefit them..
You forgot the part where the executives have been swimming in money so long that cognitive dissonance has set in.
Completely agree tho 🙌
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Yes indeed. I can't imagine how good Breakpoint would've been in they gave the devs more time to flesh out the story, and other gameplay elements👍
Unfortunately for some it doesn't matter look at Blizzard
problem is there are alot of wokies in ubisoft that prioritize pushing a message over making an immersive game.
As happy as I am that the chickens have come to roost I really hope they manage to turn it around, for the sake of gamers and the employees who work there. They have a 4,000 person studio where I live and it’s the lifeblood of that neighbourhood.
This makes so much sense. None of the employees are inspired at all, I remember when I had 💩 leaders the only time you are happy is when you leave work for the weekend. Damn, I feel SO bad for the staff 😢 and they are being blamed for it. I hope they move onto better places or create their own.
I think this is why someone at Ubisoft leaked the Rayman 4 sourcecode (from a build before it became the party game Rayman Raving Rabbids) on 4chan. It also explains why Michel Ancel left Ubisoft because higher-ups were fed up with him and wanted cookie cutter games.
Uplay is genuinely awful and I'm surprised that they haven't been sued over it because of how utterly garbage it is.
I _literally_ lost games because of Uplay (bought form their own store with my own account, I might add). Most recent was Far Cry 6 (support did end up providing me with a new key a week later when I explained the laws of my country in which they were selling a product), and now that I've been primarily playing on Linux, their launcher is just completely killing the mood even when it doesn't delete games.
If you're not playing on Windows, you have to login to the launcher. Every. Single. Goddamn. Time.
It was fine in 2021, but after Steam Deck was released they completely broke it as if they were paid by Microsoft or something.
Ubisoft is probably the most formulaic game developer in existence. No one has chased trends more and produced less. Instead of the making the Division 3, a real Assassin's Creed, or a new Splinter Cell game, they've made cookie cutter garbage, cancelled everything, and let their existing games die on the vine.
There is a remake coming soon for splinter cell but might get canceled
Ubisoft comes up with great ideas but are so bad at bringing that idea to life and are so half assed. I’m not hopeful for mirage at this point anymore
Especially since they are telling us to pre order before we see anything, it doesn’t matter what they “promise” the game will be like. Promises clearly don’t matter anymore in the gaming industry.
This family is the Bluth family of the game industry minus the redeemable qualities
Probably pushing Skull and Bones to the next fiscal year so they can bury it from investors and hope other releases draw attention instead
I am glad Ubisoft is suffering. They deserve everything happening and more.
Wow. There's a fantastic video by DJ Peach Cobbler called "This is Not a Review of Far Cry 6" (title has changed to "Why I Didn't Review Far Cry 6"??), which is looking more and more relevant by the second. Unfortunately I think you're right, Luke. Ubisoft management does not have the self awareness to fix this mess. Which is a shame, they've made some amazing games and franchises in the past.
Of all the major publisher acquisitions going on, I kinda hope Ubisoft is next on someone’s list. Ubisoft needs someone, anyone, to come in with a giant bag of money and “persuade” the Guillemots to step down
Or disappear
Microsoft is the only answer. Activision is worse than Ubisoft
@@TH-camCensors Ubisoft can lay off many employees before selling the company.
Can they sell franchizes or rights? I hope they sell the rights for tom clancy feanchises to save their company ass and for us to get good dakr gritty tom clancy games back. Everything its a clownworld now
@@daksans6764 Microsoft won't buy any publisher after Activision. Let Sony help them out
I honestly love watching your content because you do focus on the business side of things and your honest about how you feel about certain things!!! Much love bro, and send you and the Mrs. and your two kids loves and prayers!!!
Yeah Luke is the only content creator who talked about problems in the leadership of Ubisoft. Most youtubers and internet personalities just trash Ubisoft without looking at the underlying problem.
Funny how instead of trying to make good games they bombard them with micro transactions to fix their financial issues, people won’t buy mediocre games forever in a sustainable way, and certainly won’t spend extra on micro transactions
Yves: "We've cancelled 3 game that you have put countless hours into".
Yves: "Now it's up to you to work even harder".
Everyone: "Sounds like a massive management issue, Yves?"
Yves: "I don't know what you're talking about *sniffs money* "
You cannot industrialize talent, love and innovation. A videogame should never be rushed, never, because it gets cyberpunked 2077 times.
14:50 That was a great casual impersonation of Dutch from Red Dead lol
HAVE SOME GODDAMN FAITH!
Its really sad seeing where this company and games are going. I drew the line at their blatant ignorance to the issues of abuse against their employees, hopefully someday, the talented minds behind a lot of great games at this company, can find a project they love elsewhere someday.
At this point I am almost hoping they are bought by Microsoft or Sony soon. I love a lot of their games and IPs, but at this point the company is just broken.
Not Sony bro, cmon, aint there enough monetization on assassins creeed yet? microsoft would be great, though, that could eventually with a lot of work bring the company back to the greatness years
@@Nelvouser ...Is Sony known for bad unusually bad monetisation now? Since when?
@@silverhost9782 Not that I know of. Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon and Anno will become 3rd person action games though.
@@Nelvouser Neither Sony nor Microsoft are good options (after all, more competition is good for us). But these seem like the least of all the evils that could take over Ubisoft.
Isn't Tencent buying bigger shares from Ubisoft? They recently made the deal with the family that owns this company to buy a set portion of shares. Chances are Tencent is gonna buy em out by surprise as they were already well aware of the acquisitions going on
This was me with Halo and 343. Always better to call a spade "a spade" than continue fanboying.
Really enjoy this video! The channel is great because you’ll go from a deep dive game review, to using your personal experience to analyse a developer/publisher’s financial performance
Really doesn’t surprise me. Thanks for the coverage Luke!
And just like that what I keep saying about the industry starts to come true
They are all too short sighted to see that this gonna happen even if they earn a lot in the short run
Your show is so comforting. Love sardonic humor. Much appreciation.
Great video AND depiction of the current Situation of Ubisoft. Cheers Luke. Hope you are doing great
Did you not hear what he said at 13:47? He's an animal abuser.
Ubisoft is the exact case of a lack of new blood. It's been rotting away, milking the only thing they knew how to do, aka the Ubi formula.
And now that it's failing, they flounder around, panicking, and just whack everything around them. Be it their audience or their staff.
its so weird that Anno 1800 is made by ubisoft.... it feels sooooo far removed from anything else the company does. It is, in my opinion, their one saving grace that I still like.
well its because strategy games became niche last decade or so, and as such not prone to microtransactions and serviceification or they would have ruined that one too.
Yeah that’s my greatest worry, if Ubisoft goes down, anno might go down with them and I am really pumped for a new one in the next years
It’s sad to see, as Ubisoft games have always had a special place in my heart. I’m a sucker for their simple quest design and repetitive tasks… it’s like fast food gaming.
Assassin is creed & Far Cry are two of my favorite series… ever. It would be heartbreaking to see them go. I know they have been mediocre recently, but I still know exactly what I’m getting with a new iteration of the series
Fast food gaming 😂 That's gold.
This kinda makes Mirage all the more important if you think about it. This is supposed to be a game for the fans, a return to form. If done correctly, they’ll drum up hype for Infinity, but if they mess it up then good chance that it’ll be a nail in the coffin for the company. This game will literally make or break Ubisoft
‘The ball is in your court to make me more money, or you’ll be out by Christmas’
Reading between the lines 😂
I think the saddest thing about Ubisoft's share price dropping off by over -50% since last year is the incoming layoffs of probably many employees that probably did nothing wrong but follow the terrible decisions and plans of the aging and greedy seniors and executives...
Ubisoft scammed me when I signed up for one month and had flat out false advertising and we need to petition them
What’s sad about this is Ubisoft top ppl will not learn anything from this. Even tho nothing has been working for them they still continue on the path of self destruction. They seriously need a overhaul in everything. I don’t hate Ubisoft and don’t wish to see them go under because they do have good devs who are passionate.
I was so proud that my home city was making bangers in the day, POP sands of time, Splinter Cell, RB6 vegas... Now I'm ashamed of what they have become.
With Like explaining everything it sounds like the brothers in family simply got older. They lost touch. Which makes sense since they have been tryna bank on trends the last past decade.
I also played since the first AC and I have a feeling these days Ubisoft does not even want me as a Customer
It’s crazy to me that Ubisoft is probably gonna go the way of THQ, when I was a kid Ubisoft was one of the biggest publishers you could name
Same here, but who even gives a shit anymore? With crap they typically put out most of the time and how little they pay and appreciate their employees it’s honestly probably a good thing if they die out and make room for new companies entirely.
@@MrSpartan993 you’re right, I’m just in shock at how blatantly mismanaged such a massive company can be
@@bearlyhardley me too a bit, but it happens.
@@bearlyhardley Most probably Microsoft will acquire Ubisoft after Activision
The 3 highest rated Ubisoft games (Far Cry 3, AC2, and AC Brotherhood) were all written/lead by one guy, Jeffrey yohalem, who graduated from Yale in English literature. In 2012, Ubisoft had roughly 8,000 employees, now they have 20,000. And Far Cry 6 was written by ~hundreds of people~ lead by a guy who was political science major from Toronto University. Talent > Quantity
"Eeeves Gii-moouh" love the way you say his name 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel sad hearing all this. The last thing I want is for the company that makes some of my favorite games to fail and get hated even more by everyone... :-(
Btw, just noticed it, somehow, but sick AC Secretlab chair! Got the Joker version from them two weeks ago because it's in my favorite colors (💜💚).
Also, are you a LEGO fan? I see multiple great and large sets in the background, like the Giza and Titanic (one third of it). :-)
Great watch as always 👊🏿
Thank you for the dive in to some would consider "conspiracy theory" but it's just right there, real life. Love all your videos, love your objective view on games and the industry as a whole. Fanboy out🖖
Brought a ton of Ubisoft shares after this video, I think due to the market turmoil they’ll desperately rush releases and (I know this is hopeful) I think mirage will be really good and sell really well
Most likely Microsoft will acquire Ubisoft after Activision deal is done
Skull & Bones was available for pre-order and then for a while it said currently unavailable, now they are accepting pre-orders again and I hear it's still in Limbo development. They're only making it because of legal obligations for money they borrowed. Ubisoft doesn't even want to make it anymore as they've tried to cancel the title.
I guarantee that Skull & Bones will be one of the biggest disappointments/flops of this year. Mark my words
@@unicorntomboy9736 I agree
Watching ubisoft fall like this is honestly kinda sad I used to be a huge fan of ubi back in high-school, but I've also been burned by them 1 too many times.
Someone just has to dangle enough money in front if the family and it's bound to cause them to turn on each other when the only options are to take the money or go down with the ship
Ngl, seeing how they are loosing a lot of money bring me joy, even more knowing how they have ruined a lot of theyre ip's, far cry is the one that hurts me more
I hope for honor 2 wasn’t cancelled
Ubisoft has been a den of depravity, chaos, gambling behavioral addiction promotion and all around scumminess. It's the Mos Eisley of the video game industry. Anyone remember Serge Hascoet? Pepperidge Farms remembers. That dude was a legendary creep.
They should only stick the asssasin creed, and rayman, all their other games always fails
Impressive analysis of the Ubisoft situation
Kotaku and Journalism? I I laughed.
This saddens me... I loved the Assassin's Creed franchise so much and I enjoyed quite a good number of their games... so to see the "leadership" driving their company along with so many awesome IPs into the ground... it's actually pretty sad... especially for all those developers who had to put up with the BS all along... can't help feeling like gaming is dying...
I worked for a company a few years ago where everyone in an executive position were absolutely terrible human beings that were not self-aware about their faults and were extremely desperate to keep the company running and keep good people on. Instead of looking at the cancer that they were causing they would just deflect and place blame elsewhere and only acknowledge the symptoms of the problems if it bothered them personally. 6 months after I left the company was bought, everyone in a position of authority from directors and executives to the CFO were fired over the course of the next few months... The company has since shut down and all of their assets became the sole property of the parent company that bought them out. Literally just strip them for parts in the end. Hearing all the crap that Ubisoft has done over the last decade reminds me of my old job and if they don't do something about it they're going to go out of business as well while somebody else picks through the ashes of what they burn to the ground.
This is a tale old as time in gaming. A company rises based off their carefully crafted titles made by passionate devs and project leaders , the more money they make the more the company starts to bring in people from outside the industry to maximize profits and share prices, these people (who don’t know anything about the industry) make a bunch of stupid decisions which are blamed on everyone but them causing most of the people who actually care about game design to leave and creating a toxic environment for those who stay, and eventually, the company goes under or is bought up by competitors.
I haven't really cared about games that have come from Ubisoft in recent memory (including Skull & Delay). But, if a new Splinter Cell or non-Assassins Creed Ghost Recon, I'd take a look.
Ubisoft have one of my favourite franchises. Splinter Cell. But... the fact that they said the remake will "update the story for modern audiences" basically tells me it will be a fail before release.
I hope they ll splinter cell and the driver ip to another company (along with reflections) then there's not much left at ubisoft i care for
maybe they will actually try to make a good game now, like one that is actually special and good and remarkable
Lol
...well I liked the Mario and Rabbids games.
Their actual big flagship stuff though, dunno why they keep wasting them on overpriced cash grabs. Makes money, sure, but so do lootboxes and we all know how much people appreciate those.
@@natchu96 yeah I feel like Nintendo puts pressure on them to do those games right. Ubisoft has made good games too, like steep. But they just make some of the least passionate games in the biz
Remember Beyond Good and Evil? I don't because I have developed dementia in the many years since it was announced.
Making a game based off feature of a game released 10 years ago. I'm sure it's a masterpiece
They can't even make a good pirate game since Black Flag
Back in 2005, Ubisoft games like Rayman 2, Beyond Good and Evil and Prince of Persia made me want to be a game developer. They were my favourite games studio and I wanted to work for them one day. Almost 2 decades later and they're a complete disaster. It's sad to see how far they've fallen and that leadership are putting the blame on the developers and artists.
Between Musk, Zuckerberg, and Guillemote, seeing all these rich idiots getting exposed and humiliated as their money drains away warms my heart ❤️ 😊
curious what ur astro's eq settings are? could you make a video of it?
I kinda like Ubisoft Quebec game design choices and hope AC Red still maintain their game design philosphy under all this pressure.
Great analysis!
Who the hell buys Just Dance...
Yves Guillemot watching the value of his stock crash while doing the T-pose.
Wow Luke you just taught me so much. I never knew Ubisofts leadership was family based. I have been a Ubisost fan my whole life and now I see what is the issue. Thank you bro for the info, speaking straight facts.🤙🏽⚡️💯
@LukeStephensTV : I spotted a Schiit Valhalla 2 in your desk. Nice! How do you like it? What headphones you use with them?
At this point my only hope is that Ubisoft will the forced to sell off some of the great IP's under their umbrella to companies that will handle them better. I am still waiting for the Prince of Persia remake to come out!
The games are great, minus the shit that corporate obviously forces into them.
So for him to say the ball is in their court is wild.
It's not. It's up to the high level executives to get the fudge out of the way of their talented developers.
In short Ubisoft has become a factory who produces unoriginal and unoffenssive games with minimal amount of changes possible.
It feels like an AI uses a set of formulas and bases the game around such formulas.
A Map as big as the ocean and as shallow as puddle ✅
Climbing towers to discover points of interest ✅
A basic useless crafting system ✅
A basic skill point system so the player has a fake sense of progression ✅
3-4 types of side quests that gets reused over and over and over again ✅
A story that makes you want to think it's serious but in reality it's average with no impact or deeper meaning behind what it tells ✅
That is the freshest cut ive ever seen😤
This was such a good video bro
Nice haircut bud, looks good on you. Great video too, lol. Was curious about the topic
A question to devs here in the comments: As an outsider to the industry and the profession in general, it seems to me, that joining a big game - dev - corp isn`t the right thing to do, if you wanna be loving your job for some more years, so I was wondering, if going the indie - route is vailable in 2022 for professionals?
Its 2023
I feel bad for the game devs that actually care about what they make and are getting fucked over by management but goddamn if this isnt a long time coming. Ubisoft has deadass ruined my enthusiasm for gaming in a lot of ways.
The devs are extremely talented they’ve made masterpieces like AC1 South Park The Stick Of Truth and FarCry 3
Love your videos bro
I love that assassins creed gaming chair, very cool! 👍
Love your cut bro, props to your barber 💈
I am sad for this state of affairs as I am a fan of Ubisoft's games. For me Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are among my favorite games ever; yes, even Valhalla, for all its flaws (I actually respect that they did something different here, good or bad). I also own all FC games, very nice games with memorable characters; even Immortals is a good game, very underrated. You're right Luke: I don't see this company all of a sudden starting to make good decisions. I don't expect the next big AC game to be a splendid single player game, with no micro transactions and with a simple menu with no links to a store (like God of War is); on the contrary. As for Mirage, I'm not a fan of the old school AC games, so I don't care whether it will be good or bad. I don't know, maybe a quake is needed for them to go back and to start creating again good single player games.
Ubisoft has some fantastic games I'm quite sad that the company has gone so downhill would love to have them back ngl
me too
Same I loved playing their Older game. Watch Dogs 1 and 2 Assassins Creed Ezio edition. Sucks seeing how they falling over the past decade
I never played Ubisoft games till the last year. I’ve played through assassin’s creed origin and odyssey and loved them. I’ll be starting Valhalla soon and I’m hoping it’s better then what you said in your 3 hour critique.
Ignorance is bliss.
@@SolidSnake240 in what context?
@@SolidSnake240 lol
I really don't understand why most gaming companies don't listen to their fans, *GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT* and you're set, but no, they always do what they think is best and it fails miserably, must be their huge ego.
bro 7:40 that's how any NFT marketplace works, the marketplace gets a cut from every NFT bought or sold on their platform, the fee is for using the platform basically, the whole thing is misunderstood imo and I think it'd work really well
I've sunk thousands of dollars into fortnite skins, would be super nice to be able to sell them now
Also buying an NFT skin that only a handful of other players have creates scarcity and value
While you know your games, you shouldn't really talk about crypto things for now, until you dive a little deeper into it to understand it better
Back here again after Ubisoft's latest Invincible "game" trailer
They really are desperate right now
real question is would anyone really care if UBI went under? even the most die hard asscreed, division and watch dogs fans can rest east because when stuff like this happens new studios rise up from the ashes and you will get spiritual successors to the games that belonged to the companies that have fallen apart. Those new studios in many cases are formed by the same people that made those previous games but now they are under way different management.